Dream was walking down the road after seeing off Eri at her home.
Suddenly dream touches his jaw,"God it seems like I broke my jaw or something in that fight."
He looks back to that fight and grins like a monkey.
"Hehe I must have seemed so cool to Eri right."
Suddenly he stopped as he saw a figure infront of him a familiar figure.
"Who are yo-, oh its you what do you want now huh."
As these scene changes we see Eri running across the road, crying, wailing....
"I am sorry, I am sorry I am sorr-."
Suddenly she sees a car crash infront of herself, there were two people inside that car. One was a male and the other was a woman they were screaming for her.
"Help us help us save us-"
The women crawled out of the window of the car still asking for help. But Eri she stumbled back wode eyed face filled with horror, eyes filled with dread it was a familiar scene to her.....
After all the people inside that car were her parents.
She suddenly turned back and again ran as fast as he could as they wailed for her help.
*HELP US HELP US HELP US-"
"EEERRRRIIII !!!"
Eri suddenly woke up from hee bed with a jump it was a dream... no a nightmare..
"Why..... why do I keep having this nightmare....."
Eri held her head crying....as she saw a necklace on her neck the dove necklace that Dream gifted her.
She slowly clenched it and felt it it was warm compared to her cold body...
It felt good.
She slowly remembered all the good memories she had with him.
How he helped her yesterday, how he gifted her a precious necklace, how he celebrated her birthday with her and just how kind he had been to her.
"He gas really been kind to me..... a lot."
She stood up from the bed and started getting ready for school with the same excitement like the one she had yesterday.
And now with a smile on her face.
As she closed the door to her house her backpack on her back.
"Ahh why won't this stupid key work"
"God this house has gotten old"
As she finally closed the door, She started walking towards the point where she met Dream yesterday.
"This is where Sam and the other girls met me yesterday...."
She suddenly remembered how he fought for her that day
"He... was pretty cool when he fought for me.."
She blushed slightly as she thought that.
Suddenly she bumped into someone falling to the pavement.
"I am really sorry I wasn't looking !! Are you okey"
Suddenly the person she bumped into extended his hand to help her up.
As Eri took his hand "Oh no need to worry I am okey, and I should be the one to feel sorry I was the one day dreaming afterall."
Both of them chuckled slightly as she brushes the firt of her skirt.
As she looked up to who the boy was..
She was shocked it was none other than her crush Alex.
He was a the star player of the basketball ball team and he was handsome, kind, popular, rich, handsome ,kind- oh I am repeating.
Well he was just perfect and Eri had a huge crush on him sense she was young because he once gave him his lunch once when she forget to make her punch.
Since this she liked him and mow he was standing infront of him laughing with her this was like a dream come tru-
"Oh wait what am I thinking i already like Dream.... what when did I finalize I liked Dream.... but he is kinda cool"
"Ahhh Oh get a hold of yourself Eri" she thought while blushing profoundly at this thought.
While she was blushing like that out of nowhere infront of Alex he asked "Are you okey Eri"
"Oh yeah I am fine just daydreamin- I mean thinking!! Hehe" she said nervously and embarrassingly at her actions.
"God I feel so embarrased" Eri thought.
What he knows my name... kkkyyyaa!
No no I have gotta control myself.
"Wait Eri you are..... you are friends with Dream right now right."
Suddenly his face goes pale and he widens his eyes.
As I see his shocked expression I ask "Is.... Everything okey..... you look very pale Alex."
"God..... My god .... that bastard."
"Who is he talking about", I thought to myself.
Suddenly he grabs her shoulders with his hands and tells him.
"Eri I know this might sound false... but Dream is playing with you."
"Wha.....what do you mean playing with me" I ask nervously.
"Eri... he is planing to make fun of you in the upcoming school prom... he is playing with you making you fall in lo-"
Suddenly I slap his hand from my shoulder.
"Alex, you can talk bad about me but..... don't you dare talk bad about Dream", I look at his my faze furious.
The idea that Misaal's actions, the sweet words he had said, and the love she thought she had seen in his eyes - that it had all been a lie, a cruel ploy to gain her trust and then shatter her heart - was too painful to contemplate.
"I... I don't believe that, Alex. I can't believe that Misaal would do something so cruel and heartless. He... he cares about me. I know he does." She shook her head, a flicker of anger sparking in her eyes.
"Why are you telling me this? Are you trying to drive a wedge between us? Because I won't let you. I won't let anyone come between Misaal and me, not even you."
He back away as he holds his hand to his chest and speaks in a sad tone.
"No Eri am telling you the truth... and if you don't believe me you have to believe this."
He put his hand in his pocket while I was confused about what he was doing.
Then he pulled out his phone and pressed on a voice recording.
"That girl-"
As soon as I heard that voice I could easily understand that it was Dream's.
"What do you wanna prove with thi-"
"Gosh, I hate that bitch. I am sad for anyone who falls in love with her."
Silence...
What was all there could be silence, In my mind, surrounding and from Alex all there was, was silence.
I stumbled back as I fell on the ground..
It's a lie,
It's fake,
It's gotta be fake.
That's all I could think but... it was so real.... it was really Dream's voice.The voice was unmistakably his, the tone dripping with a disdain and contempt that made my blood run cold.
With each passing second, the harsh reality of Dream's true feelings sank in, crushing my heart and shattering the beautiful illusion I had woven around him.
I crumpled to the ground, my knees giving out from under me as a wave of anguish and betrayal washed over ne. The tears that had been threatening to fall now streamed down my face, blurring my vision and obscuring the world around me. The pain in my chest was so intense, so all-consuming, that I thought i might never be able to breathe again.
As the cruel words replayed in my mind, i understood I had been to greedy. I had been a fool to believe that someone could ever truly love and accept me, a pathetic and lonely creature like me.
Eri's sobs wracked through her body, a heartbroken wail that tore through the morning air. The realization that she had given her heart to someone who despised her, who had played her like a fiddle just to break her, was too painful to bear.
"I... I loved him. I thought... I thought he loved me too. But he... he hates me. He always did."
Then alex knelt and hugged eri as she cried into his shoulder.
" this isn't your fault Eri.... He is just a despicable human"
Eri clung to Alex like a lifeline, her tears soaking into the fabric of his shirt as she sobbed into his shoulder. The comfort and compassion he offered was a small balm to the utter devastation she felt, but it was enough to make her want to believe him, to hold onto the shred of hope that she wasn't entirely alone in her anguish.
"Why would he do this to me, Alex? Why would anyone hate me so much, that they would go to such lengths to break my heart and destroy me? What did I do to deserve this?"
As he patted her back he said "There are.... just people who find.... amusement in others suffering."
Suddenly Dream who was walking to the down the road excited to meet Eri this morning saw Her crying with Alex next to her.
This made his blood boil ,he thought he was bullying her.... like he always did.
As Dream started walking to him ready for a fight Eri noticed me.
In the blink of an eye she slapped Dream, a painful sound that reverberated.
As Dream stood there frozen in shock... he saw the hatred, the disguist, the pain on her face.
"Wh-"
Suddenly she slapped him again.
As he fell back She stood over him, her body shaking with rage and anguish, tears still streaming down her face. The sight of him lying there, the boy she had loved and trusted so deeply, filled her with a bitter, seething hatred she had never known before.
Through clenched teeth, she spat out, "You... you lying, deceitful, heartless bastard! How could you do this to me? How could you pretend to care, to love me, when all along you were just laughing at me behind my back?"
Eri's hands clenched into fists at her sides, trembling with the effort of holding back from striking Dream again.
But suddenly before Dream could answer Alex jumped on him pinning him down as he punched him again and again
"How could you do this to such a poor girl you monster !!"
As Eri watched from the sidelines she was shocked that such a famous, kind and handsome guy would stand up for her.
As Dream staggered back, holding his jaw and glaring at Alex with a mix of shock and outrage, Eri found herself torn between the anguish of Dream's betrayal and the unexpected surge of warmth that blossomed in her chest at Alex's actions. The fact that he had stood up for her, that he had dared to strike Dream for his cruelty, sent a confusing mix of emotions swirling through her.
, "Alex... why? Why did you do that? Why would you stand up for me, after all this time?" A faint blush colored her cheeks as a sudden, painful realization struck her - Alex had once been a secret crush of her ever since he showed her his kindness, so she had admired from afar but never dared to approach, fearing his rejection and ridicule.
Then alex wrapped his hand around her as he and eri started walking to school as Dream lied on the road.
"Actually Eri..... I know this might sound fake to you after all this but..."
He blushed as he said to her "I have liked you... for a long time now"
The revelation that Alex had once liked her hit Eri like a shockwave, the words echoing in her mind as they walked. She glanced up at him, her teary eyes wide with disbelief and a tentative spark of hope.
"Alex... you... you really liked me? When? Why didn't you ever say anything?"
"I was scared that maybe you would reject me" He said nervously.
This made her heart fluttered that he was scared just like her.
"I have liked you for..... quiet some time to Alex" He face was as red as a tomato as se said this, this was actually the first time in her life to ever confess her love to someone.
At her answer he smiled at her as did she
Eri's heart raced as Alex wrapped a comforting arm around her waist, the warmth of his touch seeping through the fabric of her clothes and soothing the aching pain in her chest. She leaned into him instinctively, finding solace and a fragile sense of safety in his nearness as they began to walk away from Dream's prone form.
Was this the start of a true love..
Or a great regret.