Realidream

“OMG is this the same place!? Have you ever moved from here?” and after a moment I break into a dramatic stare and I pause again.

Almost automatically -immediately- she says “I don’t get it!”

I gaped “Well how could you! It’s only been a quarter of a millisecond!”

And we burst into roar-folds of laughter as though we were the girls from a certain time we both still dream of.

It was like we were both the girls in the courtyard again. Staring into the night sky pregnant with stars and lit with satellites we couldn’t tell apart. In a tumble of mess from the little community we lived in for a couple of months at scheduled times of the academic year. School was a nightmare. She made it better.