"where were you today? I texted and called but you never picked up." he questioned, thinking she was just avoiding him.
"I'm sorry. I was away." she claimed while trying to hide any emotion from her eyes.
"Away? Where could possibly have gone on a school night?" He marched up to her and grabbed her face, looking deeply into her saddening eyes.
"A different world. I-" she stopped. Something in the distance caught her eye. A glimpse into the past from the corner of her eye. A glimpse of a place she had longed to go to. The place she had gone to escape the vicious reality of the world. Her own little world.
A world full of all her favorite things. Things to make her happy, when she couldn't find reasons to live. Thoughts of her favorite people, places things. Thought of places she's never been, and people she's never met.
A room colored her favorite colors. A table holding her favorite objects, her most memorable items. She picked up her favorite bear and squeezed it tight while she started to bawl. This is all I've ever wanted. All the places I could go. Could this be the answers to all my problems? Do I just have to die?
Shaken. She was being shaken.
"Hey, hey snap out of it." It was her friend. Her stupid friend. "What are you doing? Where did you go?"
"I'm sorry. I was away."
But he'll never know where, nor why. All he'll ever know, is the look in her eyes when she's lost in her own little world...and she's happy.