It was an ordinary night and I was walking with two girls. We had known each other for as long as we all could remember and there was a definite closeness between all of us.
We were chatting as usual about nothing particular as I looked to where we were going. I noticed a park up ahead and focused on it, the sounds of my friends laughing and chatting becoming blurred.
“Hey” the girl in the middle said to me.
I snapped back to “reality” and turned round to her.
“Wasn’t that great?” she asked smiling... but it wasn’t her.
“No” I cried, and stepped back.
The girl, maybe still mentally there was no longer there physically. She had been replaced with a physical projection of a girl, who in my mind, would never get a chance to talk to me, somebody who I hated.
“What’s wrong?” she asked, oblivious to what I was seeing.
“No, no, get away from me” I cried, clutching the sides of my head.
“You’re not her, go away!!” The world went fuzzy “Get out of my mind!!”