Lucid Dreaming (Colby Brock Fanfic)

Chapter One

She can project in her dreams. She's done it all her life. Mostly she tries to visit far away friends. Sometimes to another plane to ease her losses and comfort herself. Some friends are receptive. Many won't let her in. Very much like real life. Recently, where she chooses to go is unconventional. A city she's never been to. People she's never actually met. One in particular.

A beautiful specimen of a man. Brunette with piercing blue eyes. Painfully her type. She can't help it. He's so alluring. Unfortunately, he knows it. He's purposefull with his looks, his actions; seathing with sex that he nearly spills himself from the screen. But with a brooding boyish charm that is endearing... and intoxicating. How does she know him? Even she is confused by this. Just in passing she thought. Videos from spiraling down a rabbit hole online. Stumbled upon on one of the many encroachingly dark nights when her worry about everything was too much to bare. How could she care so much for a person that she's never met? It's like a bonded, protecting need. Almost as if their souls have known each other before and have taken their life thus far to find each other again. His sometimes sad and longing late night posts sing to her in a way that she's felt so little in this lifetime.

She started projecting to him by accident. Almost like he whispered into the wind and she heard it with all her being. It's been misses so far. She can dance around his outward thoughts for a few minutes. She's even for a brief moment, stood in the darkness while he slept. Laptop open, earbuds in, phone in hand. Dosing into wherever his thoughts have taken him. Thoughts not about her. It takes alot out of her; the projecting. It takes alot of her, the need to connect. It's frustrating. But he's a challenge and she loves challenges. Often, he seems to be awake or closed off when she's able to muster up the energy to float. She's tried all her normal routes. He wants so much to be understood but yet, he closes himself off...Until tonight..