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you some time to sort through everything, Sweets.  You’re confused and I don’t want to add to the stress of you trying to get better.  I’m sure the doctor is going to want to keep you here for a bit, so they can keep an eye on you.  How about we talk more once you’ve had some time to come to grips with everything?”
    Mira’s expression quickly turns from guilt to anger in the blink of an eye.  “What are you saying, Skylar?  You’re not going to come see me?  We’re not going to talk about this?”
    “Not yet.  We both need to figure this out.  I love you, you know that, but I can’t do anything about it until you get better.  So please just let me take care of you and love you from afar.  I promise everything will work itself out one way or another.”
    “As long as you still love me, I can wait.  Just promise me you believe that I love you back.  Please promise me that.”
    “I promise,” I lie through my teeth.  There is no way this girl can love me.  Her reaction to Jacoby confirms my earlier fears.  She’s confused and has been dreaming one hell of a dream.  Once she spends time with Danny again, she’ll remember all the love they share and I’ll just go back to being her fiancés best friend.
    I give Mira one last hug and stand to leave the room just as Danny walks back in .  I swear this guy has impeccable timing.
    “Hey, I brought enough pizza for everyone,” Danny says, walking to the counter to set the pizza down.
    “I’m good, man. I have to head home.  I have some stuff that needs to be taken care of before tomorrow morning.”
    “Oh that’s right, you start that job tomorrow.  I totally forgot.  Mira, Sky got a job as a manager for a garage.”
    Danny and I used to talk all the time when we were younger, that we would grow up, work on bikes and ride all the time.  I only went to college to keep my parents off my ass.  Danny, on the other hand, will be putting his accounting degree to good use.  Safe and predictable Danny is exactly what Mira needs right now; not someone like me.
    “Yeah, I have to get my tools and stuff.  I’ll catch you guys later, though.  I’ll come by after work tomorrow, okay Mira?”
    “I would like that a lot.  Have a good first day at work,” she says, staring deep into my soul with the most innocent smile on her face.
    I walk out of the hospital room and down the hallway, knowing that I lied to her again.  I won’t be back tomorrow.  I probably won’t be back here at all.  She needs time to think, and she can’t do that with me here.  Right now she needs Danny, whether she believes it or not.

 
    CHAPTER TWO
    Mira
    I’m sitting quietly on my bed, eating a slice of pizza and wondering how to tackle this situation.  How am I going to get out of this relationship with Danny without breaking his heart?  Can you just end a relationship because of something you realized while asleep?  Four years is a long time to spend with someone, just to break it off.  Especially if the reason you’re breaking it off is because you had some sort of weird out of body experience.
    “What’s going on in that head of yours, Pea?” Danny asks, interrupting my train of thought.  He really is so amazingly sweet.  Danny takes excellent care of me but I can’t tell him any of this yet.  Skylar and I need to have a long talk about all of this.  Hopefully tomorrow when he comes, Danny won’t be here and we can get a few things hashed out.
    “Oh, umm, nothing.  I’m just thinking.”
    “Thinking about ..?”
    “It’s going to sound really weird, but I don’t feel like I’ve been asleep for seven weeks.  I guess I had a lot of dreams, but all the feelings I had in my dream are real, even now that I’m awake.  I wish I could make sense of everything,” I explain while I play with a lock of my hair.  Danny’s known me far too long.  He knows my tells and twirling my hair is one of them.  I quickly put my hands in my lap, hoping