A Universe Away
This is my first story here! ? A short romance/sci-fi series, 9 episodes, posting one at a time. This is just the beginning for Callum and Iris... stay tuned for episode 2! :)
Episode 3
The Spare Room
At fourteen, the dreams stopped being just a game.
Callum told her about the spare room his dad had started sleeping in, the one that quietly became permanent, the word divorce no one said out loud but everyone meant.
Iris listened like it mattered. Like he mattered.
The year her grandfather died, she told him something strange — that the old man had spent his whole life chasing a theory nobody believed: that some dreams aren't dreams at all.
That some are thin places where two worlds almost touch.
She said it like a joke.
She said it twice.
Which meant it wasn't.
"I don't think I'm dreaming about someone real," she finally admitted, voice careful, like she'd rehearsed it a hundred times and still wasn't ready.
"I think I'm real. I just don't think I'm from your anywhere."
Callum stared at her.
"That's not possible," he said.
Iris only looked at him — steady, sad, certain.
"Not yet," she said.
The lighthouse waits.
At fourteen, the dreams stopped being just a game.
Callum told her about the spare room his dad had started sleeping in, the one that quietly became permanent, the word divorce no one said out loud but everyone meant.
Iris listened like it mattered. Like he mattered.
The year her grandfather died, she told him something strange — that the old man had spent his whole life chasing a theory nobody believed: that some dreams aren't dreams at all.
That some are thin places where two worlds almost touch.
She said it like a joke.
She said it twice.
Which meant it wasn't.
"I don't think I'm dreaming about someone real," she finally admitted, voice careful, like she'd rehearsed it a hundred times and still wasn't ready.
"I think I'm real. I just don't think I'm from your anywhere."
Callum stared at her.
"That's not possible," he said.
Iris only looked at him — steady, sad, certain.
"Not yet," she said.
The lighthouse waits.
Chapter 3
— Episode 3 of 9