Completely Undone

For a moment, I wasn’t sure if she was real.

I’d had so little sleep—too many goddamn dreams where she came back, only to disappear the second I reached for her.

So I said her name. Quietly. Needing to be sure.

And then she smiled—small, nervous, impossibly real.

“Hi,” she said.

That voice. Soft. Familiar. Unmistakable.

God. She was real. She w