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Professor John Smith dodged the students milling about on the sidewalk as he rushed to his first class of the day. He was running late, very late, and it did nothing to lighten his mood.
He’d had another dream last night, an odd, fanciful delusion full of aliens and other worlds, spaceships and time travel. But the most unsettling bit was the blonde girl who was by his side the entire time, smiling and laughing while they travelled the stars. No one had ever gazed at him like she had, like he was her entire world. And the problem was, he had felt the same thing, too, as if she were the only light in the dark.
And after they had defeated some bizarre sort of alien invasion, they had celebrated… thoroughly. The erotic detour of his dream was the reason he was so late this morning, and he loathed his brain for conjuring up a fantasy girl he had no hope of ever meeting.
Muttering curses under his breath, John yanked open the door to his building and plowed into an unseen stranger on the other side. She tumbled onto the floor with a yelp, paper and books scattering everywhere.
“I’m sorry!” John exclaimed, immediately reaching a hand out to help her up. “Are you alright?”
“Yeah, m’ok. You?” She rubbed her sore hip and met his eye.
And John promptly forgot every word in the English language. The stranger in front of him looked exactly like the girl he’d been dreaming about.
Her brow creased as he failed to answer. “Hello?”
He blinked rapidly, banishing her naked thighs and moans of pleasure from his mind. “Yes, I’m fine.”
“Good. Watch where you’re goin’, yeah? Wouldn’t want you to fall and hit your head.”
Why she was concerned about him when he had pushed her over, he didn’t know, so he nodded dumbly in response. Feeling like a giant git, he crouched down beside her to help retrieve the items he had knocked out of her grasp. A pocket watch laid on the ground by his foot and he felt oddly drawn to it, intrigued by the beautiful swirls on the cover. Before he could touch it, she hurriedly snatched it in her fingers and stuffed it in her pocket.
She stood with a nervous smile and tucked a stray hair behind her ear. “Be careful.”
He watched her walk away, wondering why he yearned to take her hand and run.