There I was, on my way back home after a night of wasting my time, sitting across a mirage, a delusion of my hurt psyche.

I analyzed the apparition at my front from top to bottom. She was wearing some weird clothes, they looked like something a noble would wear, with a white cape to match her hair, and a fox emblem adorned one of her arms.

The noise that the metal claws she was wearing on her right hand made as she metodically tapped her fingers on the arm support of her seat echoed through my brain like a crystal cup.

-Great, going insane is the only thing I was still missing.

-Insane? No, you are more sane than most people I know here and knew there.

-What the hell?!! How are you answering me?

-I understand your point of view, darling. Ask me something, something only the two of us would know, that way I can prove to you it is really me.

-Fine...what is the name of the president of the United States from the manga we read on our first sleepover together?

-Funny Valentine. I wouldn't easily forget such a poetic name.

-Tch...what is the name of the british antagonist and what are his powers?

-Diego Brando, also known as Dio Brando. He gained his own version of the Stand Scary Monsters via the Left Eye of the Saint's Corpse from it's original master Dr.Ferdinand. It allows him to fully or partially transform himself into a Utahraptor and to turn other living beings into dinossaurs.

-He can also induce fossilization onto his creations.

She looks into my eyes with "surprise" written all over her face. Then she sweetly looks away, trying to think of what to say.

It really is her. She read Steel Ball Run for the first time with me, and she is correct abou these two things, she even remembers what a Stand is.

But the one thing that sells me is the look, it really is her trademark look.

I can only think of one thing to say:

-WHY!

I startled her, but she still answers me with a smile.

-So you do believe it's me.

-If I'm not dreaming...if this is real...if YOU are real then tell me...WHY DID YOU LEAVE!

-I really did't have much of a choice, I was dragged here, for real.

-What do you mean here? Where are you?

-Somewhere else.

-I knew it...I'm really seeing things that don't exist.

The perspective of the possibility of ensuing madness was something that overloaded and out an enormous weight on my head. I can barely think, I haven't felt like this since I was studying hard on 10th grade, I started slacking off after the events that transpired.

-Enhance your energy input, just for a few minutes.

I thought that she was talking to me, but she clearly was talking to someone else, as she turned around, her legs having phased through all of those solid materials, defying physics and all reason.

She said as if she was talking to soemone who is in the same room as her, but I can't see anyone else.

It's like she's here but at the time time she isn't here, if that makes any sense.

Without losing sight of her, she stepped out of the seat. The boots she had made a clear sound as she jumped up and down, as if to test something.

-Good, I have my entire body materialized now.

-What are you talking about?

She closed her distance with me and slammed her face right on mine before I could even react to anything.

-It's cute how you felt when you were talking with Chika, but I know you don't love her, you just can't resist cuteness. I always loved your inability to let go of the past, you big idiot.

-How do you know I...?

-I've been watching you, all of this time. If I could have done more than that, trust me, I would, but things are different now. Besides, don't you think you haven't worried me enough with all of that fighting and running away in front of the police?

She seems angry, but she approaches her lips even closer to mine after uncrossing her arms.

Her breath is...indescribable.

-I felt half dead until now.

And we kissed.

A kiss, a kiss that felt like the blast of a supernova.

I waited three years to taste those lips again, I would wait for eons if I had to.

I got up and hugged her tight, she hugged me back.

-We will be reunited soon, sooner than what you might expect.

She gives a kiss on the cheek and I stopped feeling her body close to mine.

As I open my eyes, she is nowhere to be seen and the smoke is slowly dissipating, like if someone turned on an air purifier.

I thought I was dreaming but I wasn't.

I thought it was fake, something I wanted to believe in, but it turned out to be more real than anything.

This is it, this is how our tale kicks off, the tale of our search for hapiness, and the hapiness of the ones around us, because what else could be more important than that?