username: ~Finchly
name: Miyuki
gender: female
prompt: The smell of salt danced through the breeze as birds sung above glistening waves. The water kept tumbling forward and back in a never ending cycle that left the slightest indent on soft sand. The sun shone brightly in the sky casting a dazzling glow over the surrounding waters. The world felt at peace here on this beautiful coast not a soul in sight, just the dolphins joyfully playing in the waves and the seagulls frolicking overhead. It was a paradise for sure, an escape from the crowded confines of life.
"Miyuki."The slightest breath of sound caught her ear and she turned her head to face the direction of the noise, but she saw nothing. Only glittering waves and sparkling sand for miles.
"Miyuki."
There it was again. Like someone was calling her name
"Miyuki!"
Miyuki's head shot straight up. The teacher in front of her was staring at her quizzically. She had fallen asleep in class, again.
"Miyuki, I asked you what does Romeo first compare Juliet to during the balcony scene?"
Miyuki blinked a few times. Starring at the teacher blankly. She tried to remember what they had been talking about but her mind kept returning to the warm sunny beach she had been visiting in her head. She finally let out a pitiful squeak. "I'm sorry, I dont know."
The teacher looked disappointed "Well, pay attention next time. How about you Owen? Do you know the answer?"
Miyuki was vaguely aware of one of her classmates giving their teacher the correct answer. She wasnt on a beach, she couldnt see any glistening waves, or smell salt on the breeze, and she wasn't all alone. There was just the stale air of her small classroom, the drone of the teacher lecturing about Shakespeare, and rows of desks with students around her. It had all been a dream.
Miyuki let out a sigh. This wasn't the first daydream she'd had in class, actually it happened often. This time it had been a beach, last time a beatiful spring meadow, and before that a crisp moonlit forest. All places of nature away from people and society where Miyuki could be alone. She wasnt the greatest at socializing and altogether just prefered to keep to herself, the only problem was others dont always understand why some just want to be alone. Her mind was her greatest escape, it took all the pain of being an outcast among others and gave her a space to truly be alone away from judging eyes. She could do what ever she wanted in her own head, climb the highest mountain or swim in the deepest ocean, or soar high above the world to he outermost reaches of space and float among the stars. She could be anything and do anything. No one told her what she had to be it was all up to her. The only space in her life that truly belonged to her.
As the teacher continued to drone on about Romeo and Juliet, Miyuki found herself staring out the classroom window at the boring field of grass outside their class, wishing it could be the beach of her imagination and that she could go there for real not just in her mind. That would allow her to truly be free of the pressures of social life and the feelings of others.
However she knew this would never happen, its just not the way the world works. And in reality all she really wanted was for the people around her to understand her. She was always the kid who daydreamed, the kid who read books instead of playing games with the others, the kid who had no friends, the kid who was alone. She didn't understand how to socialize with others and she coped with it the only way she knew how, by escaping to her mind. She holds on to a sliver of hope that maybe one day she wont have to avoid the world and run off to her imagination, but instead she can roam the earth accepted and loved for her imagination.
Until then one can only dream.
