"Y-yeah," she said, not sounding convinced. "Why can't it just ... un-happen? Three days ago ... uh. I guess three days ago we were kids. But. I mean. It was all so ... and now it's just, well, so much for that, and I don't want that. I don't want him, either, not like this, but why can't it just ... can I wake up now and this was all a stupid dream?"