Justin disappears first.
Joy looks at Suzy, then at Charlie.
“I guess it’s morning,” Charlie says calmly, sitting on the sofa. “I’ll wake up early, Joy. I’ll ask my Mom to use the phone when I come back from school. I’ll call him, I promise.”
Joy nods. I have never seen her as speechless as this. She is overwhelmed by whatever may happen once Charlie reaches her father in the waking world and reminds him that he is raising a girl in his dreams.
“See you tomorrow, Joy,” Charlie says.
He looks down, and suddenly he’s gone.
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