Shit Happens, I suppose.

[She tried to think quickly of what was going on. He said, she wasn’t real: that she was probably just a hallucination. So, in order for him to believe that… what was going on? Brenda would never let Luke go to a boarding school, he called her a hallucination… Perhaps the first thing she should do should be convince him that she was real?]

"Luke… listen, if I were a hallucination, I wouldn’t be able to…"

[She looked about the place. Was there some sort of twig she could hold and move around to show how corporeal she was in an objective way? Well: there was a small pebble by her foot. The woman picked it up.]

He sighed in defeat. Isn't like this was the strangest thing that'd happened to him.

"So.. So you're real then? Were you just hiding the entire time? Have you.. have you come to take me home, maybe.....?" Luke seemed to have lost his condescending tone and gone back to his usual gentle one. This was.. strange, very very very strange.