"Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Let's just get this over with please. I still have a pope I want to fucking kill."

Despite the pain Corey felt as he held Nina, he could not help but smile at her words.

It was... cute in a strange way since it reminded him of the past when his sister always attempted to speak like one of her favourite anime characters.

Corey let go of her, and Anna inhaled deeply before exhaling it all.

She looked around her. "So... What's the story going to be this time? Will my parents be included in this dream?"

Corey gave a light smile filled with more of pain than amusement.

He shook his head. "Like I said, this is not a dream."

Anna rolled her eyes with an unimpressed expression. "And like I said, just get it-"

Corey cut her off. "Do you remember the day dad's phone slipped from your hands and fell on the floor in mum and dad's room? The edge of the screen cracked and later that day, you denied that you touched his phone and dad let it go since he believed that it probably cracked when he was with it and he didn't know."

Anna frowned and looked at Corey with a strange expression. "Yeah. I remember. I think I was twelve or eleven on that day. So? What of it?"

Corey's smile remained. "In case you've forgotten, you believed that nobody saw or knew what you did. But I was in dad's bathroom on that day and I saw what happened."

Anna had an extremely strange expression when she heard this. "What in the world were you doing in mum and dad's bathroom?"

Corey's smile froze as he recalled the embarrassing reason he did such a thing, and then he coughed with an embarrassed expression.

"Forget about it."

Anna narrowed her eyes, and she nearly had the urge to force Corey to tell her the reason, but she stopped herself.

'No. He's engaging me in a way I didn't anticipate at all. I was not planning on talking to him or being interested in him in this dream, but the way things are going, I might fail and fall for the lies of the dream.'

'This is bad. I must be calm and collected. I must be indifferent and also cold to him. I must be-'

"I also remember the day you lied to dad that you couldn't come home during the weekend cause of a class. I saw you going to the cinema with your friends during that weekend."

"I also saw you the day you came back home when dad and mum were not around, and then you started crying because of a guy that cheated on you. I heard you calling him all sorts of names and it was on that day you tore off the arm of your bunny."

"I also saw you one day when you were masturbating. The door was not fully closed and I wanted to scare you at first, but oh well, I saw something I didn't expect."

"I told myself I was never going to tell you, and I was planning on taking a video back then to blackmail you but I felt too disgusted by me having a video of you masturbating so I just left you while you... enjoyed yourself." Corey said with a smirk, and then he continued.

"I also saw-"

"Stop! Stop! Stop! Stop!" Rosa covered Corey's mouth with a completely embarrassed expression, wide eyes that were full of shame and anger.

"What the fucking hell?! How do you know about that?!"

Corey's shoulders shook as he laughed at the sheer embarrassment that was on Anna's face, and Anna's became even more embarrassed the more Corey laughed.

"Fuck! I'll beat the shit out of you."

Corey laughed once again, and then he pointed at her hand covering his mouth.

Anna clicked her tongue, and then she removed her hand from Corey's mouth.

"I told you didn't I? This is-"

Corey's words got stuck in his throat when Anna placed her palm on his shirt and began using his shirt to clean her palm.

"..." Corey looked at her palm with a stunned expression.

"What? Your spit was on my hand and I was not going to use my cloth to clean it."

Corey remained stunned for a second, and then he shook his head while chuckling.

"And there's the Anna I know. The mischievous girl who always gave me a headache."

Despite her mind telling her, warning her that everything was most likely a lie, she could not help but smile at Corey's words.

A few seconds later, her smile slowly disappeared and she asked with a cautious, wary, and slightly hopeful expression.

"So... are you... were you being serious when you told me that this is all real?... That you're real and not a fake or a dream?"

Corey nodded his head with a slight smile. "Yes. It's all real and not an illusion."

Anna remained silent, and then she looked around with a complicated expression.

"If this is a lie or an illusion... Then I think the Pope might finally win and get what he wants cause I'll be devastated and would most likely give up. It... It... It would be too much for to bear."

Anna's eyes moistened, and just as she was about to cry, Corey hugged her with a light smile of pain.

"It's not a lie, Anna. It's all real. I'm here. Weren't you the one that told me that you'll protect me and I can be like the rich young masters you read in your webnovels that are always arrogant and stupid? A crybaby cannot do that for me."

Tears began pouring down from Anna's eyes as she hugged Corey back.

"Hehe. He used that in an illusion one day and it almost worked. But hearing it from you right now feels... different."

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The tears kept pouring down, and Anna hugged Corey tightly.

"I missed you brother. I missed you so much."

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Tears also fell from Corey's eyes as he hugged Anna tightly, and a light smile filled with relief could be seen on his face.

"I missed you too, Anna. I missed you too."

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