I Dream-Manipulated My Cold Crush To Win Him, But He Saw Through Me All Along Chapter 02

I Dream-Manipulated My Cold Crush To Win Him, But He Saw Through Me All Along Chapter 02

I realized I was different at a very young age.

Back then, my parents were always on the road for work. I missed them so badly it hurt.

I’d shove their pens or scarves under my pillow and pray with everything I had that they’d come home.

Crazy part?

That night, I dreamed we were all on a family beach vacation.

I called them ecstatically.

And found out that the three of us had dreamed the exact same thing.

From that day on, I knew I had something weird going on.

But my parents worked too hard. I didn’t want to add to their plate.

So I kept my ridiculously useful superpower buried deep.

Then Grayson’s family moved in next door.

I was a lonely kid with no one to play with, so I poured every ounce of energy into that boy my age.

At first, I just wanted to be friends. I wanted us to be ride-or-die friends.

I’d find excuses to borrow his ruler, his Rubik’s cube, and his keychain.

Then at night, I’d set up these adventure dreamscapes for us—quests, mysteries, all of it.

It worked like magic.

Our friendship skyrocketed.

Time passed. We grew up.

And somewhere along the way, my feelings for Grayson changed.

It was adolescent butterflies.

I couldn’t stop gravitating toward him.

In our dreams, we held hands while we were watching movies and sunrises.

But back in real life?

Grayson was a completely different person.

He was short-tempered and sharp-tongued.

He was always snapping at me.

I knew deep down he wasn’t a bad guy.

But his constant sarcasm? It ate at me.

My best friend gave me advice. She said guys act totally differently before and after the line gets crossed.

I bought into it.

Armed with a thousand romance novels under my belt, I started going for it.

I started making the dreams more romantic.

But I never saw this coming.

Grayson was never into me.

What I thought was seductive tension?

To him, it was harassment.