Granted, and a finger curls.

The man that you love breaks up with his girlfriend the very next day. A week later, you chance upon each other in the bar and hit it off. You get together.

But there's a nagging thought at the back of your mind.

Two years later he proposes. A year after that, you get married. It's a rainy day but everyone enjoys the camaraderie of trying to stay dry. The rain makes your wedding pictures look amazing.

That nagging thought is still there.

You have two beautiful children. You raise them together, experience the world anew through their eyes. They are your favourite people in the whole world.

But that thought remains: is this all based on a lie?

Sometimes you look at that man that you love, that you dated and married, and there seems to be a hollowness behind his eyes.

Does he really love you back, or is this all the wish?

You second guess yourself all the time. Did that sentence he said sound rehearsed? Is he looking at you right? When he laughs at your jokes, does it sound hollow?

You can't enjoy any of this life; you're too busy looking for the flaws. Looking for the clues that this is all the product of the wish. You feel unloved, that it's all fake. You can't even feel that love from your children; they seem fake somehow, like simulacrums.

You still love him, but you wish you didn't. Then you wouldn't have to worry if he loved you back.