1 – Pssst! Hugo, daddy's gone, you can come out now.
2 – Thank you, Gretchen, your closet is kind of cramped... What was that book your father was reading to you? I quite liked it.
1 – Oh, it's Winnie the Pooh, but we haven't gotten that far yet.
2 – Can't we continue reading it on our own?
1 – No... I can barely read, you know that.
2 – Ah, a shame, we'll just have to find something else to do.
1 – But It's bedtime. I can't stay up for long; I should already be sleeping.
2 – Yes, yes, of course... Seems like the only time we have time to play is when you sleep.
1 – I'm sorry Hugo, but I have to go to school and do homework, you know.
2 – It's okay.
1 - … Hugo, Where do I go when I sleep?
2 – What do you mean, Gretchen? You just lie in your bed.
1 – Well, my body is in the bed, but where is my head?
2 – Attached to your body, hopefully.
1 – Haha, I didn't mead it like that, silly! I mean when I fall asleep it's like I disappear, and when I wake up, I can't remember where I was. Only sometimes but then it's all blurry and doesn't make sense.
2 – I suppose you go inside your head, then, Gretchen.
1 – But... isn't inside my head where I always am?
2 – Ah, but when you're awake you are constantly aware of the world around you, so you don't notice the world in your head. By the way, why are you asking me this?
1 – It just seems sad... We sleep so much it's almost like we are disappeared half our lives.
2 – But you have to sleep, Gretchen. Otherwise you would be tired all the time.
1 – I guess you're right... Do you sleep, Hugo?
2 – Ummm... I don't really know, do I?
1 – You never sleep when you're with me.
2 – Hmm...
1 – Where are you when you're not with me?
2 – I suppose I'm in your head, Gretchen.
1 – Really? Then why do you always ask me how school was when I come home? You should already know right?
2 – I think, then, that I must be sleeping inside your head when I'm not with you.
1 – Then where are you when I am sleeping? Are you sleeping inside my sleeping head? And if sleeping is being inside your head, then are you inside your own head when you are inside mine when I am inside mine?
2 – I don't think my head works like yours.
1 – What do you mean?
2 – We don't really come from the same world, Gretchen.
1 – Really? Then where do you come from, Hugo?
2 – I come from that strange place inside your head, and when you sleep, we go there together.
I had a hard time figuring this one out. Not because the images I got in my head while reading it were unclear, but because the words you use changes the ages of the characters, mainly Gretchen.
SvaraRaderaHiding someone in your closet is something I think a teenager might do, but a teenager probably won't be tucked in by her father reading Winne the Pooh. A teenager wouldn't have problems reading it by herself either.
However, a small child of six or seven, would probably not have homework taking up her time. (Of course, it's gotten more and more common to let the kids bring some kind of homework from school to get them used to it, but it shouldn't really take up her time in such a way the she can't play with her friend.)
I suppose however that she is playing with her imaginary friend (another indicator that she's young, since most kids lose their imaginary friends by the age of 8 or 9), and that would make the story cute rather than flirty - which is what I first thought when reading the first two lines. However, you have brought with you some philosophy from your second dialogue and to be honest, I was kind of creeped out by their talk and it made me think of Donnie Darko.
So, I don't really know what to think anymore...
Like Hannah I had a hard time figuring out what this story was about. But as I read along I figured that it had to be a little girl talking to her imaginary friend. Though in the beginning it felt like she was older than she turned out in the end.
SvaraRaderaThink about the tone of the conversation and how a little girl should be talking to her friend.
I didn't really understand why Hugo had to be hidden in the closet if he is only inside her head?!
This one creeped me out.
SvaraRaderaAt first i thought it was a pedophile story of some sort and was about to stop reading and commenting "There are some stories you just DON'T write, dude!"
But as it happens, I kept reading. :P
It is a bit bothering, that they don't talk like kids at all times. But there isn't obvious that Hugo is a kid right? I want to think that Hugo is sort of an adult, it makes the story more creepier.
And Tina, Gretchen believed Hugo was real, that's why they had the conversation in the first place?