*A cubicle with a dim lighting cackling sound is heard in distant*

Tapping along the keyboard Kate goes through the day completing her mundane routine of working, eating, sleeping and repeating. Tired of writing content under someone else penname this women is lacking a lot of courage to go wild and make others be aware of the magical power with words to make people go crazy over her beautiful imaginative world. She just doesn't want to come across as a person she is, in her imagination in front of all the people she knows because of the high self conscious thought of what people are going to think of her. This is how she has been always.

This has resulted in her not dating anyone or giving a time of her day. She thinks, her life is some kind of her fantasy drama where she will find the perfect guy who will fill the void in life giving her the love that she has always longed for.

Too bad for her in real life you have to get out and talk to people to have any possibility of meeting the man of dreams but she thinks if it were to happen it will happen, as if this Mr. Imaginary Knight-in-Shining Armor will come out tapping in her door looking for her, or maybe appear out of her computer screen and takes her inside the world of her fantasy imagination.

"Ugh!! Finally I'm done", she shuts her tab off and looks through the mail if she missed out any task. She checkups on social media to find all the beautiful messages from family and friends wishing her happy birthday. As a one of the bubbliest girl she has so many connections with people, yet she feels alone in this special day because she has no one to spend her birthday. She closes the office door behind and moves forward opposite to the direction of her house. She stops in front of the bakery watching indecisive of whether or not to give in the cravings for sweets. It’s her birthday she can treat herself with couple of sweet treats.

The bell chimes as she enters the bakery chooses among the pastries and donuts, pays and gets back to house. Its almost 8 as she finishes washing up and getting ready to make some food for herself. It’s her birthday she make some fancy dinner and sets table for one, puts little candle in the pastry she bought. It looks perfect. If only she had someone to share this beautiful moment together with. Hugged, kissed and getting wished "Happy Birthday babe" Was this too much to ask for, She thinks to herself.

Though she was content with everything she had much or less, but she just wished if only there was someone to share moment like this.

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As she blows the candle she wishes to find the love of her life, and continues to have dinner. After finishing off her night chores she finally lays on bed scrolling through her phone thinking of how fast time has been changing. Just another year has already passed with her not finding love or promotion at work or any significant success in her life. It feels like life has been stuck since some years. She thinks of all the time she has rejected of opportunities where she could have experienced something new, something that she have had always wanted but didn’t because it wasn’t how she supposed it to be like. Imagine not dating anyone because it was not as fictional as in movies, imagine not giving time to someone because you were too concerned of how it would end up being like, imagine not accepting something because you thought who does it like that? All the time there was any opportunity, she would let it go because of her overthinking and self pride. How silly was she? Always despised others for jumping from relationship to relationship talking to different boys every other day or week, thinking that it should be one and only, but look where she is now? Sad and lonely grieving the life she missed out on, because she was too careful all the time. She regretting not being a little chill about things and dressing up a little, going out and falling in love failing in love getting the heart broken after all this would have been much better than crying in bed in late twenties thinking of all the moment she could have experienced being missed out.

A deep sigh escapes her mouth as she turns around, her eyes filled with tears. Yet again she cries herself to sleep even in her birthday. “I wish I could go back in time and relive all those moments, If only I can go back in time and live all those moment again. I will definitely make different choices” she says to herself and lets out cry for a while. As she watches the digital clock on the night stand, it reads 11.12. She snaps out of her sad thoughts and wipes the tears and pushes her head in the pillow to sleep as she has to continue with the daily routine tomorrow.

Her eyes slowly opens up to see a rather familiar ceiling but not the regular one. She is surprised to find herself in the old room of her. She wakes up abruptly to scan the room around and stands frozen in front of the mirror in her bedroom.

“Oh My God!!”

This is her old bedroom back in her home. Particularly in the year 2013, she has posters of Justin Bieber. She was great fan of them at that time. She looks at the digital clock in her room it reads 28th Dec 2013, she just turned 18 . She actually turned back in time. Maybe it had to do something with the wish.

Oh yes, it was 11.11 when she wished to go back in time and made different choices. She had no idea that 11.11 wishes do comes true. Well nobody would have ever imagined something would like happen. But it happened. "What am I going to do?"

Maybe make different choices as she wished.