You're all talking as if having an imaginary boyfriend in middle school would be some sort of tragedy or a sign of psychosis or something.
; Jeebus.
I mean—there is a worst-case-scenario where he
is real, but
she only sees him as a doll, and thinks he isn't.
But that doesn't seem very likely. More likely, either he's real and she talks to the spirits of objects, or he exists only in her head like any normal imaginary friend, and everything's fine.