Lat Night’s Dream

            I was walking through a dark maze with an abundance of doors. The prospect of of all the doors excited me, and made me fee like I could go a path that was separate from everybody else. There were small groups of people finding their way through the maze, like me. I reached to this smoky room, and when I stepped into it I could feel I was in a pool. A flashlight beam flashed in my eyes and I saw 20 or so people in the pool with me, which centered around a large backwards tapered column in the middle. By the glare of the flashlight I could see that the walls were an orangish salmon color. I swam deeper into the room, squinting because of the flashlight.

            “Oy you,” someone called “Is that Ben Farris’s sister?” He swam to meet me. He had sunglasses and a fedora on, and I recognized him as the owner of the maze.

            “ I could tell because  uh, Ben always does that squinty thing too.”

            I was too stunned for words. Some of the others in the room took up the line. Yeah, they called, Are you a squinter like your brother.

            “Ha,ha,” I called back, “very funny.” I frog-kicked to the far side of the room. There were some stairs and a new hallway, which I entered. I instpected my wet clothes, on which I noticed a soapy or bubbly kind of film.

            In the hallway there was a brilliant white-blue light that crept out of the wall in places. I peered in the first door on my right. I did not like what I saw. There was a room-sized pool that held tons of heads and probably bodies as well. Surrounding the heads was a bluish water with chips of ice. I walked past this room and stood in the doorway of the next, the same. I walked to the room across the hall, and the room after that. All rooms were filled with heads with closed eyes and frozen faces. Hoping to leave I walked back to the entrance of the hallway, and had it closed in my face. So I went back into the room with the icy pool filled with sleeping heads.

            “Hello?” I asked, “Can I get in?”

            “Sure,” replied a friendly female voice. I couldn’t spot which head the voice had come from, I only knew the area.

            The heads in the pool began to open their eyes.

            “Okay I’m jumping in.”

            The heads, which I now realized had bodies—as I suspected they might—made way for me to cannonball in the pool. The water was not that cold. A girl turned to me and asked “Are you ready?” I shook my head yes. She took a deep breath and I did the same. The icy waters began to vibrate. Everyone in the pool was trying to achieve a similar bobbing motion. Up - down and up - down. Pretty soon the waves in the pool were incredibly high. Then the pool was sucked out through the bottom . . . Then I woke up.

The End

I'm in my living room with my mom, but I know soon I'll be out on the road. Tomorrow is my last day at work, and I'm both happy and sad. I'm happy to get out of the gossipy drama that occurs, but I'm sad that I have to leave these people. I got paid well and treated well. I've worked so hard to get everything they wanted done, and now I have to leave . . . done or not. I'm totally stoked about school starting again. I want to buy school supplies, which cues me into the fact that I am starting to get excited. I soo have wheels now! I'm gunna go to The Leaf and take my car-less babes to Zuccini's (DANK!). I'm don't have go to church anymore. I can just roam around and find a church at my leisure (or go to the Bedside Church of Christ!). I'm going to have so much fun with Laci and Sara!!!

I love everything right now . . . uh-oh . . . I'm emotional and soppy, I'm 'bout ready to sniffle in my tea and crumpets. I think hormones are afoot. Better leave before I turn this webspace into a My Little Pony Party (Love and pretty horses). Yes, I do need to stop.

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