I don't really remember a lot of details about the dream...we were at school, in Mrs. Hamman's Bio room, and we were leaving, and I left the room and David was outside and he's like hey raisa do you want to go out on a date with me sometime? And I'm about to answer when Bennett comes up to me and asks me out. And I'm like...aren't you going out with Annie? And he like looks around all surreptitiously and he whispers "No." And I'm like aww, that's sad. And he just kinda shrugs and he's like so..what's your answer? And I'm like..well David just asked me out so I dunno...lemme think about it...
And basically that's all I remember. For the record, I have no romantic interest whatsoever in Bennett or David. I have no idea where these dreams came from.
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
July 27th, 2011
So I was in this weird magic futuristic world thing, kind of like the world in Meet the Robinsons, and then we went to a grocery store that was kind of like Wal-Mart, and when I walked in to the first set of doors (you know the in-between deal) it was all black, and there was this guy, and I guess he was the bachelor, from The Bachelor, and he was sitting on a stool. And there was this woman who was probably in her late forties, with big eyes and blonde hair and her face was verryy heavily Botoxed, and a voice-over or something would say to the guy, and what makes this girl someone you would date? And every time he opened his mouth to try to say something, the lady would be all in his face and play this little piccolo or flute (I'm not sure which one it was) in this weird exotic melody, because the guy was Spanish, so he couldn't say anything cuz he kept getting cut off by the woman with the flute. Then I continued walking, and there were really cute babies and toddlers all over. And then I walked up to this one, and she looked like twoish or three, and I picked her up and there was this chart next to us, and the girl said 1996, and I was like, you were born in 1996? But then to myself I was like that's not right, then she'd be my age. So I told her to point on the chart to the year she was born. And she pointed to 1988. And I'm like, oh, then you're twelve? (Which I realize would mean that the year was 2000, but you know what, this was a dream.) So I go over to her mom, who had shortish hair and was standing nearby, and I'm like why does she look so young if she's twelve? And the mom goes, she has a condition where she doesn't grow very much. And I'm like, that's sad, how old will she look when she's done growing? And the mom said, oh, probably about eight. And it was sad, but then I gave the mom her child back and left and then I woke up.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
July 25th, 2011
So, first in the dream I was at a baseball game, and it was at night. I went to the bleachers to watch, and I saw Dan playing (of course he has to pop up in every single dream.) and I was watching him, and then he saw me watching him and I was like crap, so I left. Then I was in my house, and I was sleeping in my bed, and all of a sudden I woke up because I heard something outside the house. I went upstairs to look out the big window, and witnessed a drug deal across the street by the mailboxes. I was kinda freaked out so I went and got my dad, and he's like just stay in the house. Then he went around and made sure all the doors were locked. All of a sudden then, there was this creepy little kid who was high on crack looking in the window. He started tapping on it and I thought he saw me but I wasn't sure, so I went to a place where he couldn't see me from the window. Some more stuff happened that I can't remember. Then my house was actually my grandparents' house, but it was my house, and there were like crackheads and drug dealers and gangsters all over the back and front yards. Then they were like trying to get in, and we were locking all the doors but they were getting in anyway, and they had baseball bats and I was backing away and saying please don't hurt me, when I woke up.
It was still like four in the morning when I woke up, so I went back to sleep eventually and had an even weirder but much more enjoyable dream. I was walking down Kerber, the straight part, and there was like an obstacle course/track thing, and part of it was made of Red Vines. Basically you just had to walk on the track without falling off onto the sidewalk. (I dunno, it made sense in the dream.) So I was walking along, and when I got to Nez Perce there was like a Red Vine zip line going down that street, that led down the Big Hill and to the beach, and I was like this is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Then Bridgette, the girl I work with, was walking down the street, behind me, and I turned and she said, "Isn't this cool? It was all made by random people who just decided to add to the community." And I was like, "Cool, do we ever have to clean it up?" And she said that we only have to pick up the Red Vines, and only at night, so could I please hand her that Red Vine next to me so that she could clean them up. So then the track thing was gone, and I just had to walk by myself. Apparently I was with people that entire time, and now I was leaving so I was saying goodbye to them, and the people were Britt and Will. And Britt, being Britt, hugged me goodbye, so then since that was what we were doing I went to hug Will goodbye, but he was all weird when I hugged him and then after he goes, "I really need for you to stop hugging me so frequently," and I'm like dude I've never even hugged you before, but alright. And so then I continued on my way down Kerber to wherever I was going. When I got to the bottom of the first hill, Luna Lovegood and her dad who wasn't her actual dad from the movie came, and asked if I needed a ride, because they had room for one more. So, I got on their magic carpet and we went up in the direction of the elementary school. As we were flying we saw Dumbledore, but he was like a real life version of the Harry Potter Puppet Pals Dumbledore, and he had no pants and he was all crazy and weird. He was soaring through the air by himself and singing some weird crazy song and Luna goes, oh, there's Dumbledore, and I'm like I thought he was dead, and she goes, he is dead, but we're just so close to heaven up here that we can see him. So eventually we got where we were going, which looked like the playground/baseball field area of Lake Ann, and lots of people were gathered, because Voldemort had ordered that everyone gather there to worship him. Somehow I was on the top of this huge hill overlooking the park area, sort of like the Parthenon overlooks Athens on the acropolis. I was in this temple thing, that was really small like a shack or a cabin, only it was a temple, and there was this shrine to Voldemort, and I'm like, uh wait, Voldemort's dead. And the magic dream voice was like, "Yeah he's dead, but he still ordered everyone to worship him." But I'm like, "That doesn't make sense, if he's dead then we don't have to do what he says and worship him because he's dead and can't do anything to us," and the magic dream voice is like, hmm, true, and I don't remember anything after that because I think I woke up.
It was still like four in the morning when I woke up, so I went back to sleep eventually and had an even weirder but much more enjoyable dream. I was walking down Kerber, the straight part, and there was like an obstacle course/track thing, and part of it was made of Red Vines. Basically you just had to walk on the track without falling off onto the sidewalk. (I dunno, it made sense in the dream.) So I was walking along, and when I got to Nez Perce there was like a Red Vine zip line going down that street, that led down the Big Hill and to the beach, and I was like this is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Then Bridgette, the girl I work with, was walking down the street, behind me, and I turned and she said, "Isn't this cool? It was all made by random people who just decided to add to the community." And I was like, "Cool, do we ever have to clean it up?" And she said that we only have to pick up the Red Vines, and only at night, so could I please hand her that Red Vine next to me so that she could clean them up. So then the track thing was gone, and I just had to walk by myself. Apparently I was with people that entire time, and now I was leaving so I was saying goodbye to them, and the people were Britt and Will. And Britt, being Britt, hugged me goodbye, so then since that was what we were doing I went to hug Will goodbye, but he was all weird when I hugged him and then after he goes, "I really need for you to stop hugging me so frequently," and I'm like dude I've never even hugged you before, but alright. And so then I continued on my way down Kerber to wherever I was going. When I got to the bottom of the first hill, Luna Lovegood and her dad who wasn't her actual dad from the movie came, and asked if I needed a ride, because they had room for one more. So, I got on their magic carpet and we went up in the direction of the elementary school. As we were flying we saw Dumbledore, but he was like a real life version of the Harry Potter Puppet Pals Dumbledore, and he had no pants and he was all crazy and weird. He was soaring through the air by himself and singing some weird crazy song and Luna goes, oh, there's Dumbledore, and I'm like I thought he was dead, and she goes, he is dead, but we're just so close to heaven up here that we can see him. So eventually we got where we were going, which looked like the playground/baseball field area of Lake Ann, and lots of people were gathered, because Voldemort had ordered that everyone gather there to worship him. Somehow I was on the top of this huge hill overlooking the park area, sort of like the Parthenon overlooks Athens on the acropolis. I was in this temple thing, that was really small like a shack or a cabin, only it was a temple, and there was this shrine to Voldemort, and I'm like, uh wait, Voldemort's dead. And the magic dream voice was like, "Yeah he's dead, but he still ordered everyone to worship him." But I'm like, "That doesn't make sense, if he's dead then we don't have to do what he says and worship him because he's dead and can't do anything to us," and the magic dream voice is like, hmm, true, and I don't remember anything after that because I think I woke up.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
July 24th, 2011
So, first I was at Target, and Shah wanted me to work there as a representative for Pizzaioli, and so I was like, "So should I wear this shirt, or a Target one?" and he told me he'd get me a Target shirt. Then all of a sudden we were somewhere else, the play area at the mall I think, and my dad was there and he was being all weird. There was a ball pit and he started taking all the balls out of it and throwing them all over. And then Dan came and was like what are you doing and my dad was like come on let's have some fun. And so then they were in this kiddie pool thing, and my dream self all of a sudden was like oh, my dad must know that I like Dan, and he's being all weird so that Dan will come over here and I can talk to him. But I was all embarrassed cuz he was being weird and he was in a kiddie pool and a ball pit and stuff and it was just strange. But apparently Dan thought he was really cool and he was laughing. Anyway after that I woke up.
Saturday, July 23, 2011
July 23, 2011
So, I'm gonna make this quick because it's 12:30 AM. I was at my grandparents' house, and my great-grandma who died a couple years ago was there, and had just died recently, and she was lying on a table thing in my grandparents' dining room, and all my extended family was starting to arrive and crying and stuff, and my cousins brought pizza. Then all of a sudden my great-grandma started stirring, and turns out she was alive. Which was cool. Then it was a different dream. We had some items (not sure what they were) to bring to this top-secret place, so we were driving down this country road. We reached the outer perimeter of the top-secret compound and there was like a toll booth thing there, with Siamese cats guarding it. Eventually we got past the cats, not sure how, must not have been important, and we were getting to the actual house thing or whatever it was. It was a big mansion, and the outside of it looked vaguely like the White House. We went inside, and the inside looked like Saver's or Goodwill, all these racks of stuff. Anyway, then we were just looking through all these clothes, like jerseys and sweatshirts from lots of random high school and colleges, and Celeste was there, and Dan was her son and she was looking for a jersey for him. And I was like, ooh, is he coming, but then he wasn't. And then I don't remember much else after that. Then I woke up. I find it strange and slightly embarrassing that Dan keeps appearing in my dreams, and then I have to tell you about it.
Friday, July 22, 2011
July 21, 2011
So, the first dream started out in french class, although the classroom was arranged differently, with the desks facing the wall that has the window, and the window and Madame's desk on the other end of the wall. Anyway, we were working on some worksheet or useless exercise, as usual, when I look up at Madame and see that she is watching the trailer for Harry Potter 7 Part 2. Other people start to notice this, which Madame notices, so she quickly turns it off. Then, I look down the row to see Matthew Lewis, aka Neville, sitting at the end of my row. All of a sudden we are watching Part 2, and at the part where Neville is taunting the Snatchers that can't get in, I look at Matthew Lewis, who looks slightly embarrassed. Then the movie is over, and I am so sad that it's over that I run to Matthew Lewis and give him a hug which, surprisingly, he goes along with. When I stop giving him the hug we are in the Great Hall, which is empty of the usual tables. People are milling around, a few are painting details on these huge concrete sarcophagi that for some reason I know are for the important teachers who died, namely McGonagall, which is strange, because she's overseeing the sarcophagi painting and therefore not dead. Anyway, Matthew Lewis and I move to the side and sit down, and I start asking him about all these Harry Potter things, one of which is who is Bobbeh supposed to be. Then he starts hugging me and apparently we're going out. Which is strange. After that the dream dissolves into nothingness and I think I woke up.
The second dream began with me in bed, like I actually was, but I just woke up and was too lazy to get up. My room was actually Ali's room, and there were two beds in it so presumably I shared with Lydia. Jennifer was over, or maybe it was Milica, I'm not sure, but then anyway all of a sudden there were a bunch of random people over and I'm just like...why are you all at my house. It was like Morgan and Amanda and other people who I don't remember, and then John was there, and I was like John these people need to leave, I'm not even dressed and I need to take a shower. And then John came over and sat on the other bed and started casually talking about stuff and I'm just like kid get out of here! And then I grabbed his purple pen and threw it at him because I needed to give it back before I forgot. Then we were on the deck and I had just given up on getting dressed because whatever, it's John. And he was talking about like politics or something, and my dad came out and they started having an intelligent discussion about something intelligent. And then my mom set her compost on fire, just to have a bonfire, and my dad was like you can't do that you'll set the whole yard on fire and she's like oh, it's fine. And the fire got really big but I don't think anything bad happened. And then I think I woke up.
The second dream began with me in bed, like I actually was, but I just woke up and was too lazy to get up. My room was actually Ali's room, and there were two beds in it so presumably I shared with Lydia. Jennifer was over, or maybe it was Milica, I'm not sure, but then anyway all of a sudden there were a bunch of random people over and I'm just like...why are you all at my house. It was like Morgan and Amanda and other people who I don't remember, and then John was there, and I was like John these people need to leave, I'm not even dressed and I need to take a shower. And then John came over and sat on the other bed and started casually talking about stuff and I'm just like kid get out of here! And then I grabbed his purple pen and threw it at him because I needed to give it back before I forgot. Then we were on the deck and I had just given up on getting dressed because whatever, it's John. And he was talking about like politics or something, and my dad came out and they started having an intelligent discussion about something intelligent. And then my mom set her compost on fire, just to have a bonfire, and my dad was like you can't do that you'll set the whole yard on fire and she's like oh, it's fine. And the fire got really big but I don't think anything bad happened. And then I think I woke up.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
July 12th, 2011
I was at work, but it was more of a cafeteria and we were in the kitchen part, and lots of people worked there besides the people that actually work there. I remember Liz Wallin and Zany working there, and Liz was really fat. (Which, I think she is in real life now too.) So anyway, I went out to bus some tables, and it was like a giant mall cafeteria so it was gonna take me forever, but it was all people from school. The first table I went to was Nick Dabiran's, and I started to take a plate that it looked like he was done with, but he was like, "No I still need that what are you doing Raisa?" and so I left it. Then I went to a different table and Elliott Gaddis was there, but he was foreign and didn't speak very good English, and there was a pepperoni pizza at his table. He asked me if the pepperoni was turkey pepperoni, and I figured out that he was Muslim and wanted to know if he could eat it (because Muslims can't eat pork), so I told him no, it was beef (which is true in real life too), so he could eat it. He was surprised that I knew why he wanted to know. He said, "You're Muslim too? You must be Iranian." I told him that no, I wasn't Muslim, and no, I wasn't Iranian, but if he looked behind him at Nick's table, Nick was. But Elliott said, "Then what are you?" and I told him Lebanese, and he nodded and started eating his pizza. So I moved on to the next table, and Nick was sitting at this one too, and I said, "How did you get over here, I thought that other one was your table?" And he explained that he was just sitting at the other table with the other people because he felt bad for them, and the table he was sitting at now were his real friends. And so I asked if I could take the food from the other table now, and he said no, he still needed it, and I was like Nick you are a weirdo. After that I woke up because I was sleeping on my stomach with my arm under my pillow, and my arm was now asleep and really hurt.
July 11th, 2011
It was next year, 2012, and I had finally saved enough money to go to Senegal. For some reason, Meaghan and Jennifer were coming with me. Our plane left at midnight, and we had to be at the airport by eleven. We were in the car driving to the airport even though it was only 6 or 7 o' clock, and it was just us three. Meaghan was driving. Because we had so much extra time, we were driving extremely slowly and playing a video game as we drove. For most of the next part we were sitting right on the road outside the Chan Elementary field, and it was dark, even though it was six or seven. I think that Meaghan wasn't actually driving, on account of she was the one playing most of the game. It was a racing game kind of, and she was really obsessed with it. Also, I'm not sure why we were just sitting there in the car in the middle of the road, because my mom didn't want us to go to Senegal and so she was chasing us before we got to the airport, and we were supposed to be getting away. So anyway, Meaghan was playing the game, when all of a sudden I look at the clock and realize it's eleven o' clock. I started freaking out and I was like you guys you guys we have to go stop playing the dang game we're gonna miss our flight! And so then Meaghan drove extremely fast to the airport. Then when we got there we were running away from my mom, and the three of us got split up, and I was in some rainforest cafe thing, swinging on like a vine with my giant duffel bag in my hand, and then I saw Meaghan and I was like come on we gotta go! But she went somewhere, and then all of sudden I wasn't going to Senegal anymore, I was at band, but it was still the airport, and Mr Swanson who was also Shah was telling us all things that we needed to do, and my job was to go tag all the luggage in this one area. So I went to the area and this lady was explaining how to sort this luggage, and then right when I got started she said it was break time and handed me some lemonade.
Then suddenly I was at Lake Ann with Jennifer, and we were on the closer side of the dock, and I saw Dan, and he was wearing a white shirt with like a pastel colored sweater vest and khakis, and he looked extremely preppy but also very hot. Not attractive, but hot, because there's a difference, and usually he's attractive but not hot. Anyway. He was in the water, with all these preppy clothes on, but they weren't really getting wet (like a duck, as Jennifer later pointed out, in real life). So we took off our clothes (we had swimsuits) and went in the water, and, as usual, I was gonna talk to him, but I didn't. Then I woke up.
Then suddenly I was at Lake Ann with Jennifer, and we were on the closer side of the dock, and I saw Dan, and he was wearing a white shirt with like a pastel colored sweater vest and khakis, and he looked extremely preppy but also very hot. Not attractive, but hot, because there's a difference, and usually he's attractive but not hot. Anyway. He was in the water, with all these preppy clothes on, but they weren't really getting wet (like a duck, as Jennifer later pointed out, in real life). So we took off our clothes (we had swimsuits) and went in the water, and, as usual, I was gonna talk to him, but I didn't. Then I woke up.
July 10th, 2011 (I went back to sleep)
So, we were in the 4th of July parade for band again, but at that moment we weren't playing, and for some reason someone very smart decided to put the Waconia marching band right behind us. So they were playing, and they had the same cadences as us. And so I noticed this, and mentioned it to Cassidy, who was right next to me. It made us both pretty angry, because come on, who just steals cadences?
Anyway, I got over that, and continued marching. It was then that I noticed Dan was still in band, playing the bass drum right ahead of me. I was confused.
So since we were still marching, but not playing, and the parade was apparently almost over, Mr Swanson yelled that we could just walk now, because it was hot, and pointless to march.
We walked to Chan Elementary, where we went inside to change. Apparently the dressing room (for guys and girls) was the music room, but everyone was taking forever to change and it was really crowded and I had to go to work, so I went somewhere else.
Apparently 'somewhere else' was my grandma's dining room, which was in the school, and I went to a nonexistent bathroom in the dining room to change. The bathroom was basically just a closet, with three different-sized toilets. It was kinda nasty, so I changed and got out of there in a hurry. Then I went back to the music room to get my phone, and when I looked at the time it was 8:17 pm, 17 minutes after I was supposed to end work. I was kind of mad, but just said oh well and got over it. I decided to go anyway, to explain to Shah about the parade. Mr Swanson said, "I'm sure you won't be that late," and I just looked at him like, "Uh, k...?"
I went outside, which was my grandma's driveway, to call Shah. Connie, Chad's mom, was there, and Mr Swanson and the rest of his family. They were all just kind of chilling in the garage. So anyway, I called Shah, and he said "What are you talking about? It's 4:30." I looked at the clock (not sure which clock, as I was outside), and saw that he was right, and, slightly embarrassed, told him I'd see him at five. Then he said, "Oh, we don't actually need you today, you don't have to come in," and so I didn't go in. And then I woke up.
Anyway, I got over that, and continued marching. It was then that I noticed Dan was still in band, playing the bass drum right ahead of me. I was confused.
So since we were still marching, but not playing, and the parade was apparently almost over, Mr Swanson yelled that we could just walk now, because it was hot, and pointless to march.
We walked to Chan Elementary, where we went inside to change. Apparently the dressing room (for guys and girls) was the music room, but everyone was taking forever to change and it was really crowded and I had to go to work, so I went somewhere else.
Apparently 'somewhere else' was my grandma's dining room, which was in the school, and I went to a nonexistent bathroom in the dining room to change. The bathroom was basically just a closet, with three different-sized toilets. It was kinda nasty, so I changed and got out of there in a hurry. Then I went back to the music room to get my phone, and when I looked at the time it was 8:17 pm, 17 minutes after I was supposed to end work. I was kind of mad, but just said oh well and got over it. I decided to go anyway, to explain to Shah about the parade. Mr Swanson said, "I'm sure you won't be that late," and I just looked at him like, "Uh, k...?"
I went outside, which was my grandma's driveway, to call Shah. Connie, Chad's mom, was there, and Mr Swanson and the rest of his family. They were all just kind of chilling in the garage. So anyway, I called Shah, and he said "What are you talking about? It's 4:30." I looked at the clock (not sure which clock, as I was outside), and saw that he was right, and, slightly embarrassed, told him I'd see him at five. Then he said, "Oh, we don't actually need you today, you don't have to come in," and so I didn't go in. And then I woke up.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
July 10th, 2011
I was on the bus, but it was my eighth grade bus with Carol, and we were on the the eighth grade bus route. Carol was going on about how there were really nice flowers and berries growing around here, and how "she'd better see us out there picking them and enjoying the nature". Then she smiled, and it was creepy. She also said how she had seen someone carrying some nice ribbon berries, and it would be nice if we got some of those too. "Make your mothers happy," she said. Then for some reason, we couldn't get off the bus with any electronics, so if we wanted them we had to throw them out the window, get off the bus, and go get them later, so I threw my iPod out the window. I remember not really having a problem with this. After that I got off the bus, and was at a driveway which apparently was Milica's but wasn't really Milica's. I saw her sister Jelena near the house, and her nephew Teo at the end of the driveway, so I picked Teo up and brought him with me wherever I was going (presumably home, but who knows?). I started walking down the street, which was wet for some reason (had it been raining?), and then saw Milica, with one of her friends, walking toward me. Her 'friend' was this really fat black girl that Milica actually hates in real life because she threatens to beat her. The girl is scary, man. Milica was wearing brown velour sweatpants that I remember were verrrry tight and made her look extremely fat. Then Milica's 'friend' disappeared, and I gave Teo to Milica to hold. We resumed walking down the street, Milica going the way that she had just come. Eventually we reached a paper bag in the middle of the street which, upon approaching it, was a recycling bag containing some old newspapers and Walgreens ads. Then I saw my dad's camera in it, which was weird because I didn't remember my dad losing his camera, so why was it here in the recycling in the middle of a street? I examined the camera, which miraculously still worked, and saw some pictures on it that my dad took when he was in Lebanon. They were of this old Lebanese guy. Then Milica had the camera, and was pulling back the tab that opens that place where you put the battery and memory card in, when it snapped back and then flew across the street. I said something along the lines of, "Milica, you retard," but got over it pretty fast. Then all of a sudden Milica had two little kids with her and I was holding Teo again (who, by the way, is actually two, but in the dream he was like an infant or something). A car suddenly came flying down the road, which I recognized as Louisse's brother's car. There was a girl in the front seat with him, which was funny. Then he drove off the road and into the dirt, and the girl mysteriously disappeared. I went over to the car and said, "Your engine blew out," (not sure how I knew that) and Maverick just looked at me like, "Uh, yeah," and he was obviously very angry because his ladyfriend had disappeared. Anyway, then he disappeared, and it was raining and I was at home. I was in my bed and my mom was saying how I'd better get up because I had to go to work in an hour at eleven. I heard my dad's car start because apparently he was going somewhere, and I ran out to tell him that I found his camera. As I told him this I saw my grandpa and Ali sitting in the driveway working on something. Then I told my dad that I needed to go get my iPod that I had thrown out the window, but as we left to go get it I realized with dismay that it had been raining so my iPod was probably screwed. When we got there I couldn't find it, but apparently it was okay because I had found another of the same kind of iPod and I could just sync that, but I was still sad and wanted to find it because I liked my trusty iPod. Then I woke up and luckily my trusty iPod was right next to my bed where I had left it.
July 9th, 2011
I was at a party, most likely a holiday, at my grandma's house. I was in the basement; there were plants all over just like in real life. However, friends were there, and people from school, though the only people that stood out clearly were Chad and Jennifer. All of a sudden I knew that Dan had arrived (whether Chad told me or the knowledge just appeared in my mind, I'm not sure). He was in a room with his friends, a room that doesn't exist in my grandma's real house, though I think it was about where the laundry room really is.
Before I even figured out what was happening, Chad had gone into the room and returned with Dan. He presented Dan to me and made introductions and such, and I was my usual nervous, unable-to-speak self around him. (At this point, for some reason, an image of my cousin Rachael floats to mind; she might have been there.)
Dan moved awkwardly to a beanbag beside me, not meeting my eyes.
"I really have nothing to say to you..." he said. He was half laughing, but it was very apparent that he was slightly creeped out and wondering what was going on.
Suddenly I was at a baseball field, one I had never been to before with trees all around it. It was a cloudy, overcast day* and I was watching from behind the fence at center field. In other words, the players were very far away. I looked for Dan, but he wasn't playing. I couldn't find him in the dugout, either, but that was maybe because some other players were in the way. Chad told me (he was apparently either next to me, which I don't remember, or communicating telepathically) that he wasn't going to be playing much this season, which I of course thought was dumb. He also told me that Dan had a girlfriend. While my real self felt a sinking disappointment even in sleep, my dream self simply blinked and appeared unfazed.
Then the baseball and Chad were gone and I was at band. It was strange because it was spat camp, and therefore summer, but a lot of the seniors from last year were still there (unfortunately, this didn't include Dan Hoffman) I remember Rachel Auer, Jessica Anderson (who is actually a senior this year), and Morgen Egesdal, but not much else of what I did in band. Then I left, and for some reason was talking to Meaghan about Abby as I left. We moved to the subject of Hannah, her sister, and doesn't she go to our school, when we realized that Hannah was actually only a few steps behind us. I turned and started talking to her (I said, "That's so funny, we just saw Abby today and now we see you!" even though I'm not sure if we actually did see Abby at that point in the dream), but Hannah was distant and judgmental and slightly rude, so we quickly stopped talking to her. (We noticed that she was with Taylor Johnson, if that means anything.) Eventually we got to the small alcove part of the commons, which had gotten much bigger and also darker, possibly because of the overcast day. Even though it was summer and probably five or six o' clock in the evening, there were people all over, like it was three on a regular Tuesday afternoon. I remember seeing Tony Stauber and texting "tony stauber!" to Jennifer. I sat at a table with Meaghan and other faceless people to wait for a ride, and my backpack lay in front of me on the table. Meaghan was going on about how I had too much lip gloss.
"I do not; I barely have any!" I retorted, reaching my hand into the pocket of my bad that held lip gloss. I came out with a heaping handful, and looked in the bag to see perhaps thirty more.
"Plus you have all...this stuff." Meaghan held up a curling iron by the cord, as if disgusted, and I saw that a straightener lay next to it. In fact, it seemed that I had left very little of my morning routine at home.
All of a sudden one of the faceless people was Jodi, and she was with some people from the dance team (I'm not sure why they were sitting with us).
"Do you still like that Dan guy?" Jodi asked, and I nodded hesitantly. "Well, he's right over there." She motioned down to where the stairs to the buses were.
"Where?" I asked, and turned around in my seat to look for him. "I can't see him."
"Right there," a voice said, and I looked up at the table behind us to see Evan Severson looking up from him phone and nodding in the same direction as Jodi. I looked down the row of tables and saw Dan in his blue sweatshirt, but wasn't interested in that anymore.
"How did you know...?" I asked Evan in utter bewilderment, unable to believe that he knew that I liked Dan. Evan simply shrugged in his Evan way and went back to looking at his phone.
Suddenly everyone but Meaghan was gone, and Meaghan was asking me if I needed a ride home. I said yes, but first I had to go back to my room really fast and get my phone charger and something else. Meaghan was exasperated but said she'd wait.
I went to my room, but when I flicked on the light switch, the light that isn't above my bed went out.** Ignoring this, I to get my phone charger and the other nameless item that I had to grab. Unfortunately, something kept me much longer that it should have taken, and, frustrated, I texted Meaghan to just leave without me, though I suspected that she already had.
Realizing that for some reason I was dressed in several layers of tank tops and pants, I began taking a lot of them off, but just then Abby walked in. She started telling me about a report she did on how Chinese people eat grass. Not entirely apologetically, I told Abby that I had to go and hurried back downstairs to the commons. Then I went down the stairs and out the back bus doors, which then were the front doors of the school. As I was walking around to a different door to the school, which led to an area where most of the students still waiting for rides had gathered, someone called my name.
"Hey! How's it goin'?"
I looked around and saw, among other people I didn't know, a cheerfully waving, sunglasses-clad (even though it was still cloudy and 7:00 pm now) guy that looked vaguely like Damian from Mean Girls only more attractive and less gay. I waved back back even though I had no idea who he was, then continued on my way.
When I reached the doors, I walked in the first set of them and stayed in the little in-between area to call my dad. Which it was rining I saw dan and his friends walk past me at the doors, the stop and wait in the in-between area just like me. Briefly I contemplated the fact that it looked like i was only there because they were, then decided I didn't care.
My dad answered the phone then, and I asked him for a ride home, and when I was done I went back outside (where I noticed Dan and his friends had also gone), sat down, and started fishing around in my bag for my iPod. As I did, I saw Dan holding a longboard, which was weird because he doesn't really seem like the longboarding type. I found my iPod and turned on a D.R.U.G.S. song really loud. I noticed Dan look at me, probably because he recognized the song and though it weired that I was listening to it, but I realized that since he had a girlfriend it didn't really matter.
Then my dad came, out of the school rather than in a car. This regiestered as strange but I didn't think much of it.
"Your shorts are too short," he told me, and I looked down at my jeans and back at him in confusion. Then we started toward the parking lot and then I woke up.
*exactly like the weather on July 9th at 9 am when I woke up
**when I flicked on the light switch when I woke up that morning, that same light flickered out. creepy, I know.
Before I even figured out what was happening, Chad had gone into the room and returned with Dan. He presented Dan to me and made introductions and such, and I was my usual nervous, unable-to-speak self around him. (At this point, for some reason, an image of my cousin Rachael floats to mind; she might have been there.)
Dan moved awkwardly to a beanbag beside me, not meeting my eyes.
"I really have nothing to say to you..." he said. He was half laughing, but it was very apparent that he was slightly creeped out and wondering what was going on.
Suddenly I was at a baseball field, one I had never been to before with trees all around it. It was a cloudy, overcast day* and I was watching from behind the fence at center field. In other words, the players were very far away. I looked for Dan, but he wasn't playing. I couldn't find him in the dugout, either, but that was maybe because some other players were in the way. Chad told me (he was apparently either next to me, which I don't remember, or communicating telepathically) that he wasn't going to be playing much this season, which I of course thought was dumb. He also told me that Dan had a girlfriend. While my real self felt a sinking disappointment even in sleep, my dream self simply blinked and appeared unfazed.
Then the baseball and Chad were gone and I was at band. It was strange because it was spat camp, and therefore summer, but a lot of the seniors from last year were still there (unfortunately, this didn't include Dan Hoffman) I remember Rachel Auer, Jessica Anderson (who is actually a senior this year), and Morgen Egesdal, but not much else of what I did in band. Then I left, and for some reason was talking to Meaghan about Abby as I left. We moved to the subject of Hannah, her sister, and doesn't she go to our school, when we realized that Hannah was actually only a few steps behind us. I turned and started talking to her (I said, "That's so funny, we just saw Abby today and now we see you!" even though I'm not sure if we actually did see Abby at that point in the dream), but Hannah was distant and judgmental and slightly rude, so we quickly stopped talking to her. (We noticed that she was with Taylor Johnson, if that means anything.) Eventually we got to the small alcove part of the commons, which had gotten much bigger and also darker, possibly because of the overcast day. Even though it was summer and probably five or six o' clock in the evening, there were people all over, like it was three on a regular Tuesday afternoon. I remember seeing Tony Stauber and texting "tony stauber!" to Jennifer. I sat at a table with Meaghan and other faceless people to wait for a ride, and my backpack lay in front of me on the table. Meaghan was going on about how I had too much lip gloss.
"I do not; I barely have any!" I retorted, reaching my hand into the pocket of my bad that held lip gloss. I came out with a heaping handful, and looked in the bag to see perhaps thirty more.
"Plus you have all...this stuff." Meaghan held up a curling iron by the cord, as if disgusted, and I saw that a straightener lay next to it. In fact, it seemed that I had left very little of my morning routine at home.
All of a sudden one of the faceless people was Jodi, and she was with some people from the dance team (I'm not sure why they were sitting with us).
"Do you still like that Dan guy?" Jodi asked, and I nodded hesitantly. "Well, he's right over there." She motioned down to where the stairs to the buses were.
"Where?" I asked, and turned around in my seat to look for him. "I can't see him."
"Right there," a voice said, and I looked up at the table behind us to see Evan Severson looking up from him phone and nodding in the same direction as Jodi. I looked down the row of tables and saw Dan in his blue sweatshirt, but wasn't interested in that anymore.
"How did you know...?" I asked Evan in utter bewilderment, unable to believe that he knew that I liked Dan. Evan simply shrugged in his Evan way and went back to looking at his phone.
Suddenly everyone but Meaghan was gone, and Meaghan was asking me if I needed a ride home. I said yes, but first I had to go back to my room really fast and get my phone charger and something else. Meaghan was exasperated but said she'd wait.
I went to my room, but when I flicked on the light switch, the light that isn't above my bed went out.** Ignoring this, I to get my phone charger and the other nameless item that I had to grab. Unfortunately, something kept me much longer that it should have taken, and, frustrated, I texted Meaghan to just leave without me, though I suspected that she already had.
Realizing that for some reason I was dressed in several layers of tank tops and pants, I began taking a lot of them off, but just then Abby walked in. She started telling me about a report she did on how Chinese people eat grass. Not entirely apologetically, I told Abby that I had to go and hurried back downstairs to the commons. Then I went down the stairs and out the back bus doors, which then were the front doors of the school. As I was walking around to a different door to the school, which led to an area where most of the students still waiting for rides had gathered, someone called my name.
"Hey! How's it goin'?"
I looked around and saw, among other people I didn't know, a cheerfully waving, sunglasses-clad (even though it was still cloudy and 7:00 pm now) guy that looked vaguely like Damian from Mean Girls only more attractive and less gay. I waved back back even though I had no idea who he was, then continued on my way.
When I reached the doors, I walked in the first set of them and stayed in the little in-between area to call my dad. Which it was rining I saw dan and his friends walk past me at the doors, the stop and wait in the in-between area just like me. Briefly I contemplated the fact that it looked like i was only there because they were, then decided I didn't care.
My dad answered the phone then, and I asked him for a ride home, and when I was done I went back outside (where I noticed Dan and his friends had also gone), sat down, and started fishing around in my bag for my iPod. As I did, I saw Dan holding a longboard, which was weird because he doesn't really seem like the longboarding type. I found my iPod and turned on a D.R.U.G.S. song really loud. I noticed Dan look at me, probably because he recognized the song and though it weired that I was listening to it, but I realized that since he had a girlfriend it didn't really matter.
Then my dad came, out of the school rather than in a car. This regiestered as strange but I didn't think much of it.
"Your shorts are too short," he told me, and I looked down at my jeans and back at him in confusion. Then we started toward the parking lot and then I woke up.
*exactly like the weather on July 9th at 9 am when I woke up
**when I flicked on the light switch when I woke up that morning, that same light flickered out. creepy, I know.
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