20 Mar 2025
Dream
So it opens up with me coming home from work and I get into the development and it’s just fire. Almost every house is on fire. My front yard is on fire. This fire is not spreading fast by any strength of the imagination. It’s taking its time moving across the buildings, the ground, the cars just moving so slow that officials aren’t even calling for an evacuation. Eventually my house starts catching and I don’t think I’ll make it through the night without the fire taking so I start packing my car with everything. My Ex, Augustine, pops by while I’m pulling laundry out of my dryer and trying to shove it in my trunk so I can go find a hotel or something. Augustine is asking me if I’d like to go with family to a hotel and stay with them. I looked at him and asked if he was serious, that he’s really picking now of all times to introduce me to his family? The small spot of fire that crept into my garage door started to grow at that moment so I grabbed him and forced him into my car and said we need to go now. My house is about to go up. So we pull out and start heading down the road. We come to this intersection and he has me pull over by this one section of homes that is not even touched by this fire and there’s a bus hanging out on the corner. So I pull over and let him out. He asked me to wait. I waited as long as I could but I eventually had to move because the bus behind me needed to get out. So I left and started to head to the community center my best friend, Sarah, had told me about so I can at the very least get a shower. I get there and I’m getting out of the shower and there’s like these random girls in the locker room portion of these showers and the one locks eyes with me and said be careful, don’t spend too much time in here. Head master will know. I turned back to her and said I’m actually on my way out. I’ll be fine. So when I walking back out to my car I call Sarah and she tells me to make my way to this address that everyone is there and it’ll be fun. Sarah made an off handed complaint about your skin feeling weird. I agreed that it was strange and that I’ll see you soon. I get there and it’s like all of our friends. Like Sarah, Adam, Cordell, Natasha, Taylor, Niki, Cody, Abbie, Ian, and someone else I didn’t know. I make my way over to Sarah, Abbie and Niki to say hello and Niki starts asking what I was to drink, Abbie rapid fire lists off the drinks and walks off. I look at Sarah and I ask her if her skin still feels weird. She said the skin kinda subsided but her head is starting to hurt. That it’s really weird. She then asks me if I want anything to eat. As Niki walks over she comments on how Sarah looks worse and we all walk over to the food table and Niki is listing off the food and I say the cheese filled pretzels look amazing. So as she’s placing it on my plate and saying “thank you for coming to The Bachelorette Party-“ Sarah cuts her off and grabs my wrist and asks very very quietly if we were all so sure that it was Chris we buried. I looked at her confused and glanced to Niki and she looked freaked out just holding the pretzel out, so I just turned to look at Sarah and ask for her to explain. And she looked me dead in my eyes and said, “it feels like I’m experiencing someone’s death in real time by this fire and now I’m freaking out because what if Chris faked his death” I looked over her shoulder and there’s Chris, putting his finger over his lips in the “shh” gesture.
