Jan 21, 2004 12:47
The first thing I remember was being in a strange building that resembled the (new)high school, I ran into Curtis Pitts and he shook my hand. Then I met William Moeller and was glad to see him, and he punched me in the gut, I started to fight back and Val Angelle grabbed me from behind. I remember kicking William twice in the nose as Val lifted me up, then Curtis came back and started hitting me too..and everything went black for a moment.
I woke up in a hospital room with no marks from the fighting on me, but then I reached up to touch my hair and I was bald..I freaked out for a second, and then checked a little file cabinet next to the bed. It had my wallet in it, except it was my old wallet, then one I lost, and old clothes, like the grey shirt Jake gave to me that I used to wear all the time (even though it was too big), the one that said "SARCASM: JUST ONE SERVICE WE OFFER." I grabbed my wallet and dressed and then my hair was back...kind of, it was long again, as long as it was when I let it grow out for almost a year. I snuck out of the hospital, and the first thing I saw was my Corsica sitting along the curb. I ran to it, jumped in, and started driving. My CD player was sitting in the passenger seat, just as I normally would have it, so I leaned over and hit the play button and "where is my mind" started playing. I looked back up at the road...I was on the feeder of 610 East, and then the Neon crashed into me again and I re-lived the shock of the wreck. When my car stopped moving, I took a deep breath and opened the car door...
And I was somewhere entirely different. A gigantic building that seemed to be a restaurant..there were well-dressed people everywhere and a reserved setting, but also buffet-like sections and aisles of bookshelves here and there. A waiter walked up to me and treated me like a child, I responded to him with sarcastic, witty comments about how he was being overly condescending and then he told me, respectfully, that I need to be somewhere else. He pointed at a fence where, past it, a bunch of oddly garbed people seemed to be performing a play. The guy made comments about how that way would be difficult and I wouldn't want to go there since I'm not Jewish. I commented that he would have no idea what religion I might be(I could've been Jewish for all he would've known!), but followed him to an alternate, supposedly longer and safer route anyway. He lead me to two huge doors, which I opened after a bit of work, and then I was on the other side in a beautiful garden.
I walked down a wide stone path until it took me to these stairs that led up to a small wooden platform, then they turned left and went up more to another small platform and a door. There was no one on the stairs. I looked to the right and there were several tables out in the greenery..a lot of people were sitting among them, people that were kind of but not really my friends through and around high school, we would only see eachother at school and hardly ever talk outside of it..some of them waved at me. I looked back at the stairs and started walking up, I was almost to the top when Kurt Kjornes stepped in front of me and started arguing with me. Suddenly he tackled me, sending us both flying down the stairs. I managed to twist around in the air somehow so that I was on top and we crashed into the first platform. He flailed at me and I barely avoided his arms as I held him down, telling him to stop, and trying to figure out why he was attacking me. It seemed inevitable that he would eventually overpower me and then he suddenly stopped. I got back up and continued walking to the door and noticed Cheyanne standing in front of it. She asked for my name. I gave it to her..she said that I'm not on the list for today..I had a moment of doubt and confusion, and then she told me that I was on the list for the day before and I could go in. She stepped out of the way and I glanced behind me, saw that the garden was burning, and then walked through the door.
It was dark inside, but I noticed that I was wearing different clothes and my hair was like it is now again. The only thing that didn't change was that the pixies were still playing the same song in the background (or maybe it stopped earlier and I didn't notice). After examining myself, I looked back up and my new Civic was there, with Eric, Danielle, and Miranda inside. I opened the door and sat down in the drivers' seat, looked around at the three of them, resting on each pair of eyes for a moment, then started up the car. I put it into first gear and then..killed it.
and woke up.