Her parents are there. Her mother, gripping a martini glass in one hand, and dwindling a few strands of red hair between the fingers of the other, speaks candidly to my own. Our fathers stand beside their wives, amiably carrying on their own conversation.

“She’s really made us proud, your daughter,” I hear my mother say. “I always knew she had it in her. I mean, she’s always been so bright! Where is she anyway?”
“Oh, you know, she’s getting ready for the big move... packing her things. I’m sure she’ll swing by to say goodbye to you two before she leaves for school,” her mom replies. “Besides, I doubt she’d leave without first seeing Jonathan. Those two have always been close….”

With that, all four of them look at me, then back to each other, smirking.


The whole dream was ludicrous. I’ve never met her parents. Seldom did she volunteer information about them. In fact, it took quite a bit of coaxing on my part for her to tell me much about them.

“Those two are something, aren’t they?” My mother asks I continue my trek away from the foursome, annoyed. I’ve barely made it past the yard and onto the sidewalk when Red pulls up in a car packed with moving boxes. Pulling up along the sidewalk, she rolls down the passenger side window and looks up at me.

“Get in.”

I do. “I hate the way they act sometimes,” I say aloud after closing the door and glancing back at our parents. “Like you’re Joey and I’m Dawson or something,”

“Who?” She says while fiddling with the car stereo.

“You know – Dawson’s Creek. Joey and Dawson? Katie Holmes and … old dude from that Varsity Blues movie?” Red momentarily shifts her eyes from the road and onto me, an eyebrow raised as if to say “what the hell are you talking about?” I shrugged and continued.

“All I’m saying is it gets annoying the way they carry on...” my voice shrinks to a whisper as I grow more and more aware of my surroundings. Her car is filled with boxes of all different sorts: big ones, little ones, thin ones, fat ones. It dawned on me then that she really was leaving in my dream-world.

“It doesn’t bother me much. At all, really. She takes one hand off the steering wheel and places it atop my knee. "Why does it get it you?" Just the sensation of that touch – the always welcoming warmth of her hand unexpectedly penetrating my personal bubble - was enough to make me jump a little in my seat.

I glance up to the rearview mirror, hoping she hadn't noticed. She's staring right back at me.


Is that a smirk I see in her eyes?


“Wha—“I start to ask before the weight of both the car and the world itself seemed to dissipate after another car crashes into ours.

re: I'm actually not taking a math class right now. I'm studying on my own time to refresh my memory so that I can test in to a high class and skip over the ones that I don't think are necessary to have; especially with as good as I was back in high school.
» LostSoul13 on 2011-06-10 01:56:15

wow, that dream is super-intense! It's like a film!
» Zanzibar on 2011-06-10 11:15:45

why
» middaymoon on 2011-06-10 03:26:38

There's something strange about the W in "Wha--"...
» randomjunk on 2011-06-10 09:09:50

I think there's some weird influx of weird dreams amongst NuTang users.

re: Is it me? We're very different. It should be me. I am the best best friend ever to be had. So yeah. Consider that my application.
» Unicornasaurus on 2011-06-12 10:30:51

You are so obnoxious. hahaa
» middaymoon on 2011-06-14 03:38:49

Pale AND friendly? whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
» middaymoon on 2011-06-14 06:09:19

I agree with Unicornsaurus... There is an influx of weird dreams amongst us...

Re: I've been getting surprises at the end of the past 3 months. Different things... and I was wondering if I'd get one this month too and since It is not even mid-month and I've gotten some surprises, I was wondering if it came early =)
» Nuttz on 2011-06-14 07:57:44

re: AAAAAAAHHHHHH I've seen enough of you yelling to last me at least four days.
» Unicornasaurus on 2011-06-15 11:45:37

It's not too terrible. I still enjoy my job, just not the stress that comes with being the only staff person.

Edward should be here in about a month, yay!

I will relay your message to my sisters who ask about you all the time!

And yay, go Mavs! I know they beat the Blazers, but I wanted them to stomp the Heat and they did it! YAYYYYYY!
» Amelie on 2011-06-16 11:47:13

If a narrowed-eye smiley existed I would totally use it right now.
» randomjunk on 2011-06-26 04:29:43

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