Wrong Destination.

     "Where do you think you're going?" she yelled at the top of her lungs.

     "Away from you!" he screamed back, loathing pouring out from his lips. 

     "FINE! Go ahead! Leave me like they all do!" she called back, tears gathering in her eyes, a lump growing in her throat. 

     The crowd was silent, the lights dimmed, you could almost hear everyone's breathing. 

     "No, no, I won't. I'm sorry." he turned around, almost confused of what was just said.

     "I loved you and you decide to leave me," she whispered moving away from his touch. A sob came from the audience, the only noise in the room. 

     Bruce moved closer, his hands not knowing whether to reach out and hold Michelle or to keep a distance. Michelle inched backwards with every step he took forward. 

     "I didn't mean what I said," Bruce whispered.

     Michelle was still sobbing, "You can't take it back. Just go. Go away like you already were!" You can feel her pain rip through your chest. 

     "No, I. . .I wasn't going to leave, I was frustrated. You know how I am." 

     "I'm tired of this, all this fighting. It's doing nothing but tearing us apart." Michelle lead Bruce to the door. Once he was on the other side, she closed it gently, leaned against it and slid down to the floor, crying her eyes out.

     The curtain closed, "We will now have a 30 minute intermission." 

     There was a standing ovation, whistles were blown here and there, camera's flashes going off, and some members of the audience were dabbing at their eyes. The play ended up to be the best that they have seen in months. To the audience, it felt real, raw and emotional. To the actors, it was the life they grew up with put into a show for everyone to see. That's what's fun about play making, you can make up the story or bring a real to life. 

     "That was some show," Bruce told Michelle. They were both back stage with all their other friends. The whole week they were stressing out on exams and today, today was their night. 

     "Can't believe this is going to be our last performance." sighed Jal, Michelle's best friend. 

     "I know, I can't believe either." agreed Tammy, another friend of Michelle. Bruce stayed in the background trying to take all this in. He grew up being told it wasn't worth it, he wouldn't make anything out of life. Today, he proved them wrong. He followed his dreams and he still couldn't believe it, he made it!

     "Hey! I have an idea, let's all take a trip." Sid said cheerfully. He was one of Bruce's friends. Sid wasn't like most guys, he stayed in the back, listening to the one's around him. He was that loyal friend in the group, you could always count on him. 

     "A trip? To where?" asked Michelle.

     "That's the fun part," Sid explained with a grin on his face, "There's no destination."

     "What?" everyone asked at the same time.

     "One trip, an adventurous one. We don't have a destination, we just drive out to where ever my car could take us." The eyes almost popping out of everyone's heads told Sid they were a bit unsure. Sid on the other hand was very excited. 

     It took some convincing, but 2 days later, they were all packed into Sid's Volvo. While on the road they stopped for food and other necessities. There was some arguing because they were all tired and cranky. Eventually the only 2 people awake were Michelle and Sid. Michelle couldn't sleep because she was paranoid about all the different things that could happen. Sid had no choice but to drink energy drinks and try his best to stay awake because he was the only one who could drive the car. No one else had passed their driver's test and getting arrested was not on their list of things to do. 

     "So, what made you want to take a trip?" asked Michelle while looking out the window.

     "Well, look at it this way: if you never do stupid things now that you're young, you'll have nothing to smile about when you get old" Sid replied trying to keep his eyes open. 

     "But what if that stupid thing ends up being dangerous?" 

     "See, that's why you don't look into things so much." 

     They both grew silent again and Michelle was finally able to rest her eyes. As Sid continued to drive he passed a motel. He decided to park the car and get some rest himself. 

     "BONK, BONK!" a police officer was knocking on their window. Everyone woke up slowly, confused to what was going on. 

     "SID!" Michelle tugged and pulled at Sid's arm to wake him up. 

     "What?" he asked half asleep. Michelle pointed at the window and he woke up immediately.

     Rolling down the window he asked, "Yes, officer?"

     "Step out of the car please." 

     That was the moment where their fun began.

     "After being chased down by cops, running into doors, almost getting ran over, I'm surprised we're still alive!" Bruce said while trying to catch his breath. Everyone was right behind him and they walked to the woods. The car had to be abandoned back at the motel. They ended up in a really good camping spot. Michelle and Tammy gathered firewood, Bruce went fishing with Jal and Sid went to look for anything he could find useful. 

     As Sid wondered away from the group things started to look different. Obviously because it wasn't the same spot, but also because he got that suspicious feeling you get when you know something is going to happen. The forest began to lose it's rock trail and grown more grass. Trees got thicker and bushes began to appear. As he kept waling forward, he started to here water flowing, the sent of soggy leaves and grass began to fill his nose. Something was calling to him, he started to run towards the opening up ahead. To his amazement, there was an ocean cutting off the forest from the rest of the world. He looked around and saw that up ahead was a strange looking mountain, clouds seemed to form around the top of it. That mountain, it was calling to him. He looked around to see if there was anyway over there. To his luck he saw that there was an abandoned boat hidden under leaves and branches. Sid checked to see what type of condition the boat was. It was good enough to take him to the mountain, with a strike of luck, maybe back too.
     The ocean was calm, Sid rowed his way to the mountain, faster with every stroke. The paddles were basically slapping the blue ocean. On his way there, Sid started to remember a story his grandfather told him when he was young. It was about a mountain that looked somewhat like this one. His grandfather warned him that if he every behaved bad, his mother would send him away to that mountain. The one's who were sent over never came back. . .
      After what seemed like hours, he finally made it to the mountain. He tied his boat off and started to climb the cliffs. He knew that no one lived to tell what was behind the cloud, but still he climbed. Sid wasn't afraid of falling, getting hurt,, or not making back out alive. He had too much adrenaline to think of anything. He climbed, higher and higher, with every step he took, every rock he grabbed to pull himself up, he knew that he wanted to be at the highest peek of the mountain. The clouds started to fog his vision, he was covered in mist. From afar you couldn't even tell there was a person climbing. Soon he disappeared completely into the clouds. He was soaked by the time he made it to the top.
     He got up. . .brushed himself off. He rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things. . .He could not believe his own eyes. He moved closer and closer when. . .
     "SID! SID! WAKE UP! YOU'RE GOING TO BE LATE FOR SCHOOL!"
     Sid jumped out of bed, gasping for air, he was soaked in sweat, His heart was pounding so much you could see it coming out of his chest, practically. Sid looked at the time, wiped his face and slammed himself back into bed.
     "Weirdest. Dream. Ever."

insamnia

     Some people have the most vivid dreams that they seem like a memory. They remember every detail down to the seconds. When they tell me about their dreams I wonder if we had the same hours of sleep, their dreams are long and like a movie. Choppy, odd dreams that are difficult to remember belong to me. Most nights, when I can actually fall asleep, it feels like I just blinked and ended up in tomorrow. Throughout the night there are short moments when I wake up and wonder if I was still sleeping or just stayed awake all night.
     The strangest dreams come to me when I'm not home. One example is when I spent my night over in Staten Island. Everyone had their own room and seemed to have slept soundly. I was the only one getting tangled between dreams and reality. I know there were many more dreams, but this is the only one I actually remember, some portions of it anyway. . .
     It was dark, some sort of small room. Lights flashed from outside, but there were no windows. There was a grey table in front of me, two men standing standing still at the end. Everything is blurry from there on. One moment I'm being strangled, the next I'm starring at the ceiling in this bright room. The dream gets dark again, random white lights flash, two arms come out from behind me and try to shove something on to my face. I think they, whoever it was, were trying to blind me. All of a sudden I start choking, my tongue begins to hurt, my throat closes up. I feel like my face is going to explode into a million and one pieces. That's when I wake up, terrified and shocked. I've been biting my tongue the whole time, my teeth had created imprints on it. I was trying to control my breathing when I started to choke. I realized I was awake for sure because I stretched and my foot hit a metal bar of the bed, I felt pain. I checked my phone and I think I went back to sleep. The last thing I remember is eating breakfast in the car.
     Dreams can be special, logical, boring, or the best things to ever happen. In my case they are usually short, boring, strange, and most of all confusing. I don't understand what my dreams are supposed to mean. What I do understand is how Thomas from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close felt when he wasn't able to fall asleep. He began to invent things in his mind, I begin to question the idea of seeping. It sounds soothing, but frightening. You never know what your mind will make you watch behind those closed eyes.