Overlap

Chapter 71: The Altered Reverie

<10/29/2011 - 13:25 | 77 Cloverleaf Trail, Dahlonega, GA, USA>

In only thirty minutes, I felt fully charged from my morning grogginess, as I easily powered my way through all the educational classes with my good mood alone. I felt the tug of Christmas around the corner from the freezing weather, and combined my desires to dance by occasional groovy hip shakes and bobbing. Without fail, I let everyone know that I was at the absolute peak of my own happiness; many told me I had this incredible aura about me today, whatever that meant.

"I'm so loving this." Lumina was a bit vague on her context, though I understood her anyway. The excitement and happiness I've been accumulating and letting out was building to critical levels now, and because of the colder chill of the afternoon, the stronger connection allowed my high spirit mood to seep through Lumina as if it were injected into her veins. Lumina had her own shared reasons to be excited herself, but our current overlap of serendipity amplified our own feelings three times over.

It went without saying that nothing in the entire world could get me down right now. I've never been this happy before, and I wasn't about to stop. I let out a fairly intense chain of laughter as I stood distant from a large assigned group of boys and girls I was part of. All of them were desperately rubbing their cold gloves and mittens together for friction, hovering their warm breaths close to their noses and faces. As for me, I stood tall with my closed hands on my hips, feeling like a hero. "It's so incredibly cold today! Look at them all complaining. The cold weather is my weather!"

"Easy now. You don't have to pretend not to freeze like the others."

Even though goose bumps covered my arms and legs underneath my outfit, I didn't need the same frictional comfort the others needed, nor did I need to lie to myself about how wonderful this feels. If only the whole planet could be blanketed in a craze of blizzard and snow! "It's going to be in the thirties all day long! I don't have to worry about a thing. And soon, I can start dancing like I mean it. Oh yeah!" I couldn't help myself next, for I started jumping and bending my knees while twirling my connected arms and hands around from left to right. I wanted to skip to the dance so badly, I began practicing some of my moves in front of the others, though they were only surprised by the invisible mystery to my excitement.

At least Lumina thought it was hilarious. I'm glad she doesn't yet realize that when it's my time to shine, I'm going to force her to synchronize her movements with mine. If I get to dance like an idiot all night, then she has to dance with me too! I already know that I can't really dance professionally to save my life. Even without a dress, I might end up becoming the laughing stock of the entire school, but I'd have it no other way today!

Throughout the next few hours of the day, the chaperone threw us into a few more events, such as fishing in that river we went by yesterday, and searching for specific plants and such. Between our next transition, I met up with Zero right on that bridge we weren't allowed to cross, as an agreed rendezvous to hand deliver this special outfit I would be wearing.

She sealed in in opaque plastic so that it would not spoil our preliminary surprise, but I got to see some of the composition from up close before hiding the thing back into my bag in the boy's cabin. The outfit was basically a full corset hot pink dress that zipped up in the back. So once I go to put it on, it's only one big item to change into.

Next, we all gathered outside into the recreational field for another mixed event, the teachers' idea of our daily physical education. Everyone gathered behind the towering wooden rock wall, standing at about 80 meters tall. Students and even some of the chaperones started taking their turns mounting into the safety harnesses as they climbed the rock wall, though the stones were just made of plastic bolted in tight enough to hold anybody's weight.