Matt

Chapter 15- The Frustration

You know what? I slept like a baby last night. In fact, it was the first time in a short while that I passed out right away. I had some nice dreams, too...too bad my memories of them had faded, with the exception of one.

It had the entire club together again, but this time, we were in some weird blue and green colored van. We were all dressed in some weird 70's styled clothing. I was wearing a green shirt with brown bell bottoms. Alex was wearing a white shirt with blue pants and an orange ascot tie. Alexis had on glasses, but they were huge and rectangle-shaped. She also had an orange sweater and skirt. Clara wore this really cute lavender dress with purple stockings. And finally...there was Serena. What was she wearing? Believe it or not, she was wearing a dog costume, the hood of it even had dog ears. Don't ask me why. It was too bizarre.

Anyway, the five of us were out on the road solving mysteries. We eventually stopped at some hotel that was being terrorized by some kind of ghost. Not wanting to miss a chance to get to the bottom of this newest mystery, we set out to the inner depths of this hotel. During the course of trying to solve the mystery, our group eventually split up, and for some reason, I was paired with Serena. Normally, I probably would've loathed being paired with her, but for some reason, I found the dog costume she wore to be surprisingly funny.

During our search for clues, we were attacked by the ghost several times. Each time, we would have to try and find some way to outsmart it to get away. Along the way, we raided the kitchen of the hotel and made huge sandwiches, which were both eaten by Serena before I could even take a bite.

Eventually, through a series of wild mishaps, we finally caught the ghost and were finally going to unmask it to find out who it really was. Unfortunately, this is where the dream ended because I suddenly felt strong vibrations coming from a spot right next to me. I then felt another coming from a different location of the bed. This happened a few more times before I felt something heavy land right on my back.

My face was buried in the pillow at the time, so my scream of pain was muffled. However, I could no longer ignore the vibrations that came from different spots on my bed. Eventually, I figured out what they were, Serena was jumping on my bed to wake me up, occasionally landing on me on purpose.

"Damn you, Matt! Wake up! Don't think that just because the club is no longer in jeopardy that you can just slack off! What the hell's the matter with you?! You had no problem waking up before me the last three days!"

Go away! I want to go back to sleep and find out who the ghost was! The mystery was almost solved, dammit!

It was then that Serena jumped up really high and slammed into my back with her shoulder.

"OW! Dammit! That hurt!" I yelled.

"That's your punishment for being lazy, Matt!" She then sat up and swung her leg to the other side of my body. "Giddy up horsey!" She even went and pulled on the collar of my shirt as if it were reins.

"Get off me! I'm not a horse!"

Serena pulled on my collar harder, enough to start to choke me. "Damn you! I said Giddy up! Up! Now!"

I reluctantly agreed and started to lift her while getting on my hands and knees. When I was younger, I used to do this kind of thing for my sister a lot, but my sister was just a little kid back then and not at all a seventeen year old. I didn't know which was worse, the fact that I was being completely dominated in this position or the fact that Serena was immature enough to still think this was fun.

By some miracle, I was able to get off my bed without falling on my face and slowly made it towards my door. Serena continuously pulled on my collar to egg me to go faster.