Dream Land: The Fox's Game

The Crazy Overseer

  Gemini was right, her mother wasn’t happy with what she did. Gemini was sitting on the roof listening to her mother trash the place Gemini hadn’t bothered to clean in the first place. She was still there on the roof when the cops were called due to a noise disturbance and she watched as her mother talked her way out of going to jail for the night. Gemini watched the whole thing go down completely unnoticed by anyone besides a particularly observant cop that simply tipped his hat at her and continued on about his business.

  Gemini was curled up with her knees pulled up to her chin and her big jacket closer to stave of the cold. She watched the stars above and wondered if the stars here meant the same thing as in the Dream World. If every dim light in the sky was someone’s life, delicately placed up there to celebrate that person’s life what happened to then when someone died? Gemini knew that if someone died in the Dream World they simply weren’t allowed back in and it’s said their light falls from the sky and materializes as what the Dream World inhabitants call Star Dust.

  Star Dust was a rare thing in the Dream World, it was said to grant wishes that came true in the real world. Gemini didn’t believe Star Dust was real and she didn’t think it could ever do something as amazing as that if it did exist in the first place. Gemini just didn’t know anymore, she knew she’d belonged to the Dream World for a long time now and she figured she should have a better understanding of it. But she doesn’t.

  She wondered about a lot of things, but that was something she wondered about a lot. Gemini’s not sure why but for a long time the sky in the Dream World had seemed so foreign to her. She figured it would be like the real night sky, that after years of staring up at it, a person would start to recognize it and can find a specific star every time. But the one in the Dream World seems off.

  Gemini sighed and looked down at her hands, she’d heard that everyone knew where their star was in the sky and they could find it no matter where they were or how far they’d gone. But Gemini couldn’t find hers in the sky; she was too scared to ask if anyone had the same problem in fear of others finding one more thing that was odd about the little Fox. That’s all they needed to farther reject her as one of them. Gemini knew she was an outsider in a world of rejects and loners, it hurt knowing that but it was true and Gemini wasn’t one for ignoring the truth.

  After a long time Gemini noticed the slivers of sunlight peeking over the horizon and she still couldn’t find the courage to go back inside. In fact Gemini had her backpack sitting behind her; she’s brought it up with her. Gemini needed to find someplace else to sleep. The weather was getting to cold for her to sleep on the roof and last summer her mother got rid of the shed in the back yard that she used to use to hide away from her mother.

  For a while it forced Gemini to brave her mother’s anger until she found the latter that her neighbors had left out in the back ally. Gemini liberated it from its decaying state and found a new use for it. It had served its purpose dutifully and so far her mother knows nothing about it.

  Gemini looked down at her phone for the time and figured if she left now she could make it to school before a lot of the other students, meaning she could get to her hide out in the library before Sage or anyone else caught sight of her to begin her daily torment. Gemini didn’t want to talk to anyone; she wanted things to go back to the way they were. Before Sage had taken a weird interest in her and before she had sex with Willow.

  Gemini climbed down the latter and hid it in the over grown rose bushes that lined the back fence. Gemini then slipped out of the fence gate and into the back ally and headed to school. The air was still cool as the morning dew collected on the lawns and leaves. Gemini loved this time of day; it reminded her of the times she’d go to the river to fish with her step-father. Gemini didn’t care that her mother had only been married to him for two months before he died. She’d still had a father daughter like relationship with him before the wedding. He’d been living with them for two years.