In My Dreams

"No, wait"

Walking down the narrow street, Jamie looks for an opening in the road. She steps off the sidewalk carefully, and tiptoes down the street. Jamie takes her phone out from her over-sized mom jeans.

"Hey do you still have that class on Tuesday at 11:30?"

"Ummmm...  i dropped it. Mr. Francis was too much" Brooke states reluctantly. Hesitating the words as she knows what is about to come.

"WHAT?!" exclaims Jamie. "You know how important that course is to be able to write fiction!"

Brooke tilts her head and replies in a coy tone "Well... do I REALLY have to, I mean, I could just write non-fiction biographies about old men"

"Wow, you will really live the life then. Biographies and Historical articles!" Jamie rambles on. "No! Of course not, you are going to go down there tomorrow to get that course back."

"I'm impressed, i thought you would say to do that right now."

"Nope. Right now you are going to treat me to dinner."

Brooke smiles sarcastically replying "oh shoot, i have a so much homework to catch up on. I can't, next time then."

"So i'll see you at Hale's?"

"I guess so, bye!"

Brooke walks into a overcrowded little restaurant. Little paper lanterns were lit and hanged on the ceiling.

Brooke continued in and found Jamie sitting. Brooke scurried over and found fried chicken and mashed potatoes on the table. Brooke smiled and walked to Jamie

"Wow.. fried chicken and mashed potatoes, our favourites. Thanks man."

"No, thank you! I told you that you were paying right?"

"What? No, you never said that."

"I'm pretty sure I did." Jamie pointed to the fried chicken and said "you better eat that. I waited for you before eating, I could have finished it all"

Brooke replied "wow you are such a great friend, waiting for me before you ate all this food"

"I'm a little hurt" Jamie muttered with a pained expression.

Brooke concerned and worried that she might have said something wrong asks "why?"

Jamie starts, "Only friend? Why not best friend?" ending with a smile. "I thought we were closer than this Brooke. I'm honestly disappointed." Jamie continues with a hidden chuckle.

Brooke smirks off her worried concern and grabs a chicken leg while Jamie takes the bowl of mashed potatoes.

Brooke looks up curiously after finishing her leg, she carefully thinks about her words then asks "How's Caleb?"

Jamie took a long pause, and concluded to her sentence "It didn't work out".

"How did it not? I thought you really liked him?"

Jamie fiddled with her spoon in the mashed potatoes replying "well I guess he didn't feel the same way".

Brooke looked at Jamie, and Jamie looked at mashed potatoes.

Brooke stated "Then who cares if he does not like you back! I say we go celebrating that you are better off without that jerk!"

"I can't even think of a moment where a guy has asked me out on a date. I am at my last year in undergrads before I go off to dental school and I haven't even dated a single guy yet." Jamie rambles on "I am 21 years old who has not even dated anybody" Jamie painfully expresses. "I'm going to become 22 in a month and I am going to be single!".

Jamie starts to laugh and chuckle, as though her problems were laughable. Her exaggerated joy turned into a silent moment of sadness. Jamie looked at herself, inside her soul, and saw darkness, pain, and sorrow. With tears falling down her cheek, resting on her chin. She gets up and leaves as Brooke tries to take her hand to stop her from leaving.

"I'm sorry, um finish your food, it's fine. I'll see you back home, m'kay?" Jamie's voice trembles as she says those words, holding back tears.

Before Brooke could mutter "No, wait", Jamie was gone.