Dream Journal

Boyfriend

4.22.18

This is the story of how I lost the life. It was a typical uneventful (almost) summer morning. The sun was starting to peek out from behind the clouds. Mom was making breakfast. I kisses my little brother on his forehead after we finished breakfast.

I drove to my school and waiting for me there was a crowd. And in that crowd, was my boyfriend. His skin was a soft caramel color. He was about a head length taller than me. He was definitely muscular and more physically fit than I was. His eyes were a deep brown that matched perfectly with his fluffy hair (that I loves to play with) he was wearing a blue shirt under his favorite hoodie (that I picked out) and some jeans.

We've been together since we started high school together. He's only a few months older than me so we get to stay in the same grade together. And in the past 4 years we've basically been everybody's OTP ("One True Pairing" if you didn't know). We're best friends. We keep nothing from each other. And.... We almost got serious (like that way). But nonetheless. He's my everything and we love each other more and more each and every day.

I give him a surprise hug from behind and when he turns his head I give him a "good morning" kiss. We stare at each other for a second and then laugh. I ask what the big crowd is for and he says one of the teachers brought her baby to school. She's gonna pick a random person to take care of him. And if they're successful, they get a prize. As soon as he finished saying that, not a single breath after I heard my name.

On my way as I walked to the front of the school to meet the tyke I heard boo's. Then my boyfriend shut them all up. He was a tiny little one, about 4. He could walk and talk, but he didn't know everything yet. He had pale but fair skin, chocolate brown hair, and green eyes. He was wearing a green long sleeve under train overalls. With jeans and some brown shoes. I said hi to him and he sprayed his sippy cup in my face. I immediately knew this was gonna be a long day for me.

He wanted to play during class. He was loud in the library. Hr was a little monster. Then come around lunch time he says he wants pizza from the mall a couple blocks down. I say "no". He runs off screaming his head off like some sorta banshee. I chase after him and while looking foe him, I run into my boyfriend who just got out of a bathroom break. Scared out of my mind I tell him what's happening. And he says he saw him leave the school, towards the mall. I start in that direction but he grabs my hand and says:

"We can't just leave."

I tell him I'd rather get expelled then l let that kid get hurt. So he decided to come with me. We run the 5 blocks there and sure enough, when we got to the food court, he was sitting in his own little table eating pizza (I have no idea where he even got the money for it). I breathe a sigh of relief and tell him we need to get back to school. He refuses and says he wants to play some more. Then runs off again. I look to my boyfriend and he looks at his watch and says we have a little bit of time to play. We go to the toystore, play area, mini pond, everywhere. There's an engraved hopscotch on the floor and he makes us do it. We were having so much fun we each held one of his tiny little hands. We kinda looked like and it felt like we were a family. I see kiosk workers blowing big bubbles and I scoop him up and dance through the bubbles when we got to the end I saw my boyfriend. Smiling at me. I couldn't help but smile back. Then I felt a pat on my back. It was a boy from my class. He had a white t-shirr on some black pants. And a sunny head full of hair. He's with his friends. He says he didn't think he'd ever see me here then my boyfriend grabs my wrist. Sends a dirty look to him and walks off with me in tow.

Then we make our way through the humongous book store. Only to find my mom (the principle) and the childs mother waiting for us. We give the kid back and my boyfriend walks off with the teacher while my mom takes me. She just sighs. She says she's going to take all of my technologies away. I say fine, whatever but let me take care of that kid. We get to the parking lot elevator and while we ride she asks me:

"What do I tell the police department. We searched for you for hours."

I say I don't know (and frankly, I don't care either). I just had an experience of what it would be like to be his wife. We exit the parking lot and drive straight home (since the school day anyway). And when we go inside we see a bunch if teachers, my boyfriend, and the blonde haired boy all at my dining room table (I forgot, my mom held teacher meetings at home with a big dinner). The blonde haired boy spills something on his shirt and takes it off. Then, he pulls me aside. My boyfriend shot him another dirty look. The blonde haired boy leans down to me and asks where the garbage is. I show him. Then we return to the table. I see my boyfriend pacing back and forth, I ask if everything's ok. Then he says to me:

"I saw it."

"Saw what?"

"You and him together... We're done.

"No, he was just asking where the garbage was. I swear to God. Please don't do this."

But he just walks back to the table without another word. I run up out spiral staircase. I look at my door (which was adorned with goals, pictures, and poems if mine. I tore them all down. Went inside my room and dove onto my bed. Filling my pillowcase with tears. I hear footsteps outside my door and a post it being placed. After the footsteps walked a few steps away I opened the door to see the blonde haired boy walking away. I grab the post-it note and it says:

"You should enter this writing contest, if you get it in by tomorrow they can still judge it :)."

On the back was an entry form. I decided to write about my life, and how I lost him.

So that's ended up here, on this stage, winning this award. But I'm going to dedicate this to him. In the back.staring at me....