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Awake Non-Lucid Semi-Lucid

I'm in my school main hall, and the rest of my year is here, along with a few others I don't recognise... Wait, but I do! It's Draco Malfoy out of Harry Potter! (Guess what I watched the other night). He looks really sad, and torn up. I can't help but feel a little sympathetic for him.

Rows of chairs are set up on each side of the hall, facing inwards. There's a gap in the middle. Each person is given their on broomstick. I get on mine, and find that I'm a natural. This is awesome! I zoom around the hall and then fly back down to my seat. This is a test, two people will be chosen to follow certain instructions that will take them to a great treasure, apparently. One of the professors shout my name and I know I've been chosen. Draco is on his broom, trying to get noticed, but another girl is chosen instead.

She comes up to me, and I recognize her as Shannon (I don't actually know this girl in real life). She glares at me, she's in Slytherin and I'm in Griffindor. Perfect match... not. She's the same height as me, with strawberry blonde hair,pale skin and large grey eyes. She turns and leaves.

[Dream skip - The next hour] We've to start following the instructions immedietly. I don't know where I got them from, but they're in my mind like a list. First, we've to get to the room that can take us to the old hotel. I find Shannon in the quad and we head off to find it. We politely talk to each other, and agree that our houses shouldn't hold us back. Doesn't mean we trust eachother though, she's a little cold with me.

[Dream skip - Unknown] I'm in the building that can take us to the hotel. Why? I don't know. We should have just gone straight to the hotel, although maybe they wouldn't have let us in.

The room we're in is large and airy. There's a large circular table in the middle, with a man lying on it with an electric guitar. Suddenly I'm back in the quad. What? I can't be here! I focus my mind and then I'm back in the other room.

"Where the hell did she go? We need her!" Shannon is shouting to the man on the table. He wipes a tear away from his cheek and says that I'm gone for good. But I'm right here! It dawns on me that I'm invisible. Is this a test? I climb up onto the table and start playing the guitar. I only know a few chords, but it's enough to let them know I'm here. Suddenly they can see me. The man leads us to another room and tells us we can get to the hotel from here. I think he's gone mad, but he leaves and shuts the door tightly behind him.

"How are we going to get to the hotel from here??" I moan. We're in some sort of laundry room. There are piles of dirty clothes everywhere, and it's small and cramped. There's a large window though, and Shannon heads over to peer through it.

"We jump." She says, and then throws herself out of the window.

I stand completely still for a moment, eyes wide, and then run to the wind and lean out. Somehow the roof of the hotel is no longer there, and I'm staring down into a pool room. There's a splash, and I know Shannon landed in the pool. But it's so far away! I hold out my finger to the pool and can't see it anymore.

You can do anything in dreams. This thought runs through my head. Yeah ok, but that's dreams we're talking about. It does make me semi-lucid though. How am I supposed to land in that goddamn pool? I don't think about it anymore, and just jump. I flail for a few seconds, and the wind catches me. I manage to steer myself towards the pool. It stings slightly when I hit it, but other than that I'm fine.

I come up gasping for air. It was cool but scary at the same time. We stare at eachother for a moment, and then burst out laughing. We swim over to eachother and give eachother a hug, laughing hysterically. We have a small water fight, and I realise we're going to be great friends. Climbing out the pool, my t-shirt and jeans clinging to me, I take a look around. Part of the instructions says there's going to be a pool party. I guess that's here. The place is deserted though... It's dimly lit, and rather grey.

An Italian waiter comes in with a trolley. We freeze for a moment, because we're trespassing. But he's friendly. We ask if there's any parties going on, and he points us in the right direction. We go through a door and into a corridor. It's warm and plush looking. With a thick red carpet and wooden panelled walls. A lot nicer than that pool room. We cautiously walk through it, and soon people are everywhere. I thought the party was supposed to be in another room?

Shannon stops a guy and asks about the party. He says that one's just finished, and people are either going to Starucks or the pool. We head back to the pool.

Music's blaring and people are having a good time. I've dried off so I don't want to jump in again, Shannon agrees with me. Instead we stop someone serving food and ask about the treasure. She hands us a slice of pizza instead, with a straw stuck in it. What are we supposed to do, suck it up the straw? No thanks... I put it back down. My head feels fuzzy. Shannon notices and looks concerned.

I'm in a small cramped blue room. A bed faces the door, with a couple of children in it. They look scared to death, shivering and staring at the door, quilt up to their noses. They obviously can't see me. This feels strange, I know it hasn't happened yet and that i'm just getting glimpses. The door opens and a girl walks in. It's me! But I look different. My hair is y natural brown, I'm more tanned and my eyes are hazel. I have a green thorn tiara on. The other me slowly walks to the end of the bed.

"What did the fairy god mother tell you about magic?" She asks gently. The children gulp and one of them speaks up.

"That not all magic is good magic." She says, shuddering.

"That's right." The green tiara turns into bull horns, and her eyes go bright red. She smiles and her teeth are sharp and pointed. My eyes widen.

Then I'm back in the pool room, in the middle of a party, with Shannon shaking me roughly. "Let's go get a frappacino." I mutter. We head to Starbucks.

Unfortunatly a guy outside says he got the last chocolate cream. He sips on it, and winks. My day just gets better and better... Not. I go to the library, Shannon doesn't come with me.

I recognize some people from my class here too. I pick up books and put them down again. I come ups beside Josh and realise he's singing. I listen and then smile, it's my favourite song. I sing along with him. Shannon appears and hands me a book. It's a book about us and our quest to find the treasure. Well, the only thing we got was a slice of pizza each. Meh.

A wall starts coming down from the cieling. Josh goes to one side of it and I go to the other. I tell him to come to this side but he doesn't. The walls close in around me. They're blue.

I'm back in the room with the kids. Shit, any minute the other me is gonna turn up and spoil everything. I grab one of the sheets from the bed and turn it inside out, then try and block the door off. I hear sounds outside. Looking to the other wall, I realize the other me is going to blast her way through the wall. Too bad kids, I'm out of here...