Short Stories with Tragic Endings

I am in an unfamiliar place. It is difficult to describe but there is a tall metal structure
with a ladder running up through it and clues to the next place to go. It's like a race only
the course unknown and this tower shows the path. I remember several of my friends
being in this race with me. We had to run around a building and I began running. I was
able to run normally and I started pacing myself so that I would be able to make it. The
person next to me went all out. I resisted the urge to match their speed, that they would
run out of breath and become tired. Sure enough, they did and I came around the building
first. but then one of my old high school teachers was there with a bunch of my friends
and she said something like "You have to wait". I forget what the reason was but making
it there so soon was for nothing. After that she let everyone go and I went back to the tower
climbed up and looked for the next "clue". I then suddenly found myself in some sort of lift
car sitting next to a couple of my friends. I was thinking of my crush and my one friend who
was sitting next to me said "Why do you like her and not me?". I think about this comment
but say nothing. We ride on the lift for a while longer and the dream ends.