Short Stories with Tragic Endings

my first lucid dream!
I am at home in the upstairs bathroom. I am just standing there and suddenly I think, "Wait
shouldn't I be at college?". The term "Reality Check" pops into my mind. I decide to try the
finger/palm reality check. I push my right index finger into the center of my left palm. At first,
I think the reality check is passing because my finger is buckling under the force that I'm pushing
at my palm. but then I look at the back of my left hand and notice the tip of my finger coming
through. I push more, there is a lot of resistance but I manage to get my finger through my
palm. I become excited. "I am dreaming." I think to myself. Immediately, everything becomes
quite vivid. I take notice of this then say to myself with a smile on my face. "I am having a lucid dream...
I am finally having a lucid dream!". I think "What should I do?". I realize it is night-time in my dream
so some of the things I remember speculating about to myself during waking life will not work. In the
end, I decide to call my crush. I go downstairs, pushing my finger through my palm every now and then
just for the hell of it. I get to the dining room. The light is on and my parents are there but it is around
10:00 at night so I am confused as to why they would be awake. It is a dream though, after all. I push my
finger through my palm one more time and this time move it around a bit. I am so fascinated! I feel my
Dad may attempt to stop me from leaving the house though so I try to leave discretely. I grab my pumas
and go into the game room which is always dark when the light is off and kind of out of the way. So I start
putting my shoes on and my Dad goes out the door. I start tieing my shoes and realize that they are huge.
The tongue is massive and the laces are those thin round laces that never stay tied. They look somewhat
similar to Osiris's which I am not really a fan of. I continue tieing them but before I can finish the dream ends.
I wake up and think... "Did I just have a lucid dream?"

Yes... yes I did. But it was somewhat disappointing. Oh Well, next time

I was visiting Millersville University with my parents ( Before I started going there ), and my dad had to pay this
security guard for parking. So He parks and the guard comes over and my dad takes out a wad of cash and starts
flipping through hundreds. He hands the guard something like $300 and we get out. It wasn't any parking lot at
MU though. It looked more like the parking lot at the Philadelphia Art Museum. Anyway, we go to some Computer
Science demonstration, as I am a Computer Science major, and it is a little fuzzy after that but my dad was asking
the professors a bunch of questions ( as he did when I actually was visiting college campuses ), then we go back
to the car and get in. The security guard comes over and my Dad starts talking to him like a well known friend. He
hands him another $300 or so and the dream ends.
I wake up and look at the clock. It is 3:30 AM so I go back to sleep.