The Desert Cat
I was in the desert with one other person, but a third, more experienced desert wanderer joins us and teaches us a few things. We are at the bottom of a small mountain and start to climb it, knowing that we are being tracked by a desert cat the entire time.
I stop to tie my shoes tighter so that they work better in the sand and I see the cat coming up on me. It's about the size of a leopard, and looks hungry, but I have the strange feeling that it's there for another reason as well.
I run up the mountain after the guys and the cat follows me. As I reach them it stops and I get behind them like a coward. I take off what appears to be a shin guard and start batting at it with the hard plastic.
Then I remember that I can punch. The cat and the mountain then turn into something else. It's like a glass room with an Elite from Halo in it. I have no weapon and have to fight it with hand to hand combat (should be no contest for me,) I swing fast but he slaughters me and kills me.
I'm also watching the scene unfold from above, I get depressed as I see it kill me.
I really felt like the cat meant something, but I don't know what. I bought an Xbox 360 the other day and can't wait to get back to school and fire up Halo.
My Party
It didn't start out as my party, it was someone else's. There was a long lake or pond or something in front of a set of bleachers. I'm usually the first to jump in but I took off my shirt and waited at the top away from everyone else.
Lindsay shows up to the party and I go up and hug her, picking her up by the butt, but somehow I end up behind her and she tells me to get on her back. I tell her that I don't want to break her, but climb on her anyway. She says that she's been taking classes and that she doesn't think that I can get dominate position over her (I assume she meant ju jitsu class.)
I grapple with her for a while and then ask her if the guy that she is with is her boyfriend. She says yes so I get position and pin her in four more moves.
I went inside to get something and as the host of the party, or the guest of honor (not sure which,) got up to talk I (from a balcony above him,) said "Thank you all for coming to my party," just top make a joke, but then it turned into my party, I guess a birthday party.
There was a swim race and I hopped into the water and won that fairly easily with the crawl.
I then got out and went inside and watched television with my mother, it was something that she didn't like, maybe The Simpsons or horror, but I'm not sure. I say I'm going back out to my friends and she says that they all left because of the thunder.
I go outside and see no one but Alli J and one of her friends playing tag or something with a tennis ball and Lindsay and her boyfriend are making a movie. He's acting and she's holding the camera.
He throws a tennis ball in my direction and it bounces off of the porch that goes around our old house. He tells me that he needs a tree and I point to one in the middle of the yard which would be good.
Happened to notice Lindsay's and Alli's pictures on Facebook yesterday.
Val Got Hurt and Left Me
I guess that we were playing soccer, but then we were just hanging around with a bunch of sticks waiting for something. Josh Shannon says something about taking them out. I offered to take them outside with him, threatening him. (I never liked him.)
He says no, and that he knows that I'd kill him. Now we're playing football (American,) and me and Valerie are just hanging back, content to just flirt behind the action.
As a girl dives near me with the ball I do, however, jump on her, I'm still an athlete. After some dispute about downs we end up with the ball and our player runs the wrong way originally, but right next to the goal line he turns around. Then Meghan Wander gets the ball and a bunch of people are finally able to tackler her on the pavement. Ouch, that's why I stayed away from the ball. I didn't mind playing defense, but don't want to be tackled on the pavement.
Then I notice that Valerie was involved in the play and was whimpering. I go over to her and pick her up and her hand is skinned and she's limping. I take a hold of her hand and tell her to come to my car and I'll fix her up, but some female nurse saw it and came to us, telling us to go with her.
I'm weary of this nurse who probably knows half as much about sports injuries as me, but she takes Val's other hand and walks us towards her van. I ask her if she has Bactine and she says yes so it eases me a little bit.
We get near her van and Val runs off to say hi to someone and the nurse pulls out what looks like singles containers of apple sauce, but it's Bactine. I yell to Val and motion for her to come to us and she does, but then starts to flirt with someone that she new from Keystone.
She sends me a message with cards that were laying around that she's going to stay, but I don't understand it, especially the one message that I can't read (should have been a dream sign,) the letters were fuzzy and mixing together.
I ask her to read it and her friend can't read it either. I say "thank god I'm not the only idiot here," and then he responds harshly. "Maybe she just doesn't want you to know what it says.
She tells me that she's having fun and am going to stay with him, which I get so leave sad. I tell her that I'll see her Labor Day weekend, knowing that I'm going to school before I can see her again and her face changes from happy to sad.
I'm not sure if I'll get to see Valerie again before I go to school
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