The One With Frozen Isak

Date: 1/23/2024

I’m sitting in a car in what looks like the Costco parking lot when I see Mike Pizzi trying to break into a Charger next to us that apparently belongs to Aunt Buggy. He sits down in it and I get his attention so that he knows I can see him. I smile and wave, and he smiles uncomfortably back at me. I mouth the words, “That’s my aunt’s car.” I’m suddenly standing in a closet thinking about how Aunt Buggy would react to hearing about this and hear her voice say, “I’ll kick his ass. He knows I know what he did, right?” Somehow, I know she’s referring to the fact that he broke Renee’s heart when she was in middle school. I’m surprised she remembers who he is … I’ve moved to a new state and am walking into my new high school. Guys are very friendly to me and I get the feeling that they get excited whenever a new girl shows up. I get to my first class of the day where the teacher hands us enormous books full of apparent pop culture icons. There’s a massive word bank provided, and our first test is to figure out who each picture is of. I start to panic when I don’t have a single answer after several minutes … I’m with my mom, Renee, and the babies in New York City at some kind of Christmas snow experience. We’re on a large, snowy hill — in the middle of several buildings — inside a large plastic covering. It feels like being in a giant snow globe. People slide down the hill and out onto the street. I suddenly think about how a crowd like this would be the perfect target for some kind of an attack when I hear several gunshots from below. I see people running on the street and look up to see Renee looking completely panicked. I calmly try to get to my mom so that we can all stick together and escape … I’m at what looks like some kind of school when I see an Asian cop leading an Asian family around. I end up with their group, walking into a large storage area where people are being frozen in large containers so that they can later be turned into juice. I remember that Isak is doing this when I see him in his container. I suddenly get all freaked out and tell whoever I’m with that I need to get out of here.