A Nightmare on Aunt Lydia's Street

Date: 7/18/2018

By willowgroves

I had this awful dream where my parents forced me to go around to this none existent relatives house called Aunt Lydia (one of the bad guys from a handmaid's tale) and she absolutely despised me. When I first got there it started snowing so she asked me to take her large dog for a walk. Her dog was really nice but kept wanting to run and i couldn't run in the ice so I kept having to hold her back and apologise to the dog. When I came back she was making dinner. She asked me what I wanted on the Gammon joint and I asked if I could have a honey glaze. But she served it with mashed potatoes and I really can't eat them,. but since I didn't eat them she started to hate me. Then my parents came around and we want out for a walk and for some reason I was only a little kid again and they stood me on top of a tree trunk and told me to stay the night. I did but then I had to find my way back to the house with absolutely nothing to help me and I was in an area I knew nothing about. When I got back my head was throbbing and my mum, turned out, had not agreed to let me stay there but my dad had because I hadn't done the Duke of Edinburgh award and he wanted me to do it. My mum had therefore got the security footage and I had knocked myself unconscious somehow. My dad was sucking up to this aunt because she was a long lost relative of his. And he asked me to get with my grandma to town and back. My grandma has really bad Alzheimer's and I had to hold onto her to make sure that she didn't leave at a random stop because she liked to wonder off. Anyway I was forced to ask the bus driver to stay in the station whilst I went into this conference thing for about an hour. Turns out the bus driver couldn't stay (which is fair) and I panicked but then he came back. He told me he had stopped her getting off the bus at one of the stop and I thanked him. When I got back I went to the house it was full of kids and because my aunt Lydia's didn't like me she ignored me the entire time. She had got some of her pet alligators and released them inside her home. They seemed to be being friendly with everyone they met but they were snapping to try and get at me. I got trapped in the room next to the stairs and there were two gators coming out of the fire in the fireplace and one which was waving off one of the kids to school, shouting 'Make friends' and standing on its back two legs only. I pushed past and ran up the stairs. My parents then said goodbye to Aunt Lydia and because she didn't want to get a cold she was carrying a bus shelter on top of her head and when my mum tried to hug her she only let her hug the bus shelter. I just said bye but she told me my school had organised a school trip to her house. All the people from my year lined up and down this hill and she demanded that each of us made her some sort of dream beach. I decided to partner with Claire a girl from my school and we went to the shops to find something she'd like in this sea and beach. We got some water and some sand and somehow we got hold of a 3d printer which built us this scaled beach which showed the depth of the Mariana trench so it was the size of a big paddling pool. We filled it with salt water and added a sprinkle of sand and a little glitter to the sea and the beach. And we added some real fish and a turtle and came back with it. Aunt Lydia rated us on it and decided that ours was very good and she liked me because of that. The others were, admittedly, terrible because they had just drawn the sea and stick figures made out of scraps of paper. We won. :) so we got to go home and away from her.