Alone

Date: 5/13/2019

I start by waking up on this bus. It’s like some sort of field trip, but not many kids came. There’s like six-eight other girls on this kinda old-ish bus, two of em dark skinned that I remember seeing first, one or two white-skinned that look like farmer girls with pigtail braids (blonde) and a small amount of freckles, tan-ish skin and raggedy clothes. We all have cages that contain our pets. (Like I have Potato’s crate and a bigger crate w Hank and Leo). We leave from wherever the field trip was and start to get dropped off at our houses. I get dropped off at a big modern house that’s mine. Has a big security wall around it (white, slatted, modern) but I can get inside easy since it’s my house. I live there alone, apparently, except for Hank Leo and Potato. (I vaguely remember another cat, Gray, but I don’t recall anything about it). All around the house is like farmland and trees. A small, light forest behind the house a few miles back. A big open field surrounding. A bleached road a little bit ahead of the house where the bus drove, and on the other side more fields. Only Potato’s crate has been dropped off at the house so I run after the bus, hoping to fill some time while I wait for the crates to be dropped off. Get the sudden idea to get the two white farmer girls to come to my home since they’re poor so I run, fast and free, over to their farm. There’s a big wheat field and a super small shack nearby, like just six or some boards and a tin roof over thick hay. I crawl inside and beg the two girls to come with me. They also have a greyhound. Then it skips a bit (?) and I’m back at the house, the dogs and cat(s?) are there. No girls anymore, but I still have the feeling that I’ve helped them. I take the animals inside. Soon I have a weird worry that they’ll escape since the house is pretty open and the fence is full of slats. I end up trying to catch Poe as he slinks around the house, he’s not running from me necessarily but I keep finding him just for him to decide to go somewhere else. Eventually he goes up to the second floor through a custom-built (modern) cat walkway thing, and I can’t get him. Skip again. Everything is mostly a blur, but I remember something along the lines of the Beauty and The Beast happening. I inspect the plates (I remember that clearly for some reason) and then genie-like ladies come out. It’s like I’m on drugs or something, swirly colors. I vaguely remember going to a different place; still the house, but up in nowhere, the sky around us and through the windows magical and galaxy like. The cat and dogs were back at the house in the normal field. I sit at a conference sort of table with the genie ladies and other magical ladies like them. I wake up, everything starts to fall away from my mind like water through a cupped hand.