I didn't get the job

Date: 8/10/2019

I'm walking through a mall with Lucas and Sergio when I receive a call. It's from a contract I have saved in my phone as WTW Declined Number, to signify that if it's calling, I didn't get the job. However, when I pick up the phone, the guy on the other end is animated enough to give me more hope. I put it on speaker so Lucas and Sergio can hear. He speaks in English to be and hypes me up like a gameshow host. He leads me on in that classic way with the long pauses and misleading inflection, then drops it on me that I didn't get the job. I'm disappointed, but not as thoroughly crushed as I'd be in real life. Lucas and Sergi are bummed for me as well. We continue walking through the mall where we are, gray and winding hallways. It reminds me of the malls I've been in during my last few dreams. Not quite a mall, not quite a hotel. Dark with industrial carpeting on the floor and from what I can see, no stores. We get down to the lower level to go outside. Here, in front of a store, we wait on a bench blocking the entry to get through and get outside. We begin cracking jokes with a young woman with a baby. She needs a hand in life, so Lucas and I invite her back to my house by the ocean. Here, I think of Lucas and Rodri's couchsurfing guests and how much fun it would be to have some stay with us. She comes back with the baby and we all go to sleep in our bed by the ocean. There are white covers and a huge window that looks outside. It's bright, sunny, and perfectly clear in the morning when we wake up. I'm the first one to get up and I notice her baby has moved to the middle of the bed and flipped on its stomach. I move the baby back to it's mom and flip it back onto the right side. It's mom, who seems to maybe be 16 or so, begins to wake up. She wants to go downstairs with the baby to get breakfast and I offer to join out of politeness. She declines, and I feel relieved I don't have to go in the first place. I get out of bed with Lucas and go down to the dock. It's got these little slats of wood bound together by plastic pieces that keeps it just barely floating on top of the water. I keep wanting to go to the edge, seeing all the fish and turtles poke their heads up from the water, but the dock begins to sink every time I do. I'm getting my pants wet and Sergio and I are supposed to get breakfast at a place that has a dress code for which I need these clothes. I drop water through the slats so I can watch the animals without sinking when I see three huge birds approaching. They're red with plumes all around their heads that remind of a pheasant with the style of a peacock. I try to sneakily take a picture to show my cousin so I can identify them and narrowly avoid scaring them away.