Date: 1/30/2022
By Ether_Erebus
I got to college, live on RES and I live with an Asian girl, a white girl and one brown guy. I’m somehow working downstairs at work and the lab turns into a classroom. I have to go to the teacher at he back (who are twins) where I was and what I was doing. They both have dark black curly hair styled back with gel, they couldn’t have been much older than me (I’m 24, they’re probably late 20’s early 30’s) I tell them I was working and they say, “okay and where do you work?” And I don’t remember what I said but they say okay and I walk behind their desk which has a chair that I usually sit at. Right when I sit down, somehow I’m in a kindergarten class and all the kids know me. I’m sitting on the side and a little boy starts crying and runs into my arms. And he said something really sad and I remember he’s clutching onto me and I start crying to listening to him and telling him that he’s loved and I think he’s Amazing. He looks up and asks me why I’m crying and I say, “you’re so sad, I thought I could shed some tears with you so we could both feel better” he giggles and I hold him for a little longer and then he calls Sana over and asks about my eye colour. I tell him I’m wearing contacts and he asks about those. The entire time, one of the twin teachers is just staring at me from his desk which is basically right beside me. The little boy goes away and somehow we’re in a appartement building now. We start chatting and somehow, I’m sitting there eating oranges and talking to him. He asks me if I can do push ups, I say, “yeah, I recently learnt how to!” And then I said, “I bench too. But my numbers aren’t really impressive for that” and he looks intrigued and asks about it. I tell him I was deadlifting 275 for 1 conventional, squatting 155 and benching 110. He starts asking more questions and slowly, he starts to move his arm around the back of my seat on the couch. He has a red couch that’s really really fluffy. We keep chatting and getting closer. We cuddle and he keeps asking questions and I do the same. We flip over to the next day and I’m in the room, and some girl walks in and starts crying and he says “I hope you know this isn’t gonna go any farther. It’s a no commitment thing.” And the crazy thing was, when he said that, I felt relieved (my brain knew this was a one time thing and wouldn’t progress and he confirmed what I’d been thinking all along). When he was talking he looked directly at me in my eyes and I sheepishly look back and say “yeah, about that. I was gonna say the same thing. I have some stuff going on in my head that wouldn’t be fair to bring someone else into. It’s a lot anyways, but hey, you’re a great cuddle buddy” and I pointed at him and gave a little chuckle. The girl asks why and he says “I was most probably drunk and wanted someone to lay next to” and I was like “alright, imma head out, take care” and I go to where I was crashing on the couch (which was right beside his bed) and start grabbing the bowls and cups around his area to put them in the wash. As I’m doing this, he just looks at me from his bed and I say “time to get up, it’s like the middle of the afternoon - you’ve got some shit to do no?” And I look at him as I pull the covers back and take the dishes to the sink. I see him just looking at me as I do that (the appartement was open plan) and I put the dishes down, wipe off my hands and say “later, lock up would you!” And walk out. I make it back to my own spot on REZ and I walk in to see my roommates making food and eating breakfast, it looks really good and they pour me a dish and I tell them “no eggs please, i’m vegetarian” and so we start eating and it’s this like pho looking thing but it tastes so good. Anyways, something happens and one of my roommates says something and I realize I have to go back to the lab/classroom where the twin is my teacher. I say, “no prob man” and there’s some type of water I need to get from there but it’s so close to the lab I can’t get it without being suspicious. In the dream, the lab is connected to the teachers appartement and behind that, is a huge empty space that looks like half a basketball court. I run by it and make a video of the sun shining through the windows at the top. I turn back around and follow through with the plan I’d made. On the other side of the lab, there’s a room that I know is mine. I don’t know why I would have two separate living areas but I do. I go in and get everyone in the room and we chill and chat and I hear a knock at the door, there’s a really pretty girl who’s dressed up to the nines and she asks me about something. I look behind her and see the teacher and he looks at me like “oh fuck” and I just smile at him and turn and smile back at the girl and (she’d asked for something) and I handed it to her. It was clear they were going out. So I smiled and waved them away saying “have fun” (the teacher still looked at me funny) and I shut the door behind me. I wasn’t upset or jealous or anything - it was just a regular tuesday it seemed like. I turned around and said “okay, we need to wait for them to leave so we can go get that water solution” and they all said “okay”. I looked at the other side of my room and it had a door that connected to the outside garden area and I asked “does it have to be that water? I have rainwater collected in the back if you want” and the brown guy stood up and said “nah, we need that specific one or it won’t work” so I said “okay, just asking”. So we try to kill some time walking around and just chilling in my room and we still hear them rustling outside. It’s been like an hour of waiting and I said “fuck it, I guess we’ll have to just do it at a later time”. And somehow there’s a time jump, now we’re in the middle of winter and somehow, I was nice to the teacher guy the entire time and I didn’t see him with any more girls. I was like “okay” and went about my days. I would see him in class and smile and wave and do my own thing, clearly not bothered by what’d happened and what was happening now. My roommates and I (along side some friends we’d conveniently made) kept waiting for the opportunity to get the water. We’d decided to do it the next day and the large group of us were walking in the quad (which could be seen from my garden) and one of the guy friends I’d made was standing a little close to me and put his arm around me while we were all chatting. He was significantly taller than me so my head was at his shoulder so I would look up whenever he talked. I remember he was wearing a black puffer jacket, black jeans and Tim’s and a maroon sweater with a baseball cap on his head. He had the typical hockey hair under the hat too. As we’re all talking in the group, the teacher and a bunch of others walk by and we all stop chatting so loud and they all look at us just standing in a circle talking. The teacher and I make eye contact and I just wave. He looks at me and then the arm around me and my friend and he gives me a look (that he’s clearly displeased) and I just raise an eyebrow and continue on with the conversation. Petty, I know, but if he wants me to keep my distance and match energy, that can be done. And then, some fight broke out and we turned around and I woke up.