The Owner of the Carnival

Date: 2/1/2025

I was hanging out at the apartment complex I lived in. My husband, Al, invited his friend Chris over. Chris & Al had been begging me to take a shower with them for a while, so I finally agreed (there wasn't to be anything sexual abt it, I was just going to wash them up, that's 100% all). But then his friend Jason came over too (Jason from Studio C). Jason's hot, Chris is not at all. Not to be rude, but he looks like an old homeless man, so I didn't want to shower with Chris anymore. I didn't know how to get out of it at this point though, so we gave Chris a container of yellow liquid soap and Jason a container of green liquid soap (to bring in the shower when it came time). As the four of us were walking around the complex, somehow Jason and I ended up on one side of an apt gate while Al and Chris were on the other. Al told me to just go and shower up with Jason and not worry abt him and Chris. I wasn't comfortable showing with Jason without Al there, so I put it off. I had to head to work anyway. I had just started a new job at a local carnival. I was working on a roller-coaster sort of ride this day, along with two other ppl, one of them being a guy my age with thick black hair. He was really dorky. You could tell he didn't have any friends and was awkward around ppl. As I spent the day with him though, l found him to be really sweet. Then, the ride broke. He started fixing it, and talking abt how he had spent all his money buying this place, and now he spends all the money he makes fixing this place, so he'll never be able to save up for another business venture again. I didn't know that he owned it. I gained so much respect for him, and in that moment, as my heart swelled with love for him, I knew that I was going to marry this man, and that together all the money we made would go into fixing this place up. I would never have money, but that was okay, bc I would have unconditional, deep, true love. With smiles on our faces, and side by side, we would fix everything that breaks, keeping this place up always (It was as if Al wasnt even around anymore, lol). I don't know if his name was ever even said in the dream, so let's just call him Ben, I guess. After fixing pipes and rails and whatnot beneath the ride, he was pouring this yellow soda (from the old fashioned glass soda bottles) onto some other metal railings beneath the ride. He had just used his last bottle and needed another, so I took the cap off of my soda bottle and placed it next to him. When he saw it, he looked to the guy next to him. The guy said, "I didn't put that there". Ben then turned around to me. I just smiled at him as his face was filled with gratitude. Ben then took me to the kitchen. It was covered wall to wall in these little black metal ovens. Kinda like the size of easy-bake-ovens, like my sister had when we were kids. I loved these little ovens, they filled me with a sense of nostalgia, and I cdnt stop smiling. He wasn't use to this sort of positive attention, and didn't know how to react, so he kept looking away trying to avoid him. I finally grabbed his arms, told him to stop avoiding looking at me, and I wanted to kiss him, but he slipped out of my grasp. As he slipped away from me, Al, Chris and Jason were suddenly there. Jason asked if we were still gonna take that shower. Now it was me looking away awkwardly. So Jason said, "oh yeah, I didn't want to do that today either. I was just making sure is all". And he, Chris, and Al, all went to leave. As they were leaving, Chris and Jason asked Ben if he was going to shower with me. Ben said no. Chris and Jason started laughing and said, "You're gonna hv to explain to Sunday why you don't want to take a shower with her then". Ben was like, "wait, what??!" And either Chris or Jason said, "She just didn't want to shower with *us*. She still wants you though!" I pretended not to be able to hear any of this, and just stood off to the side nonchalantly, trying to look innocent & pretty so when Ben looked over at me I would be attractive to him. The day was now about over, so Ben hopped on this thick, tan & white, 1950's style bicycle. I don't know if he was expecting it or not, but I jumped on behind him, and he began pedaling onto the roller-coaster tracks that began in the very room we were in. We went up and down, we had an amazing view, and then we rode through some water squirts (lol, I cant think of what they're called, lol). As we rode through this one stream of water high upon the tracks, this was the point where Ben got off the track. Having me on the back threw him off balance a bit though, and instead of landing properly in the fountain, we crashed into the water fountain instead. Ben's knee hit the bottom of the concrete fountain pretty hard. He got up holding the hurt knee and saying, "ow ow ow". And that's about where I woke up, lol