Lost car, new friends

Date: 10/5/2019

By waltermack

I'm somewhere on foot and it's very dark. It's late at night. I'm looking for my car. I've somehow lost it. I hear a honk behind me and see a car behind me. I move aside to let it pass. I'm not sure how but I either push some kind of button or there's some feature on my car that allows me to know where it is. I start speed walking, almost instinctively knowing where to go. I trail behind the car that passed as it moves further and further away. As it disappears, I no longe have a light source. Pavement turns to a dirt/grass road. I sense what appears to be tombstones to my left and want to turn back but I need my car, so I push forward. Eventually I come across a run down housing complex. Now I'm following wet footsteps, almost like it's some kind of trail in a video game showing me where to go. I enter one of the buildings and it's well lit, with all of the lights turned on but it seems to be empty and it feels abandoned. I go up the stairs and walk by closed apartment doors. Some doors are open and I see some windows that are boarded up, some are open with raggedy, torn curtains. I'm feeling anxious now, so when I walk past what seems like a small play area, I try to look for a weapon. I nearly pick up a sword from a pile, but do not as it's made of plastic. I climb the stairs and pull out my phone. I arrive on a new floor and suddenly half of my phone just falls off and bounces into one of the open rooms. I peak inside and I see a couple of late highschool/college aged people. They're all young, black men but I can't recall their faces and don't know if they're people I know irl. The one immediately in my sight is sitting at a desk with his back turned to me, I think writing something into a notebook. I announce myself and he turns around. I apologized for intruding and ask if any of them have seen the bottom half of my cell phone that dropped (I'm not sure what kind of phone this is or how it'd even still function). The man turns around and seems a bit surprised that I'm there but is very friendly. He apologizes and says that he didn't hear anything and asks if his friends hear anything. There's someone in a sleeping bag to the left, I think a younger girl and someone else on the right side of the room but neither of them have heard or seen anything either. I tell them my story about how far I walked and we all kind of chit chat while I look around. The search is for that half of my cellphone now instead of my car. Suddenly Alex emerges from somewhere, also surprised to see me. He tells me that the first guy I talked to is a friend from work, who he points to. We smile and nod at each other. He asks what I'm doing and I re-explain my story. He hasn't noticed any noises or the other other half of my cell phone either. I exit the room and look in the hallway and check another room (which was empty) with no luck. The empty room is a bit trashed but I thought it'd make a cool photo so I take out my phone to take a picture (I don't know how it's still working). I'm interrupted by Alex or someone and go back to the other room. We search through bags and luggage in case it somehow bounced into one but nothing either. Suddenly I'm in a room with Royal, but it's still part of that some building and I'm telling him what happened. Gao is there too and is making tea or something and goes to put something in the microwave. I tell him what happened and suddenly my sister is there too and we're back in the hallway. I tell her what happened and we search some kind of clothing pamper in the hallway and she says that hopefully someone didn't find it and kept it, but I tell her there's nobody else in the building that I've come across. This is the last bit I remember before waking up.