The Dream of Dreams
Dream

Ok, well I'm not too fond about this dream thing and all the other
weird things in life, but when it comes to dreams, I have various
ones, and many of them! But one that till this day has been the glory
of my life will forever persist in my mind. See, I graduated from high
school in 2003, now I'm more like looking forward to trying many
things in life, as much as it's offered I guess. But when I was in
high school, in 2002 there was this one guy that was one of the few
most amazing things in life you'll ever come across from! I'm
generally hispanic in it's total, so when it comes to the subject of
dating out of my race...BY MEANS LETS DO IT! I consider myself a blong
blue eyed lover and won't have it any other way. So, back to the "guy
in school" thing, there was this one guy that you could almost swear
would certainly be something out of this world in the future, and he
had no intention in ever even looking at me. For one thing I'm almost
sure that he was completely straight and even if he would decide to
bent his own rules a bit it would not end properly in the end. I guess
I was also too afraid to find out about anything at that time, it's
just the way I am. Anyway, for about the entire semester of 2002 I
would have this repeated dream about him that would just make me
shiver with love! In the dream we would both be in the boy's locker
room alone and he would walk over to where I was, this would kind of
make me go INSANE, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN! So when he was right
beside me he would tap me on my shoulder, as in to get my attention,
and then he would ask me if I had a lock("Hi, might you have a lock I
can borrow for just this period, I'll give it right back to you before
I leave") these were his exact words! So then I would proceed to look
in my backpack for any that by chance I would have(trying to make one
appear from thin air!). So at the end of the dream I would finally
give up and tell him that I didn't and apologize for the matter, which
he would answer with "it's cool." To be sure, I started having this
dream around September 5th 2002 and ended sometime around December.
See, what was the most dumbest of all was that for some stupid reason
I actually placed a lock in my backpack for a "just in case" situation
that might arise, I know I acted like a sick fan of the poor guy but
at the end that's what I really was, wasn't I? But see, I somehow knew
that, or felt that he would ask me sometime, I don't know why! So
again, the shocking thing is that at the end of December(before
Christmas break), the whole scene of my dream unwrapped before my eyes
as I relived what was to happen that day, JUST LIKE IN MY DREAM! I
swear to you on my mother's life that I couldn't get rid of that dream
for all that while, and that it happened. To be honest as soon as it
happened for real, it stopped completely! So it happened just like in
my dream, we were there, both of us alone, he looked in his backpack
and it seemed he was searching for a while now, and all of a sudden he
started to walk towards me(just like in my dreams), and tapped me on
the shoulder! "Hi, might you have a lock I can borrow for just this
period, I'll give it right back to you before I leave" I wanted to
melt of happiness, but at the same time I wanted to die, he had spoken
the same words that he did in my dream! I smiled and rapidly started
looking for a lock in my backpack, the beauty of the story is that
this time I actually had a lock, and because of that we actually got
to met and talk for a bit longer than in the dream itself. But even
thought I still didn't have the guts to tell him how I felt, it was
good to know that sometimes your own mind can help you with your real
life issues, even when you don't want to be helped!    
 
Jesus Ortiz
Mokena, Will County, Illinois