Once upon a time, there was a boarding house. In this boarding house, lived two families. One family was rich and the other had just enough to survive. They were friends, and the rich family's money helped sustain them all. The boarding house belonged to the rich family and everyone was happy to live in it together. One day, the men of the family were at the gas station. The rich one, who we will call Chet, stepped forward to say something to the poor one, who we will call Johnny. Chet was a large, chubby man with a long nose that had a little bump on it. He wore a cowboy hat and had greasy, brown hair that was long due for a haircut. His striped, collared shirt was tucked into his denim pants. He did not look like the type to take himself too seriously, but he was. Rich people tend to be that way. Johnny wore a green dress shirt with gray pants and a gray blazer. His dark brown hair was cut neatly with a side part. He was a very friendly man. Chet and Johnny were talking, when Johnny accidentally touched Chet on a sensitive spot on his body. Chet's friendly composure became nasty and mean, like he was going to hurt him. He yelled at Johnny and let him know that he would kill him if it ever happened again. Their relationship was forever destroyed from that moment on. Chet, his wife, Yvette, and his son, Bret, all treated Johnny and his family horribly. They all still lived together in that boarding house, but one family lived well and the other was miserable.
Years went by and Johnny lost his wife. His little daughter, Connie, grew into a beautiful teenage girl. She had long, blonde hair that she parted in the middle, and she wore a pretty, long sleeved dress. She was always being made of fun of by Bret, who was the same age as her. She lived most of her life unhappily, because of the him and his family. She and her dad just put up with it. There was no way out. She grew more sick of it with every passing day. Then the day came when she was so tired of it, that while everyone was in the kitchen she opened the front door and ran away. She ran into a field of trees. Johnny, Chet, Yvette, and Bret all ran after her. They were gaining on her and she decided to climb up a tree, where nobody could reach her. She climbed up and everybody was screaming for her to come down. She made it to the top, and she was not going to come down. Then something scary happened. She fell out of the tree.
She landed right on the grass. Everyone ran to her and Johnny held her in his arms. "Are you alive?!" They all asked in fear. Now, Connie was still alive. In fact, she had no injuries from the fall, but she saw this as her ticket out. She now had a plan. She was going to stay still and pretend she was dead. That way, they would leave her alone and she could go off and live freely. She managed to fool everyone into thinking she was dead, but her plan did not go the way she expected. Unfortunately, Connie was the only family Johnny had. He already lost his wife, and he could not cope with the loss of his daughter, so he did something that most people would consider to be weird. He kept his daughter's supposedly dead body in the house. Not only did he keep it, but he moved around the house and put it in different positions. Sometimes, he would put her in the chair around the kitchen table, or the couch in the living room, or the bed in her bedroom, and sometimes he would just lay her on the floor. It was really quite strange, but that was the way he dealt with it. Connie made the best of it, though. When she was left alone, she would get up and do whatever she wanted until someone came into the room. To her, it was better than the way life was before. One day, after her father had left her on the kitchen floor, she got up to get some food from the cupboard. Someone from the rich family came in. It was either Yvette or Bret. Remember, dreams are vague. Connie froze in place and pretended she was fainting. As if she were dying again that very moment. She figured that the person would just think her body still had some spasms after her death. The person who was there fell for it and caught her. From then on, whenever Connie got caught standing, she had another "after death spasm."
This was the way she lived for months. One day her dad placed her on the floor of the school gym. All the school girls were jumping around and being athletic, while she just stayed still, lying on the floor. When gym time was done, everyone cleared out. Bret came in. He went to the same school as Connie. He had dark brown hair that was parted to one side. It was cut in a nice, classy style. He was not at all overweight like his dad. He wore light blue pants, and light blue blazer, and a white dress shirt. He had always been a jerk to Connie. He disliked her, but now he was sitting right in front of her on the floor, just staring at her. He all of the sudden felt that he could share his deepest thoughts and feelings with her, so he did. He kept talking to her and it made him happy, but Connie was annoyed and could not stand to be stuck listening to him. Bret did not want to quit talking, because he felt that Connie's "dead body" was really listening to him. He called for his limo to come and take the both of them home. Even though they both lived in the same boarding house, Bret had never been kind enough to let Connie ride in his limo, but now that she was pretending to be dead, he carried her and put her in it. He sat right next to her and spoke to her all the way home. He decided that he was in love with her, even though she was "dead." Connie was getting sick of listening to him. She didn't care that she was in a limo. The whole ride she could only worry about the fact that he would keep talking to her, from then on. This would be the way she had to live. The thought of having to listen to him for all her life was unbearable. She had to get out of this. She decided to have a few more spasms on the way home. She figured that if she could spasm into death, she could spasm into life. It would be like some strange situation where her brain had not completely shut down.
When they got home, Bret excitedly carried Connie to her father. He explained the fact that Connie had some more spasms and she might be alive! Bret was ecstatic! Johnny took his daughter and asked Bret if he could be alone with her. Bret was more than happy to give the two some alone time, because the girl he had just fallen in love with was coming back to life. Johnny took Connie into the bathroom, shut the door, and stood her up. He finally had caught on to what was going on. Connie stood up straight with her arms crossed, and looked at her father. "Connie, " Johnny said."You were just pretending to be dead the whole time."
"It was because I couldn't do it anymore," Connie responded.
"You have to tell them the truth. You know he's [Bret's] in love with you, right?" her father asked.
"Yeah," Connie replied. "But I can't put up with him."
Up on the bathroom ceiling was an air vent. A very excited Bret had crawled through it, so that he could listen to the groundbreaking conversation Johnny was going to have with his newly alive daughter. He yanked off the vent cover, which made his face completely visible to anyone who looked up. Who knows if he heard the beginning of the conversation? But he was smiling very widely, until he heard Connie's statement at the end of it. Then his happy composure became angry and mean, like he was going to get revenge.
The End.
Please close your eyes and relax you body. This time you are walking down some stairs. You fall over and it instantly wakes you up. You are now in the place you were when you began reading this blog post. We hope you enjoyed being in The Dream Zone! Maybe we'll go back there again someday. If you have any weird dreams you'd like to share with us, feel free to write them in the comment section. We'd love to here them!
