Astral High - Chapter 16
#17 of Astral High
Hmm... Who knows anything about lucid dreaming or astral projection?
We were headed over to Seth's house, trying to think of something to do, but I yanked Seth's arm and turned as we passed my house. I saw the car and knew well enough to avoid it.
"Woah, hey! What are you do-" I pulled his mouth to mine, to make him shut up, and to make a scene in front of the lion, leaning against his stupid truck. Seth brought his hands around my waist and pulled me closer to him. After a minute, he finally pulled away and smiled at me. I kissed him on the nose and glanced over at Valen. I guess it was more of a glare since it was brought to Seth's attention.
"Do you know him?" [Seth]
"Yeah, you could say your boyfriend knows me." [Valen]
"Who's this fuck?" [Daniel]
"His name's Valen." [X]
"You know him?" [Zane]
"Yeah, found out he lived here when Alex did. Decided to hate him when Alex did."
"No, I already hated him. I already wanted him dead." [Me]
"Oh, come on! You're the one who broke up with me!" [Valen]
"Wait, that punk was your first boyfriend? Damn, I see why you left him." [Seth]
"Oh, right! You... you did have a boyfriend before." [Ted]
"So, you're just gonna stand around and talk about me when I'm standing right in front of you?" [Valen]
"No, we're gonna stand around and complain about how worthless you are in front of you. Did I already mention that? How worthless he is?" [Me]
"He isn't exactly the cutest, Alex." [Seth]
"Well, no one can beat you, so of course."
"You know, we're apart for a year and you've already moved on?" [Valen]
"Good thing, too! You're horrible!" Zane was looking at his smart phone, "Seriously, according to facebook, you've been in seven relationships, but only been gay for three years."
"And the first two were with me." [Me]
"Quite the hippocrit." [X]
"I haven't been in a relationship since we broke up, Alex!" [Valen]
"You, you do realize that's worse, right? That means you were cheating on me." [Me]
"No, I wasn't, I-"
"This bores me. Can I just hold him by his feet until he cries?" [Daniel]
"No, that's not mean enough. Hold him down, near a bee." [Me]
"Wait, no-" [Valen]
"He's an insectiphobe too?" [Ted]
"No, he's allergic. Not enough to kill him, but enough that it'll hurt." [Me]
"You're a jerk, Alex!" [Valen]
"Thing is, I don't care."
"So, I wanna play King of Tokyo, so can I just do this now?" [Daniel]
"Yeah, go ahead." As soon as I said that, Daniel booked it to Valen, grabbed his shoulders, and slammed them down against the grass of our lawn. Flowers had already bloomed and blossomed, and bees were working hard at pollinating. As soon as they were disturbed, two of them got angry. They landed on him and crawled on his arm a little, but he was writhing and screaming in Daniel's grip. Daniel sighed and lifted him up, brushing the bees away.
"Get the fuck away from us." Daniel shoved him towards his car, and Valen scurried to get inside, away from the angered bees that Daniel just clapped out of the air. Valen started his car, and we didn't continue our walk back to Seth's house until he was gone.
"Alex, I'm sorry, I couldn't-" [Daniel]
"It's okay. I get it. You still think he's innocent-"
"No, I get it, you hate him-"
"No, I know you understand. It's just that... none of you are ever going to hate him as much as I do. Quite frankly I'm glad you didn't do that, because if he gets stung on the arm he can't drive home. He's terribly allergic, not enough to kill him, but enough that he needs meds."
"... So, you're not mad?"
"No. Not at you. At him, yes. Now and forever."
"You know what else is now and forever?" [Seth]
"Wow, that's sappy." [X]
"Shut up!"
"Yeah, it's cute." [Ted]
"Well sorry if I'm more masculine than you guys." X started off towards Seth's house, and Zane started walking with him, his crutches clicking every time they hit the cement.
"So, you wanna go?" [Seth]
"Yeah, sure." We headed off towards Seth's house and tried finding xis player games to play, but ran out of options really quickly. All the games at his house were like ten years old, and I attributed it to the whole pentagram thing when Seth grew up. We ended up having to go over to Ted's to play a game, and still had trouble finding games to play, but no where near as much.
After a few rounds of King of Tokyo, we all got bored and decided to take turns at Call of Duty. Obviously, I won. And then they made my class have nothing but a riot shield and a rocket launcher with one shot in it. I felt powerless, but I also didn't give a fuck. It was nice to have friends to play games with, and nice to play games that had actual weaponry in it.
After a while, X and Zane had to go home, which I knew would be slow and awkward since Zane was still on crutches. Around nine, Ted's parents got home and started fixing dinner, and we ate only an hour before going to bed.
Since this was Ted's house, he and Daniel got the bed, but Ted wanted us to sleep up there with them, for some reason, and we willingly obliged. He got us all wrapped up in his mass of sleeping bags and pillows, and some how got us to all be holding on to each other. It was nice, because Seth was pulling me and Ted closer to him, while I was pulling Daniel and Ted closer to me, who were pulling me and Seth closer to them. Between the warmth of Seth from behind, and Ted in front, and everyone's scents merging, I fell asleep faster than I was even aware of...
I found myself falling. There was nothing around me but the stars, the night sky, more vivid than anything I'd ever seen before. I tried to look down, and saw nothing below me. I was simply falling through space. I understand my surroundings, and realized I was in a dream, but I wasn't waking up. I saw the stars move by me even faster. They points of light blurred into lines, that clouds of star dust blurring into patches of color, and finally all turning white as my velocity became too fast. Then everything around me came to.
I found myself in Ted's room, standing over the shapeless mass of sleeping bags and pillows. I was confused. Just a minute ago I was sleeping, but now I'm awake? And standing?
I saw the mass move, and Daniel slipped out from underneath. He walked right through me, and didn't even notice I was there. Through the covers I could barely see myself, still holding on to Ted and my butt still firmly pulled into Seth's butt, however there was one key difference; All my fur was pitch black.
I jolted awake, and found myself in the position that I'd seen myself in just before. I glanced at my fur to see it's normal colors, and realized Daniel wasn't in the mass of sleeping bags. I couldn't even begin to understand what happened, but I had several dreams like that through out the night, each one more detailed than the last...
I finally jolted awake for the last time, due mostly from Seth shaking me awake. I rolled over and kissed him, wanting to tell him about my dream, but got side tracked when Daniel brought up another subject.
"So, what are we gonna do today?"
"I don't know, more CoD?" [Ted]
"I was thinking we could play a game of risk." [Seth]
"Dear god no." [Daniel]
"Aw, why not?"
"That game is way too long. Anyways, it needs money to make it interesting." [Ted]
"Money? Like, you spend to buy troops?" [Daniel]
"Yeah, or to make deals with people. You know, fun stuff like that."
"Right, so it's like the super intense version of risk." [Me]
"Exactly, he gets it!"
"That sounds ridiculous." [Seth]
"Okay, what are we gonna do then?" [Daniel]
"I don't know. I'm hungry though, let's deal with that first." [Ted]