Strangeness

Once more the wicked whirlwind...

There's a certain sort of serendipity that's made so serendipitous by the fact that it never really happened at all. Take the last few days...

The other night I read The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and fell asleep with great ease. I woke up the next morning, and after making the decision to go into work late (or later than usual) I sat on my couch flipping between Sesame Street and Garden State. I think it was the best stretch I've had in quite awhile.

Last night I grabbed a few drinks with the guys, played pool, mixed it up with a little Golden Tee, and just generally laughed our way through an otherwise ho-hum sort of night. I went home...and then I dreamed.

I don't know what did it last night, don't know if it was the strange combination of things over the last several nights or if I was just due.

It was freezing cold, but there were about six of us in a giant rectangular hot tub that seemed to twist and turn around the corners of a building. I couldn't really see the others, but the girl I was talking to was oddly familiar. The others voices were just noise but then somebody said something, and it bothered her. Before I could do anything she was standing up, a moment later I was watching as she stood in the falling snow and got dressed without drying off. I chased after her, the minute I stepped out of the water I was dry and dressed, and the voices from behind me were gone. I spun around, only to see the hot tub was gone, in fact everything was gone. There was a whole new building in its place.

"Did you see that?"

I turned to face her and she was looking at me oddly. She had a kitten on a leash and was now fully bundled up to protect against the cold.

"What?"

"What?"

I was confused.

"You don't know how much it took for me just to give you a chance."

It hurt me when she said that.

"I'm sorry."

She was crying.

"I miss you."

How could she miss me? I was standing right there, but as soon as she said it I knew it was true, I missed her too.

"I miss you."

She was shaking as she cried, I reached out to comfort her...and she was gone.

All that was left was a kitten playing in the snow, a moment later even that was lost.

A cloud passed over the moon and I was left cold and alone struck down by the morbidity of fright on a cold winter night in a place where moonlight freezes...