THE DREAM                  

       I sit at my desk still trying to move the clock. I play with my pencil, trying not to let it fall. The class room seems quiet, nobody says anything or does anything. I don't care, all I care about is the ball tonight. I am going to go with John to the ball. John is the boy who is sitting in front of me right now. He is so dreamy, with his black wavy hair and his brown eyes and his broad shoulders and the other handsome stuff. John could have picked any girl but he picked me to go with him to the ball.
       " Hey, Sally, what’s the answer for number five?" Holly says to me. I turn at Holly to tell her the answer but Molly taps my shoulder before I could speak.
       " Don't do it, Sally. Holly, needs to learn to study more." Molly says to me. Holly sticks her tongue out at Molly. Molly gets angry but calms down and continued taking her test.
       I look at Holly and say, "sorry, Holly, but I can't."
"Well whatever, Sally,” Holly says to me. Holly got very angry at me, I know it because she then throws her note book at me.
       I fall to the ground as I tried to doge the notebook. I get my self together and stand up facing holly and say, " Holly, what the hell is the matter with you?"
       " I was about to say the same thing to you, sally," Holly says to me. The students, all of the sudden, start to laugh. I look down to find my self in my underwear and very quickly cover myself with my hands. I turn to see if John is laughing at me too but he is not at his seat. I look around trying to find him but they are too many students pointing and laughing at me. Then I see Molly pointing at the door, she tries to tell me that John left. I run to the door to catch up with John.
       I come out into a grass field, the greenest grass field I ever seen. I look up at the sun, its very hot here. I start to walk to a near by tree to get some shade while holding up my arm. Once I get to the tree I sit and relax for a moment to figure out where could have John have gone. I saw two flowers right next to me. One flower was red and another blue. I was about to pick up the red flower but it talked to me it said, ” well excuse me lady you were not just going to pluck me, were you?” The flower sounded like Holly. “ Well girly are you going to answer me? Or am I going to wait here in till my petals fall out?”
       I was going to respond to the flower but the blue flower, that sounded like Molly, said,” excuse me but I need to agree with my friend here lady. You cant just pick up flowers that are not yours. I know I would not do that because I will never be able to live with the guilt of killing another thing.”
       Instead of arguing about if it was right or wrong to pick a flower, I walked to the other side of the tree. The tree talked to me after I sat down. The tree spoke with Johns voice, it said, " Well hello there. My name is Sean."
       "Hello, Sean, my name is Sally," I said to the tree.
       "Well, Sally, what brings you here to me?" the tree said to me.
       "Today there are no clouds to protect me from the sun so I decided to use your shade, Sean," I responded to the tree.
"Well I’m afraid that you cannot use my shade, Sally. I’m so sorry but you need to go somewhere else," the tree said to me. Before I could respond to it, it hit me with it's branch and I went flying.
       I landed face flat in my room. I see the clock, that was attached near my bed, to see what time it was. It was three o'clock in the morning (ok I can still make it to the ball). I stood up and dusted off my blue prom dress. I heard a voice. I looked around to see where it came from. There it went again. I checked under my bed and inside my closet but nothing. There it went again, but now I recognized the noise. It was my mom's voice. She was calling me. Oh no, I didn't take out the garbage today! She is going to kill me. To avoid my mother, I ran out the window, glass shattered and fell with me. As I was falling, I could see the glass sparkle and shiny like stars. I laid on top of a roof of a skyscraper, looking at the stars. I saw the stars forming Johns face. I reached out and grabbed one, a then another and another and another until I had about a thousand of them in my hand. I ate them and started to float, giggling. I was very high up now and I
 could see the little people down in the streets. They were so tiny from up here.
" Hello, Sally," said John, also flying in his red glossy sports car.
       " Hey, John, " I said, not looking at him. I rubbed my left arm looking at the ground.
" You want to take a ride with me?" He said lowering his sunglasses.
       " I don’t know, John, I have homework... but whatever," I got inside his car and stared at him as we drove down the desert. It was hot and windy in the desert.
       " Here, Sally, let me turn on the air conditioning," John said as he reached towards the air conditioning button. We passed a polar bear, a penguin and a sperm whale as we drove down the arctic. I looked down the window to see the little fishes, swimming in the ocean, that were below us.
       " Hey, John, do you like me?" I said to John as I looked at the fish. He didn't respond. I looked at him and I saw this bug head instead of John’s handsome face.
" Hell yes I like you, Sally, now kiss me, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha," the bug headed John laughed at me. I opened the door and fell backwards into the water. The water was cold and salty, it made me shiver all over my body. I felt like I was in space, there was no up or down in the ocean. I think I am upside down when I saw Holly swim towards me. I think she is going to save me. Holly swam right past me, she saw a handsome merman and she went after him. What a best friend she is. I felt something pulling me up towards to surface. It was Molly, she is saving my life. Molly carries me to the nearby beach. After she leaves me laying at the beach, she swims back into the ocean. The beach is full of clocks and they all have the same time. I pick up a clock and stare at it for a while before I throw it into the ocean. “ Sally, you are late to the ball,” I say to myself. I start to cry because now I wont be able to dance with John at the ball.
“ Hey, Sally, what’s wrong? “ John says to me.
I stand up to face John and say, ” John, are you mad at me because you couldn’t take me to the prom?”
“What are you talking about, Sally?“ John says to me, “ we are at the ball.” I hug John and he hugs me back. We start to slow dance to a sweet love song. Everyone in the ball starts to form a circle around us. As we dance I think to myself that all this feels like a dream.