A Dream

A perfect night out with a girl in a fantasy world. They are approaching a city in the late night.

It was a weird looking boat, no question about it, but I couldn't be more grateful. The dance floor was on the second floor of the boat with walls that were made entirely of glass. I wasn't dressed like I had just come from a wedding but just in some casual plaid shorts and a white polo shirt. Across from me was her. She was beautiful and I could have just stared at her for the rest of my life and be satisfied. Her wavy golden blonde hair was lose and flowed down her back in a way that made her irresistible and impossible not to look at. She wore a white silk shoulder-less dress as if she had taken a fashion design straight from the goddesses of Greek mythology themselves. She wore no jewelry except for a golden bracelet on her right wrist. Her electric blue eyes looked at me with such intensity that it almost made it hard to look her back in the eyes.

I walked up to her and took her by the hand. Her hand was warm with life and I felt like I had just grasped the other half of my soul. There was nothing around us but an empty, gleaming, dance floor and stairs at the back of the ship so we could climb back up onto the main floor so we could get off this ship and venture the city we were arriving at.

I looked out to the city and was stunned with how beautiful it looked. Skyscrapers protruded near the middle of the city but surrounding the skyscrapers were smaller, yet more mesmerizing, buildings. The low, dim, light that illuminated all of them made it clear that it was late but also let you know that this city wasn't going to sleep anytime soon.

She squeezed my hand lightly and began to walk to the stairs as the boat arrived at the dock. We walked up the stairs and through all the hallways on the top floor until we were at the bow of the boat. I rested my forearms on the rails and looked out at the city.

She moved next to me so that our upper arms and shoulders touched. She was shorter than me but not by much. She gave off the aroma of a sweet smelling rose that only the best gardener could produce. Her lightly tanned skinned glowed under the moon which had a powerful gaze in the cloudless sky. The stars around it were dimmed by how bright the moon was.

Before we knew it the boat had stopped and a bridge had formed between the boat and the dock. We walked over to the pass between the boat and dock and saw a man standing there. He wore a captain’s uniform with his cap under his left arm. He looked at us with a weary, but calm, face. I tilted my head slightly as a way of saying, “Thank you for this”. I took her hand and walked across to the dock.

For the most part it seemed empty with only the moon as our source of light to guide us. We managed to get to the side walk that followed the beach around the shoreline of the city. We never said a word to each other but every so often she would squeeze my hand or I would squeeze hers as if to make sure this was real.

Finally we walked off the side walk onto a huge smoothed out part of the beach. I took off my shoes and helped her take off her heals. We found a place to lie down and a gentle warm breeze touched our bodies. I looked at her and she smiled back. Her smile was something I had never seen before as it sent a warm fuzzy feeling throughout my whole body. This couldn't be real I thought.

We lied down on the sand and, holding hands, looked up at the sky in awe as there seemed to be a never ending river of stars that littered the sky.

I wrapped her in my arms and held her close. She rested her head on my shoulders and the calm tide of the water rolling in and out made my eyes heavy and my body yearn for sleep.

“If this is a dream,” I thought, “Well . . . it was a good one.”         

Author's Note

Just a random scene I thought of.

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[Kalen Luciano]

Keep up the great work! I found it enjoyable to read.