7

A Chapter by Lizardo

A look to the past

“Class I want you know that we’re getting a new student for our class”. said Ms. Davis

“I want you to meet Lizardo”.

I was in fifth grade when Lizardo first arrived to our class; He was behind the teacher because he was scared of the class not accepting him. There were four tables in the class, our class was the one who didn’t have a lot students on it, I stood in the front table with my other friends watching how poor Lizardo was getting swallow by fear.

Albert told to us to move closer and have a talk in a low voice

My friend, Alexander, asked me:

“I think we should give this boy a chance, he looks like a nice guy”

“I agree with Alex, or else a poor guy like him is going to get beat up in seconds” answered Albert

“I think we all agree right?” Said Moses

“I agree with you guys then” I said

“So class who wants Lizardo to sit with you first?” Asked Ms. Davis

Everyone in the class raised their hands; I was surprise to see that even the girls wanted Lizardo to be with them.

“Ms. Davis, I think our new guest should be with us” Said Alexander

“Lizardo do you agree?” Asked Ms. Davis

The little boy showed his face, a boy with a tan color and black haired appear from Ms. Davis back.

He just nodded.

“Then off you go young Lizardo!” said jubilant Ms. Davis

He sat next to me. Albert, Alex, and Moses gave the stare: Now it’s your turn to talk to him.

“What’s your whole name?” I asked and the three of them gave the look: That’s a stupid question Ben.

“My name is Lizardo Ariel Arias” said Lizardo in a soft and calm voice

“Well Lizardo! I think we’re all going to be great friends aren’t we?” Alex said smiling

“I guess we are” He answered

I look at Lizardo for 2 minutes, I saw a lot of sorrow in the boy’s face but he looked like a nice guy, I didn’t even know what awaited me and him in the future.

“Okay class now turn to page 244” Said Ms. Davis

“Ahhhhhhh!” Everyone in the class complained

“Or should we do 200 Math problems?” Said sarcastic Ms. Davis

“Oh no” “No were fine with page 244!” the class said

Time passed by and me and Lizardo became good Friends and with time best friends.

Alex went to another school so we didn’t talk much to him because he found another group of friends, Moses and Albert the same thing happened for them.

While me and Lizardo always remained as good friends. It was nice to see a good friend who you could count on and maybe sometimes to over dramatic, but it really match the moment so it wasn’t awkward to see him doing all sorts of crazy stuff.

He was a dreamer, he would do anything to follow his dreams and I liked that form of him. We were both dreamers who were lost in our dreams, in those times we were ‘’The Dream finders’’

There was one time when I met Lizardo’s Grandfather, a tall looking man with white hair and brown eyes, he almost look liked Lizardo.

Lizardo invited me to go eat dinner at his grandfather’s house, and after that we were going to have a sleepover AKA play videos games all night.

It was a big house in what look like where the rich people live, a nice residence with guards all over the place watching over the huge mansions. Some were really big and some where small, Lizardo told me that he would bring his bike and stroll all over the place or sometimes go play soccer with some friends at the soccer field.

Lizardo was always thinking and he was quiet, he was not a talker, he was a thinker.

He sometimes felt bad because girls or even boys told him that he was too quiet or anti-social. Although Lizardo said he didn’t care about that stuff, I knew that in the inside it hurt him.

We enter the house that had a red carpet on the floor with two plants on each side and some nice furniture and a big flat screen T.V.

The house was big and the kitchen was really big too, how do Lizardo’s grandparents’s got all of this? I don’t know, but my mom once told me that they were hard workers.

After having dinner, Lizardo’s grandmother, Mrs. Ana made hot chocolate for us and then Lizardo’s Grandparent, Alvaro, told us an interesting story.

Lizardo’s family was all Latin; they came from a country called El Salvador. Lizardo once or twice a day was always complaining about its society and how he hated it.

We took a sit in the elegant sofa that had a black color and there was a glass table in the middle of the sofas and up front from there, there was the Flat screen T.V where we later would be playing video games.

“Okay boys, Time to tell you a story that has been going on my family for years and years” Alvaro said.

“Once upon a time, our ancestors discovered a Comet heading to earth”

“They thought that their Gods were mad at them and thought they wanted to destroy earth”

“But nothing happened, then a million years later the same thing happened, a Comet heading to earth and again nothing happened”

“But a few years later, some astronomers found a comet heading to earth again”

“But how is this possible?” Asked Lizardo

“If the comet impacted earth, shouldn’t of it destroy it too?”

“As a matter of fact, you are right Lizardo but this comet doesn’t strike physically, it strikes in an abstract way bringing a new millennium of change for the world”

“Maybe it’s all a dream young Lizardo and Ben, Maybe our lives are just dreams of another giant in some other universe and when the comet strikes, it brings a new millennium of changed, which means another millennium of dreams for us too, although we don’t noticed it, we feel the change of it”

It was really interested in the story, and from what I looked, Lizardo was interested also. A comet the hits in an abstract way earth? Too much to handle in one night.

“But you should know something” He said

“When the comet strikes, our dreams become uncontrollable and a big huge mess is created for example: Pieces of earth floating in dead space without stars to shine at night and the cries of help from the ones who did bad things in the last millennium”

“Well! I don’t want to bother you more with old men stories!” He said

“You can play your video games” He got up from his chair and went upstairs.

Me and Lizardo stood silent for a moment, but then I broke the silence

“Could you imagine the possibility of making a device that could stop time in the exact moment when the comet strikes?”

“To see how everything was in the beginning and how earth took its form and how dreams really come true” I said

“We could called it, the ‘’DT’’ Which stands for Dream Time” Lizardo said

“I wonder what the future awaits us” I said

“The millennium is in 4 years” Lizardo said

“We have a lot of time”