Dreams

A Story by Krissi

The only thing I have left to live for.

Though I have three siblings I always felt very alone. At the age of five my mother told me that my step father wasn't my real dad. My siblings knew their really father so I felt very jealous of them, As I grew up things became very.. Complicated in my home. I began to rebel against anything my mother asked me to do. I couldn't understand that my mother had enough stress as is. My mother worked almost ten hours a day everyday as a cleaning lady. Her business took off when I was four. As time progressed so did my knowledge of how to lie and get out of trouble. (Later all the lying caught up to me). At the age of seven I fought everyday with my mother about everything. When I got punished with the belt I would run to my room and cry my self to sleep. That's when I got to get away from my "horrible" life. I would fall asleep to the sound of trains passing by and late night cars passing by. My life slowly faded as sleep over came my body. But my brain was fully awake with wounder and excitement. My imagination began to run wild. In my dream I awoke to a beautiful forest. As I walked a long forgotten trail threw a pine tree area I stumbled down a hill and found my self a bit lost. I walked toward what sounded like rushing water I soon looked up and saw a large tree house sitting in an old oak tree. I walked around the large trunk and found a small ladder leading up to the porch connected to the tree house. I huffed my way up concentrating on not looking down. Once I reached the top I looked into a small dirty window. No one looked like they had lived there for many years. When I turned around I saw what looked like an entire village of tree houses. I walked to the edge of the porch and found a rickety old bridge that lead to the next house. As I walked along I heard children's laughter when I walked closer to the house the laughter grew louder. I peeked threw the once again dirty window and saw nothing. I walked threw the door and found the house empty. I walked to a turned over chair and set it up straight. I sat down and looked at the old pictures that lay shattered on the floor. I stayed quiet for a moment and then I began to have a flash back of some sort. I saw the tree houses filled with life. People coming in and out. Like it was normal for them. I saw a man looking down at the ground below. Soon a woman came behind him and hug him from behind. She leaned in closer to his face and whispered in his ear "its okay Dan. They can not reach us anymore." The man looked at his what I think is his wife and kissed her. He spoke to her in a mellow tone voice. "Julie it will never be over. The ground people will always try to destroy our people. The ground ones are obtaining evil magic. Soon we will go extinct." The woman then stepped back and frowned. She then called to her children who were across the bridge in their play house. As night fell everyone was inside preparing for super when a loud horn was blown. The man named Dan ran outside and lite a torch that lite a line of green flames across the village. The man began to come out and run down towards Dan. Then darkness. I looked around stunned for a moment. Soon a light from an arrow shot into the house where Dan's family was. Screams of tarrier rippled across the dark moon lite sky. An evil man with evil magic grabbed a young girl by her neck and crushed her throat in seconds. The mother of the children garbed a butcher knife and fought to save her kids. She lost the battle and was thrown down to the rest of the grounds people. They then had their way and killed her. Then all I saw was a bright star fly in a circular manner and then the flash back was over. I understood then. This was the future of our fate. Then I woke up.