I’m not sure why, but I was doing therapy- I assume for my knees. I had my old therapist from in real life- Lisa, I think, is her name. Every day at 10:30, I would leave school and go down to therapy and then come back. On this particular day, I don’t know if I had a sub or if my teacher was getting fed up with me leaving all the time, but he asked if I had filled out the form required for me to just up and leave the school. Of course I hadn’t. I didn’t even know I needed to fill it out; although, I knew me just leaving the school was wrong, but what did I care? Rand, one of my old coworkers from my previous job was the teacher. This particular day was also a test day, and I had gone through the whole test and answered all the questions I knew, leaving the ones I wasn’t sure of until after I’d get back from therapy. But when I turned it into my teacher to hold my test until after I got back, and after he asked if I had filled out the slip, he told me I couldn’t leave until it was done. So I sat there and realized there were pages and pages I had missed.
I must have thrown a fit about being late to therapy because he let me go, but he said the test had to be done by the time I got back. Kathryn must have been giving me a ride to therapy, because we’re in the car, and she’s asking me questions from the test as we’re driving so we can try to hurry and get it done, but there were so many problems left that I had overlooked initially.
Therapy was uneventful, and on my way back to the school, I could tell that there was something wrong. The school looked abandoned. I found my little brother Tay, and we started looking around for survivors in the aftermath of what I presumed to be some sort of war. We couldn’t find anyone at the school, so we left, walking down the black top by where we live. We knew to stay out of sight; if people found us, we knew we’d get captured. About a mile down the road, we see two vans, and from a distance, they seemed abandoned. As we got closer, we could see some guys in there. Guards. We tried to be sneaky. I mean, we couldn’t be seen because they’d take us away. We passed the house and the vans and knew we needed to take cover because if those guys got out and looked around, they’d see us for sure.
We’re in the ditch, trying to hide in tall grass because we could hear the guys getting out of the van, and somehow, there is a bed lying in the ditch, so I crawl behind it, and I’m looking for Tay and he’s trying to scoot under the bed, but it’s a tight fit, and I try to pull him as a guard walks by. Tay must have hit the end of the bed and the movement gets us caught. The guard is Ser Barriston Selmy from Game of Thrones. He brings us to a prisoner’s camp. Like a POW camp.
There are two different camps that we can choose from, and I am just worried about not getting separated from Tay. So I strap him to my back and do a lot of the hard labor while he rests. I remember being so upset that we got caught and thrown in these prisons, but everyone else was trying to tell us it was really nice to be slaves and that the guards and everyone took care of them and the work was pretty easy, but I didn’t know which one was the easier camp. So I just picked one and did what they told me. I was starving, but I didn’t want to eat their food because I wanted to protest and get out of there, so I let Tay eat, but I didn’t want any.
I must have gotten in trouble because they started parading me through cattle yards that are sloppy and muddy and making me climb around and on top of the lower yard at my parent’s house which has a lot of concrete slabs placed around the yard. And I keep slipping and falling and getting poop on my hands from the cattle yard. And finally they let me break for supper where I meet the cast from Orange is the New Black. And Nikki sits with me and cuts up my chicken fried steak trying to make me eat it. I really don’t like chicken fried steak, and I told her that, so she put it on a bun and told me to pretend it was hamburger.
Then I woke up.