it's the end of the world as we know it (and i feel fine)
Author: conquistador
there's a wall of water going around the world. basically, the world is going to flood completely and we're all going to die.
so everyone's rushing around hugging each other and watching movies but my friend (i get this dream every few months, and the friend changes every time) and i decide we'll save ourselves.
we buy a cheap little plane (one of those open ones from wwi) for $150 from some old guy, who gives us the discount because it's the end of the world and money doesn't matter anymore.
but the plane needs some fixing up, because we try it and it won't stay up in the air long enough (we figure later we'll land it on the water).
we need two pieces; one's a little chunk of something and the other is like a little black rubber band. it takes forever to find the second one, but we do, in a crowded movie theater where everyone is watching a black and white movie. we have to turn on the lights and everyone is terribly annoyed, but trish is there so i give her a hug. finally we find the rubber band and attach it to the plane and we leave the theater.
supplies, we need supplies. i fill a backpack with some food (saltine crackers) and two bottles of water (it should last us a while. i'm not entirely sure if the water that's flooding the world has salt in it or not).
then i realize that since andrew (my friend) and i will be the only people alive on earth after the floodwaters recede, i go to school to get my stuff out of my locker - i have a salinger book there, and i want to save that (so i can show later generations how great it is? i don't want to reproduce with andrew). while i'm there, i grab the bippy bear, a stuffed animal meredith gave me.
i lose track of andrew and follow his path (along with a small kid named john) to some jagged rocks by a waterfall. john has a walking stick, and with it he picks up andrew's backpack. we look over the edge and there's the remains of a body down there.
something happens, i don't remember what. a fairy? is andrew really dead?
cut to: we're running down the road, dragging along with us an suv, the wall of water not far behind. apparently we (trish & i) want that truck really badly, because it slips back and we have to run back and catch it, narrowly missing the water.
back at a house (my house?). i'm with meredith now. i grab sam-the-cat, deciding i want to take him, too. we're climbing into our plane (in the driveway) after huugging our families goodbye. suddenly we realize that the plane has four seats, not two, as we had thought.
sammy's on the floor, so i think maybe i can bring shorty (my dog). i ask meredith if she's bringing ace (her beagle) and she says no. reluctantly, i don't bring shorty.
the rest is a blur. we go up in the sky as the wall of water comes and as we take off, we see about thirteen other planes swarming around us; apparantly, other people had the same idea as us (unfortunately, many are people i don't like much.)
i drift in and out of sleep until 6:34, when my dad comes into my room and tells me to get up.
