Chapter 05

          I went home early that day, thinking that the event with Kayleigh and Jeremy was just because I was tired. It was probably not true, but it sure convinced everyone who thought I was crazy that day. Callie was worried silly, and Jenn well, she just thought that I was nuts.
          
          It was unfortunate that everyone knew that I skipped that day, they remembered and still asked me the same old question, �Did you really skipped?� That really got on my nerve! But when I got home, it didn�t stop there� My mother and father kept telling me not the skip class again, kept telling me that education is important. That got tiring, too. I mean it wasn�t like I meant to skip. And when I had to come up with the reason why I skipped I just made up something easy and would make sense of that dream, and to back up my story about being tired that day; I fell asleep on the bench and I missed class.

            I didn�t hear the end of it until the end of the year, and even then I had my brothers to torment me. But soon enough, they realize that it had no effect on me and simply gave up.

            A lot has happened in the passing months, new friends come and old friends go. Some change in personality and some stay the same. Some become closer friends and some friends become more distant. While some became friends, others became enemies�

            When the new school year started, we meet up with a girl named Tanya, many say that she changed Jessa, making her more� sluty. Personally, I don�t think it was just her that changed Jessa. Anyhow, she�s a total airhead. Yep. Oh, and defiantly � a little stupid. She once lit a girl�s hair on fire. I know, why are we hanging around her than? How should I know? I don�t mind her, she�s ok because she only acts immature, but has a kind and honest heart. Everyone else though, seems to hate her. Well, everyone except Kayleigh and Jessa.

             Anyways, back to Jessa. It was the arrival of the grade nines that changed Jessa, Kevin�s grade. It was hard enough with my brother there, but what they seem to think just sickened me. The first week, three-quarters of the girls all of the sudden had boyfriends?! They also act like they rule the school!  Now that could just be my jealousy� I have that problem� But still!

            My brother Kevin, well, he was an outcast. His only friend that with him most of the time is Chris, his other friends come and go. Kevin�s not very know in the crowds, but in class, they know him only because he�s smart. The grade nines has taken Jessa into their own little world of popularity, she has a boyfriend in grade nine. His name is Justin and many say that he controls Jessa, making her his prefect girlfriend. Jessa now hangs around the grade nines, and is more distant from us. She�s turned into them.

           Now Jenny, she left. She moved to the city school when her friend graduated elementary. I�ve never seen her after that, but some people saw her and said that she looks more like a whore! But we never heard of her after.

            Jen, she moved somewhere, I don�t know where. Jenn was happy, in a way, but she was happier to hear that Jen will be living with them again. It was Christmas, and Jenn was complaining that Jen received more presents than her. But she easily got over that.

            Jenn and I have gotten closer; she notices me and is in most of my class now. She also comes to me for help in whatever class she has troubles in. We also talk more on ICQ and all. And she is still the funny one of our little gang.

            At the end of last year, John informed us that he�s moving away. It�s more than six hours away, somewhere near Niagara Falls. This of course shocked and devastated Callie, but they had the best time while they were together. John was still the same as if the moving thing didn�t affect his personality. But I think he did it so that Callie wouldn�t worry.

            But we knew that the day would come when he would have to leave. The week before he left, Callie and John spent a lot of time together. Callie and his friends held a farewell party in his name, but it was sad that not a lot of people came� Jessa was supposed to go to the movies with Justin, but she came to his party. That was nice of her, and a big surprise to everyone!

           Callie and John had danced together a lot, but we had fun with the usual boy stuff. There was the arm wrestling and all the girls sucked at that. The boys even allowed us to use our both arms and that didn�t help either. Than there was the argument with what songs to play, the boys wanted heavy metal and all that druggie music. While the girls wanted pop and slow songs.

            In the end, many people went home. And many complained the next day, that the party was the suckest party they�ve been to. Most of that, though, came from Jessa. Than the day came, John left.

           Callie didn�t come to school that day, but the next day she was all sad and kept talking about John. He had left before Christmas, and he had bought her a beautiful and expensive necklace and Callie favourite CD, Disturbed. Callie was upset that she couldn�t give John her present before he left. She had put together a photo album of pictures of our gang and her and John. She than decided to visit him in his new house at New Years, and gave him his present personally.

           She came back happier than before, saying things like �John house! It�s a freaking mansion!� or �John�s room is pink, but he�s going to repaint it soon!� She would talk about the things she did over his house, and she would say how his house looks like. But every once in a while they would phone each other and talk for hours. One time she said that he was a pimp at his school, and that every girl loves him! Callie would get worried and all, but Jenn would say things that made Callie calm things down. But they weren�t usually the nice things, but funny at the time.

           As for me, I wouldn�t say that I changed much. All was fine, well� lately, I have been having the same dream over and over. And no, it�s the thing about Kayleigh and Jeremy. This one is more incomplete� Once, someone told me, that dreams happen from past events or future possibilities. But I don�t anything about this dream, it�s like my mother says, it might be my subconscious talking to me.

           But if that�s so, than it�s trying to warn me of something. In my dream, I would be seeing the same people, well, at least I think they�re the same� I would have me running through a field that kept changing, it would start off like an ordinary green field with ordinary scenery, than the field would have flowers on it. Than the field would look greener and the flowers would be unrealistically beautiful. The Sky would also change to more baby blue with hardly any clouds at all and a rainbow would shine across the sky.

           But than the sky would be clouded and the grass would shrivel up and die. But it kept getting worst, the ground would than crack up like it never had water and the sky would be as black and clouded like it had never seen the sun.  And than, total darkness.

           I was running in the pitch black, and as I was running images would pass by me. Images of shaded characters I don�t really know, I can�t even make out the details! The first one would be two figures chasing each other, than it would fade. Right away another figure would come up, someone with a cape. It would also fade, and another one would take its place. This one would hold a long sword that�s looked way to big. It would fade and a figure with a staff would appear, and than another shadow appeared that looked a bit familiar. But I can�t seem to put my finger on it�

            The next few became a bit familiar, but it just doesn�t come to mind of who they are. The next would have two humans side by side, another one that I could have sworn I know who they are. But it just doesn�t come to my mind. The other one starts off as a human, but slow gains angelic wings. The next one was not an image like the others were, no, this one would be a shadowed figure in the flesh. I would stop running now, and glance upon the figure in front of me. It would than point at something to my right, something that wasn�t there.

            When I looked back at her, it would point to that same place again. I shook my head and said, �I don�t understand�. It would than walk over to the imaginary place and the area around it would light up, it would show something huge with some ropes or stringy things coming from it. At each of the stringy thing would be one of those images that flashed past me while I was running! Each rope was taken expect one, and the shadowed figure went up and touched it.

             All the other images faded and the ropes started to burn and soon enough, the whole place was ablaze. The ground it self was burning and soon enough it would crack apart and fall into the blackness. The shadowed figure would than hold a ball made of glass and inside the glass was � a galaxy with all sorts of stars. It would hold the ball far from her and let it drop. The glass ball would shatter on the black ground, the millions of pieces would go all over, on the ground, behind me, in front of me, and even in the air. The pieces would than turn into purple fire and shimmer the whole place up. Just when I would gaze upon them, the shadowed figure would all of the sudden show its face to me.

             I would wake up, calm but scared. But you know what the funny thing about the dream; I saw what the shadowed figure looked like. But after I woke up, I can�t remember�I just don�t remember�

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