Chapter 5 of Lissa and the Mall

Chapter 5

Lissa opened her eyes. She thought about all the movies she had seen where the main character woke up from some ridiculous dream gasping and sitting up in their beds with a look of sheer terror on their faces. No one ever does that. Lissa thought incredulously as she lay in her comfortable bed. She remembered her dream vaguely; almost like she recalling some piece of renound art she had seen in some famous museum, remembering the basic idea of it but not the details. Her dream, she recollected, had involved her living in a shopping mall downtown and meeting some peculiarly dressed man who had some importance of which she couldn’t remember. Lissa looked at her clock and saw that the display read 11:13. Lissa jumped out of bed, forgetting that it was a week into summer and didn’t need to rush to school. As soon as she realized this she also remembered that even if it WAS a school day, quarter after eleven was far too late to have slept in; even with her peculiar dream. Her mother or brother would have woken her up; her mother shouting up from the kitchen while cooking breakfast, her brother jumping on her bed, and eventually her, in a never-ending attempt to wake her up.

      As Lissa walked downstairs towards breakfast, she thought how wailing strange her dream had been. This thought made her stop in her tracks. She had seen that dream awfully vivid. A little too vivid. Lissa’s muscles relaxed a bit for she had remembered she had been dreaming about this world for a good time now.