Y’all I had this dream and I just need to tell it to someone
Okay, so I have weirdly vivid dreams and this was one of them. I just. ghhahhhahh i just need to tell it to someone it’s. it.s sakfjlksjd’ag why brain why
Also this is just the main storyline of the dream. There were also some aliens, I think I went on vacation with my actual parents but forgot my clothes, and some of my whumblr friends walked by getting snacks while I was crying on the kitchen floor.
CW: implied sibling death, hidden illness.
We were living in this small town that honestly, didn’t really like us. We had moved around quite a bit for our parents job, and at the time we were living in this really cool trailer/RV in the park. The people from town were snotty and self important, but we didn’t care cause we were genuinely having a good time.
I had an older brother; his name was Clive. He was a funny dude, but spent a lot of time to himself. He would just disappear for hours at a time, and sometimes not show up to important things. It was annoying, but for the most part everyone just kinda wrote it off like “eh yeah that’s Clive.”
So, the town was holding this footrace – and they were being really smug about it. Making it seem like it was just so important and that their star athlete dude was of course going to win.
But I knew Clive was faster. And I really, really wanted to rub it in the faces of the people that had been so mean to us. Clive ran almost every morning (I went with him but he was way faster), so I thought “this’ll be a breeze.”
But Clive didn’t want to. He just kind of laughed it off every time, saying he didn’t feel like it, didn’t have time. I was annoyed because I knew he had time. If he just stopped disappearing randomly he would have time to win and make those losers never forget it even after we moved out of town!
I literally had to beg him, and he finally agreed only if I would race with him.
So I did. And he won.
But then he freaking didn’t show up to the trophy ceremony.
I kept waiting and waiting, but he just didn’t show. I really thought he was going to this time, but he didn’t.
But before I could get too mad a Clive, they Mayor/organizer guy got up and said that their Town Darling had won. I just popped out to the front and went, “No? No, Clive won. You were there you know that Clive won.”
“I didn’t see it happen.”
I pointed around to people in the crowd. “THEY saw it happen! We have proof that it happened. You’re lying to cover it up because you don’t like my brother – my family!”
He gave me this godawful smirk and it made my blood freaking boil.
“Even then, if Clive isn’t here to accept the prize, then he forfeits it. It’s in the rules.”
With that, they brought up the Town Darling and stared heaping all this undeserved praise on him. I went to read the rules.
They said nothing of the sort.
Standing back up, I got up on the stage and confronted the Mayor again, telling everyone that he was lying, that the was manipulating the results. He got red in the face, trying to grab the rules from my hands before sitting down.
So they declared Clive the winner, even if he wasn’t there.
I was so excited I raced home, happy to tell him. He wasn’t there. Eventually, I found him at this treehouse he had made/found out in the woods.
I thought he was going to be happy, and I guess he kinda was, but he wasn’t excited.
“I guess I’ll enjoy it for the next three months, but after that you should take it.”
I cannot describe the way my heart dropped in my chest. “What do you mean? What’s important about three months?”
He looked me dead in the eyes and said, “I’m not going to live past three months.”
He never just disappeared, he was going to medical treatments or wasn’t feeling well from them. Our parents didn’t say anything cause they didn’t want me to worry.
Ya’ll I cried so hard I woke up. It still makes me wanna cry when I think of it what the actual fuck brain I this is not what I wanted to start my day withhhhh.
"The only thing I knew about my sister was she wanted to be an actress. I asked my parents to take me to a local play when I was a kid and it was my first love. Also even before then I've always had a fascination with movies and TV. Especially horror stuff obviously."
"Even though we never got the chance to meet, the theater always makes me feel like I'm close to her."
