Dreaming in Digital

The lads and gents of Achievement Hunter all somehow gathered into Geoff's five-seater car, and I sat beside Ray in the backseat. When he asked, "is everybody ready?" I piped up I needed to use the washroom, and Ryan said he'd forgotten something. The two of us ran into someone's house and we did our business. As soon as I was done, I couldn't find the entrance and wandered until I reached a large room with a baseball diamond on a floor below and seats spreading all across the room in a circle.

There was a black woman who had, over a year or two developed a crush on a black man in a poverty ridden area. Together, they were summoned to be contestants on a television show. On this day she was dressed in a blouse, skirt and leather dress jacket that reached her upper thighs, and she sat across from the man wearing a white "wife-beater" tank top, over sized jeans and a New York Yankees baseball hat with a flat sunshade. He slouched and looked tough, as if he were a gangsta rapper. All contestants were gathered in a hotel's cafeteria, and the two were teamed up for challenge and hours before it was their time to start. The man asked her if he could talk to her privately and she said she needed the bathroom first. In the washroom with room for one person at a time, she fixed her hair and loosened the top of her blouse as an idea to try to seduce him, all the while she told herself she would not fall for him, since he didn't seem to notice her affection. When she opened the door, he was standing outside, waiting until she was finished. "Yer a lovely dancer," he said, and she was smitten. She never spoke of her past, but she use to be a ballet dancer and quit after an ankle injury.