Dreaming in Digital

I was with all my relatives from my dad's side and we went to a formal restaurant for lunch. I was near the entrance waiting for a table with the adults when most of the children have been seated. At the front desk were two boxes of nail polish. I looked at the colours and my cousin picked up a dark blue one to try. She was disappointed in the texture because it was extremely thin. Behind us, my aunt was heading back to her car because her feet were cold in the flip flops she wore and she was looking to change into shoes. Soon we were sent to sit with the rest of my cousins and I sat at the head. Each of us were given a necklace, so in my hand was a ruby, heart pendant on a thin, brass wire that kept a round shape. My cousin seated at the other side of the head table called to me to join the necklace switch where we would try on each other's received necklace. In my hand next was a bronze necklace that I didn't understand. It was suppose to be a heart so i fidgeted with it and it became an upside down heart. Now i had to let it go and I received my necklace back. There were soda cans by each of my cousin's plates but mine and I wondered when did they get these- I've been left out by everyone again, as I am constantly missing out on things when I'm with these people. I looked behind me and noticed there were two young, blond, Caucasian ladies in tight, black and modest dresses talking and guiding children back to their corner of the restaurant. I figured they were event planners for a wedding reception that was currently happening.

I was with Shortbead and my family. We took Shortbread with us and went to a shop during Christmas time. This shop was like a tattoo place but we painted ourselves like children and it washed off. I was late in starting so I didn't get to use the stencils and painted with a brush swirling lines on the back of my hand. When we finished, the sales person said he had a gift for us since we were regulars. He came back with a bucket and a giant foam, blue fish. He balanced the fish on the edge of the bucket and Shortbread laughed in amusement.

I was with Shortbread, Cookie and Flan from university. We were in a building that looked like a university, but it was empty, like at night time. We were there for a relative's birthday, but the three of us left because we didn't fit in with my family. We sat on a bench on the top floor bridge/balcony, over looking the ground floor, and especially the floor-to-ceiling glass window with a view of of the lavender sky and setting sun. On the horizon was the sea, glistening by the dirt, country road. Directly above was a white sheet, which Disney's Tangled was being projected on. We watched as we worked on something on our laptops. When it was time to eat, my uncle came out and called us, a plate of food in his hands. Flan held out his hand for me to take, and I took Cookie's hand as well. Hand in hand, we joined my family for food.

I went to a class I had taken with Cookie and found him already seated in the back row with a seat saved for me. It was a small class of about fifteen and the professor I had was my computer science professor from Harvard. He was teaching us CS. When class had ended, everyone left the room together and it was inside a rundown mall where the stores were all Chinese. The professor kept talking and pointing at the graphics on store windows. When we reached the parking lot, Cookie and I hopped into the trunk of the professor's jeep and the professor drove us away.

I was a friend of Artemis Crock of Young Justice and she and Arsenal were wanted for the murder of three of her childhood friends. As their punishment was being declared by the enemy, I watched the giant dolls hover around and move to certain spaces in front of me. There were many wooden dolls, but three dolls hovered forward representing the murdered. The enemy didn't know where they were but I did. I was a double agent. When the dolls stopped moving I left the area and the house it was located in. I found Roy  Harper hugging an upset Artemis behind a dumpster in an alley. They were framed but didn't know how to prove their innocence.

I was in a car with Cookie and his mom. We were headed to his cousin's university because he forgot a banner for a dance performance he was participating in. It had already started when we arrived. Cookie's mom gave one side of the banner to Cookie to hold and ran across the stage to the other side. I didn't see it, but I heard Cookie start cracking up. The song ended soon (which was "Rolling Girl" by Wowaka, sung by Akiakane). He told me at the end that his mom stopped in the middle of the stage in front of the dancers during the performance with the banner in hand. I didn't understand why that was so funny, but it made me so happy to see him laugh like that.