December 20, 2013

I dream that my grandmother and I are on a long road-trip together, but it feels like we are heading home now, going north. It’s very late in the night. We are thinking about whether we should drive on through the night, but I really feel like stopping; more because I want to draw the trip out longer, and see more sights. From the passenger seat window I look out and see many smallish, bright red houses, all lit up warmly with white string lights underneath big homestead trees. I think, “What are the chances that this is an inn…” then my eyes make it to a sign and the words The ____ ____ Inn (Quiet Homestead?) (Little Red Homestead?) come out of the blur of letters. I convince her to stop here for the night. Inside, the scene becomes different. My grandmother is no longer there. Instead there is a somewhat large group of friends, and a few others whom I don’t know. My friend ______ is there, somehow I know it is him, but I don’t actually see him, because he’s having very loud sex with an unknown person in the adjoining room, and they seem to be synchronizing their act with a movie soundtrack playing loudly in their room. After they’re done, they come out and the night progresses on with everyone just hanging out. ______’s girlfriend asks us to change the channel on the TV so they can watch the movie they were just playing in their room. Others in the room acquiesce, but I speak out, feeling offended and weirded-out that they want to bridge their private life into our lives. I say, “I really don’t feel comfortable watching the movie you were just having sex to.” They turn it back to a football game, and I am grateful. ______’s girlfriend, a very young and pretty girl, with a kind of “valley-girl” way of speaking, comes over to my side, and we talk to each other about nothing in particular, and she says, “I really do want to finish that movie, though. I think it was really interesting.” I am about to say “If you must,” but then a realization comes to me, and I say, “Was it really interesting, or did you just have the hots for the lead guy?” She laughed, and said, “I think you might be right…”