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Matt, Lilly - sc trailer park friends
Shayna - friend at sc

Helpful information: This guy named Andy and his roommates got a guinea pig last year. They hardly paid any attention to it. Andy offered her to me at one point and I said I would gladly take her, but Andy decided to keep her. She died this summer even though she couldn't have been over a year old.

My family had all gone on vacation together at My Grandparent's house, which in the dream was a gigantic mansion. I was going to go to sleep, and I had to share a bed with this little blond girl who was probably about five years old. She was the daughter of some family friends. We were about to go to sleep but then I noticed that there were giant crickets all over the bed. This woman, who might have been the girl's mother, got a box for us to put them in. I tried to catch some of them, but the crickets were all attracted to the box for some reason and jumped right onto it. I put the box outside and then we went to sleep.
I found out that I never actually finished middle school so I had to go back for a year. One of the teachers from the school came over to my house in SC to talk about it. I asked her if I actually had to go to the classes or if I could just do the work and give it to them. She said I actually had to go, which I thought was really stupid and I tried to reason with her for a while. As we were talking I somehow became involved in either playing tennis or swimming, and the other girls were being bitches and we got in an argument.
This was the week I was supposed to start school, and I assumed that it started on thursday. Today was tuesday or something so I was just walking around my house doing nothing. I saw a policeman pull up outside, and I realized that school started today and he was probably hear to get me. I had made an honest mistake so I wasn't too concerned about it. I went outside to meet the policeman, and before I could say hello to him a little boy ran up to him, and I think it was his son. The policeman brushed him off, and introduced himself to me. We talked about what happened and he said that I could just go the next day so it was okay.
For some reason when the next day rolled around I had something that I really needed to do before I could go, so I missed another day of school. I was worried that the sports teams wouldn't let me come to practice this late in the year.
I was going to go on another ISV trip, and for some reason in the process of getting ready to go I got distracted watching videos of one of my high school homecoming dances. I was there wearing something that looked kind of like one of the dresses I wore one year. The sequins on this one were iridescent and changed from red to green depending on the lighting. In the video I was crowned homecoming queen, and I looked very happy about it.
I was with Justin somewhere. He left and I got into a fist fight with someone about something. I ran out of the house as fast as I could. In the dream I could run really fast and I kind of used the ground to push off with my hands occasionally to get more speed. I noticed a red and silver striped snake on the ground, and then another in a tree as I ran by. I went to the trailer park to hang out. People didn't really seem to notice that I looked beat up. At one point I looked in a mirror and one of my eyes looked smaller than the other and my mouth was drooping.
I sat down in this dimly-lit room with Matt, Lilly, Shayna and some other people. Matt came in talking about how these two girls were having problems with their dads. Lilly and I mentioned that we knew what that was like. Matt argued that these girls were having bigger issues than us, I didn't really know so I didn't argue. I went into a little room where Lilly kept a guinea pig that she has. I noticed the cage was being used as a flower pot, and there was a red rose growing in the middle of it. I told Lilly what a beautiful rose it was, and she said that it was fertilized by the guinea pig who had died. I was furious with her for being so irresponsible, and felt like she should have learned something from Andy's guinea pig. I sat there thinking about how college students shouldn't be allowed to have pets. I think I tried to hit Lilly, because Shayna grabbed my arm and wouldn't let go. She was squeezing my arm so hard that I could see my veins bulging. I had to scream at her and physically struggle with her to get her to let go of me.