Dream of events- Story in a Box

Dream of Events

It was December 18^th, 1965 when Hailey Marie’s life was turned upside down.  It was a cold dark night in New York City when Hailey was walking home from work when she started to feel like someone or something was watching her.  She reached into her purse and grabbed out 3 chestnuts for good luck that her grandfather gave to her before he passed away a year ago. He always said to her, “If you feel you are ever in any danger hold these in your hand and they will protect you”.  As Hailey kept walking she started to hear footsteps behind her, but when she looked back all she saw was a wallet lying on the ground that she didn’t see before.  She decides to pick it up and look inside to see who it belongs to but all that was in there was money from Singapore. She contemplates about leaving it there or bringing it to the cops the next day. Just to be safe Hailey chooses to bring it to the cops.

Finally, arriving home from her strange walk from work she goes into her kitchen and sees an African Statue sitting on her kitchen table. Hailey starts to get worried. She lives with no one else besides her cat Louis. Frightened, she hears a knock at the door. Its 11:35 pm, she has no idea who would be knocking on her door at this time of the night. Hesitant, she decides to answer the door. No one is there. Hailey looks all around and sees nothing until she looks down. All she sees is a wooden head with a note under it and a ruler. The note stated “I know what you took from me and I want it back”.  Hailey then runs back inside trembling. She sits on the couch begins to call her sister when the television suspiciously turns on and an infomercial comes on to a drummer statue that comes with a free figurine of a house that you can only buy with money from Singapore, then the screen goes fuzzy. Hailey is becoming more and more worried while she doesn’t understand what she took and why these’s things are happening to her. 

Hailey then starts to think that these events really aren’t happening it can’t be happening. She decides to take a bath to clear mind. She takes her favorite glass jar filled with a tranquil scent of lavender, pulls the cork and pours some in the steaming water. While lying in the bathtub she starts to think to herself “these things really can’t be happening to me, there all pretend”, until she hears a loud crash outside the bathroom. As scared as Hailey was, she gets out of her bathtub steps on her rug, grabs her towel, and walks to find out what that noise had been. She walks carefully all around her apartment and can’t find anything until looks over at her hutch. A mini plate and a stamp that her father gave to her when she was five years old had both been shattered into hundreds of pieces. When Hailey saw that she just collapsed and started to cry. Those were the last things she owned of her father that pasted away when she was eleven.  Hailey can’t take it anymore, she gets up and stagers to her bedroom to go to sleep. All of a sudden she hears a crunch under her foot and sharp pain shooting from the bottom of her foot it was an Indian hand-made boat. She looks down again and the boats no-where to be found, but the shooting pain was still there.  Confused and scared she hears another knock at the door. This time it’s louder. She pretends not to hear it and goes and lies down in bed. Hailey begins to think about what has all happened on this strange night finding the wallet, statue on the table, the knock at the door, the television, mini plate and stamp, the boat, and another knock at the door.

While lying down in bed Hailey says a prayer that her father taught her when she was younger to say whenever she felt alone, scared, and in danger.  Finally, she dozes off to sleep. She wakes up the next morning rolls over to her husband and says “I just had one of the craziest dreams; let me tell you about it.”