Carlota searches through the phonebook in her room while sitting on her bed.
"Come on. Come on."
She stopped at a page.
"Ah, here we go."
She points at the page and on said page, it reveals a number for a person named Dr. Ryan Cleckner, Dream Therapist. His offie was open Mondays-Saturdays from 10:00AM-6:00PM.
"6:00PM?" Carlota asked before turning to her electric-clock, which read 11:00AM.
"Okay, I have time. I should propably make an appointment first."
She took out her cellphone and dialed the number. She waited for the other side to answer.
"Hello?" asked a voice from the other side.
"Yeah hi, I would like to make an appontment to see Dr. Cleckner for today. Are there any avaliable times?" asked Carlota.
"Well, he's free all day, at least until 6:00." said the woman from the other end.
"Yeah, I read his schedule in my phone-book. I'm gonna come over as soon as possible, say around 11:45."
"Alright, but you better hurry if his office is far away from your place. Your name please?"
"Carltoa Casagrande." With that, she hung up, looked for the address in the phone book, wrote it down on some piece of paper, took out her purse to put that along with her cellphone in it and left her apartment with her purse.
...
The scene transitions to an office where Carlota is standing in front of and looks at the address on the paper she wrote down.
"Well this is the place." She put the address paper back in in her purse. "Thank heavens that Sid decided to watch Lalo and Sergio while I went here. And the taxi came just as I left the apartment."
She went into the office's waiting room and saw a woman typing stuff into a computer before she saw Carlota.
"Oh, hello. You must be Carlota."
"Yes," said Carltoa as she sat down on a chair.
"I'm Rubella, Dr. Cleckner's secretary." said the woman, now called Rubella, "He'll be with you in a second."
"Uh, okay." said Carlota.
Suddenly, her cellphone rang and she got it from her purse and answered.
"Hello?" Carlota asked.
"Carlota," came the voice of Ronnie Anne fro mthe other end.
"Ronnie Anne? Hey, how are thigns goign with mom's client?"
"It's fine, but never mind that now." said Ronnie Anne, "Sid just texted me and said that you asked her to watch Lalo and Sergio while you went off into town because, according to what she said, 'You made an appointment with someone in town.'"
Carlota looked nervous, obviously wanting to keep her family in the dark about what she's going through, since it would seem uncomfortable to talk about it in front of them, knowing how they can be with what dilema any family member was going through.
"Well Ronnie Anne," Carlota began to nervously explain, "I...I..." She tried to think of an excuse, before sighing with resignation. "I can't lie to you, I've been having this nightmare where some guy keeps attacking me and does..." she pauses for a minute, "very unspeakable things to me."
"Really?" asked Ronnie Anne, "How unspeakable?"
"Very." said Carlota, "I only had i two times. Last night and when I took a nap today. I don't want it to keep happening, so I'm now visiting a therapist to rectify this problem."
"Therapist?" asked Ronnie Anne.
"Yeah, but please don't tell the rest of the family," she pleaded, "I don't want them to worry."
"Excuse me," said Rubella as Carlota looked at her, "But the doctor will see you now."
Carltoa then ended her call with her cousin, "I gotta go." She hung up her phone, put it in her purse and then entered the office, where a middle-aged man was sitting at his large desk, who's obvious Dr. Cleckner.
"Ah, you must be Ms. Casagrande," he said in a charming Romanian accent, "Please, have a seat."
Carlota then sat down on a nearby fainting couch and faced the doctor.
"Can you really help me with my dream problem, doctor?"
"Well the least I can do is try." Dr. Cleckner half-joked.
"Okay," Carltoa breathed as she began to explain her dreams to the doctor, "It all started last night..."
...
Pretty soon, she ended up discussing the dream she had nearly an hour ago.
"...then I woke up when my dog Lalo licked my face."
"Oh, like the wolf you were dreaming about?" asked Dr. Cleckner.
"Yes," said Carlota, "It's like no matter what I dream about, he shows up to, well, you know."
"Attack you in the most inhumane way possible?" asked Dr. Cleckner.
Carltoa looked deadpan, "Yes, that."
"I must say Carlota," began Dr. Cleckner, "This is quite a conundrum."
"Well that's why after that dream, I came down here for professional help."
Dr. Cleckner gave look of though before saying, "Lucky for you, I think I know what to do."
"Really?" asked Carlota hopefully.
"Yes," said Dr. Cleckner, "You just need to assert your dominance within your dreams."
Carlota looked confused, "I don't follow."
"Just confront the guy in your dreams, beat down in some sort of fight, and if he tries to come back, you show him who's boss."
Carlota then looked nervous.
"What are you, mad? He's too scary." Carlota complained.
"He's just a figmit of your dreams." Cleckner said dismissively, "He can't do any lasting damage in the real world. But if you're really all that scared, perhaps I can give you the courage you need."
...
Carlota was soon laying down on the fainting couch, looking with great focus at a pocket watch Dr. Clecker was swinging in front of her. He's apparently hypnotizing Carlota in order to get her to face the miscreant within her head.
"Carlota," said Dr. Cleckner dramatically, "Listen to my voice. Your eyelids are feeling heavy. You are falling into a deep, deep sleep."
Carlota's eyes began to droop before shutting completely, fallen under the hypnosis and she was breathing slowly.
"Alright, my dear," said Dr. Clecker as the background around Carlota turned into a black-and-white spiral (to symbolize her trance) and she soon fell into it like a vortex while still sleeping, "You will enter a dream where the next time you face off against this threat of a man, you will have the courage to confront him. Courage. Remember, courage."
"Courage," Carltoa muttered as she continued to fall into the vortex.
"Courage..."
...
Suddenly, Carlota was seen on what appaears to be an empty basketball field, wearing only a trench coat and fedora hat, just standing there.
Suddenly again, some people came out from the shadows came out and they had the faces of the man in her first dream and they ran to her.
She opens her eyes to her attackers and gives a swift kick to the one in front and began beating the rest of them into the ground. Soon enough, after a bunch of beatings, they disappeared.
"Yeah, that's right." She said confidently, "I'm not afraid of any of you! But really, is that the best you can do?"
"Oh, you wish." said a very familiar and creepy voice.
Carlota looked surprised and looked around her, searching for the man.
"Where are you?" she demanded, wanting the man to show himself, "Come on out like a man! I'm not scared of you?"
The voice just laughed derisively.
"Oh, but I'm afraid you are," said the voice, "That's just the hypnosis talking."
As Carlota still looked around, she failed to notice a hand creeping out of a large puddle behind her. The hand grabbed her leg, causing her to scream as it pulled her into the puddle, leaving her trenchcoat and hat behind.
Carlota, however, was inside no puddle. It looked more like the ocean and she was holding her breath. She tried to swim back up, but was held back by something. Turning, she saw the man from her first dream, only this time, he was a merman with a black fish-bottom. She tried to free herseld, but the man was not giving up and soon, he rapped his fish-botom part around Carlota's body, almost like a rope, rendering her helpless.
"You think you can stop me?" asked the man as he tightened his grip on Carltoa, "No amount of hypnotherapy can make me go away. But if you're so dead-set on making me do so, the only thing I can contribute to that is giving you my name."
He got to Carlota's ear and whispered, "Cal Sadeler."
Carlota gave Cal a glance before he came to her face and gave her a forceful kiss on the mouth, much to her shock. He also grabbed Carlota's neck rather roughly. Carlota struggled to escape his grasp (and his unwanted kiss) while he is choking her. After about 20 seconds of this, Carlota soon began to lose consciousness until finally, she shut her eyes and her entire body went limp. Smiling, Cal released her neck, her mouth, and even released her from his fish-bottom grasp, letting Carltoa slowly rise up to the service.
...
When she hits the surface, Carota wakes up back in Dr. Cleckner's office, raising up and gasping heavily.
"Woah there Carlota," said Cleckner, "Is all well? Did you finalyl stop your attacker?"
'No," said Carlota with disappointment, "He still managed to get the best of me."
"Oh," said Cleckner sadly, "Sorry I couldn't be on any grand help. Would you like a glass of water to calm yourself down?"
As he said this, he produced a glass of water and offered it to Carlota. She was about to take it before she suddenly remembered her hypnosis-induced dream about what happened to her while underwater, so she retractd her arm.
"N-no, sorry." said Carlota swiftly yet politeley to Dr. Cleckner.
"Uh, okay." said Dr. Cleckner as he drank the water himself.
"Look," said Carlota, getting up from the couch, "Thanks for trying to help. But I need to go. Wait, how long was I asleep?"
Dr. Cleckner looked at his watch and said, "About...an hour."
"Okay," said Carlota as she left the office.
"I hope that girl gets rid of that dreadful man inside her soon," Cleckner said to himself, "He seems to be doing a lot to her."