For those of you who've seen Mr. Deeds, you probably recognize the small town of Winchestertonfieldsville, Iowa as the girl's excuse to get away from Longfellow. Guys wanna know a secret? Sometimes, I plan the small details of writing no more than 3 seconds before it appears on the screen. Oh, and I had a whole box of candy, so this chapter is a little insane-in- the-membrane. Insane, got no brain! (Dickie Roberts)

Personally, Lily was getting sick and tired of these dreams. She was finally starting to figure out what the deal was. See, every time she had a dream that Ray was hurting her, she'd wake up with a large, fresh cut on her arm. Now, that scared the living shit out of her, probably the dead crap as well. She kept cool about it, and even took pictures of the cuts to prove they were real. To avoid having others looking at the pictures while they were being developed, she used a Polaroid. Every time she went back to bed, she'd have a dream that Travis caressed the cut arm and kissed her tenderly. Waking up the next morning to the proof (the pictures) that there actually was a cut just a few hours before, she'd look at her arm to find no trace of the cut whatsoever. So, with no doubt, she figured out that the savior in her dream was Travis.

"No. Damn. Way. You really think?" admonished a sarcastic, gay-sounding voice from nowhere.
"What? Who said that?" Lily questioned.
"Um...uh...your...imaginary friend! Bob." ". . .
"Dammit! Get out of my head! Get out get out GET OUT!"
-cough- o.O; Lily has to quit drinking soda and eating pop rocks at the same time.
On with the story! Anywayz, like Bob confirmed, Travis was saving Lily. Trying to, at least. Lily was scared to death when she had that dream after her Saturday with Ray. Of course, if the mud was Ray, and Travis was her savior, and New Hampshire is somewhere in this general area pulls down a map and uses a pointer to circle China, then that means...THAT SPENDING TIME WITH RAY IS ACTUALLY WHATS CAUSING HER TO SWALLOW MUD NIGHT BY NIGHT, MAKING LILY SICK TO HER STOMACH JUST THINKING AOUT WHAT KIND OF SHIT ANIMALS DUMP IN THERE!! GASP!!

"No shit."
"Dammit Bob! This is MYSTICCHIC'S story written by MYSTICCHIC'S WEIRD SELF that's all about LILY and MysticChic has no intention of you ruining it!"
"Mystic, calm down. Bob's a figment of my imagination, and my mind's just running crazy according to you and you know, just...just don't mind him."
-does some deep breathing-
"You're right. MysticChic had too many candies today. OK. Maybe MysticChic should continue writing this later..."
"No! I wanna know what happens!! Write this now pleeeeeeeeeeease??"
"OK, OK, MysticChic'll continue writing now...geez. But did you realize that- "

MysticChic was cut short by Lily taping her mouth shut with tape from the Duct Tape store. Lily instantly slapped MysticChic and continued speaking. "GET ON WITH THE STORY ALREADY!!" MysticChic's eyes shrunk from Lily's sudden outburst and they were soon closed tight when she yanked the tape off her mouth. MysticChic instantly got back to narrating the story and Lily shook her head in disgust at the fact that MysticChic was speaking in third person for the past 5 minutes.

I know, I know, it's short! o.O; that's the second time I said that. :P Anywayz, even though I spent my last dollars on candy and ate it all, I faced writers block. No more comedy unless reviewers go on strike. :P Oh yeah, and here's da spoilerz:
About ten minutes later, Travis pulled out his machete to hack away one more cluster of tall grass blades before they reached their destination.

Here's a second chapter to make up for the delay.

Disclaimer: Degrassi sorta owns that little scene at the end, but only from the time where Ray's coming to the end.

Ray's the mud. Travis is the hand. And Lily... well, Lily's Lily. Which let her mind wander. If the mud was pulling Lily down that day Ray conned her into spending the day with her, then Ray must really love this girl. That, or...Lily shuddered to think.
Flashback, present times, fast-forward, and back to the fanfic. During the summer, Ray kept a strong heart—instead of shedding tears over Lily, he shed his stupidity and tried so hard to win back his girl that he got headaches night after night. Why was this so hard? He proved himself to be sorry about what happened, and vowed to Lily that nothing like that would ever happen again. What was keeping her back? Whatever it was, Ray was determined to start on good terms with Lily come September.

As Lily made her way over to the steps, she had the oddest feeling someone was watching her. Every few moments, she'd turn her head subtly to the side as far behind her as possible. Once in a while, something would catch her eye and she'd swiftly turn on her heel to see if anyone was acting suspicious. This action presented her with a few weird glances, but she didn't care. She sat down next to Robbie, who was the only one at the steps yet.
"Hey Robbie. How was your summer?"
"Not bad. Yours?"
"Same. Ray continued to try make me date him again, but I—"Lily was about to let her dreams slip. Long, but she didn't want Robbie to know. "—I kept getting this feeling that something really bad would happen and I didn't want to take any risks."
"Lily, do you have any idea what Ray's doing?" Robbie asked with a touch of annoyance in his voice.
"Um...trying to get back together with me?"
"Yes, but why is he doing that?"
"Robbie, the guy's in love with me. I didn't find it unusual at all; why should I?"
Robbie sighed and put his forehead in his hand. "Never mind." Robbie looked up and shook his hand as if he couldn't say 'no' with his head. "It's hard to explain."
Travis soon came down next to Lily and wrapped an arm around her waist. Lily looked at him with a teasing smile on her face.
"What are you so happy about, Strong?" She asked, while giggling.
Travis mimicked her smile and kissed her cheek. "I don't know what you're talking about, Miss Randall."
OK, I know what you're thinking: Travis and Lily settled their thoughts over a nice cup of tea at Mickey's during the summer and are now a happy couple. Well, guess what? You're wrong! :P
Lily laughed at Travis and brought his hand around her shoulders and put it back in his lap. "OK, Flirty McGirty, time to go work your charm on some other girl. It's not working here."
Travis put on a sarcastic sad face and slapped the stair he was sitting on. "Darn, I really thought I could win you over this time."
The three friends started laughing at Travis' act but stopped abruptly as Ray walked over. He made his way in between Travis and Lily, knocking Travis to the side as subtly as possible. Travis became annoyed and got up to go to his class just as the bell rang. Lily glared at Ray, got up and left with Robbie. Ray sighed and put his head on his knees.
Dammit, Brennan, quit being an asshole!

Sorry about the length again!! I don't know what it is, I just...I don't know. And on top of that, this chapter had nothing to do with anything. So sorry...But here's a spoiler, anyway. Oh, and about that first chapter? That'll work its way into the fanfic much later. I still don't know how it associates with the rest of it, but my mind works at the oddest times, it'll probably come to me in a dream or something.
"What do you think?" Lily almost didn't catch what Travis asked her. "I think...play Paper Moon in the background and it'd be the perfect make out spot."

. . .There's a high possibility that'll be the last spoiler. The last chapter isn't all that long...