Prologue: The Real-Life Dreamer

Drea sighed as stared at her dance shoes and her cooking apron and her eyes darted between the two.

Her grandfather soon came in with groceries. "Oh, Drea, I have a new recipe for—" then, notice the shoes and apron on the table. "Are we having a dancer and cook over for lunch today?" Drea smiled as she looked up at her grandfather. "And my without my fishing hat?"

Drea then sighed. "Nope, just me and the impossible decision."

"Oh." Her grandfather placed her groceries on her on the table. "What's this impossible decision?"

Drea looked at her grandfather. "Well, my guidance counselor is telling me to start thinking about what I want to do. Well, I want to theater, but I also want to own a café. She tells me it might be hard, and a lot of people don't make it. So, she told me to think about choosing one instead."

"Oh," her grandfather said as he began to ponder. "You can't choose, huh?"

"It's impossible! I want to do both." Drea then looked at her items again. "But… what if it is too hard and I fail."

Her grandfather hummed at the thought and began to talk out his groceries, and Drea began to help. "Did you ever hear one of the world's biggest dreamers?"

Drea looked slightly confused. "One the world's biggest sleepers?"

Her grandfather laughed. "No, I mean like goal makers."

Drea thought but shook her head. "No."

"Well," her grandfather started as placed some food away in the cabinet. "Back when I was a kid, I heard some guy, who thought he make an animated movie."

Drea stopped looking super confused. "Grandpapa, there are tons of animated movies."

"Well, back in my day, it was only small shorts that lasted 5-8 minutes," her grandfather explained.

Drea slowly found herself sitting down, listening to the story. "Really?"

"Yep," he said as he kept working. "He also had the problem that then they thought cartoons were only for kids. Parents wouldn't have time to drag their kids to the movies. However, he said he would make it for all ages. Now, he had only a small animation studio. People said, "It was impossible. That it would his biggest folly; the newspaper, workers, and even his family said, 'it might be better if he gave up.' Even he wanted to give up."

"What happened?"

"It took a long time, but made the movie, and everybody had just had to go to see if he could do it, including my parents and me. The movie made history as the first animated movie that almost everyone fell in love with. Though he still had hard times when making movies, his company grew to the biggest in all the world."

Drea's eyes were practically filled with stars of amazement. "The biggest in the world? Grandpapa, who made that movie?"

Her grandfather laughed and gave her a cheeky grin. "Oh, it was Walt Disney."

Drea's eyes near popped out of her head, and she stood up out of her seat. "WALT DISNEY?! You say the first-ever Walt Disney movie?!" Her grandfather chuckled as he nodded. "Wait, I didn't know he had such a hard time."

"A lot of things are hard," Her grandfather started. "But with positivity thinking and believing, it could be possible."

Drea smiled as she stood up. "Well, starting my dreamer's journey. I think I'll try the new recipe of…" Drea took the recipe off the table. "Black Forest cake."

Her grandfather patted his stomach. "My stomach is ready."

Drea laughed as she hugged her grandfather as he hugged her back.