Cordelia's Diary, entry VI
Spoilers: Seasons 1-3
Disclaimer: They all belong to Joss, etc.
A/N: A new update for a new month! Happy June, everyone! (A week from today—June 7—the Shades of Grey Winners get announced. I'm among the nominees and I'm waiting with baited breath.)
This entry revolves around the episode "Nightmares".
April 16, 1997
The weirdest thing happened today. Actually, a lot of weird things happened today. First, Wendell's book was full of tarantulas. It was terrifying—and gross! They were crawling all over the place, with the creepy eyes and the fuzzy bodies…eww. I couldn't take it. I ran to the bathroom and threw up. Unfortunately, Harmony walked in right in the middle, told me to quit with the drama queen act, and then left. Most people just go along with whatever I do, no questions asked. I think Harmony is vying for Top Girl spot in this school.
But what Harmony doesn't understand is the fact that me and spiders go back a long way. Probably longer than with Wendell. Yeah, I heard he and Xander talking. Apparently Wendell is haunted by the fact that his brother fried all his tarantulas when they were kids. Well, when I was four years old, I was out playing in the stables. I crawled into this little hollow space in the wall, which I called my "secret hideaway", and sat there. I liked to do that. Well, we went away for a few weeks and when we came back, the first thing I wanted to do was go to my secret hideaway. I was so excited, I crawled right in and didn't check inside first. Aside from a mouthful of spider web, I got all these spiders climbing all over me. Up my arms, down my shirt, on my face, in my hair. I screamed and one fell into my mouth. I spit it out and ran around, trying to get them all off. And since then, spiders terrify me.
But this lovely start to the day wasn't enough. I left the bathroom and went to my locker, where I discovered that my hair was all over the place! And I mean ALL OVER THE PLACE!!! Like puffed out three feet from my head! (Okay, that's an exaggeration, but only slightly.) Of course, Harmony laughed at me, but someone ran into her and knocked out her two front teeth. I kind of wanted to thank whoever it was, but they seemed to literally disappear. Well, Harmony was sitting on the floor, moaning an groaning about how this was her worst nightmare, blah-de-blah-blah. Then something clicked in my head, but I couldn't quite figure out what it was. It was on the tip of my tongue. I would have figured it out, given time, but then a bunch of chess club geeks came over and dragged me, bad hair and all, off to chess club. I tried to tell them that I don't even know how to play the stupid game, but the wouldn't take no for an answer. When they found out that I really couldn't, they tried to make me keep score or something, but I kept messing up because I didn't know how to play. Finally, they just gave me snack duty. And then it all came together.
I had a dream just like this the other night.
And the bad hair day? I've had that dream at least once a month for as long as I can remember. Which makes me think: Am I psychic or something? Maybe I get visions of the future. Hah. That's a laugh. That's the supernatural. As in, not natural, therefore nonexistent. It was just a random thought. A weird and eerily familiar thought, but just a random one.
And then, by the end of the day, everything was normal. The chess geeks kicked me out, my hair was normal, and Harmony's teeth were back, even though she kept saying, "If I hadn't gone to the nurse when I did, I'd look like a hillbilly. Doesn't anyone care???"
Sad thing is, I really don't. Even though she's supposedly my best friend, I don't give a crap. Because I suppose in reality, she's just another follower. Not really a friend, or even an acquaintance, because she doesn't know anything about me. In fact, Willow and Xander probably know more about me, for God's sake. How's that for weird?
—Cordelia
Okay, kinda short, but my inspiration dwindled. Sorry.
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