Emma had been wandering through the forest taking random turns, it didn't matter where she was going, that was kinda the point of wandering.
She'd been crying at her recently screwed up life. Shalimar, her best friend in the whole world, hated her; Brennan, whom she'd never really known very well, was in love with her, which broke Shalimar's heart. And then there was Jesse. The love of her life had finally noticed her and had himself fallen in love with her. That had only ever happened in her dreams, but now it had happened in real life. The only tiny little snag with that was that she knew Jesse's feelings were an illusion. A trick, or maybe in itself, a waking dream. And all dreams had to end. Emma had tried to deny it, that maybe he really did love her. She had even pulled apart the petals of an innocent flower, trying to predict if he loved her or not. But she knew, deep in the pit of her heart that it wasn't real. Still sobbing, she spotted the clearing where this mess had all begun. Where Brennan had awakened to fall in love with her. Jesse, Shalimar and Brennan were all peacefully sleeping under the safe branches of a humongous oak tree. She remembered back to 'Alice In Wonderland', an odd story she had never quite understood, but she did remember that if you're having a bad dream, the only way to get out of it was to go to sleep.
So, taking her place on her side of the tree, in between Shalimar and Jesse, she thought of the nightmare that she'd soon wake up from.