Chapter 5 Sweet Dreams

In a beautiful forest, with birds chirping and squirrels frolicking about, a white horse, who was perfectly groomed with ribbons in its mane, came walking down a dirt road lead by its master, Zoë. She was wearing a prim and proper floral dress that gave her an elegant allure. She arrived at a fork in the path, on one side, beautiful rainbows and butterflies and a unicorn! Wow! A unicorn! On the other side there was fire, dead trees and red satyrs with tridents. They looked dangerous. Zoë had to make a decision… hmmmm… But as she was deciding she heard someone sneaking up behind her. She looked around and saw a weird fellow on a black horse. Neat! She had never seen a horse with a mohawk before. The gentleman was wearing a gothic pinstriped suit and had eyeliner and black nail polish. He also had electric blue eyes and he starred at her with a grin. He was very handsome. "Can I take him home with me?" She asked herself innocently. He brought his red-eyed horse next to hers. "Which way are you going?" He asked her. She pointed towards the unicorn, which was running around with the butterflies and had changed his color from purple to orange. "What a pity…" He said, taking his horse down the other path. In deep sadness, she headed towards the rainbows asking herself why he didn't want to take the right path. She then looked up and turned around. With her horse galloping at top speed, she stepped into forbidden territory. Her dress changed into a black, lacy, spider-patterned gown. Her makeup was now goth-like and her horse, dark as night. She led the horse towards Psymon, but all he would do was escape her and run away. Everything started spinning and became blurry. She screamed out: "PSYMON, I WANT YOU…"

The radio came on at exactly 9 o'clock like it was programmed to do every morning.
"This is DJ Atomika with ssx competitor Nate Logan, taking your questions for the winner of yesterdays Snow Jam race. Line 1, you're on…"

And as the radio woke her up, she finished the rest of her sentence in a scream: "...I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE HORNY PONY!"

Zoë opened one eye… then the other… and she realized she was sitting up in her bed. She immediately felt ridiculous and turned beet-red hoping nobody heard her. She got out of bed, put on her favorite bat slippers and looked out the hall.

The coast was clear.

She then decided to take a shower. She turned on the water, and as it was heating up, she examined her face in the mirror, she thought about the dream she had.
"Damn, Zoë, your dreams are cornier than porn flicks!" she said to her reflection. She stepped into the shower. Corny or not it was odd… But she didn't care, as long as Psymon was in it, she was happy. As she lathered her hair she pictured his beautiful face in front of hers. With his plump lips, and his sweet labret piercing, and his eyes! Oh my god those eyes! Enough to make a girl melt!

A squeaky clean Zoë stepped out of the shower and got dressed quickly, she was starving. She put on her plaid lace-up "Punks" with a black turtleneck sweater with a zipper on the side. Her hair still wet, she walked out the door heading towards the cafeteria. The cafeteria wasn't like the competitors kitchen, the kitchen was a place where competitors bought, stored, cooked and ate their own food, but the cafeteria sold food at meal times and the food there was usually good, but you had to keep your guard up anyways.
She got eggs, ham, bacon, potatoes and some pineapple slices with a large glass of OJ. She stepped out of the Caff to see Elise and Allegra eating together as well as Moby and Psymon a little further. "Score!" She thought to herself as she headed towards them

Moby, sitting facing Psymon, watched as Mac and Kaori approached them. The two were wondering what he wanted as Mac lowered his face next to Psymon's ear and whispered, with a large smile, ever so softly:

"fag."

The Boys eye's opened wide and Psymon went nuts as they watched a satisfied Mac walk away smiling with an "informed" Kaori who didn't seem to appreciate Mac's wise-guy act. Psymon looked at Moby and knew he didn't tell Mac, they were together since last night.

"What the hell!" Psymon yelled out.
"I don't know, mate"
"What did he want?" asked Zoë as she sat down next to Moby.
Zoe found it very strange how the guys were acting, they looked at each other. "Nothing, luv, you know Mac, he's an ass." Psymon was looking very worried; he was watching Mac like a hawk.
"I don't get it." Psymon gasped holding his face in his hands, no longer touching his eggs.
Zoë would have given anything to know what the hell was going on but she kept quiet.
Trying to change the subject Moby asked: "So what's new with the pony whore?"
Suddenly, the "pony whore" in question laughed so hard she had orange juice coming out of her nose.
"OH MY GOD! You heard that! Oh my god!"
Zoe slowly turned red
"I had a dream" She explained...
"What was it about?" Asked Moby
Zoe quickly turned purple
"um… a unicorn…" She said as she bit her lip.
"Aha, well ok then" Moby said with a smile.
"I'm going to lie down, I'm not feeling too good, ok?" Said Psymon as he got to his feet and left. The two watched without talking and continued their breakfast in silence ignoring what had just happened with Mac and all, which Zoë found extremely odd. Why wasn't Moby telling her what was going on, they were best friends!...

A few tables further, Kaori sat down with the other girls: Allegra, who was wolfing down sausages, and Elise who had her nose in a fashion mag.

All Elise could think about was Marisol in a bikini on the hood of the new car and how she should have been there in her place. The whole situation had her obsessed and she was constantly in pissed-off mode.

She remembered it clearly: "Miss Riggs I'm sorry to disappoint you, but we won't be needing you for the shoot. We've changed our ad campaign and we're going in a new direction. Have a nice day." Said the fake, sugar-coated voice on her answering machine.

Tired of being ignored, Kaori broke the silence by saying: "Whatcha reading Elise?" Elise lowered her copy of Elle and looked at Kaori with an are-you-dumb? expression..
"It's called a magazine, eh!… duh!…." The Canadian coldly replied. She then turned her attention back to the book thinking: "…And I used to be in them."
"Well I see that! No need to be mean." Kaori pointed out.

Allegra and Kaori switched game plans for the day. As there weren't any events, they decided to get to know Metro-city a little better.
"You coming Elise?" Allegra asked the blonde
"Sure, just hold on a sec., I need to go to the bathroom"
When she returned, the three girls left the lodge to get their boards and get ready for some city boarding.

end of chapter 5