"Dude, wake up!" whispered Megan Patterson, my best friend, as she hit me multiple times in the back of the head. C'mon! You're missing class! I had actually fallen asleep in my college algebra class. Me, straight-A student Daniel Wallace, fell asleep in class. Someone call the newspaper editor…
"Okay already, stop hitting me!" I growled out of annoyance. "Some of those hits hurt you know!"
"Well I don't want you to fail this class!" she whispered back in defense.
"Okay, what are we doing again?" I mumbled with a yawn.
"Sine, cosine, and tangent stuff." She replied. There was my answer, the reason I had fallen asleep. I absolutely stink at that stuff. I had given up and fallen asleep out of frustration…
Twenty minutes later, the bell rang dismissing students from their classes. As I bolted out the door of the classroom, Megan and her boyfriend Ryan McDonald stopped me in the hallway to discuss plans for later on that night. We had decided to have a horror movie fest at Ryan's house; blood, guts, and the whole nine yards. I was pretty pumped to actually get out of my house for a night to relax after a long week of college and work. Being a college student isn't easy you know!
Later that night, the doorbell rang as Megan and Ryan arrived with their friend, Charlotte Renea Chabis Hodder; Interesting story about his name really. His mother was one-hundred percent set on naming their child either Charlotte or Renea. What a surprise it was when out comes baby Charlotte; a boy. She still decided to go with both while taking the family surname and taking the name Chabis from her Uncle. Needless to say, the jokes pertaining to his name will never end as long as we hang out with Charlotte. Good thing he's such a good sport…
After everyone found their usual spots in Ryan's littered living room, Megan put in a werewolf movie and I headed toward the kitchen to start popping the popcorn. I secretly hated these movies and tried to find any escape from having to watch each brutal slaughter by occupying myself with some other task. Tonight was definitely no exception.
Within and hour into the movie, I fell into a deep sleep on my usual position on the couch. Megan would tell me later on that a passing hurricane probably would have had no impact on my slumbering state.
Immediately upon falling asleep, I arrived in the alternate universe that came to be known as Sleep Town; A place that bears a striking resemblance to my own town, but unexplainably better. This place had the same trees, sidewalks, and buildings as my own town, but it also contained some of the most odd but astonishing people and objects that a person could imagine in their wildest imaginations.