Laura continues crying for more than a half hour longer, crying herself to sleep. James then gives her a hug and tells her "good night sweetie" and puts her back in the cage and locks it, then took the empty cup of water and empty bowl of pretzel sticks.

Laura sleeps like a rock all night, but while asleep, she has a dream. She does not know what kind of dream it was. It could be considered a good dream. It could be considered to have been a nightmare. It could even be where she is being given some information about the future, as if God is helping her. It could be any of these, combinations of two of them, or even a combination of all three them.

"What could all of this mean?" Laura thinks during the dream. "Could this be some sort of message that I will somehow escape? But how can I escape? I mean, I'm locked in a cage and being whipped for no real reason."

This dream really puzzled her. She had no Idea what it meant. And because of this, it really frustrated her.

"Why am I having this dream? What is its purpose? I really want to know these answers."

The reasons behind Laura's dream were a mistery. She did not know what to think. It was long and it was down to the smallest of details. This made Laura pay close attention, just in case the scenario came true. Here is Laura's dream:

Ma called up the ladder: "Laura! Mary! Time to get up for School!"

Laura didn't get up because she didn't want to go to school today. Mary was almost instantly awake. She could not wait to get to school today, since Mrs. Beatle was planning a huge history lesson for today. Mary loved history. This is why Laura didn't want to go to school. Laura thinks that all history is is about a bunch of dead people.

"Laura! Laura! Don't make us late for school! I know that the only reason you are doing this is because of Mrs. Beatle's big history lesson today! Get up!"

"Fine! I will get up! Since I'm awake now, thanks to you!"

"Don't get mad at me Laura Ingalss!"

"You're already yelling at me, so why can't I be mad at you for that!"

"Well, If you had gotten up when Ma called for us, I wouldn't have had to."

I'm more mad at the fact that you were yelling at me than for waking me up to go learn about a bunch of old dead people."

"What's so bad about history?"

"I just told you. All it is about is a bunch of old dead people."

Ma calls up the ladder again: "Girls! Stop arguing!."

"Ma, Laura was making us late by not getting up."

"Ma, Mary was yelling at me."

"Neither of you have the right to yell at each other. Now, apologize, both of you."

"Laura, I'm sorry I was yelling at you for not getting up as fast as I did."

"Mary, I'm sorry I didn't get up instantly. I just don't want to go to school because history is so boring, learning about a bunch of old dead people."

"That's your opinion Laura."

"I know it is Mary, and I'm entitled to it, just like you are entitled to the opinion that history is so great. I just can't wait for this day to be over."

"Hurry up and get ready for school girls. You don't want to be late."

Laura and Mary quickly got dressed and did their hair. Then they quickly went and did their chores and then sat down and quickly ate breakfast. Then they ran off to school.

They said: "Bye Ma!"

"Bye girls! Have a good day at school! Be good!"

"We will!"

As they passed the barn running, they said: "Bye Pa!"

"Bye Mary! Bye Half-Pint! Have a good day and be good!"

"We will Pa!"

They ran all the way to school because they were running late and they knew what would happen if they got to school late. They normally left with enough time to have fifteen minutes to play before school, and it normally takes them thirty minutes to get to school, but they only had fifteen minutes to get there.

"Hurry up Laura. We don't want to be late. You know what will happen."

"I know Mary. How much time do you think we have left?"

"Probably three, four minutes."

"Hopefully we make it there on time."

"I hope so too Laura."

"Luckily, Laura and Mary made it to school just in time.

"Where's Nellie and Willie? I don't see them."

"I don't know Laura, I don't see them either, but we better hurry and get inside, everyone else is almost inside."

They ran as fast as they could and were the last students inside, but they made, without a single second to spare. When they finally sat down, Laura looked and did not see Nellie or Willie. They were late.

Not long after Laura and Mary sat down, Nellie and Willie burst through the door. Mrs. Beatle asked them why they were late. Willie did not answer, but Nellie proceeded to argue with Mrs. Beatle. Mrs. Beatle said: "Nellie, Willie, come to my desk." Willie obeyed, and Mrs. Beatle just made him stand in the corner for a few minutes, for being late, but she reduced the punishment because he obeyed.

Nellie continued to argue with Mrs. Beatle, and so Mrs. Beatle has to punish her. Mrs. Beatle asks Laura to help her, by bringing Nellie to the front, bending her over, and lifting and holding up Nellie's dress while Mrs. Beatle spanked Nellie fifty times with a belt.

At recess, Laura and Mary talked instead of playing, they were so glad that they had made it on time.

"Laura, that could have easily been us."

"I know."

I can't believe Mrs. Beatle punished Nellie like that."

"Me either, but Nellie deserved it, for everything she has done."

"I suppose you're right Laura."

"While Mrs. Beatle was spanking Nellie, the belt hit me a few times."

"Really?"

"Yes. But not that bad. It mainly hit Nellie. It just clipped me since I was holding Nellie's dress up and kept her bent over."

"I'm sorry Laura."

"Don't be Mary. It doesn't really hurt anyways."

"Good."

Then Mrs. Beatle said: "Class, time to go inside."

Next, Mrs. Beatle started the history lesson. Mary was the only one who knew the answers to Mrs. Beatle's questions, and Laura was daydreaming again. Laura almost didn't obey Mrs. Beatle and was almost punished for it, but she started to pay attention. However, Mrs. Beatle said that she was going to give Laura a note to give to her pa.

Next, Laura and Mary were eating lunch, and when they finished, Laura said: "Going to the outhouse. I should be back soon." When she was just leaving the outhouse, she saw a strange wagon. It had no horses. It was completely enclosed. I looked like it was made out of shiny black metal, since it reflected the sunlight. Then Laura saw two men coming towards her. One man appeared to be younger than the other. The older man was pointing a strange looking gun at her, and the younger one pulled a pistol. She wondered what she should do. One though was to go back inside the outhouse. Another was to scream for help. But neither would help much. Then she thought about trying to run for it, but that thought got out of her head quickly, since she probably wouldn't make it to safety. So she said: "W-what do you want?"

They did not answer her. Instead, the older man said: "James, chloroform her. The younger man put the pistol away, then pulled a cloth and a bottle out of his pocket. Laura assumed that this was the chloroform, but she did not know what he was going to do with it. Then he came at her, she fought him a little bit, but soon she succumbed to the chloroform. He put the wet cloth other her mouth and nose. Before she passed out, she heard the older man say, "James, pick her up and buckle her in the booster seat." The last thing she remembered was feeling the younger man picking her up, and she passed out in his arms.

Then she woke up, sitting in the booster seat in James' dad's SUV, just as she did in real life. When she woke up in the dream and discovered where she was, she asked in a small voice, "Where am I?"

Then James' dad said, "What do you want?"

"I want to know where I am", she said.

Then James said, "Florida."

"Really?" She said.

"Yes", James said.

Then she said: "I've never been to Florida."

"Then James said: "Now you have."

"Where are we going in Florida?" She asked.

"To our house", the younger man said.

"Who are you? Who is he? Laura asked.

"I'm James, and that's my dad, Robert."

"Oh. OK. Now I know who you are."

Laura then asked: "What is today's date?"

Then James replied: "September 16th, 2019."

"Really?" She said.

James said "Yes."

Then she said: "what is this I'm sitting in?"

"A booster seat", James' dad said.

"Why?" She asked.

"So you can't escape", James said.

"Oh"

"And it will help protect you in case we get into a wreck."

"I see. What is this we are in?"

"My dad's SUV."

"I see." Then Laura said: "What is this that I am wearing? I know I'm wearing my dress and hair ribbons, but what is this that I'm wearing under my dress?"

James replied: "A diaper."

"A diaper!"

"Yes Laura. But not just any diaper. They are disposable diapers."

"What's that?"

"It means that you can be changed and that diaper can be thrown away."

"Oh. Why am I wearing a diaper?"

James replied: "So that you can use it to go to the restroom. If we let you into the bathroom, you might try to escape through the skylight."

"I see. What is a skylight?"

"It is like a window in the celling", James said.

"You're right. I probably would try to escape through it and probably would hurt myself."

"Then it's a good thing we put you in that diaper."

"I suppose it is" Laura said.

Shortly thereafter, James' dad puts the SUV in park and says: "we're here." Then as he turns the SUV off, he says: James, get the crate ready." Then he got out of the car.

James did as he was told and got the crate out. By the time he had it out, his dad opened Laura's door and started to unbuckle her from the booster seat. While he was doing this, he said: "Open the crate James."

Then he set Laura down on the floor of the SUV and said: "Get in."

"What is that?" She asked.

"It's a dog crate for small dogs. Get in it."

"No", she says.

Then James' dad smacks the back of her diaper hard with his open hand. She whimpers, but crawls inside the dog crate.

Then his dad says: "Close and lock the door to the crate James. We don't want her to try and escape."

James does what he is told, and then Laura asks, "Why am I in a dog crate?"

"So that no one will guess what is going on. We don't want anyone to see you. Now be quiet!" James' Dad says to Laura.

Then James carried the dog crate with Laura inside it into the house and set it down in the living room.

Then James' dad opened the door to the dog crate and said: "Get out."

Laura had crawled to the back of the crate and said: "No."

Then his dad grabbed her and pulled her partially out, then he smacked the back of her diaper 20 times as hard as he could, and pulled her out the rest of the way with her whimpering. Then he opened the door to cage and said: Go inside."

"What's that?" she asked.

"It's a cage. Go inside", James' dad said.

Laura said: "A cage?"

"Yes. Go in it."

Then Laura said "No" in a small voice.

"What did you say?" James' dad asked angrily.

Then Laura said "No! I will not go in!"

Then James' dad grabbed his belt and took Laura's dress off, then angrily said, "BEND OVER! NOW!"

Then James' dad began beating Laura with the belt a hundred times. She began to cry almost instantly, but he didn't bother to say anything, he would beat her harder and harder until he couldn't do it anymore. Then he put her in the cage and closed and locked the door to it. Then angrily he said: "And in addition to this punishment, you will not get anything to eat or drink tonight. Just sit there and think about what you did."

Laura continues to cry, and James' dad says: "Oh dry your eyes and shut up. You know you deserved it."

Then James' dad sat down and downed two bottles of whiskey, and then he passed out.

Then later on, James comes out and talks with Laura and shares some pretzels and water with her, and kept talking with her and saying: "I'm sorry, I didn't want this. I didn't want us to kidnap you. That was all my father's idea. He said that if I didn't help him, he was going to kill me. He abused me as a boy, and in fearing for my life, I went along with it. I will do what he tells me to do to you when he is awake, but otherwise, I'm going to do what I can to help you, like giving you water and pretzels, anything that doesn't give him the idea that I'm helping you. Then I'm eventually going to use this with you to get him in prison."

Later in the dream, Laura dreamed about everything that happened to her since that first day. Then she dreamed about what would happen in the near future.

James' dad passes out again and then James goes to take a shower. Laura notices that the door to the cage was left unlocked because James' dad forgot to lock it after he had beaten her again and forced her in. That's how drunk he was.

Laura knew that James took 15 minute long showers, and knew that this was her chance to escape.

She slowly pushed the door to the cage open, trying not to make a sound. She didn't want to wake James' dad up. Then she crawled out of the cage and didn't let the door close. She then grabbed her dress and quickly and quietly put it on. Next, Laura picks up her shoes and quietly walked out the front door. Then after she ran a short distance away, she hid behind a hedge and put her shoes on. Then she ran some more.

After running for about fifteen minutes, she slowed to a fast walk. She wondered through the night.

The next morning, Laura finds herself in a neighborhood and hears something coming from one of the houses. She didn't know what that noise was. Then she saw a man sitting on his front porch.

The next thing Laura knows, she is awake and it is another day of her nightmare.