A Dream Come True by Chicas

It was just another ordinary afternoon. School had ended and I was making my way home with my twin brother beside me. Well, I was heading home until what appeared to be a gigantic pool of darkness had cast its shadow around me. I looked up to discover that this widespread darkness was cast from Drew Harrier, some jerk in school who liked picking on the new kids in town…which just so happened to be me and my brother.

"Well, well, well. Would you look at this? Two brothers walking together. How cute." Drew stepped in front of the two of us, looking down at us as if we were lesser beings than him.

The look on his face just made me sick. "Look Drew, my brother and I really don't like how you've been treating us lately. Why can't you just be nice for a change?" My twin, Cody, tried to reason with the bully.

I rolled my eyes. "Oh please Cody, you can't play nice with a bully. He just needs a nice ass whooping. Then he'll leave us alone." I began to crack my knuckles.

"Ha! You? Kick MY ass? Please!" Drew grunted as threw his backpack on the floor.

He immediately darted toward us. I took a fight stance, but he decided to play dirty and go for my brother instead. He pushed Cody to the cold, hard, concrete floor. I watched the blood rush down my brother's knees as tears of frustration began to form in my eyes. Drew, however, just pointed at the wound he'd inflicted and began to laugh. With each chuckle from his mouth, my eyebrows gradually began to concave downward in an angry fashion. Then it happened. I don't know why I did it, or even how it happened. But I guess I just snapped.

"You… You BASTARD!" I cried out as I threw my fist right into his gut. His laughter suddenly came to an end as he collapsed to the ground before me.

As I saw him cringing in pain, I began to feel stronger than I ever had before. I, Zack Martin, had just defeated Drew Harrier with one blow to the stomach.

"Haha, Cody. Did you see that?" I turned toward Cody with a prideful smirk across my face. My expression transformed, however, when I saw Cody crying hysterically. "Are you okay, Cody?"

"It hurts!" Cody yelped as he held onto his knee. The poor guy… I just couldn't prevent that from happening. I failed as a brother.

Within the next few seconds, I felt a blow to the back of my head. Drew had apparently reawakened, and I failed to anticipate that. My knees suddenly gave in and I fell to the ground. In a matter of seconds I felt like nothing more than a flower that was withering away. The world around me began to go black and then… well, I don't know what happened then.

"Zack, wake up!" yelled my mom. It took me a couple of seconds to comprehend what she had asked of me. At this point I had realized that everything I thought I had accomplished was nothing but a mere dream. Everything from knocking Drew out to watching my brother cry in pain was all just a psychological nightmare. I got up to examine myself in the mirror and came to the conclusion that, in reality, I don't have the guts to ever take out Drew. I guess that is the best part about dreams. You do things in them that you really would like to do in reality but, when it comes down to it, you know you just can't.

After I got all of that thinking out of the way, I quickly threw myself together and went on my way to school with my brother beside me. I tried real hard not to think about my dream, but it just wouldn't leave my thoughts. I wish I knew the reason behind it. Questions were running through my mind over and over again until, instantaneously, they just all flushed out. Suddenly I began to not care about the reason behind me having the dream, but rather the issue at hand. Standing right before me was Drew himself!

"Well, well, well. Would you look at this? Two brothers walking together. How cute." Drew stood in front of us to block our path.

"Look Drew, my brother and I really don't like how you've been treating us lately. Why can't you just be nice for a change?" Cody tried to reason with the bully.

Wait a minute… I'd heard this exact conversation before. If I hadn't been mistaken, both Cody and Drew said those same exact words in my dream. Could it be that my dream was telling the future? No way… that would've been just too farfetched.

"Cody, you can't reason with bullies. You have to take them head on." I tried to play along with my dream by attempting to quote what I said in it. I even proceeded to crack my knuckles.

"Ha! You? Kick MY ass? Please!" Drew threw his bag to the floor and bolted toward us.

I close my eyes and try to recall what happened in my dream next. Finally, I remember that Drew is about to throw Cody to the ground. I quickly take off my backpack and fling it right in front of Cody. As expected, Drew trips over it and tumbles to the ground. "Score!" I cry out as I jump into the air. However, I am well aware that this fight is far from over.

Next in my dream, I was supposed to run up to Cody and try to comfort him, only to have Drew knock me out with a punch to the back of my head. Although Cody wasn't actually injured, if I tried to stray away from my dream's sequence of events, I wouldn't be able to foretell what would happen. So, I ran up to Cody anyway.

"You okay, bro?" I asked, purposefully keeping my back to Drew.

"Yeah, I'm fine. How did you know he was coming for me?" Cody questioned.

"Hold up a second. I'll get back to you after I dodge Drew's attempt to punch me in the back of the headm," I said as I saw his shadow approaching in the corner of my eyes. I swiftly turned around and caught Drew's fist. I then threw my right foot into his gut and he flew a few feet backwards before landing on the ground. "And that should do it." I brushed off my shoulders. "Now, as you were saying…"

Cody stared at Drew, absolutely dumbfounded. "How did you… what did you…" he stuttered in shock.

"Haha, don't worry about it, bro. We'd better get to school. Don't want to be late." I marched along proudly. That day was one where could proudly say my life was a dream come true!