Age 5

Well, this tale involves my name. My name is Lucentio Roland, or Lucy, as all but my parents call me by. Yes, you may laugh. Anyway, I hated my name because I was called Lucy. Not very many people realized the name, Lucentio, came from Shakespear, so they thought it was odd, and hard to remember. I would always get very upset from them deciding on calling me Lucy for short, because Lucy is, well, a girl's name. Whenever I would get upset for my name, I could hardly be comforted. That is, until I met someone.

I had fallen asleep early one night in my metagross bed, and I didn't know it. When my eyes closed, they opened in my dream. I was in pure darkness, and I saw nothing else. I felt very scared, and wanted to crawl into a hole. I wasn't sure if I was dreaming or not. I just curled myself up into a ball, and waited for someone to come. I silently prayed that someone would come, and my prayers were answered.

"Hi!" a cheerful voice behind me cheered.

I spun around to see a girl about my age standing behind me. She a small girl, who had short, curly brown hair, and she was wearing a little pink dress with a big, matching bow in her hair. But the thing that got my attention was her big, Quagsire blue, eyes. She was smiling at me, which was very contagious, for I smiled back.

"Whats your name?" I asked, slightly dazed at how pretty she was to me.

"I'm Destiny," she answered. I felt myself perk up.

"Oh yeah! I heard my dad talk about destiny once! But, I've never heard about destiny being a girl."

She giggled, her smile growing bigger.

"You know my name now, but whats yours?" she asked.

I froze, and I felt my face grow hot. Should I tell her? She watched me, awaiting my answer.

"I...um, I'm... Lucentio..." I hung my head, bracing myself for her to call my Lucy, but I didn't hear anything. I looked back up to find her gone.

"Destiny?"

"I'm up here!"

I brought my eyes up. Sure enough, she was flying in front of my eyes. I didn't find it strange though, I had a wild imagination.

"You... you don't think I should be called, Lucy instead?"

"Why would I call you Lucy?"

"Everyone else does."

"Oh, that's silly! You need a better name then Lucy!"

"Like what?"

"Um..." she got into a thinking position, in which she placed her small fist to her chin, and crossed her legs. "I know!"

"What?"

"Riley!"

"Riley?"

"Yeah, Riley! Short for Roland!"

"That's perfect!" I started laughing with happiness. Destiny soon joined in, and our laughter filled that empty space we were in. But,it all ended too soon, as I saw something. I stopped laughing. Destiny noticed this and stopped too.

"Whats that?" I asked.

"Its the sun. One of us'll be awake soon."

"Awake? I'm asleep?"

"Yes, and, I think I'm waking up..." she was starting to fade away.

"Wait! Will I see you again?"

"Of course, Riley. In our dreams. Goodbye, Riley..." at the end of her sentence, she was gone.

"Destiny..." I started sobbing. My friend was gone... and my eyes opened.

I was in my metagross bed, like nothing had happened. I crawled out from under the covers and ran into the kitchen. My mom was in there, cooking breakfast for me.

"Morning sweetie," she smiled over at me. "Is something wrong?"

Apparently, I had some kind of look on my face.

"I'm okay. Mom?"

"Yes?"

"Did I leave home last night?"

"What?"

"Did I leave last night?"

"No, not that I know of..."

"Oh."

I sat down to think at the round kitchen it had all been a dream. Destiny wasn't real... I choked back sobs.

"Lucentio, whats wrong?"

"I made a friend last night, and I don't think I'll see her ever again!"

"Sure you will!"

"No!" I started to cry. "She was in my dream last night!"

"Oh. Well, you might dream about her again."

"Maybe..." my crying stopped. "By the way, can you not call me Lucentio anymore?"

She stopped in her tracks and gave me a funny look.

"Well, what would I call you then?"

"Riley."

"Riley... hm, I like it. Where did you hear it?"

"My new friend."

"I just want to know, whats her name?"

I smiled. "Destiny."

I received some feedback on how my storys were hard to read in my current style, so hopefully this helped! Thanks to Yera-roofor telling me! Also, thanks to KoreanPandaGirl123 for adding this story to their favorites! :) Sheimi