I'm with Amber at a park that is a lot like Gabriel Park in Garden Home, but the surroundings don't quite match. I'm with Amber. She is on a blanket on the grass, but she is sleepy and wants some snacks. I tell her I'm just going to walk up to the store, which is apparently close by, and get some. She is just going to stay there and sleep.
After I buy the snacks I realize that I've just left her alone in the park and she could be easily kidnapped. I consider somebody cruising around the park, of course there are lots of kids there, and she, sleeping alone on a blanket near to the road, would be so easy to just grab and run. I didn't even think of it before, but it was a big mistake to leave her there. I must get back quickly.
I start to run back to the park, but I make some sort of wrong turn and end up going down this road along the side of the park and into a labyrinthine building. It's some sort of business office, but much of it is just dark grey passages with no directional cues, and nobody around. I am nearing panic, and as soon as I see some people and I ask them quickly how to get back to the park. I use a common nickname for the park, but then realize maybe not everybody uses this nickname, and try to correct myself and use the real name for the park, but I can't remember or can't say it right. The people, two young asian-looking men, point me in the right direction but I am soon again lost.
Somehow I find this heavy white woman who offers to help me, to just solve the problem by getting in her car and driving me over there. I just want to see Amber and be assured that she is safe. We get in her car and she drives me there, just about two minutes. We stop on the road, nearest to Amber but I can't quite see where she was, or if she is still there.
I try to get out, but I can't get my seatbelt unfastened. Still panicking, I fight with it, cursing like "these stupid things never work" but with a lot more swear words, just on the verge of completely losing my mind. But my mind somehow completes the thought like "these stupid things never work... in my dreams", and I realize I am dreaming and wake up. |