May 10, 2019

I was thinking about the long bus ride to school while I was preparing lunch for the next day late at night. Clowns were banging at the window when the fire alarm started ringing. The clowns broke in to tell us that hats must only be set on the heads of the hedge animals - which happened to be on fire. They tossed the hats onto the garden decorations which swiftly extinguished the flames. One of the clowns excitedly pointed at a bush in the shape of an alpaca and said “See! Lasagna does work!”

A friend sitting across from me hadn’t eaten all night and I asked her what was wrong. She started talking about her frustrations with an unreliable friend who never properly returned things. She mentioned how one time she needed her keys to be delivered back to her by mail because her friend failed to do so in person. She appeared increasingly distraught as she continued ranting and I tried my best to be supportive. She insisted that she was fine.