My Dream Maze

So a few nights ago I had this really cool and interesting dream. It was where me and a few of my friends were in this house. We found this door. I don't remember why we went into it, but we did. It's a dream, you can do anything you want. And when we went through the door we went down into a basement. The basement led down into this huge labyrinth where there was huge walls of dark green hedges stretching way up high. The basement had the feel of the outdoors, but indoors at the same time, where the ground was dirt, and the ceiling was like a cave. As we worked our way through we would face obstacles along the way. A witch would stop us, an ogre would appear, the fairy tail stuff. At the end, when we finally made it through, was a giant treasure, full of gold and silver, and all sorts of precious items. It was incredible.

And then I woke up.

But I just wanted to share that with you because I thought that it was a cool premise for a fantasy. It's like Theseus meets Alice and Wonderland.

Here is just a brief excerpt of what I was imagining for a story:

"Hey Hunter. We should do something."

"We will in a sec, Steve. Let me just send this text to Kayla." Hunter say's while lying on the living room couch, his feet propped up on the arm rest, and his head bent, looking at his phone, giving him a double chin.

"Seriously? You come over to my house wanting to hang, and all you do is text your girlfriend. When was the last time you saw her? Two hours ago?"

"Hey, not my fault that I have a girlfriend and you don't."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Steve replies, irritably. 

"It mean's that you are jealous that I actually have a girlfriend, and you don't. It's as simple as that."

"You know, you're really buggin' the crap out of me right now, so I'm just going to leave. You can go and hang out with your girlfriend for all I care."

Hunter doesn't seem to hear him because he remains on the couch, his eyes glued to his phone.

Just as Steve open's his front door, two girls stand there in front of him. The taller one with long curly blond hair and blue eye's is Kayla. He doesn't recognize the girl standing next to her. The shorter one has shoulder length dark brown hair, and bright blue eyes that pop out. She look's about seventeen.

"Kayla." Steve say's, trying to hide the irritation that is creeping into his voice. "What are you doing here?"

"Hunter said that it was all right if we came over." She gestures to herself and the other girl, both sets of blue eyes staring at him. "This is my sister, Kendra," She continues. "She said that she didn't feel like being left alone today, so she asked if she could tag along. That is okay, isn't it?"

He takes a deep breath. "Yeah, sure. Come on in." Ugh, it always bug's Steve how Hunter invites people to his place, without even asking Steve if that's okay with him.

The two girl's walk in past him, Kendra eyeing him as she goes by.

"He's in the living room." Steve say's, but Kayla is already there, leaning down to kiss Hunter.

Kendra and Steve stand next to each other awkwardly as they both deliberately look at every thing but each other or the couple in front of them.

"I don't know which is worse. Watching them make out here, or at my own home." Kendra say's, the sound startling Steve. Her voice is soft, and pretty. The difference between her and Kayla astounding.

"I think that either way you're going to end up hearing them suck faces, so there is no good escape."

She laugh's a little.

"Hey, I heard that." Hunter say's, finally sitting up, him and Kayla snuggling together.

"Good, you were supposed to." Steve replies. "So what are we supposed to do? Just sit around? Because I know that that is what you've been doing all day today, Hunter."

"Whatever." Hunter say's, seeming un-fazed. "I don't know. We could watch some TV."

"How about we actually do something?" Steve say's, his voice getting angrier by the second."

"Okay, chill. I was just giving an option. What do you want to do?"

He just stares at Hunter, not really knowing what to do.

"Do you have any board games?" Kendra's small voice wonder's.

"Um, probably somewhere in the house. I don't know where though."

"Oh come on Kendra. Board game's are for kid's." Kayla say's.

Kendra just ignores her. "We can make a game of it then. First one who finds a game wins. And then we get to play that game. It's a game in a game!" She smiles, genuinely loving the idea.

Steve smiles. "Yeah sure. Why not? You two up for it? Or has the couch sealed your butts to the cushions?"

"Fine," Hunter say's getting up. "Might as well." He puts his arm around Kayla once she get's to her feet, guiding her out.

"What? You're not doing it individually?" Steve asks.

"Hey, as the song say's: two is better than one." Hunter replies.

"You could be with me?" Kendra's sweet voice say's to him.

"Yeah, okay."

He lead's Kendra through the kitchen and into the storage room as Kayla and Hunter head up-stairs.

"So where are your parents?" Kendra asks as Steve look's around can's of food.

"They're in Colorado right now for a business meeting."

"Business meeting for what?"

"They're consultants for this big firm, and so they go from state to state every so often for big meeting's or seminar's." He grunts as he looks over the tallest shelf.

"Oh. Doesn't that get lonely?"

He hadn't really thought about it much, but when he did he would ignore it. He's eighteen, it's the summer, and he can take care of himself. "No."

"Hmmm." She didn't seem to believe him, but she let it go.

He heard her from the opposite side of him start to move things around, looking for anything. He knew that there was nothing here, but it was a good way to get away from Hunter and Kayla.

"I don't think-"

"Hey, what's this?" Kendra's voice rang out to him.

He turn's his head. There she was, holding an old rusted key. It looked like one of those old ones that you saw in those old 1920's movie's where the person lock's someone else in, and you can see through the keyhole. 

"What is that?" He ask's.

"I don't know. That's why I asked you. It's kinda cool though." She smiling, a mischievous look on her face.

"Yeah, it is." He say's, taking the key from her and inspecting it.

Kendra begin's walking out of the room.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"Come on, let's go show them." She smiles again, making the side's of his mouth perk up.

"But it's not a game."

"No, but I bet that it's ten time's better than whatever they found. If they found anything."

He nod's knowing that it's true, and follow's her back through the door. They are just about to head up the stairs that are down the hall when Hunter and Kayla come flouncing down.

"Did you find anything?" Steve asks, even though he know's it would be impossible for them to have found a game. Him and his parents don't like games.

"I found a piece of gum, and Kayla found a penny, along with a few other unmentionables. You really should start cleaning your room, it's disgusting. What about you? You two find anything?"

"Well..." Steve starts.

"Yes!" Kendra pip's up. She takes the key that Steve had been fiddling with, out of his hand and holds it out to them. "See?"

"Hmm, that's cool. Where does it open up to?" Kayla ask's.

"I don't know. I've never seen it before until now." Steve replies. "Beside's, it's not like we have any lock's for it. This thing is ancient. My house is ten year's old."

"Well we'll never know until we find out." Kendra say's, excitement oozing off of her.

"She's got you there, man." Hunter say's. "There just might be a door that you've never tried out."

Steve only think's for a second before he say's, "Okay." 

So that is where it starts. Who know's what will happen from there.