Dreaming

Out of the window to the ground below. It seems too easy. Everything so quiet, the cool, spring midnight air barely moving around me. Emotions swell within me at the weight of what I am doing. One step, two steps, closer to the street.

She waits in her car. We’ll be gone before daybreak… Freedom, so close, I can’t stand to wait. I run.

Before long the car is roaring down the road faster than I’ve ever gone. I don’t care that the cold wind freezes my skin. I’m laughing, disappearing. They'll never see me again.

And then, I wake.