The alarm clock went off at 6:00AM. Its irritating noise echoed throughout my room. Beep. Beep. Beep. I was still in a deep sleep. Kind of like a coma patient, lost in trance. The sky was blue. Clouds of white fluff in the shapes of cute animals and characters floated in the heavens. I ran in a field of green grass. Nothing stood in my way. I kept running as fast as I could. What I was running from, I don’t know. I was free. I danced in the tall, cool grass. My arms outreached, feeling the prickling sensation of the crisp meadow. The wind blew in my hair and embraced my body, as if mocking me. The warm rays from the sun glistened on my face. This was bliss.

I kept running, dancing, into the vast horizon. Everything became calm. The wind stopped blowing, and the sun became duller. The clouds stretched out and became misconfigured lines in the atmosphere, no longer touchable. An icy chill crept down my back. Like a deer in an open field, I sensed hazard.

I turned around and glanced behind me. A huge cloud of dark, filthy dust filled the sky. It was coming closer, following me. I paused, stood still in a trance. Like a deer in head lights, I stared while the malicious cloud raced towards me like a huge pick up truck. I did the only thing I knew how to do: run.

My legs pounded the soft earth of the meadow. Bolts of pain shot through both of my legs. I was beginning to wear down. I don’t know for how long I had been running for, but I didn’t stop. It seemed like forever. My lungs gasped for oxygen; the air wasn’t pure anymore. Instead, particles of gas and dust surrounded me. I inhaled fumes and radiation. The air around me thickened and became darker in color. Taking another glance behind me, the air started engulfing me within itself. My legs caved in underneath me as I tried to pump harder. I took deep, shallow breathers, but nothing satisfied my depraved lungs.

Laying flat on the soft earth, I awaited my doom. In the distance a high pitched noise echoed. Beep…beep. It reminded me of a heart monitor. I couldn’t breathe anymore; the cloud was right over top of me. The noise raced faster and ricocheted through the valley of corrupt bliss. I let out a shriek as the cloud completely devoured me. Silence.

My eyes shot open and the image of my room filled my view. Beep. That irritating noise of my alarm sounded again. With on hand I smacked it, knocking it to the light-colored wooden floor. Stupid alarm clock. Who invented them anyway? I moaned and stretched in my bed. It was now 6:01AM and I had the least motivation to get up and go to school. Reaching my arm down, I picked up the alarm clock and set it back on the chocolate brown table next to me. Closing my eyes, I tried to envision that blissful illusion I dreamt about. Pitch black was all I saw. I tried to concentrate harder, commanding my mind to take me back to that place. Still nothing. Today is a new day.