Читать книгу War/Peace - Matthew Vandenberg - Страница 37

'Why do we have this private room?' I say. 'Whatever I say in here I'll say out there anyway.'

'Your thoughts, Jackson. Anything.'

'Fine,' I say, shrugging. 'Thoughts. Thoughts. Lovin' it here. Guess it would be nice to have some more people in the house. We'll be letting more in right? Any superstars dropping by? Guest appearances? Are we like world-wide or what?'

'Your thoughts.'

'Ok. Ok. Chill. Got nothing to say. Oh – I had this wicked dream last night. Get this: I'm in this bunker, and I'm talking to a couple of thugs and I've just given them 5 grand. I have no idea why. Anyway, they're real glad they got the money off me: I'm guessing they needed it for drugs or something. And I'm totally lost so they show me this phone – or it could be an eReader. They ask me to pick a game to play and I pick one. I'm a frog who has to break through a whole heap of log barriers. So I'm hopping along, and suddenly I'm drawn into the frog's world. I'm still controlling the frog remotely but I'm in the same world it's in. I'm dreaming so I don't really realize that I'm in a new universe. But this new universe is essentially a house. I'm in the basement chasing the frog. I follow it into a rest room, a large rest room, and I lose it. So I'm searching for it and then I see a drain, but it's just a grate and I fall through, and now I'm inside a living room. It's a nice house, where a nice family lives. I keep following the frog, and suddenly it turns into a rabbit, who hops outside through a cat flap, and then poses next to the family for a photograph. I smile and then I wake up. Make sense of that.'

'The ugly toad turns into a rabbit. Ha ha.'

I shrug: 'So what's this lunch thing? Do you got the goss on that? What are we eating for lunch? Aside from the Mms?'

'Your thoughts Jackson, just your thoughts please.'

'Arrrrrgh! You're annoying,' I whine.

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References

1 So Young – The Corrs