HOME
“Take me home.” I said to the cabin and it began to descend back down toward the earth. Suddenly I could see Knott’s berry farm once again, the theme park that is, and as I came closer to the sky cabins loading dock a large blinding flash of light appeared and the cabin was now again connected to its tower.
As the cabin came lower to the ground I could see that there were workers from all around the park waiting, watching the sky cabin dock.
Once the cabin came to a stop the doors opened and outside I saw the most beautiful of sights. My wife Michelle. She was waiting for me. She gave me the biggest hug asking me if I was okay.
“I am.” I replied hugging her as hard as I could.
“Easy Michael.” She warned touching her tummy. “You don’t want to hurt the baby.”
“Are you okay?” I asked.
“I missed you.” Michelle replied. “I’m just glad you’re still alive, you must be starving, being stuck up in that sky cabin for almost a week.”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“The sky cabin somehow shut down up there and you’ve been in there for days now, are you sure you’re okay?”
“I’m fine.” I said with a smile then gently began to hug her once more. Michelle noticed the bands on my arms and my Xcellerator boots and then she knew the truth.
“The dreams.” She said. “I had dreams about you Michael; you were in another world.”
“I dreamt of you too.” I replied.
“Did those things really happen?” She asked.
“They did.” I smiled. “If it wasn’t for you I might not have come back.”
The park medics examined me and were amazed that I was physically fine. I had to lie telling them I always kept lots of food and water in my backpack for lunch and just rationed it while I was “Stuck” in the sky cabin. After that I was free to go home.
Michelle and I began to head out of the park once more, we passed by the various rides along the way. On the boardwalk there were the rides Coast rider and Surfside Gliders. I now had a deeper respect for these rides, because I knew that they were connected with my friends in Boysenvale. We passed by the roller coaster called Boomerang also, I wore my boomerang glove still and the emblem on it glowed for a moment as we passed by that ride. Even more proof that my journey to Boysenvale had actually happened.
While we were leaving we could see some construction happening at the calico mine ride and I had the idea to ask what was going on. There was a sign the worker was fastening to the entrance of the ride. The sign read “The witches Keep.”
“Excuse me sir?” I asked. “What are you working on?”
“We’re getting ready for Halloween haunt.” Said one of the workers. “Haunt is just around the corner.”
Michelle and I left the park and made our way into the employee parking lot. When we reached our car we sat inside for a moment. Something inside me had changed. There was no longer any want inside of my heart. The question that I had been asking myself all my life had finally been answered. I now knew who I was and where I had come from. For the first time in my life I felt free. Free from want. Free with my wife Michelle.
“Well, what do you want to do now?” Michelle asked.
I rubbed her belly fixated on our unborn baby then started the car. “Live.” I replied. “We are going to live...”
I pulled our car out of the parking lot and we headed home, but I was already home and would always be home as long as I was with her.