Dear Lauren,

I had a nightmare the other night. It was terrifying.

People say that dreams are just your brain trying to tell you something. Maybe my brain was trying to tell me to stay away from camp because I would be joining you if I went.

I was in a tall building. It seemed to be a school. I was at the very top and in a boy's body, like Javi from Time Villains. I was in an auditorium along with the rest of the school. There was a storm going on outside that made the whole world dark.

All of a sudden, red lightning struck a metal box by the ceiling. I told the principal that monsters were coming and that we should run. She didn't believe me, but they came and bodies littered the floor.

I jumped down the stairs along with everyone else and tried to find a classroom with as few people as possible. I went into one and found my friends and wasps waiting for me.

I ran back out and kept searching for a room. The monster aliens wouldn't attack people if they were alone in the room. Finally I found an empty room and hid.

It felt like hours until one of the beasts came into the room. It was red, giant, and had muscles the size of mountains. It looked as if it had been covered in wax, like how those wax bottle candy things are.

In that moment, I died, but at the same time I was running out onto the city street to look for survivors. I was all alone.

When that was over, I was back in my own body in my own home. I tried telling my dad that the monsters were coming, but like the principal he didn't listen.

Blood smeared the walls and organs decorated the floor as the monsters ripped him to shreds before moving onto my mom and brother. They spared me, but it would have been a mercy to end my pitiful life right then and there.

Surrounded by the mangled remains of my family's bodies, I finally woke up.

I have to go to camp in the morning. I don't want to go. They can't make me. I'll die, and no one will care.

All that's around me is on fire, the sky has turned red, and all the people are dead. It's the end of the world and I'm all alone and forgotten. It's too much! It wants to escape and I won't let it! I can't go! I won't let them take me away! Is this why you're gone? Why you've left me all alone, drowning in tears?

The days just seem to get darker the more you're without us. I wish you could come back.

On the bright side, Tinsel Girl seems nice?