The girl with the Dragon in the Future

There weren't always dragons in the Valley and in 2010 I thought the mystical creatures were far from true or even real from that matter. I’ve always been fascinated about Dragons and how cool it would be to actually ride one in the sky like Hiccup did you know? from How to Train Your Dragon. Having them be your pet and friend also while helping you fight the enemies trying to take over your land type of stuff.

Well let me tell you the story of how one dream almost turned my life upside down. It all began on June 28th 2010… wait wait wait I didn’t even introduce myself. Before I start this miraculous story. Let me start again Hi my name is Anouk, How am I going to narrate this without giving you my name and back story. Ok, so Yeah my Names Anouk and I’m 15 years old I’m an only child who lives with my Grandma Lynn in Battle Creek Michigan in the Valley. I just finished school so it’s summertime and all I’ve been doing over summer break is reading books. No boys, No friends, no crazy nights getting into trouble just me reading books through out the day. I’ve been reading so much about dragons and acting out scenes from the stories I’ve read that I’ve even thought about getting a tattoo on the back of my left shoulder of one.

Back to June 28th 2010 It was my birthday and I was finally turning 16. I was ecstatic because after months of terrorizing My Grandma about getting a tattoo she told me I could get one when my birthday came around. I woke up that cloudy day and layed in bed for a little bit about to get up when I hear a knock on my bedroom door. It was my Grandma telling me that she had a something for me and to meet her downstairs. I got out of bed and put some pants on and went downstairs as I was coming down I could see something on the table but it wasn’t clear enough until I got closer to the bottom of the stairs. I saw She had made me waffles which were my favorite and I saw a white envelope next to the plate. She told me not to open it until I finished my food first. After the third bite of the warm buttery sticky waffles I couldn’t hold it in anymore I grabbed the envelope and ripped it open. Hearing my Grandma at the counter as she was making coffee saying Anouk you were supposed to wait I ripped it open even more anyways. Out fell a set of keys let me tell you my eyes opened so wide, Grandma did you get me a car? Before she could say anything I got up from the table super excited and started walking towards the front door. When I opened the door I saw on the side of the road there was a Black 2010 MAZDA MAZDA3 and I screamed I literally ran to the car trying to open it and trying the keys wondering why it wasn’t working. Standing there confused I hear a voice to my left go Why are you touching my car? I look over to a middle aged man and I go I am so sorry it’s my birthday and I thought this was the car my Grandma gave me. By that time my Grandma was standing in the doorway shaking her head and almost in the burst of laughing. She yelled out to the man sorry Gary! I was walking back to the house and my grandma said if you had waited I would have told you that the surprise was in the garage. I go that would have been smarter to look there first huh?. She opened the garage door and there was sitting my brand new car a Red 2010 Lexus RX 350. I hugged her so tight and thanked her so much! She said you’ve been working hard this past year and you deserve it. She told me to go get ready though because my tattoo appointment was soon and thought I would want to drive us there of course I did. I get ready and we head out to the tattoo shop. When we got there we were the only ones there and I had to sign a permission paper saying that my Grandma was letting me get one because I was the legal age of 18. I already sent in what type of dragon I wanted so I was all set for him to start. After about two hours later my tattoo was done and I was in love. I was also in pain but it was just what I’d wanted. After that we did so much that day. We went shopping for clothes, we saw a movie and we even went to Barnes and Noble and got me a new book I’ve been wanting to get called “The girl with the dragon in the Future“ when we got back to the house we were both exhausted it was probably close to 10 o’clock. My Grandma said she was going to hit the hay and kissed me on the forehead and told me happy birthday again and hoped I had a great day. When she left I went up to my room and layed in bed. As I was laying there for awhile I lifted my body up to reach in the Barnes and Noble bag and grabbed my book. I thought I would read a little before I went to bed.

I turned over and looked at my clock to see it was 12pm why wouldn’t my Grandma wake me up? She usually hates when I sleep in that late, I get up and go to the bathroom and turn on the shower. I turn to look in the mirror and I screamed wait who the hell is that? I touch my face and I say it looks like me but it’s not me. Wait why doesn’t this bathroom look like my bathroom in my room? What’s going on? I run out of the bathroom and look in my long mirror. I saw that I had a dragon tattoo on my shoulder that I gotten earlier yesterday. I’m really confused, I yell for my grandma and I hear nothing. I go downstairs and everything is not like I remember. I look outside and all I see are trails and trees. Did I just see something fly in the sky? I slam the door shut and when I turned around I see a purse hanging by the door and I quickly go through it. I see that there’s a wallet and I open it up and there was a picture of me at the age of 27 and it’s 2022. What the F…