When the world gives me lemons I will make them lemonades: January 2011

I want to give you guys a challenge. I want you to tell me what you thought the story was about.

I want to know where you guys think I want to bring you in.

People in the story:

Luriana = Me

Stacey = second oldest sister

Arethra = youngest sister

Mom = my mother duh!

Steven = my boyfriend.

Extra = Stacey's friend and servants

Once upon a time there was a girl called Luriana she was travelling through the woods and there she discovered a castle. She thought 'it is not as big as the disney castle trademark but this is absolutely stunning'. Curiosity lured Luriana into exploring more inside, she did not even considered the possible consequences for trespassing.

Once she entered the castle the very first thing Luriana sees are servants and maids greeting her with a bow and at the same time they said 'your arrival has come; we have been expecting you Luriana.'

She was shocked and flabbergasted because she did not know or try to know the reason why she was appointed as the new princess. Nevertheless she did not know the history of the castle and she had no intentions of knowing; she just wanted to enjoy the feeling. She was being insolent and just wanted to enjoy living inside a castle.

[Yeah I know, I am a spoilt brat in this story however read on ]

Suddenly the scene changes and she can see that her family has joined her; her mother, her father and her two younger sister.

Stacey also invited some of her friends along, since all her friends were fourteen year olds, they went spastic as soon as they entered the castle. Arethra was also there playing along with Stacey's sister even though she was two years younger than them. The children kept commenting on how lovely the wallpaper is and how big and antique the furnitures are etc...

[Keep reading, it gets even more random.]

When it was time for Stacey's friend to leave the castle to go to their own respective homes Stacey got upset. Luriana wanted to cheer her up and decided to give her a chocolate. Stacey didn't like the chocolate and refused to finish it. However the mother was too happy that she was just smiling and making jokes among the servants rather than cheering her own daughter.

[if it is confusing read it again to understand. I know too much effort but Do It!]

Feeling tired and annoyed at Stacey, Luriana decided to have a tour around the infamous castle. The first place she wanted to see was the tower. She was hoping that she will find sleeping beauty inside the castle like the stories in her childhood fairytales. On her way up to the tower Luriana found a sparring centre that looked old and designed for royalty. She went inside to pick up the skeleton and black hair lying on the ground. Suddenly as soon as she touched the black hair she saw a vision of what happened.

[Yeah freaky but keep reading it gets even more random.]

The skeleton belonged to the previous king (since the skeleton was wearing a king's outfit along with a crown). She saw a scene Castle and skeleton owner king (King A) fighting with another king from another kingdom (King B). Before the kings fought there was an obstacle that they must avoid to save their lives. It was a machine in the middle of the sparring centre long and sharp, metal that reacts to human moves. It can do whatever to any human it comes across. It normally pushes you off or it could electrocute you until you die. In the vision Luriana was seeing King A got attacked by the deadly machine first and nearly fell off a deep hole, while King A was finding a way to save his life King B was laughing at King A's terrible start. King A was thrown off the sparring ground several times. However once King A got out of the situation, King A found a way to make the deadly machine as his ally to claim victory from King B. The last time King A let the machine throw him off the sparring ground; as soon as he stood up he drew out his sword on his left and carried the machines tail on his right to attack King B at the same time. King B managed to dodged the sword from King A but there was no way he could dodged the machine. The machine pierced straight into his body and the next thing King B decided to do as an attack was grab King A's both leg. King A could not get him self out of the King B's grasped and therefore they both collapsed and died.

[Above was suppose to be the violent, adrenalin rush part. Ended just like Hamlet.]

After that vision Luriana became very suspicious of the castle history, she wanted to know more of the incidents that happened inside. She wanted to avoid all possible danger that will get her and her family.

So Luriana went to the caste's office and started to look at old documents and books that has information of the past.

Somehow the name that sounds like 'mow', 'moe' anything that started with an M. Luriana felt that was what she was looking for, she got a hunch that name will bring her the answers because she keeps hearing it in her thoughts.

[The next part gave me goosebumps while writing it.]

While Luriana was looking through the books and papers she got shocked and surprised by a voice. At first she couldn't understand but when it was getting closer to her she heard 'Glandolia'. As soon as she can hear it clearly, a handsome man spirit with a dog beside him appeared before her. He was standing as if he was still alive, he moved as if he was alive. The dog with the gentlemen did the same. This man was dressed like a royalty there was nothing that Luriana could think of aside from thinking that he was handsome. His appearance look well, big built, kind and gentle features. Luriana could tell he used to be a swordsman. Luriana asked the gentlemen 'who is Glandolia?'

His response was a kind smile and looked over at the piles of documents. She followed his gaze and she found a black diary that did not seem to belong among the files. As she opened the diary she saw a beautiful picture; it was a girl with black hair, round face and prominent features. The girl in the picture is the ideal girl that the olden days find beautiful. Even Luriana's eyes found her beautiful. In the diary there was all sorts of notes written but what got Luriana's attention was a small post it note saying 'allergic to pollen and cotton'.

Luriana sighed and thought 'poor thing'.

While holding the diary Luriana looked at the spirit from the corner of her eyes and saw the spirit making a sorrowful smile. She immediately thought and knew that the spirit was in love with Glandolia. Again while holding the possession of Glandolia she saw another vision it was of Glandolia but it was confusing for Luriana because the vision made it feel like Glandolia is dead but Luriana only saw Glandolia running away and disappearing.

Suddenly Luriana felt a stabbing pain in her heart after seeing the vision.

To break the awkward silence she asked the spirit and the dog if they have eaten already.

[Yeah wierd right, but read on]

To her surprise the dog started wagging his tail real hard and the spirit said 'no I am starving'.

So Luriana started cooking straight away. While cooking inside the kitchen one of the chef reminded me and pointed out the window that no one here inside the castle even my family can get attention that will involved media or startle other citizens. The reason for this was that the castle had an infamous history and to protect their sacredness of the place they need to be hidden from many people.

[Strange how there are staff inside the castle and no owners but life goes on]

Suddenly the scene jumped from the castle to a small quiet town that are aware of the sacred castle's existence. They also were informed that Luriana's has been appointed as the new princess because they were given newspaper. Steven suddenly appeared and he had to change to a royal bank to be able to live with me; so nevertheless I had to change mine too.

[WTF right? why is there a bank in the olden days? I thought only tax collection existed back then]

People in this small town new each other very well and Luriana started wanting to know them because she knows that she will be spending a lot of time there if she wanted a new atmosphere. While she was walking past shop and houses inside the town she came across a small cute little school and there the school principal approached her. The school was right next to the town's bank (not royal bank fyi).

Then the principal started asking me questions upon why I made Steven change his bank as well. She was telling me that Steven was one of their customer that has been in that bank for a long period of time.

I got really angry and confuse I walked away from the old lady without responding to her.

[Yeah so random but keep reading it is nearly over and you will understand soon]

The final scene was me eating breakfast with the prince spirit and dog spirit and I was looking out the window while eating, and something bothered me I saw the guards near the gate panicking about a wild horse. Because I was concerned I quickly ran from inside castle to the gate (very long run) to help them. By the time I got to the gate the problem was fixed so pretty much Luriana's effort in running was useless and she felt that she should have just saved her energy for more of her castle exploration.

The End.

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So for those who haven't noticed the story was NOT based on how creative I have gotten or how crappy my grammar and story telling techniques but it was based on a dream I had today.

It has been psychologically proven that when you are asleep you only dream during that 45minutes before you awake. Normally when you remember your dream vividly there is a control in your cognitive function telling you that you are about to wake up soon and this dream will help you wake up.

My normal sleep, I have dreamless nights. Normally I just remember pitch black and I wake up seeing pitch black. It is only on occasions that I do remember my dreams. However when I do remember my dreams, I feel like my dream is telling me something. I don't feel satisfied until I can self explain the meanings behind those dreams.

Today, all I remember was that I woke up from a beautiful dream. Some part of me felt really forlorn when I woke up. It is the very first time that I remember loving and enjoying my dream.

In my dream everything was happening to fast; even if it was too fast, it was still understandable to me. My dream was jumping to one scene to another, somehow the most unexpected people was appearing in my dream as well.