A Midsummer Afternoon's Dream

It was the good hair day that should have tipped her off. Alyssa's hair, normally thin and a little flat from sleeping on it while it was still wet, was voluminous and  fell perfectly around her oval-shaped face. She attributed the awesome hair to the fact that it was freshly cut, layered with the edges razored... very edgy if she did say so herself. She put on her cutest dress (with pockets), pairing it with a necklace made from a pocket watch she had bought at a yard sale last summer. She was in a particularly good mood because her boyfriend, David Atkins - guitarist and singer for the pop-punk band Morning Comes Early - was coming by train to visit her in NYC.

Not wanting to be late in picking David up, Alyssa left her apartment early to begin her walk to Grand Central Station. As she passed the local cyber cafe, Adam Cecil, one of her best friends since forever and fellow NYU alumni fell into step with her.

"Hey," he said casually.

"Hey," she said back.

"I hear David's coming today."

"Yup."

"Cool."

They continued their walk in silence until they reached the train station.

"What platform are we meeting him on," asked Adam.

Alyssa didn't question Adam's "we." Adam and David had also been best friends forever and she knew Adam missed hanging out with him. "9 and 3/4."

"Seriously?!"

"I wish. 10."

Just as David's train pulled into the station, Alyssa's cell phone went off.

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"What's the sitch?"

"ALYSSA? ALYSSA?" Kyle Wilson had never quite mastered the use of a cell phone, so he thought he had to shout to be heard.

"Coach, COACH! Stop yelling! What's up?"

"I have a mission for you. Liz Alexander has stolen Brosidon's shell necklace and with his powers is threatening to turn NYC into the next Atlantis! You've got to stop her!"

"I'm on it, Coach." She snapped her Envy 2 shut (she still hasn't gotten a smart phone yet) just as David approached.

"I can tell by that look on your face that something is up," he said, as he pulled her into a hug.

"Not much... Coach just called... Liz is trying to take over the world... AGAIN."

David chuckled. "When will she ever learn? This sounds like it's going to involve costumes and  flying unicorns... LET'S GO!"

*****

By the time they were able to round up some awesome costumes from a vintage store on Broadway and summon the flying unicorns from their home on the top of the Empire State Building, waves of water had already begun making their way through the streets downtown. Merciless laughter echoed through the streets as the waves grew bigger and bigger. Hopping on the back of her flying unicorn Jack, Alyssa, followed closely by Adam and David on their unicorns, urged Jack on in the direction of the laughter. Reaching the ocean in the amount of time it would take an Olympic Athlete to run 100 meters, the trio of friends spotted Liz before she saw them.

"BLERGHHHHHH!!! I'm Liz and you can't stop me!!!" She shrieked as soon as she glimpsed the unicorns, "I HAVE THE POWER OF BROSIDON!!!"

"Quick!" Screamed Alyssa to her companions, "Distract her!"

The trio bombarded Liz with Cosmopolitan magazines, men with muscular (fat) necks, and double-rainbows.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Screamed Liz, for her friends had prayed upon her weaknesses: sex, men, and you-tube videos. Alyssa went in for Brosidon's necklace for without it Liz would be powerless and shrink back into her normal self. Just as she grabbed the shell necklace, Liz back-handed her, sending Alyssa sailing off of Jack and tumbling straight down into the waves below...

Splash.

Alyssa woke with a start. She sat up from the hot leather seat, realizing she had fallen asleep while tanning in Liz's boat. She looked over the edge in time to see David emerge from beneath the surface of the lake. "I thought you'd never wake up!" he said, climbing aboard and giving her a quick kiss. 

"Yeah, I thought you were dead," said Liz, who was laying out on the back of the boat.

"I wish you were," said Adam as he flew by on a jetski.

"I just had the strangest dream!" Alyssa exclaimed. "I was living in NYC with Adam and you were coming to visit David and I was a super hero and Liz had the power of Brosidon and was trying to flood NYC..."

"I wish..." said Liz as she dove into the lake.

"...And we had to save the day on flying unicorns!"

"Sounds pretty neat," said David, always the supportive boyfriend.

"Hey guys!" Liz yelled as she emerged from the lake, "Look what I found!" She help up a shell necklace.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Alyssa screamed as she jumped off the boat, grabbing the necklace out of Liz's out-stretched hand.