Electrifying quantum dreams

I woke up and didn't want to go to school, so I pretended to be sick. As I was going back up the stairs from the bus stop to our house I saw a boy sitting on the steps with a bicycle. I wondered why he had a bicycle since he also had roller skates on his feet, but I just walked by him,

It was the house on Market Street where I lived with my parents until I got married.

My Dad said he needed to go to the drugstore, but I didn't want him to leave me. I tried to convince him I was too sick for him to go, but he got ready to go anyway. He put on roller skates and headed out the front door, past the boy on the steps, past the corner of our street where I had been waiting for the bus and down to a house with a big front porch.

There were lots of people here, most of them wearing roller skates. My Dad went in without removing his skates and I followed, but I wasn't as good at skating as he was and I kept falling behind. I thought maybe it was because I was sick, but I knew something else was wrong. I just couldn't put my finger on it.

We ended up at the back of a big room in the house where there was a table covered in medical supplies, cotton tips, bandages, cotton, tape, mostly things like that. Dad went over to speak to the judge sitting high up behind his desk and suddenly I realized he was in two places at once and he wasn't Dad! He was John, a guy I used to date and he really was in two places at once. It terrified me.

People were roller skating all over and when they went fast enough I thought maybe they could all be in two places at once. I wondered if I could do that too and if I could, which one of me would be the original and what would I be thinking and would I be thinking the same thing in both places? Would I know I was in two places at once? It was so scary.

I fell down and was surprised that it didn't hurt to land on the floor at all. I just got back up and started skating again. Now I couldn't find Dad, or John. I was really alone.

And I woke up.

All alone, but very relieved.