Nothing Is What It Seems

Once upon a time there was a boy named Scottie. He was a very happy boy who attended the coolest school ever: Concordia. He had many friends of all walks of life and for whatever reason, they did not mind him taking their nose virginities (except one who took it as a challenge and is so far winning :P).

Despite the fun he and his friends had, they were concerned for him. You see, every friday night, he would leave dorm and no one would see him for hours. They confronted him many times, but he always excused it by saying he was on hot dates. They never believed him (despite his hotness).

One day they came up with a plan to follow him. They made him think they were all going out, but when they left, they hid in the bushes outside dorm.

Finally, he left dorm and headed to the River Valley located in front of the school.

While walking to the River Valley, a gingerbread-type man ran across Scottie's path.

"Hey you!" cried Scottie.
"What?" asked the gingerbread-type man.
"Are you the universal view of the time cycle tha the Jains follow? I learned about them today in my religion class and you look like that universal view."
"Umm . . .no. But I get that all the time. I am the Gingerbread Man who lives on Drury Lane with the Muffin Man."
"Oh," said Scott a little taken aback, "well, hav eyou seen the man made of goat cheese?"
"No, but good luck. I'm sure he'll be along soon", and with that, the Gingerbread Man continued on his way.

Meanwhile, in some bushes behind Scottie, his friends began to whisper. They could not comprehend what they had just seen. I mean the Gingerbread Man lives in the country of Far Far Away. What was he doing in Canada?

They could not ponder long, however, because they heard whistling in the distance. Scottie whistled along.

Out of the trees, a man made of goat cheese walked up to Scottie and gave him a huge bear hug.

"Hey there ole pal," siad the goat cheese man, "how's your week been?"
"Not bad, not bad", was Scottie's reply.

Then to Scottie's friends' dismay, the goat cheese man started to dance. They were confused enough by seeing a man made of cheese and now he was dancing. To them it was quite humorous and they began to snicker.

"What was that?!" cried the goat cheese man.

Scottie ran to the bush behind him and discovered his friends sitting there.

"What are you guys doing here?" he asked in surprise.
"We were curious about what you do friday nights", said Neal.
"And we were really worried!" exclaimed Amber.
Muffin jumped in, arguing, "I wasn't worried, they just dragged me along."
"Yeah right!" cried Regan, "you so wanted to come along!"

"Alright! Alright!" shouted the goat cheese man, "what is going on here?!"
"These are my friends," explained Scottie, "they followed me here. I'm sorry."
"No worries," said the goat cheese man," the more the merrier. I'm Dog-Face."

"So what do you guys do?" asked Alyson, "Why do you guys meet here on Fridays?"
"Well," started Scottie, "one day I was walking in the River Valley and I saw Dog-Face walking along. You guys know how much I like cheese, so we just started talking."
"I told him," interjected Dog-Face, "that many people usually ignore me. It was nice that he didn't."
"So," finished Scottie, "I offered to hang out with him every friday."
"Cool" was the reply of everyone. They were getting really worked up now.

Slowly people began to quiet down. "What was that sobbing?" people thought. They all turned around to see that one of Scottie's friends, Linda, was crying.

"What's wrong?" asked Scottie.
"Well, everything is fine, except that Dog-Face is made of cheese and it reminded me that I'm out of cheese to give to my friend, Leah, in class."
(Leah is one of Scottie's friends too, but was unfortunately - or maybe fortunately? - on a hot date.)
"I'm sorry to hear that", said Dog-Face after much thought. "Maybe there's something I can do to help since you have all been so kind to me. It's the least I can do."
"What can you do?" asked Scottie.

All of a sudden there was a huge blast and cheese everywhere. Dog-Face had made himself explode. Regan was so shocked that she went invisible, and A³ (a.k.a. Amber, Andrew, and Alyson) exclaimed, "Cheetos!" to release their tension of surprise.

"Scottie, are you OK?" asked MattyK. He was the only one to see that Scottie was upset over his friend exploding. Scottie couldn't understand what had just happened. His friend couldn't possibly be gone.

Out of nowhere, Scottie sat straight up. He was wondering what the loud beeping was, and realized shortly that it was his alarm clock. It had all just been a dream.