A Dream

I am recording this early because dreams tend to fade as the day goes on.

I had a dream in which I was talking to a Japanese lady who worked at my school about a book I had been assigned to read in the fourth grade. The dream centered around the book. The book told the story of a teenage boy and girl who (for some reason) were alone together on an Island. I remember how they looked, but neither were people that I know.
Sometime early in the story the presence of a monster on the island was revealed. It was tall and humanoid with blackish-blue skin and an elongated head. This story was definitely not appropriate for a fourth-grader. I specifically remember the F word being used in it as well as graphic depictions of violence and several patches of sexual content. The Japanese lady had read the book also, and when she remarked that I should not have read it in the fourth grade, I replied saying that I didn't understand it because I was so young. This part may have been caused by my own reading of Beowulf when I was around the fourth grade.

This is when things get weird. Early in the story the girl was raped and impregnated by the monster and the majority of the story revolved around the relationship between the boy and girl as the boy cared for her as the pregnancy progressed. Eventually she was unable to walk and spent her time in an inland pool. The boy lived in a hut right next to it and he built a fence to keep the monster out. The story came to a climax one night when the girl was going into labour and the monster returned. The boy was torn between fighting the monster (to protect the girl) and helping the girl give birth. The ending was not revealed.

After speaking to the Japanese woman, I excused myself saying that I was late for a party. The party was a pool party at a girl I know from school's house. I don't know what her house looks like or if she even has a pool, but it looked like a house I've imagined before. The pool resembled the pool from the book (in shape and by having a shed right next to it) and my mom drove Anna and I there. At this point the dream loses its continuity and what was happening became mixed with what had happened and I remember only snippets but what they are I can only speculate.