Thai Food Is Just Gross

I'm back in LA. I'm working on some long project with part of the Twilight cast. Robert Pattinson randomly walks up to me on this particular day because he felt like he could confide in me about his recent break up. I'm trying to avoid discussing it, so I start blathering on about needing to find an apartment and the area I'm looking in, price range, what I want yadda yadda, when my little sister Katie shows up across the soccer field we're shooting on. I completely stop what I'm doing. We run toward each other and meet in a giant hug. I ask her what she's doing there, and between her usual giddy, easily-excited laughter, she explains that her parents sent her out to see me for the week because the other two sisters are too busy to watch her. I don't even care about all the things wrong with this statement, I'm just ecstatic she's there in front of me.

At the same time, Rob walks up and asks me to lunch. Katie looks at him like she's a little annoyed that he interrupted our reunion. I explain to him that she just arrived and he starts to act all nervous Edward Cullenish and says she should come too. He glances at her and smiles like she should be uber grateful and then checks his Blackberry. I look down at her and she shrugs and says that's fine, she's hungry and grabs my hand.

We all walk to the parking lot as Rob continues to check his Blackberry the whole time. While never looking up, he says he's going to take us to a great place he knows where we won't be bothered with fans and stuff. Plus it goes by a few apartments he wants to suggest to me. I'm barely listening to him because I'm asking Katie how her flight was and if she was incredibly nervous on a plane alone since she's only 11 years old.

We get to the "great" lunch destination and it's in Koreatown. Robert jumps out of the car, never glancing up from that damn Blackberry, and walks away. I get Katie out, take her hand and ask her if she saw where he went and she leads me after him. All I can think about is getting to a table and ordering so I can talk to her. We walk into this "great" restaurant that appears to serve some sort of... Thai food. Rob has ordered for all of us and is sitting at a table. I just stare down at the food and then at him. He briefly looks up from his Blackberry and I ask him "Really? She's 11. She won't eat this". He looks all apologetic, but Katie explains that it's fine, she'll eat whatever. He launches a gorgeous smile at her and I look down to see if she's totally swooning and she's just beaming up at me as if he doesn't exist and she can not wait for me to sit down so she can crawl all over me like she usually does.

I take a seat and we just giggle and hug each other and she clings to me like she hasn't seen me in a hundred years. I'm counting every new little freckle on her nose and twirling her perfectly blond hair and looking into her backlit blue eyes. Rob starts to ask her about school and regular little girl stuff, but she can't even look over at him. She's completely mesmerized by me. I try to take my eyes off of her long enough to apologize to him for the lack of conversation, but I just can't. We keep on hugging and giggling and gazing at each other. Katie keeps her arms around my neck, but I finally tear my eyes away from hers long enough to acknowledge Rob and he's smiling and says "you look so happy". I say "I haven't seen her since July. I am beyond happy". I look back to Katie and I cover her face in kisses while she laughs. And then I wake up.

I lied there, dissecting the dream. I related the meaning of every part of it to my current life. And then I smiled, reached for my phone, texted Katie that I miss her and love her, and went back to sleep to try to see her, not Robert Pattinson, back in dreamland.