I was in a game, only it seemed more real than it ended up being. There was
some kind of strategy; I had a goal, but I don't know what it was. I only know that I had to shoot people and get past them.
So, I got the gun out of the trunk of my car and loaded it. All I had to do to reload was pull the thing back -- you know the thing? I don't know the name for it. But by sliding it back toward me, all the chambers were somehow reloaded, like in the arcade game where you shoot people, and then you have to shoot over to the side to reload your gun. I thought of that, in my dream, while I was reloading.
The gun I had was a revolver that I kept calling a Glock. There was a clear plastic casing over the chamber, and I could see the bullets in there. I shot at someone, and the gun fired but nothing happened. It was a friend of mine, but nobody I know in real life, just a dream friend. I wasn't convinced that the bullets weren't real, so I was glad I missed her because I liked her and didn't want her to get hurt.
For a long time, I was shooting at my friend. Whenever I aimed correctly, a bruise would appear on her face or blood would seep out of her clothing. She let me look up close, even though that wasn't good strategy for either of us, and I couldn't tell how it was makeup but she said it was and that it didn't hurt.
She was shooting at me all this time, too, and every time she hit me I got a little light-headed. Then we realized that we were standing still and shooting at each other, so we started running back and forth, steadying our right hands with our left forearms and still shooting. I thought it would look cool if I pretended I were in a John Woo movie and held my gun sideways, but I didn't because I wouldn't be able to aim as well and I wanted to win.
All I needed was to hit her one more time in the head and she'd have to fall down and I could move on to the next part of the game. But when I pulled the trigger, nothing happened. I could see through the clear plastic casing that there was one bullet left, but it wouldn't shoot. I kept trying to reload, and no bullets showed up. This went on for a very, very long time. Me firing and firing and no bullets coming out and then trying to reload and firing again...
Finally, I lifted the plastic casing over the chamber and rotated the chamber by hand. There was a plastic cog there for this purpose, like the ones on paper towel dispensers for when the paper towels get stuck. The last bullet finally fired and I was able to reload the gun. I still couldn't hit my friend, though. The overall tone was one of frustration. I never did manage to kill her.