"In the city of fools, I was careful and cool, but they tore me apart like a hurricane." ~ Therapy; All Time Low.
There is a tear.
And it's so unusual, so heart wrenchingly cruel that he has to flinch, as if someone is doing it just to get on his one and last nerve.
It's so rare and... annoying, he has to turn around or his curiosity will never leave and will eventually get the better of him.
The girl's face is red and irritated, and what seem to be angry tears are pooling down her face. She's ripped the paper into billions of pieces, as if to tell him she is unhappy with something - perhaps his decision on the cast.
He's seen this before. It's the temper tantrum that 'starlets in the making' (also known as the ones who think they're 'it-girls') throw every time they don't get the part they want.
Who is this girl and why is she here? And what's made her so angry?
Too hard to tell. Curtis doesn't get girls, and they don't get him. It's always been that way - and maybe they got him a little more throughout the years, maybe he got them just a little more. But, for now, he's still unsure of why the girl is acting this way.
What makes it even worse is that this is someone he's never met, and a temper tantrum doesn't make her shine - it makes her look spoiled rotten.
He can't quite recall her name, as it seems he doesn't need to, because as quick as she came, she just left. But she threw the paper on his desk first, of course.
He looks at his cast - Rosa as the lead - and doesn't know why it has upset the other girl he's never met.
Though the girl had been pretty - pink hair that fell delicately, eyes that seemed normally gentle and something about that had seemed familiar.
...What was her name? Didn't he know?
...Oh, that's right, he had never met her.
He must've been living in the city of fools, because he was certainly the king fool! They used to plaster her picture everywhere - in every magazine and every billboard he had ever seen.
She was an it-girl! From this city, too!
He slapped his forehead - damn it, he was so stupid!
And she was certainly enchanting. He had remembered seeing her in various movies, always playing the lead romance role.
.
.
They know each other - or at least she knows him, and he refuses to know her.
She kissed him, but no luck.
Curtis wouldn't remember his best friend, not even how hard the doctors had tried - no matter how hard she tried.
And she would never forgive herself for letting Curtis slip right out of her hands as the Ferris wheel broke down and he fell off.
...Yancy wished she had been the one that had fallen off - but he tried so hard to save her. And it wasn't her fault.
Their city was getting older... And so were they. As the Ferris wheel rusted, so did his old life and memories.
He would always be stuck in the city of fools with amnesia. But she'd stay with him.