Deep memories
In an apartment somewhere in the city of New York, a tall and dark skinned woman, stood in front of a small vanity mirror hung on the wall, fixing a small coloured contact round her eye. She twiddled with it in annoyance causing her shocking plain white, pupil-less eyes to show. She span the contact back into position, a dark brown iris and a deep black pupil to cover her real eye, and held back her hair placing in a small black hair bobble in her hair. She walked over to the wardrobe smiling and opened the door, her smile faded as in front of here stood a large yellow outfit with long black stripes streaking the sides. See could see, just by looking in it lots of bad and evil memories of who she used to be, changing master like the seasons, kneeling by the dragon kings side before fleeing, scared for her life, and also seeing Reiko on the beach. She pushed back the offending garment, tears welling up in her eyes, and picked out a simple plain purple T-Shirt and jeans combo. She put them on slowly, picked up a couple of black shoes and slid them onto her feet. She headed for the door, stopped once to pick up her small handbag, and left the apartment.
'What's the matter Jean?' Asked her friend, Paula, as they sat down at a nearby café. The woman thought.
'I'm fine' She forced a smile, Paula however was no fool, She could see something was very wrong. She shook she blonde hair out of the ponytail she had set it in.
'Jean? Come on… Tell me whats up?' Suddenly Paula seemed to notice somebody at the other end of the café. 'Tanya!'
Tanya… The very name Jean used to have for her own, she remembered that name and remembered bad, awful memories. Memories she wished could be erased from time itself, but as all knows, you cannot change the past. And with all the past memories, something would come eventually.
Jean walked down the cold pavement, a cold sick feeling in her stomach. She stared down at the ground as she walked giving the signal 'Fuck you'. She thought to herself 'What the hell am I doing, I shoulnt be remembering the past' She looked up as she turned a corner. She next thing she knew she was flat on her back, a gloved had reaching out for her. She clasped the hand and was brought up immediately. Jean shook her head, her vision coming back to her, and as it cleared she saw a quite handsome looking man, two short blond locks waving over his forehead. The rest of his hair obscured by a black baseball cap.
'Are you okay' He asked comfortingly
'Yes… Yes I'm fine' she said smiling.
'Ah that's good' Clarity suddenly registered with him 'Oh im Kurtis, sorry about that'
'Tan…' She stopped, saying that name would be suicide 'Jean' they shook hands smiling.
She went back into her apartment and took off her coat, a small note quickly fell out of the jacket. She sped down to pick it up and read it. It was his number! She put it in the paper bin immediately, ignoring it, she didn't want a relationship, not when she still felt these feelings. She went to bed. Wanting a small nap. She had to get herself a job soon.
As she slept she dreamt. She was back on the beach, it was completely empty, all that she could hear was the soft splashing of wave's of water hitting the soft and golden sand. The clear blue water reflected the sun many times though the waves creating tiny tunnels of light reflecting off the surface of the liquid. Suddenly somebody tapped her on the shoulder, it was Reiko. His calm face looked down at Tanya's and smiled. Tanya span round, hugged and kissed him, eventually they were both rolling on the sand in a sweet and passionate embrace and with her holding him like she just never wanted to let go. Suddenly what was then a calm wind began to spit and throw itself into a wild fury. Both Tanya and Reiko got up in alert, Tanya looked around frightened. The sea had turned unforgiving, the waves splashing against the sand in hard waves, spitting pebbles like bullets. A lone, blurry green figure could be seen across the sand, the feeling of hate rising from the body. Suddenly a spattering of bullets flew across the beach and everything slowed down as the bullets reached both Tanya and Reiko. Jean screamed as she woke up; sweat dripping in beads down her forehead. She ran to the bathroom and soaked her face with a wet towel and looked towards the mirror. She broke down into helpless tears, not knowing what to do.