Recalling Memories
Chapter 1: The Perfect Gift
Aeris pulled a key out of her pocket and pushed it into the slot, turned it and walked in.
THUNK!
"Ow!"
"Crap! Aeris! Sorry!" Leo ran up.
"What the hello, Leo? Why'd you throw your controller at me?"
"I didn't mean to! I kept getting killed and I got angry enough to throw the controller and-"
"And it nailed me in the head."
"Exactly! You have the worst timing."
She groaned. "It's... all right. I guess." She slapped him across the face. "Now it's good."
"Ow..."
"I'll be in my room, don't disturb me. I mean it this time!"
"What are you going to do... oh, I get it. OK, I'll give ya some peace and quiet... want some por-"
"Shut up!" She slammed her door.
Leo grabbed the controller and sat back on the couch.
Aeris kicked the pillow on the floor in frustration. "Five seconds! Already! Could he be any more of an imbecile?" She shook her head. "Calm down. Calm down." She sighed and laid down on her bed.
She had planned of walking in happily and working on her fanfic. Needless to say, the 'happy' part had already been diminished.
She drifted into a sleep, buried in her thoughts, which would evolve from anger.
Aeris walked down the school hall, smiling, as she headed for her next class.
It seemed a normal day as any... but...
Push! Aeris lurched forward and dropped her book as someone shoved her from behind.
"Ah! What the hell, Snake, you big jerk!"
"On the battlefield, you have to aware of your surroundings at all times. Attack can come from any-"
"ALARM!" An unfamiliar voice erupted from behind Snake.
He quickly turned right, and jumped into a locker, then the boy who yelled locked it.
"Falls for it every time." He said smugly, grabbing her book. "Here, you dropped this."
She took it slowly.
"See ya."
Her breathing grew heavy, and her eyes shrank as the blood began to pool into her cheeks making her blush. She held the book to her chest, and turned around, then walked on.
BOOM!
"AAH!"
A large crash of thunder erupted outside of her window, forcing Aeris awake.
She quickly sat up in her bed, and looked around her darkened room.
She recalled her dream, and looked at the clock.
3:12 A.M.
"Ugh..." she looked down at the pool of sweat which now drenched her covers.
A knock was heard at the door.
"Aeris?" Leo called, "You OK? I heard screaming."
"Y-yeah... i'm all right. Just a dream."
"OK." He left. Aeris stood up in her bed then waked into the kitchen to get a glass of milk. She poured it and thought about the dream. It was just a memory.
But an ,oh, so important one.
She drank from the glass with a strange look of confusion, and, within the hour, her feelings for the stupid little gray cat returned. Just like in Elementary. She sighed. She was tired, and cold. As well as the downpour which had begun outside. She went back to her room for a rest.
After a few hours she awoke in her bed. The dreams had gone, but the ground was covered in a fest blanket of frost, which later today would turn into snow...
No, forget later. She saw snowflakes already falling.
Outside, she saw a blonde man, driving down the road at 10 kilometers an hour, and driving with his ass. Then he almost ran over a man with pants on his head.
She raised an eyebrow, then walked into the kitchen where two cups of coffee sat. She switched the two cups, as Leo was out of the room and she knew he'd been peeing in her coffee since the whole "Boxors-o-Roxors" ordeal. She took a sip and sighed.
"Aeris!" he said, walking back in, "Merry Christmas!"
"It's Christmas eve."
"It is?" "Yes!"
"Merry Christmas eve!"
"ugh..." "Hey, I been thinkin', wanna go down to the game store later tonight?"
"Sure. Sounds like fun." He smiled and walked off, leaving her to his coffee.
"Ptoo! Ack! Damn! What flavor coffee is this?"
Aeris chuckled.
-[Later that night]-
Leo and Aeris, wrapped in their overprotective winter gear, walked up the the Game Store and went in. Aeris went over to the game stands to find something while Leo played the Guitar Hero demo on the side.
Aeris browsed through the games, looking for something, and that's when she spotted it.
Dungeon Guy 3
Aeris grabbed it with a wide smile. "Ooooh..."
She tucked the game under her arm and reached into her pocket for some cash, but when she opened the little froggy pouch, nothing.
She gave it an angry stare, put it back, became sad, shoved her hands in her pocket and walked off.
Leo quickly ran up to look at the game she had taken up. He smiled.
He pulled his wallet out and, again, found nothing. The game was 50 dollars, but Leo wouldn't give up that easily.
He ran out the door, made a left in the street, then up to a construction site.
"Hey, sir, can I help out here?"
The monkey gave him a weird stare. "Bucket."
"hmm?"
"Get my poo. Put in bucket."
"I pay you 5 dollars, give you shovel."
He did the task unhappily, took the money, then ran off.
After a quick sprint, he ran up to a man on the side of the road.
"Hey, kid, wanna make a few bucks?"
"Totally!"
"All right, take my bike, run my bike route. I'll give ya 10 bucks."
He grabbed the bike, delivered papers down the street, then was chased for an hour by a lawnmower.
"Done...!"
"Here."
Cha-Ching
Leo took the money, but sadly, he had nowhere else to make any.
He had one choice. He jumped into the Mario world.
He killed a Goomba, over a hole, then over to a block. Punched it a few times, got some coins, then back through the portal. He jumped into the Conker Universe, grabbed some of the cigar-smoking, bad talking money, then jumped back through.
He ran back into the store, bought the game, then out.
A few hours later, Aeris unlocked the door to their apartment, walked in still kind of sad, then shut the door.
She walked into Leo, drooling on himself, on the couch. He hadn't even taken his clothes off.
Aeris gave him a stare, then walked into her room.
She flicked the light on, then saw a brightly colored present hanging from the lamp.
She smiled at the tag.
"From Leo"
She retracted her claws, ripped it open, and looked at the game.
Dungeon Guy 2
The wrong number, right game.
She frowned at the game, then looked at the tag again.
"From Leo..."
She smiled, held the game to her chest, closed her eyes, and shed a tear.
She grabbed a piece of paper, wrote "Merry Christmas" on it, put some tape on it, taped it to Leo's arm, kissed his forehead, then went into her room to play the game.