Alone
Chapter 1, Noble Prize
Kyle POV
It has been 8 years, 2 hours and 25 minutes since I saw her last she is up there giving a speech. We are at Stockholm, Sweden, where she is being honored with the Nobel Prize of Medicine for her genetic accomplishments of turning genes on and off. Thanks to her discoveries illnesses will soon be a thing of the past the technology is already being used to cure HIV and several types of cancer. She is working to apply it to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's. That will probably get her a second Nobel Prize in the future.
She is as beautiful as I remembered her, no what am I saying she is absolutely stunning, she is truly a woman of beauty and wisdom. I am listening to her speech, not once has she taken credit for her discoveries, she instead has been thanking her colleges and the pharmaceutical company that she works for. She is so passionate, she has been explaining her discoveries and her hope is to eradicate illness in the next 50 years.
She is now leaving the podium under a loud round of applause. Her movements are full of security, yet so feminine, they almost brings me to tears. How could I have missed my love for her so many years ago, how is it that I let her escape. No, that is not right, why did I push her away and abandoned her, how could I have been so blind? I have been paying for the consequences of my mistakes almost since she left. Will I ever get another chance?
Jessi POV
It has been 8 years, 3 hours and 42 minutes since I saw him last. I cannot help but to feel proud of him, even if he will never be mine. He is at the podium receiving the Nobel Prize of Peace, for being able to peacefully solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and for bringing sustained peace to the Middle East.
I am sure Amanda and the Trager's are here, feeling proud of him and encouraging him. I hope he is happy with her. I have always wished Kyle the best, and if the best for him is Amanda, then be it. How could I ever compare to her anyway, she is Kyle's first love, and has a pure hearth. But I have a piece of Kyle that no one will ever be able to take away from me. One is sitting at my right and the other one at my left, they are so proud of me. They have told all their classmates how their mommy is a "note prize winner", something like winning the lottery I heard them explain.
I do not know what I am going to do at the banquet, how can I see all these people from my past at once? I am happy that Roger is here with me, he is only a friend to me, but I know he wants more. He once told me he is not going to stop trying until is clear to him that there is no hope. How can I lie to him, and pretend to love him when my heart is stuck with someone from my past? I am thankful that he is here. I am sure everyone will assume that my children are his. I don't want to cause any problems to Kyle.
Kyle looks so mature, his eyes show wisdom, but I am surprised to see so much pain in them. I wonder where the pain comes from. Is it from all that he has seen while helping others to attain peace? How has it been for him? Always so sensitive to be in war zones and to witness others die. No matter the pain in his eyes he is absolutely stunning, the tan on his skin, his well-defined muscles, the way that he moves. It is funny that the term Greek god comes to mind, Hillary use to call him that. I have not thought about Hillary in years.
I am here immersed in my thoughts and I think I missed most of his speech. I will have to replay it tonight. Holographic memory certainly has its advantages. I am already teaching Sarah and Brian to use it. It was them that gave me the idea that has won me the Nobel Prize. They are as smart and strong as me and Kyle, but they were never in the Pod, that is when I started looking in to genetics to explain it. Sure enough it had to do with epigenetics and the silencing or activation of regions of the genetic code. From there it was just a small leap to learn how to turn genes on and off at will.
Please Review, tell me what you think. I don't have a beta reader for this story. English is my second language
