-Shelby's place-
Why isn't Cyd calling me back, her roommate sounded a bit rude, maybe we don't get along well – Shelby started what could be a theory in her mind.
She woke up the first thing she did was call Cyd, she looked through her computer, cellphone but nothing seemed meaningful. Some pictures of her in class with some people, she tried to see the numbers on her phone, she found Barry's, but when she called there was no answer, and she tried a couple of times. No sign of Naldo on her list and messages, well, when she tried to send Cyd one, right after she sent and it was received by the other phone, her message was deleted, she then found that it was programmed to delete all messages something to do with space, there were videos though. Lots of videos from her classes, from what she could see, she was studying to be an Architect. And she really liked that idea.
She found her class schedule, and she had calculus in the morning she decided to go and see if she could discover something, she looked around to see if she had a car, looking for car keys or documents, but nothing, she didn't even know where the building of her class was. But she decided to leave the apartment anyway, staying in wasn't helping unless she could talk to Cyd.
She decided to call again when leaving. This time, Cyd answered.
*Shelbs! God, I completely forgot about my phone. Someone* and she said that out loud *woke me up calculating my minutes to wake up take a shower and have breakfast, and to top it all of she threw a bucket of water on me!*
"The only way to get her out of bed fast enough, she knows it!" Cassie yelled so Shelby could hear over the phone
*That's actually a good idea, I think I'll try it next…*
*No you won't*
"Cyd, the test!" That's enough – Cyd thought
"I don't care about the dam test Cassie, go on I'll talk to Shelby, you're the one who can't miss It" The heel with it, when I go back in time it won't matter
"I don't know why I even bother" Cassie said rolling her eyes and continued walking towards a big building
*Okay Shelbs, now I'll try to find a place to be alone so we can talk about everything* She said walking around when she saw a space between two buildings and she ran to it.
*Good, I'm already alone*
*I think I'm good* Cyd double checked and nobody was there
*Finally we get to talk, what do you know? *
*Well, I'm probably at a college or university, a place to study because I just lost a test. I have a roommate that gets stressed very easily* She took a deep breath thinking about the girlfriend and anniversary thing, she didn't get the chance to talk to Cassie about it. *My taste in clothes hasn't changed…*
*My turn! * Cyd was relieved with the interruption *I passed to Yale! * Cyd could picture Shelby jumping around like crazy *aaaaaaaaaaand, I've got a boyfriend! * Ate that comment Cyd almost choke. *but I couldn't find a picture of him on my phone, and that's weird right? I thought that if I had a boyfriend there would be pictures of us all over the place together with my pictures with you*
*That makes sense, but Shelby, how did you discover you have a boyfriend? *
*I saw that I'm in a relationship on Facebook* Shelby said like it's the obvious answer. Cyd automatically got her phone and checked hers. No surprise, in a relationship too, what was weird was that Shelby didn't see this.
*Did you check anybody else's Facebook account? * Now that Shelby thought of it, no she didn't, why didn't she do that? *Shelby? Still there? *
*yeah yeah, sorry, no I didn't I think I was trying to discover who my boyfriend was*
*ooooohhh I remembered something* Cyd said
*What? *
*No, I mean I remembered something from a couple of weeks ago, like a memory*
*What? * Shelby was confused how was she able to, maybe *So Cyd when we get back to a time when we didn't exist we forget each other and anything related to our lives right?* She was on to something and Cyd got her lead
*So maybe when we go to a distant future and stay for a while we remember our lives instead of forgetting! Shelby you're a genius! * It totally made sense now
*No I'm not, you are! I wanna hug you*
*I wanna hug you too! *
*Cyd, how are we going to meet? *
*I don't know, I'll try to find my parents, you said that you passed to Yale so you're there, Its more than what I know about where I am. *
*So you'll meet me here? *
*If I find them and they pay the ticket yes, I have no idea if a I work, If I have money*
*Me neither, I'll try mine, but what do we say? It's the middle of September. *
*Difficult, I don't have a car, at least, if had one I think Cassie would've said something instead of making me walk to class. *
*Another thing. I have Barry's number, but he doesn't answer to me, maybe, he changed numbers I don't know. And no sign of Naldo *
*Alright, we'll see that, they are the only ones we can talk to about our situation. But our top priority is trying to meet* Cyd said, once they meet it would all be over
*Okay, got it. Call whenever possible okay? *
*Alright Shelbs, you too. Miss you. *
*Miss you more*
And they hang up. Shelby continued to walk to what she thought was her way to class. She tried to call Barry again, and this time he answered
*Hi* That was very cold, even for Barry.
*Finally Barry, I was starting to think that you had changed your number*
*Maybe I should've, so, why are you calling? * His voice was so weird, of course apart from being an adult voice, it was clod and rude, like he didn't want to talk to her
*Why are you talking like this? *
*Shelby we haven't spoken in years, why are you calling me now? * hold on a sec, years?!
*What do you mean years?! Did we fight? Did something happen, something must've happened, what was it? *
*Shelby I'm not up for that ok, don't play the amnesia card. *
*What?! Wait Barry I don't remember, really, Cyd and I just time traveled to this time, but we're separated, and we don't know what to do
*Time traveled, you two stopped that even before we stopped talking*
*Barry, listen to me, yesterday we were in 2015 going to school and Cyd wanted to go to a party that we weren't old enough, so she time traveled to a time when we're old enough, but we're not together! *
*I wasn't expecting that*
*So can we meet? I mean do you go to Yale too? *
*Yes I go to Yale, alright, let's meet, cafeteria for lunch? I'm not gonna miss class because of you*
*Where is it?"
*Oh shoot, you don't know. Okay leave your building, let's hope you didn't move the past few years. Turn right and walk past 4 blocks, turn right, 2 more blocks and you'll see. It's called Luigi's.*
*I think I got it, right 4 blocks right 2 blocks*
*That's it, meet me there around noon*
*I'll be there*
He hung up the phone right after that, something really serious might've happened for him to stop talking to her like that. Shelby decided to call Cyd and tell her about that conversation.
After talking to Shelby on the phone, Cyd tried to see if she could find Cassie, she walked a bit there was no sign of her, she saw not very far a snack bar and decided to stay there for a while to gather some thoughts, as soon as she started walking her phone rang.
*Shelbs! That was fast*
*SO here's something weird, Barry answered my call…*
*I'm waiting for the weird part…*
*That he didn't want to talk to me, his tone of voice was like talking to me was the worst thing ever*
*Well, Barry's always been weird when it comes to socializing, but the way you described seems a little too much even for him*
*Yeah right, and it looks like we haven't talked in years and to top it all of, he also said that we haven't time traveled in a long time, it took him a while to believe that we time traveled.*
* One more topic to our list*
*What list?*
*Things we have to understand about this time* Cyd said Like it was obvious
*Amazing idea Cyd! What else is there on the list?*
*Where I am, for instance*
*That one is good, oh and also who's my boyfriend. Weird that I haven't heard from him, isn't it?*]
*very weird, very…* Trying to understand how we became grilfriends is another topic but I won't mention until I understand things better, eventually she'll realize there's something wrong with a bf that doesn't call or show up for that matter
*And also, after believing me barry scheduled lunch with me today, we'll see how that goes"
*Call right after that*
*Of course*
*Look shelbs, I think someone is waving at me, I'm going to see who that is and if I find out something else.*
*Oh ok, Bye Cyd, love ya*
*Bye shelbs, love ya too*