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Remember Me
Ch 3: Jealous
Ty's POV
My phone rings, and I pull it out of my pocket quickly. "Hey, what's up?" I ask.
"I think we might have found a way to make everyone remember Sky. However, we will need to do it before the end of the week, or the last save of Sky's data in our memories will be lost," Seto says, speaking quickly. "Can you be here in twenty minutes?"
"Oh, yeah, of course! Ashley, Alesa, Sky, and I are just sitting around."
"Brilliant. How are you guys doing?"
"Pretty well. Sky and Alesa are playing… something." I smile slightly. "Sky seems happy."
"I was actually wondering if you guys were remembering anything, or if Sky was starting to, I don't know, disappear or something, but that's cute that his happiness is already at the top of your priorities list."
"Seto," I say, hating the way my face heats up.
"Right, sorry, I'm gone," he laughs through the phone. "See you in twenty."
"We've got twenty min-" I begin as I put my phone back in my pocket.
"I heard," Ashley laughs, rolling her eyes. "Turn your volume down, you dork. We can go in a second."
I tilt my head. "Why are we waiting?"
"Just… Look at them," she says quietly. "Look at her." Ashley smiles a little bit as she watches Alesa run after Sky. "Notch, you don't realize how lucky you are," she whispers.
"Me?" I ask, furrowing my eyebrows as I glance toward her.
"Yeah, you. She really, for real, fell in love with you after she started taking her medicine."
"That doesn't make me lucky," I reply, frowning. "I mean, she's one of my best friends, but… I don't like her like that."
"I do," Ashley sighs, her eyes glued to the far-away form of a laughing Alesa.
My eyes go wide. "You- You like Alesa?"
"Eh. More like 'love,'" Ashley laughs sadly. "Since we were young. She never seems to notice."
"Why- Wait, what? If you've been in love with her all this time, then- why did you want us 'bonding' back around the time we met Tyler?"
"She was so sad without you…"
"O-Oh. But you- she was in love with me. Why would you encourage me to hang out with her? What if I'd fallen in love, too, and we'd ended up dating?"
"Then she would've been happy," Ashley says, shrugging. "And that would've been good enough."
"I've never shipped anything harder," I mumble, studying Ashley's face as she laughs but continues to watch Alesa.
After a while, she turns her head to look at me. "What?"
"I just- I think you'd be good together."
"Thus the shipping."
"Well, yeah, but- I think you'd be good for her."
Ashley shrugs helplessly and looks down at the ground.
"Why don't you tell her?" I ask.
She snorts. "What, and get my heart broken? Nah."
"Seems like your heart's already been broken."
"Yeah, but… But telling her would be worse. She'd feel bad for me. She'd move out."
"She wouldn't."
"She might."
"She might not. When did you get so serious?"
She laughs again. "I have a habit of putting up a huge wall a lot of the time? I hide behind this dumb, oblivious version of myself as though that'll protect me, and- and it doesn't. But I keep it up anyways, because that's how everyone knows me now."
"I think I like this you a little bit better."
"Alesa's seen both sides of me. She doesn't seem to like either one all that much."
"Well, I wouldn't say that," I snort. "She cares about you, at least as a friend. And when you allowed her to move back in with you after the whole crazy Alesa deal – she remembers that. That really left an impact on her."
"You think so?"
"Obviously. I think you should tell her."
Ashley sighs and stands up. "Maybe someday."
"Maybe today?" I ask, standing up as well and walking with her toward Sky and Alesa.
"Definitely not today," she laughs.
"Alesa!" Sky shouts, sounding terribly offended, and Ashley and I have to take a moment to laugh at the sight of Alesa pinning Sky to the ground. "No fair, you totally cheated!"
"Pfft," Alesa says, making a very odd face. "Your face totally cheated!"
"What!? How can you possibly be making less sense than me!? I'm supposed to be the confusing one!"
"And I'm the confused one," Ashley butts in, chuckling shamefully. "What just happened?"
"I won, that's what," Alesa replies, sticking her nose in the air. "Come on, see, Ashley, I pinned him for like twenty seconds! That's a win, right?"
"I dunno," Ashley shrugs, grinning goofily. "I don't really understand boxing."
"It's wrestling," Alesa groans.
"I thought those were the same thing?"
"Oh my Notch, Ashley," Alesa groans even louder, and Ashley winks at me.
"Ty!" Sky shouts suddenly, pushing Alesa off of him and ignoring the "oof" sound she makes as she hits the ground and glares at him. "Ty, guess what!?"
"Um, what..?"
"Alesa remembered me!"
"Yeah!" Alesa shouts, jumping up and brushing herself off. "He was babbling-"
"I was not babbling!"
"-about budder, and then I kind of flashbacked to a budder sword against my neck back in the squid's base, and-"
"And now she remembers everything!" Sky finishes excitedly, bouncing up and down, and I laugh and shake my head.
"That's great, Sky. Now, uh, if you don't mind, Seto wanted us back at his lab within the next ten minutes."
"Oh, okay!" he says, walking next to me as I start toward the lab. "How come?"
"He thinks he might have found a way to make everyone remember you," I reply, trying to ignore the way his hand brushes up against mine, trying to ignore how Sky walks just a little closer to me afterwards.
"Nice!" he yells excitedly, and I cringe and press my headphones against my ears. "Heh. Sorry."
"It's fine. Ashley, Alesa, you coming?"
"Yeah, yeah, be patient!" Alesa huffs in response, so I roll my eyes and keep walking.
Once more, Sky's hand brushes against mine, and I flinch and take a step to the side. "U-Um, personal space, if you don't mind."
"Oh." He smiles, though it's clearly fake, and a terrible guilty feeling appears in the pit of my stomach. I made him sad. I did that. Oh, Notch. Should I have let him stay so close? I mean, we've only known each other for – well, not even two days yet. I shouldn't be craving his touch like I so clearly am – oh, Notch, I did not just think that. "Yeah. Sorry," Sky finishes, snapping me out of my internal freak out.
"It's fine," I squeak, and he tilts his head in adorable confusion.
"You okay..?"
"Uh-huh! Uh, we'd better hurry, we're gonna be late," I stammer, sprinting off towards Seto's lab and leaving Sky in the dust.
Sky's POV
"Man, I don't think it gets more obvious than that," Alesa laughs, and I frown.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean he's falling, Sky. You'll have him back in no time at all, regardless of whether or not this memory thing works."
"Falling- for me?" I ask, my eyes going wide. "Oh, I don't think so. Did you hear any of that? I got too close, and he flipped out and ran away. I don't know where you're from, but here in Minecraftia, that's one of those things that implies someone doesn't like you. Like, at all." I clear my throat after noticing how close I am to a voice break. Ty doesn't like me. Like, at all.
"You're overthinking this."
"I am not!"
"Are too."
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
"All right, kids, calm down," Ashley snorts, rolling her eyes and walking past us to open the door to the lab. "Be on your best behavior."
"'Be on your best behavior,'" I mimic her childishly, and Alesa laughs while Ashley just smiles and rolls her eyes again.
The three of us walk toward the sound of voices – Seto, Tyler, Brice, and Ty, I think. When Ashley, Alesa, and I enter the room, those four are bustling around doing who knows what, casting spells and reaching to top shelves and mumbling about monsters or something.
"Hey!" I greet them, plopping down in a spinny chair and leaving Alesa to glare at me.
"Sky," Seto replies, nodding toward me in greeting. "Tyler, you must remember the general location, at least."
"I-I'm sorry, I can't!" Tyler says frantically, pulling at his hair. "I'm so sorry, I- it was in the middle of nowhere, I just looked for the coordinates, but I can't remember them now, I- Oh, this is all my fault-"
"Woah, shh, it's all right," I say softly, walking over and placing a hand on his shoulder. "What's wrong?"
"We need to locate Dawn's old lab by the end of the week, or I seriously doubt you have any chance of being remembered," Seto explains.
"But Alesa remembered me!" I protest.
Seto stops to look up at me for a moment. "Oh? Well. Perhaps, if one's memories were not entirely erased, one could jog said memories by creating new ones of the same sort-"
"Oh my Notch, Seto, dumb it down a little," Brice groans from across the room, and Seto frowns.
"I wasn't using really big words-"
"Oh, please do not start using 'really' big words," Brice begs with wide eyes, and Seto laughs.
"Sure. Anyways, we'll need to locate Dawn's lab, regardless. I doubt those who had their memories more thoroughly erased – for example, Ty – will be able to remember on their own. Dawn may have had a sort of cure-all in case of a problem like ours."
"But I can't remember where it is," Tyler wails, and, wow, I've never seen him like this.
"Hey, it's all right. How'd you find out in the first place?" I ask, putting a hand on both of his shoulders and forcing him to look me in the eye.
"I- I- Dawn set up her email so that if it were unused for more than three months, it would send me an email with the lab coordinates in it."
"All right! Do you still have the email?"
"U-Um- no? But, but I saved the coordinates in a separate document on my computer!"
"Great, where's your computer?"
"Uh, back at my old house."
My smile drops. "In your old city?"
"Yeah."
"Care to take us on a city tour?" I ask, grinning again, and Tyler laughs.
"Haha, wow!" Alesa says loudly. "It sure is a good thing that none of us are, oh, I don't know, super jealous of each other for attracting a certain boy's attention! Haha, good thing we're not like that! Haha, especially not Ty haha!"
Ty stomps on Alesa's foot and then grins apologetically at me. "Sorry. I think she's sleep deprived. Um, you were saying something about a city..?"
Ty's POV
"I was not jealous!" I hiss at her as we leave the lab in search of Jason.
"Ha, sure," Alesa snorts, hanging back with me behind the rest of our group. "Because you were gripping that fermented spider eye so hard that your knuckles turned white and fluids from the eye splattered all over your shirt… for the fun of it. Obviously."
"S-Shut up, Alesa," I grumble, and she laughs all the way to Jason's house.
