My OC
Trina Ola-She's about Lady Gobbler's height, has gray hair with a mixture of pink in a bun, dark brown skin, hazel eyes, and wears a red and pink one piece dress and a green sweater.
Carlos-A man with light brown skin, tall, muscular, smooth black hair, and green eyes. He wears a brown leather jacket, black shirt, blue jeans, and brown boots.
(5 years and 8 months ago)
At the bookstore, Maria is dusting off the old books. While she is doing this, her boss comes in.
Maria said "Morning Ms. Ola."
Trina said rubbing her eyes "Morning Maria."
Maria asked "Are you alright?"
Trina said about to head upstairs "Yeah, just had a rough night; stayed up too late watching my favorite movies. Anyway, someone is going to pick up a few books from me; if she ask about me, let me know."
Maria said "Sure."
Then suddenly, someone came in. When Maria turned her head, she became entranced by the appearance of this man for a few seconds. Before she started fantasizing about him, Ola said his name.
Trina said "Carlos, welcome back."
Carlos said "Thank you Ola. It's good to be back." He then looks at Maria and says "I don't think I've seen you before. What is your name?"
Maria said "Maria Equihua. I've lived here for almost two years now.:
Carlos said after kissing her hand "It is a pleasure to meet you, Ms. Maria."
Maria said "Thank you."
Carlos asked "Do you know where I can find the book "Eternal Tomorrow?"
Maria said "Yes. It should be under the Drama section on the right."
Carlos said heading to the Drama section "Thank you. Ola always changes up where the books are."
Maria said "She likes to make everyone "work" for their books when they don't ask for her help. So, you're from here?"
Carlos said "Yep. Born and raised. I've come and gone from time to time."
Maria asked "What have you been doing?"
Carlos said showing Maria some photos of himself in different places "I worked as an airline pilot. Seen a lot of places in my life."
Maria said "Looks like you've been all around the world."
Carlos said "I have. But now I've decided to sort of hang up my wings and take up residents here again."
Maria asked "What do you mean sort of give up your wings?"
Carlos said "Well, I still like flying and don't want to give it up just yet. So, I'm going to give rides with my crop duster plane after I fine tune it."
Maria said "Sounds like fun. Maybe you could give me a ride."
Carlos said "Trust me, Maria, you'll be the first to ride it. See you around."
After Carlos left, Maria started to see her palms sweat after meeting Carlos. Her palms only sweat if she started to fall in love with someone, or at the very least have a crush on someone. Maria snapped herself out of this; she told herself that she just met this man and can't be sure if she is actually in love with him. However, she also thought to herself that it's not wrong to have a crush on him and maybe fall in love with a new man; after all, Rodolfo is with Nurse Angel now. It wouldn't be wrong for her to move on as well.
A few hours later, Maria just come back from lunch with one of her friends. As soon as she entered, she ran into someone who she never thought she would see again.
Donna said "Ms. Maria. It's been a long time.
Maria asked "Donna. What are you doing here?
Donna said "I'm here to get some books for my mistress."
Maria said "You mean Alice."
Donna said "Yes, my mistress."
Maria said "You sound more, upbeat than I remember."
Donna said "That's because my mistress managed to find a compatible emotion chip that works for my internal systems. Now I can experience emotions like a regular human. Anyway, is Ms. Ola here? My mistress asked me to get a book from her."
Maria said looking around "She must have stepped out; although, she usually locks up the store when one of us isn't around to watch it. Maybe she's on the phone; I'll be right back."
Maria went to Ola's office to inform her of Donna's presence. When she arrives, she notices passage to a hidden room opened in the office
Maria said "Ms. Ola, the person, or in this case android, is here to get the book she ordered."
Alice said "She knows that Maria; that's why I'm talking to her."
Maria shouted "Alice. Where are you?"
Alice said "On the phone, you cretin. Trina and I were having a conversation that required me to be on speaker phone. So, this is where you ended up."
Maria said "You sound surprised."
Alice said "Rodolfo always assumed that you went somewhere to get away from all the dangers and stress in your life; a place where you could try to forget everything. I told him no place like that exist in this world and you would find that out the hard way; not that I really care what you do."
Maria asked "How is Rodolfo?"
Alice said "He's still with Nurse Angel."
Maria said "I didn't ask that!"
Alice said "But you were thinking it."
Maria said "You don't know that; you can't read a person's mind over the phone."
Alice said "My power isn't exactly mind reading in the manner and you know it; I think I made that perfectly clear during that dinner all those years ago."
Maria said "Either way, I wasn't thinking that."
Alice said "Your lying."
Maria said "Why do you care?"
Alice said "I don't; I was just pointing that out. I don't care what someone like you thinks of me; you have no right to judge the type of person that I am when you are just as bad as me if not worse. If you want to find out how Rodolfo is doing, then do it yourself. Although, it's not like you really cared about him."
Maria shouted "I do care about Rodolfo!"
Alice said "If that's true then why do you still "blame" him for Manny being a supervillain? We both know that's not his fault and it was Manny's choice to be a superhero or a supervillain; no one, not you, me, him, or anyone else could make that choice for him. And even if someone could make it for him, you most certainly couldn't make that choice for him; you don't have the right to decide that for him since you're nothing more than a coward."
Maria said "What about the stuff you've done? I've looked up your exploits and what the other superheroes say about you. If you ask me, you're the real coward."
Alice said "Maybe I am. Difference between you and me, Maria, is I admit that I have problems and that deep down I'm a bad person and I need to change somehow. However, you are just as bad; you think others need to change but your not willing to change yourself when the situation calls for it. The way you are, you're just going to hurt those around you for your kindness and cowardice; just like you hurt Rodolfo, Manny, Selina, Coco, and The Glove of Danger."
Maria said before she was interrupted "Shut you bi…"
Trina said "Enough! Both of you. Maria, give this to Donna. Alice, stop harassing my employee."
Alice said before she hung up "Very well, Trina; I have to go anyway. It was nice talking to you again. Goodbye."
Maria left the office and headed back to Donna to give her the books. Donna then gave Maria the money for them and said goodbye. After she was gone, Trina started coming down the stairs.
Trina said "I know that you never like to mention your past, but I didn't think that you would know Alice."
Maria said "Sadly, I do. I hate that woman. Even though hate is an ugly word, I can easily use it to describe my feelings for her. How do you know Alice?"
Trina explained "Her father and I were close friends before he was killed. Not that this will mean anything, but there is more to Alice than meets eye."
Maria said "Rodolfo told me that once; I didn't believe him"
Trina said "That's understandable. Take the rest of the afternoon off."
Elsewhere, Donna is walking toward an abandoned ally and walk through a portal to Alice's location. Alice appears before her in her wheelchair.
Donna said giving her the books "Here are the books, Mistress Alice."
Alice said "Thank you, Donna."
Donna asked "Are you going to tell White Pantera Maria's location?"
Alice said "Unless he somehow asks about it, no. I ask that you not mention it either.
Donna said "Is it because you don't want to ruin Nurse Angel's relationship with him by bringing her back up?"
Alice said "No; that doesn't matter to me. Rodolfo can be with whomever he wants to be. However, unless Maria decides to change her attitude that won't hurt him, I'll be sure to protect him from her since things are this way. "
Donna asked "So you don't mind if White Pantera and Maria fall in love again in the future if it happens?
Alice said "As long as she doesn't hurt him again, I won't say or do anything. But the way she is now, she will simply hurt him again and I won't let that happen. She has problems that she needs to fix; she should have been aware of that the moment I severed the bond between her and The Glove of Danger. But enough of that; I've got some reading to do."
The few days later, Maria is leaving her house to eat breakfast at the Honeydew café like she does (almost) every Saturday. When she arrived at the café , she saw Carlos sitting at her usual table.
