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Jasper cocked his head at the image of his sister on the laptop's screen. "So they managed to save your eyesight 100%?" he asked.
"They saved my eyes" Reese laughed, throwing up her arms in celebration while Jasper felt a grin break out across his face. It was two weeks since Reese's operation. A few weeks ago she had complained to their dad about she had been starting to lose vision in her left eye and a quick trip to the optician for an eye test had revealed that the retina in her eye had slipped. How Jasper wasn't sure, but she was brought to hospital immediately and had to have an urgent operation to save her eyesight. Fox had phoned him and told him all about it. Reese wanted to talk to him but she wasn't allowed to move at all. Something about not letting the retina slip further. Jasper had wanted to fly out to Oregon to be with his family while Reese had her operation. But the date of her operation was the same day as Maya's memorial and it would have been highly disrespectful if he hadn't been there. Especially as he had organised the whole thing. He had planned to fly out later that day after the memorial.
However that plan had then gotten delayed by two days after the freaky vision of the girl sitting in his seat just before he gave his speech. He remembered blacking out before waking up later in hospital. According to the doctor, since he hadn't divulged the information of the mysterious girl, he hadn't been taking proper care of himself and that was the cause of his fainting. And that news was more than enough to drive his dad crazy and order him to come home at once. But he had missed his flight and the next one wasn't for another two days. It was a productive two days though. He had finally caught up on his school work and had finally managed to pack away the last few reminders of Maya that were in his apartment. But he had another heart attack when he saw the same girl there when he was about to go on a smashing rampage. First the women in the white dress, then her. He wondered vaguely if he was finally going mad.
It was relief though to finally be home. As much as he loved New York, the place was too impersonnal and held too many bad and painful memories. Oregon though, was where he was born and raised. Their family home was in the countryside, with some woods nearby and a lake as well as a small town only twenty minutes away. It held mostly good memories for him and he wished he could be there more often. But his course was demanding and required long stays in New York. But only a few more years and he'll have graduated. Maybe then he'll apply for a job closer to home. Not that home was all sugar and lightness either, he still had plenty of dark memories to go alongside more recent ones, but it was still better than New York ever would be.
But by the time he had finally gotten to the hospital however, Reese's surgery was already done and she was in recovery and doing well. With that bit of information to keep him calm until Reese had woken up, his father had turned his attention from his youngest to his oldest and grilled him non-stop about what had happened in during Maya's memorial. Jasper couldn't get mad at his dad for his over-protectiveness though. He hadn't really been taking care of himself this year and he reckoned that the man hadn't had a moment off from the second that Jasper was born. And ever since their mom, it was just them and Ms Lucy. Really the man deserved a statue built in his honour for not going crazy. Maybe he should start a go fund me page . . .
He stayed in Oregon for a week before he had to go back. Reese and Fox were disappointed. The three of them were really close and it was hard for Jasper to go back at times because he missed them so much. They called and skyped and used every form of communication to keep in touch but it just wasn't the same. They cheered up though when Jasper promised he'd be back in two weeks to spend all of summer with them. The only reason he was even going back was to sort out some things with his apartment and school. He had also gotten his results the week he was back home. Amazingly, he had not failed his course. He vaguely wondered was it a pity pass. Could teachers do that?
"Hey! Don't move Reese! You know what the doctor said. You still have three more weeks to be safe!"
"Yeah, yeah" Reese grumbled settling down. While the doctors had managed to save her sight they had been pretty strict about the fact not moving at all. Apparently during this period it was still a risk that the retina could slip again and she could lose her sight in her left eye permanently. "Anyway, I can't wait for you to come home. By then I'll be allowed out of bed. And we can do all the things we used to do before you left for college! Like go swimming in the lake or having picnics or having movie nights. Fox and I do it but its not the same without you."
"I know. I do bring the fun to the party" Jasper laughed, puffing up his chest, doing what Reese would call his 'peacock expression' making Reese burst out laughing. A voice then broke out from Reese's laptop, turning her attention away from Jasper.
"Fucking bitch."
"What the hell?" Jasper spun around shocked. Who the hell had said that? He was alone and the voice definitely didn't come from Reese's hospital room over the webcam but from inside his apartment. He quickly stood up and walked towards his living room where the sound had originated. He ignored Reese's voice as she asked where he was going and reached for his baseball bat that he kept beside the door to his bedroom. He had originally bought it so he could actually play the sport when he was sixteen, but a series of unfortunate events meant that he had reluctantly accepted that baseball wasn't his forte. That, and his dad would have murdered him if he broke one more window. Or one more bone for that matter.
Now the bat was going to function as a burgular ejector and Jasper was counting his blessings that he brought it with him when he came to New York. Slowly easing the door open, he slid through the gap he created and stopped dead.
There was somebody in his apartment.
Somebody who was pacing up and down his aprtment muttering to himself.
Somebody who didn't even notice that this apartments owner, was watching him armed with a baseball bat.
The guy seemed trapped in his own little world and saying things like "the job's good money", "I'll finally be able to get away from my mum", "ugh, I'm still not sure!"
"Um excuse me, but who the hell are you?" Jasper asked, shifting his bat into attack mode.
The boy screamed and turned towards him.
"What are you doing here?" He shouted.
"What am I doing here? I think the question is buddy, what are you doing here? This is my apartment!" Jasper shouted.
"Yours?! This is mine you freak!" The boy shouted back.
"Yeah and I'm the Queen of England" Jasper laughed, just as the boy hurled something in his direction. Ducking quickly, Jasper winced as he heard it hit the wall. He hoped that it didn't break. Glancing upwards, his mouth dropped open when he saw that the boy was gone. Tightening his grip on his bat, he ran from room to room checking to see where he had hidden himself. But he was gone. Like he had never been there at all.
Walking back into his living room where he had first seen the boy, he stared open-mouth at the opposite wall. Where something - whatever he had thrown at him, should be lying there, wasn't there at all. Like it had vanished with the boy.
Vaguely aware of Reese calling for him on his laptop in his bedroom, Jasper couldn't do anyhing but collapse to the floor as his legs gave in and as he wrapped his arms around himself, he tried desperately to calm himself down. But how, what had happened, didn't make any sense at all.
'Am I going mad?' Jasper thought in fear.
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Raven took a long gulp of her beer as she looked out over the slums that she called home. She was sitting on the roof of the garage while Sinclair was finishing up the last car they had in shop and Emori was getting breakfast. The sun was rising and there was a cool breeze in the air. Not too cold but definitely welcome. Especially since the last few days were mind-melting hot. She really hoped that the recent heatwave was over. She was almost wilting the past week with the high temperatures.
Suddenly the noise of another person sitting down near her jolted her attention. Turning she saw a girl with long brown hair and wearing a light blue summery dress sitting cross-legged near her. She didn't look like she was from around here. She looked like she belonged in one of the more classy areas in the city.
"Oh sorry, you don't mind the company do you?" She asked and her accent threw Raven a bit. She definitely wasn't from anywhere in the city. It sounded foreign. But where she just couldn't place her finger on.
"No" Raven replied, "stay as long as you want."
The girl then gave her a smile before sighing happily and wrapping her arms around her legs while she stared out. She was looking at the slums like it was her favourite all-time view, which did not make sense because they were so far inland that the only thing you could see for miles was other slums. You couldn't even see the ocean. Which was a bummer, Raven loved the ocean.
"You know this is probably my favourite spot on the whole beach" the girl spoke up suddenly, making Raven turn to her in confusion.
"Wait what are you talking about? What beach -" Raven started to say before there was a drastic change in scenery. Turning around she couldn't help but gasp in surprise. She wasn't sitting on the roof of her workplace/home any more. Instead she was sitting on some beach. One thing was for sure - she wasn't in Brazil anymore unless she had travelled in time by an hour or fourteen as instead of a rising sun with the sky streaked with various colours of red, orange and yellow, the sky was an inky black colour with thousands of twinkling stars. And instead of a hard metal roof, she was now sitting on soft cool sand that felt silky to touch. Instead of the thousands of different smells that assaulted her nostrils everyday all she could smell now was the salt from the ocean. It was also much cooler here. It was definitely the most peaceful place that Raven had ever been too. But it didn't make sense.
Quickly turning her head, she saw the girl was just lost in her own little world, the cool breeze blowing a few strands of hair across her face, but she made no move to fix them as if she was used to it and knew that it would be futile.
"So" the girl said suddenly, "I'm Harper. And you are?"
"Raven" she whispered. How was this happening? Where was she? This just didn't make sense. First the fainting boy then the people she had seen when he fought the man off Emori and now this? What was going on?
"So how long are you staying here for? I can tell by your accent that your not a local" Harper asked casually while glancing at her up and down.
"Here?" Raven asked. Here was actually a good question. Where the hell was she? How had she traveled here so fast?
"Yeah. In Oahu" Harper smiled. "I work at the main hotel, are you staying there?"
"Where the hell is Oahu?" Raven blurted out unable to stop herself. Harper's gaze became confused.
"Oahu? Oahu Hawaii? Where we are right now?" Harper prodded her.
Fucking hell. How the fuck had she travelled to Hawaii? What the actual fuck?
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And that's chapeter 10! Next up: Nyko tries to talk to Monty and Bellamy. But will he be successful?
Updates may take a little over a week now to post because I'm struggling to find the time to write with real-life commitments and other problems. Sorry but I'll try my hardest.
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