TIME: September 1971
PLACE: Alexandria, Virginia
"Holy shit! Where the hell are we?"
Janice winced, her head throbbing at the sound of her friend's voice. If anything, she could always count on Alexia to verbally spat out things that needs to be said… as colorful as her language is at least.
Since the flash, things have been a bit hazy for the two girls. As soon as Alexia opened her eyes, she took note of the daylight, and the weird location they were parked in. Her car was parked outside of some football stadium that was not the War Memorial. In fact, from her vast observance, she knew that she and Toto wasn't in Kansas any more.
"What the F had just happened?" She cried.
Janice winced yet again, "I'm so glad that you've trained yourself in refraining the f-word, Al."
"But you still know what the F I mean when I say that letter."
"Unfortunately." Janice mumbled, rubbing her temples. Sighing, now taking real notice of their surroundings, "Now, let me just rephrase what you said in a more 'Disney' version, okay? Where are we? What just happened?"
"Hell if I know." Alexia shrugged. She grasped her keys that were still in the ignition, turning them slowly, "I will be so pissed if you don't work." She mumbled to the automobile.
When it started itself up, Alexia gazed heavenward, "Oh God all mighty! Thank Him so for the engine works!" Her eyes were sparkling, causing Janice to laugh despite the situation.
"Y'know, Al, I think that we're not on Maui anymore." Janice said, earning herself a look from Alexia.
"Duh, you think?" The local girl remarked. She sighed, gazed outside once more, shut the engine, and then opened the driver-side door.
"Alex? Where you going?"
Outside of the car, "Gonna check out behind enemy territory."
Janice jumped out, startled by Alexia's determination (as per usual). "What?!"
Alexia breathed in the air, "Yep, ain't no tropical atmosphere I'm breathing in." She glanced at her watch, and froze. "Holy shit… my watch!"
Janice glanced over at Alexia's timepiece, "So?"
"So?! So it stopped!" She cursed the sky as she quickly removed the watch off her wrist. "Damnit to hell!" Throwing it in the backseat of the car, "This should teach me a lesson on why I should throw away any gifts I receive from my cheating ex. That moron probably put a curse on that worthless crap."
"Girl, that language of yours is getting too colorful for my virgin ears!" Janice cried, becoming more annoyed by Alexia's ranting. Janice gazed down at her watch, and also froze in step. "Oh my gosh… my watch stopped too!" She held it up to Alexia.
Alexia snickered, "Did that dumbass ex of yours, Mitch, give that to you?"
Getting defensive, "No!" She slowly removed it from her wrist, "My dad gave it to me…"
"Before he ran off with that slut secretary of his, leaving you, your siblings, and mother to fend for yourselves. Shit, gotta admire that big brother of yours for having to give up football just so that he could get a job to help support you guys." Alexia suddenly stopped short, noticing that she was threading on sore grounds. Looking at her friend, sincerely, "I'm sorry, Jan. Didn't mean to shoot off my mouth like that. Force of habit."
Following Alexia's suite, tossing it into the backseat, "Yeah, well… you always tend to speak the sad truth. Despite sensitive ears."
The girls fell into another silence, once again taking in their new environment. It was Alexia, as usual, who spoke up first. "Why do I have this strange feeling that we're not exactly in our time either?"
"What?"
Alexia looked around, "I mean, why do I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode? Like we fell through a time hole and landed someplace in the past?" Thinking quickly, she got into her car, turned it on, and began searching through the radio waves.
"Alex?" Janice began, but the girl hushed her up.
"Hush, Jan! Listen!"
"Okay folks, it's the four o'clock hour on this long September afternoon in Alexandria. Looks like the heat is beginning to cool down since the police disbanded the mob that had formed this morning outside of T.C. Williams High School. Since this whole integration business went down, people have been going a bit stir crazy to say the least. When we come back, we're going to try to play some music that will hopefully cool down this town."
Alexia froze on the dial, her eyes slowly meeting Janice's. "Oh my God! Janice!"
"No." Janice shook her head, refusing to believe the apparent idea forming in Alexia's twisted imagination. "No… no… NO! Don't you dare, Alex!"
"There's, like, only one town that I know called Alexandria…" Her eyes were dancing, her sense of adventure growing. "And as far as that announcement goes, we're talking the decade of school integration! Girl!" She jumped out of the car, her eyes shining, "We landed in a Disney movie!"
"Alexia! Get real!" Janice cried, totally in Scully-mode. "We are not in Alexandria, Virginia. We probably got detoured on some road or something."
"Hello… Maui is an island surrounded by a body of water. If we were to get detoured from the tunnel, we would be swimming with the fishes!"
"Well…" Janice slowly considered, "What if this is a dream?"
"That we're both sharing?" Alexia raised her eyebrow. She then walked over to Janice, and pinched her on the arm.
"Ouch! What the hell was that for?!" She winced, rubbing her arm.
"If this was a dream, you would've woken up by that pinch. We can't feel pain in our dreams!"
"Well that doesn't stop me from killing you in most of my dreams!" Janice came back.
"Janice, this is so Remember the Titans!" Alexia proclaimed excitedly. Her gaze made its way to the stadium, apparent awe in her voice. "Look at that. This was the stadium in which the Titans played all of their 1971 undefeated games in. Can you believe that we are actually experiencing history in the making?"
"Alex… get a hold of reality!" Janice went up to her friend, practically shaking her. "We are *not* in Alexandria, Virginia. We are *not* in the year 1971. This is *not* Remember the Titans! That was a Disney movie!"
Alexia shook Janice off, becoming extremely set in her stubborn manner. "We are *so* in Virginia, Janice. Why can't you accept that we must have gone in some sort of time space hole or something?"
"Because those only exist in science-fiction! Not the real world!"
A new thought appeared in Alexia's head as her focus on the stadium became more concrete. Smiling, "I'm gonna check out the stadium from the inside!"
"What?!" Janice tried to grab Alexia, but was shoved aside. She groaned out loud, "Oh my God! That girl is as stubborn as a bitch!"
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Alexia stared in wonder at the field before her. She couldn't wipe away the smile on her face, or the excitement in her soul. This is so awesome, she thought to herself. Here I am, sitting in the stands in the stadium in which the Titans made history!
"I hate you sometimes."
She turned around, beaming at her childhood friend as she made her way up the steps. "No you don't. You admire my courage."
"Yes, I do." Janice sat herself down next to Alexia, "But I'm mostly talking about your damn stubbornness to believe in reality!"
"How can you not believe that this is real?" She asked, indicating to the clean-cut football field.
"Because it isn't, Al. You're asking me to believe that we went back in time. That we somehow leaped into a Disney movie? Hell, I know you'd get your damn ass kicked out of such a film in no time due to that profanity of yours."
"This is no Disney film, Jan. This is history!" Alexia proclaimed, arms outstretched, standing up and over the field. She quickly turned around, mischief in her eyes.
"Uh-oh." Janice sighed, knowing that look all too often.
"I feel a song coming up!" Alexia cried, jumping down a couple of aisles.
"Alex… don't." Janice moaned.
"Listen baby…"
"Alexia…"
"Ain't no mountain high, ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough baby…" Alexia smiled. She was about to sing the next lines when…
"If you need me call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far…"
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PLACE: Alexandria, Virginia
"Holy shit! Where the hell are we?"
Janice winced, her head throbbing at the sound of her friend's voice. If anything, she could always count on Alexia to verbally spat out things that needs to be said… as colorful as her language is at least.
Since the flash, things have been a bit hazy for the two girls. As soon as Alexia opened her eyes, she took note of the daylight, and the weird location they were parked in. Her car was parked outside of some football stadium that was not the War Memorial. In fact, from her vast observance, she knew that she and Toto wasn't in Kansas any more.
"What the F had just happened?" She cried.
Janice winced yet again, "I'm so glad that you've trained yourself in refraining the f-word, Al."
"But you still know what the F I mean when I say that letter."
"Unfortunately." Janice mumbled, rubbing her temples. Sighing, now taking real notice of their surroundings, "Now, let me just rephrase what you said in a more 'Disney' version, okay? Where are we? What just happened?"
"Hell if I know." Alexia shrugged. She grasped her keys that were still in the ignition, turning them slowly, "I will be so pissed if you don't work." She mumbled to the automobile.
When it started itself up, Alexia gazed heavenward, "Oh God all mighty! Thank Him so for the engine works!" Her eyes were sparkling, causing Janice to laugh despite the situation.
"Y'know, Al, I think that we're not on Maui anymore." Janice said, earning herself a look from Alexia.
"Duh, you think?" The local girl remarked. She sighed, gazed outside once more, shut the engine, and then opened the driver-side door.
"Alex? Where you going?"
Outside of the car, "Gonna check out behind enemy territory."
Janice jumped out, startled by Alexia's determination (as per usual). "What?!"
Alexia breathed in the air, "Yep, ain't no tropical atmosphere I'm breathing in." She glanced at her watch, and froze. "Holy shit… my watch!"
Janice glanced over at Alexia's timepiece, "So?"
"So?! So it stopped!" She cursed the sky as she quickly removed the watch off her wrist. "Damnit to hell!" Throwing it in the backseat of the car, "This should teach me a lesson on why I should throw away any gifts I receive from my cheating ex. That moron probably put a curse on that worthless crap."
"Girl, that language of yours is getting too colorful for my virgin ears!" Janice cried, becoming more annoyed by Alexia's ranting. Janice gazed down at her watch, and also froze in step. "Oh my gosh… my watch stopped too!" She held it up to Alexia.
Alexia snickered, "Did that dumbass ex of yours, Mitch, give that to you?"
Getting defensive, "No!" She slowly removed it from her wrist, "My dad gave it to me…"
"Before he ran off with that slut secretary of his, leaving you, your siblings, and mother to fend for yourselves. Shit, gotta admire that big brother of yours for having to give up football just so that he could get a job to help support you guys." Alexia suddenly stopped short, noticing that she was threading on sore grounds. Looking at her friend, sincerely, "I'm sorry, Jan. Didn't mean to shoot off my mouth like that. Force of habit."
Following Alexia's suite, tossing it into the backseat, "Yeah, well… you always tend to speak the sad truth. Despite sensitive ears."
The girls fell into another silence, once again taking in their new environment. It was Alexia, as usual, who spoke up first. "Why do I have this strange feeling that we're not exactly in our time either?"
"What?"
Alexia looked around, "I mean, why do I feel like I'm in a Twilight Zone episode? Like we fell through a time hole and landed someplace in the past?" Thinking quickly, she got into her car, turned it on, and began searching through the radio waves.
"Alex?" Janice began, but the girl hushed her up.
"Hush, Jan! Listen!"
"Okay folks, it's the four o'clock hour on this long September afternoon in Alexandria. Looks like the heat is beginning to cool down since the police disbanded the mob that had formed this morning outside of T.C. Williams High School. Since this whole integration business went down, people have been going a bit stir crazy to say the least. When we come back, we're going to try to play some music that will hopefully cool down this town."
Alexia froze on the dial, her eyes slowly meeting Janice's. "Oh my God! Janice!"
"No." Janice shook her head, refusing to believe the apparent idea forming in Alexia's twisted imagination. "No… no… NO! Don't you dare, Alex!"
"There's, like, only one town that I know called Alexandria…" Her eyes were dancing, her sense of adventure growing. "And as far as that announcement goes, we're talking the decade of school integration! Girl!" She jumped out of the car, her eyes shining, "We landed in a Disney movie!"
"Alexia! Get real!" Janice cried, totally in Scully-mode. "We are not in Alexandria, Virginia. We probably got detoured on some road or something."
"Hello… Maui is an island surrounded by a body of water. If we were to get detoured from the tunnel, we would be swimming with the fishes!"
"Well…" Janice slowly considered, "What if this is a dream?"
"That we're both sharing?" Alexia raised her eyebrow. She then walked over to Janice, and pinched her on the arm.
"Ouch! What the hell was that for?!" She winced, rubbing her arm.
"If this was a dream, you would've woken up by that pinch. We can't feel pain in our dreams!"
"Well that doesn't stop me from killing you in most of my dreams!" Janice came back.
"Janice, this is so Remember the Titans!" Alexia proclaimed excitedly. Her gaze made its way to the stadium, apparent awe in her voice. "Look at that. This was the stadium in which the Titans played all of their 1971 undefeated games in. Can you believe that we are actually experiencing history in the making?"
"Alex… get a hold of reality!" Janice went up to her friend, practically shaking her. "We are *not* in Alexandria, Virginia. We are *not* in the year 1971. This is *not* Remember the Titans! That was a Disney movie!"
Alexia shook Janice off, becoming extremely set in her stubborn manner. "We are *so* in Virginia, Janice. Why can't you accept that we must have gone in some sort of time space hole or something?"
"Because those only exist in science-fiction! Not the real world!"
A new thought appeared in Alexia's head as her focus on the stadium became more concrete. Smiling, "I'm gonna check out the stadium from the inside!"
"What?!" Janice tried to grab Alexia, but was shoved aside. She groaned out loud, "Oh my God! That girl is as stubborn as a bitch!"
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Alexia stared in wonder at the field before her. She couldn't wipe away the smile on her face, or the excitement in her soul. This is so awesome, she thought to herself. Here I am, sitting in the stands in the stadium in which the Titans made history!
"I hate you sometimes."
She turned around, beaming at her childhood friend as she made her way up the steps. "No you don't. You admire my courage."
"Yes, I do." Janice sat herself down next to Alexia, "But I'm mostly talking about your damn stubbornness to believe in reality!"
"How can you not believe that this is real?" She asked, indicating to the clean-cut football field.
"Because it isn't, Al. You're asking me to believe that we went back in time. That we somehow leaped into a Disney movie? Hell, I know you'd get your damn ass kicked out of such a film in no time due to that profanity of yours."
"This is no Disney film, Jan. This is history!" Alexia proclaimed, arms outstretched, standing up and over the field. She quickly turned around, mischief in her eyes.
"Uh-oh." Janice sighed, knowing that look all too often.
"I feel a song coming up!" Alexia cried, jumping down a couple of aisles.
"Alex… don't." Janice moaned.
"Listen baby…"
"Alexia…"
"Ain't no mountain high, ain't no valley low, ain't no river wide enough baby…" Alexia smiled. She was about to sing the next lines when…
"If you need me call me, no matter where you are, no matter how far…"
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