Chapter 2: How Of One's Past CameTo Repeat Itself
A small, pretty, longhaired-blonde girl stood beside her grandmother with short hair, dirty-blond mixed with gray and white together. They looked at a young, beautiful short-haired brunette encased in a cryogenic glass chamber, floating in the electric blue liquid, she hums a small tune.
"Grandmother?"
She stops "Yes my little angel."
"Can you please tell me about her again?"
The old woman turned to her and smiled sadly. "Of course sweet child."
She closes her eyes as in thought, she reopens them and she speaks...
"She was...is ...somewhat like an angel, kinda like you...a wonderful, sweet, caring, and considerate person, a bit shy at times and speaks softly when she is. She's also the one out our group who keeps everyone on their toes, with both of her gentle and wild spirits balancing one another, getting us in and out of trouble most of the times. soft giggles Ah...but she has her serious side as well, when it comes to friends and family she would stick by their side and will become very defensive when provoked. Hmm...let's see...what else...She would be in high honors, even though we had an active life, drama class, cheerleading, and such, she always find time to study. And how she loves to dream, that was her favorite past time of all. gentle sigh Oh...how she loves to go into her world to daydream. Everytime she starts to hum that same old song, it would take her there. Sometimes she'll get caught by the teachers but she teaches them a lesson by passing every pop quiz and exam."
The woman chuckles a bit, however, she coughs vehemently. The girl quickly looks at 'Nana'.
"Grandmother? Are you alright?" she asked concernly.
"Yes, thank you." she patted her golden hair.
The old woman recloses her eyes, remininscing about the past of both the young slumbering woman and herself. The girl watches her Grandmother's lips curl upwards, a tear slipped from the corner of her still closed eye.
"Please tell me one of the stories again."
"One of them?" she asked, her descendent's request had awaken her back to reality.
"Yes, a story." Her sparkling blue eyes glances back at the comatouse lady.
The grandmother readjusted her glasses, looks back at the glass case, and let out a sad sigh.
Her voice narrates a Flashback
"A long time ago..." she began, her granddaughter listen attentively as she continues to stare into the liquid. "...when I was your age, there were five girls, including her and me, we went to an all girl private school where mainly the rich and the wealthy make up the rules. Yet, we didn't care about that, we had a tight friendship even though her father was the chairman for a big company. That is, until two of our group had to move during the years. Soon, by the time we reached to a co-ed highschool, there were just Faye and me...there still remain one of our friends but...she changed so much after the two left and started to become a party girl and branched away from us. We still say hello to each other but it wasn't the same. We met and made new friends, including boys, but that's all that they are...friends. Even though there were many guys who wanted to go out with us, especially with Faye, our parents didn't want us to date yet til we reached a certain age, but they did allow us to go to parties."
She stops and looks around for a chair to sit in, her legs were tired, her walking cane doesn't give her much support as it once did before. The child percieves at what she was doing and did the same. She spotted one and drags it over to her.
"Here Grandmother, I found a chair for you."
"Thank you dear." she sat down and sighed in relief. The girl went back to her original spot and waited for her to continue.
"Where was I?"
"You were going to talk about how that girl invited you and Miss Faye to a boy and girl party."
"Oh yes, of course...as you had just said, one day, she had a big party and invited pratically everyone. She wore a black top and skirt as I wore a white top and black pants smirk we were the prettiest bishoujos at the party.happy sigh We saw new and old faces, and that's where..."
"Miss Faye met that guy and you met Grandfather!" she said it somewhat calmly yet the excitement was still in her voice as she sat on the floor.
"Yes, yes child." She coughs again, much less than before.
"That's how I met your grandfather, he was a close friend of Stefan, 'that guy' as you had mentioned. We walked over to the living room, she spotted a guy wearing loose-fitting blue jeans and blue and yellow racer border trim long sleeve shirt, hands in pocket. Once she seen him turned around, smiled, and said a quick 'hi', she instantly fell in love. I remembered how she was shy to talk to him and so just settle to sneak peeks during the entire party. I had enough and urged her to make the first move and find an excuse to start the conversation, soft giggles she wouldn't budge from her spot and so I gave up. As I headed towards the snack table, your Grandfather came up to me and starts to talk. sigh My...he was handsome in that black khakis and black sweater. At the moment I got jealous because he kept asking about Faye but suddenly felt relieved when he explained it was for his friend 'with the puffy hair' as he put it. Unfortunately,scowl our friend had also invited an arrogant, egotistical, obnoxious, vain, 'thinks-he's-God's-gift-to-women' guy. Vlad had been trying to go out with Faye since first semester. Sure, he maybe cute, snort almost all of every school's girl population wanted to be with him. He ain't anything but a big-headed jerk and she wouldn't be in the same room with him. As soon as he seen her all by herself, he immediately moves in on her."
Her face continued to scowl as memory flashes in her mind. The blonde angel waits patiently, feeling the same anger as she is.
"Faye tries to get away from him but he held her wrist tightly. Oh man, did she get pi...er..um..upset when he refused to let her go. People see this and they couldn't really do anything about it because of his little bodyguards and she had on her skirt. I didn't know this because Joel and I were strolling outside.shakes head solemnly, then smiles. However, that's when Stefan stepped in, interrupting his dirty moves on Faye by beating the two bullies up with a few tae kwon do moves and rescued the girl."
Her eyes danced with joy as her vivid memories came into her mind. She chuckles again, and once again she coughs, she then looks at her writstwatch.
"Come angel, it's time to go."
"Please, Nana, please finish, you're almost done, you don't even have to tell me they started going out and Vlad tries to separate them...just the day of the accident." the girl pleaded.
Nana sighes, "Very well...Then one day, Vlad manage to send Stefan and his family away to Mars and finally convinced her father to not let her see him anymore,snort more like a threat to me...but no matter what, Faye wouldn't still go out with that assho...er...Vlad. We bought tickets with other classmates to Mars for our class project. She thanked the Lord for helping her see her love again. No one knew it was that fateful day...and by the grace of God, I caught a bad case of the cold...rolls eyes you would think somebody would find the cure...mumbles."
She looks at her granddaughter and in return, the young one raised an eyebrow.
"Both found a way to stay with him and get married. Somehow he found out ..."
"And that's when he went after her with his daddy's space craft..."
"And confronted Stefan and the two start to fight for Faye. It was pretty bad, sad frown the coward brought a gun and shot him in the heart tear but not before Stefan managed to beat that heartless son of a...man, very badly,snort serves him right for teasing and playing with every girl's heart he broke. Stefan died at the same moment the shuttle passengers died, along with a very injured, comtouse Faye being the only survivor. When the police came to arrest Vlad, he found out what happened them and thought she was one of the crashes' victim, and killed himself."
She looks at the glass, more tears starts to shed. She got up and placed one hand unto the cool chamber as the other held her cane. A moment of silence passed, she cough again...
"Nana?" the girl stood up and grabbed her hand for reassurance.
She glances at the worried child and gave her a small smile. "I'm fine my dear angel...remembered how I told you that when we were you're age, how we video taped ourselves?"
The little one nodded.
"Well...when she awakens, I'm not able to give Faye the tapes nor her beta machine. Can you promise me that you would give them to her? Can you do it for me?"
"I promise Grandmother, I'll do it for you."
"Thank you my sweet lass. In one of those tapes, I had recorded news of what happened...to everyone. " she looks back at her friend.
"I'm sorry Faye that I'm not able to be around when you wake up, but I just found out that I don't have that much time left, that experimental drug was a complete failure. And you're still on that long waiting list for the anticdote. However, the good news is that it was proved successful and you will be completely healed. You can start anew Faye...but not with Stefan nor me by your side." she whispered to her, her hand on the cool window chamber again, a tear drop fell.
"Sweet dreams Faye."
She slowly walks towards the threshold as she opens the door. The young blonde stares at the serene face of her grandmother's best friend. She happily smiled at her as many told tales flashed in her mind, she starts to hum the same liltting tune her grandmother was, the same heartfelt melody that sends the brunette to her dreams.
'I wanna be like her and have lots of adventures too.' she thought happily.
The old woman waits patiently as she held the hospital's cold metal door handle, she looks at her watch again.
"Now we're really late, your mother is going to be mad at us. It's time for us to leave right away Julia."
"I'm here Grandmother." the sweet voice spoke as she held on to her hand comfortably.
Both smiled at each once they glanced at the bishoujo with short purple-black hair in a cryogenic chamber with electric blue liquid, floating.
"Good night Faye." both said in unison.
The old woman closed the door and left behind the future Poker Alice in the dim-litted room alone with her futures and to her dreams.
I'm sorry guys if I'm wrong...but I only watched some of Cowboy Bebop's series...so I only guessed how Julia was and how it started in my mind.
01/03/06+ Sorry guys, I didn't realize that this chappie is real corny, but it's gonna hafta to do for the moment.