Waking
It's the afternoon of the day after the shooting in a prepatory school. News Officlas where kept out of the school until the cops did some investigating that day it' happened. Presently no news crews would show up since it's Christmas day, all was thrown out of schedule.
Nathan awoke from his unconsciousness feeling a little light headed. His vision became clear through the fuzziness, feeling to his limbs came back and a minimal bruise like pain pulsed on his forehead.
"Hey he's up." Some said.
The boy finally sat up in his bed and looked around confused.
"Hey how's our hero doing?" a girl said.
"Who's the hero? Where am I? Who am I?" Nathan asked looking at a blonde girl with curly bangs.
"Why your Nathan." She said feeling hurt.
"I'm Nathan?" he responded.
"Dude, do you know who I am?" a tall boy with a letterman jacket on came up next to the girl.
"Okay, who are you and where am I?" Nathan said assertedly.
Aelita's Dorm
"Hi, I'm Kila and this is Terra, Aelita, and Kila's Dorm room. Now we have rules so just use common sense and you'll be fine." Kila told them trying to be a smartass.
The gang came in and looked around, the room was better then Kadic's dorms. More space, better paintjobs, good view everything look so nice it took a little of their edgy behavior off.
They all sat down either on Aelita's bed or the small three chaired round table. Small talk ensued which helped but Jeremie kept his thoughts to himself. All in all, everyone but Jeremie had some laughs and good talk. The atmosphere became pleasant and Kila kept her eye on Odd the whole time. Kila went on ahead to give Ulrich, Yumi, and Odd a small tour of the place and give the other two some time alone.
"So uh…you really like this place?" Jeremie said looking at some picture frames on the desk.
"It's quite pleasant and most homely to me." She answered fiddling with her hair.
"You value your friends here?" he asked.
"Yes I met them coming here on the bus." She responded.
"You value what we have or should I say had!" he blurted out.
She looked away and kept messing with her hair.
"What happened huh? I thought we had at least something between us maybe a connection or something I don't know?" he used his arms to also talk with gestures.
"Look I'm human aren't I? I have a life too we are not married!" she scorned him.
"Wha…what!" he felt like his heart was struck with a blunt object.
"You heard me, so what we have our history yes but am I suppose to go through this life by myself when your not around. I know we showed our affections to each other yet did we declare our love?" she got up and stood in his face, "You only told me that you would fight for my and protect me, we kissed…..we have a love between us I know that indeed. But this new life is complicating things and almost replacing them. It's like another Kadic here, with it's own Xana who also nearly got me but I had help. From you guys in different bodies and you who almost died trying to protect me. You see from my point of view, I'm split between to worlds and it's hard to go back to either one now. With you guys bearing down on me it makes life even harder."
"I didn't know….I…I'm sorry Aelita please forgive me?" he held her arms and tried to look into her eyes.
She rejected his attempts to see her and shrugged off his hold. He watched her walk out of the room and leave him without so much as a goodbye or a wave.
"Man, why didn't I try an evaluate the situation first before letting my imagination get out of hand." He said smacking his head in frustration.
Aelita walked through the hall and down the stairs to the front office. She stopped her sniffling and fixed herself before anyone saw her. She walked up to the secretary's eating some Christmas day food.
"Excuse me but has the Dance here been rescheduled?" she asked.
"Yes it'll be after tomorrow." The woman answered finishing what looked like a cheese ball with chips, "Your that poor girl who got into that mess with the gun totting girl right? Oh you sweet little thing, come here. Here a free drink on us."
"Why thankyou." Aelita received the Dr. Pepper can and opened it.
"Oh my, does that bandage cover any scars?" the woman asked.
"Only a few cuts but mostly bruises. Thankyou for the drink though." She exited the office and was waved out by the secretary's.
She walked out and went around the school, thinking as she walked. But her conscious mind felt guiltless about how she left the blonde haired spectacle wearing boy. She had been confined to the knowledge of one place and few friends, however, being introduced to a new country and people her eyes where more open then before. Her whole perspective has been changed. But her train of thought was broken when a Guerrmo and Terra came running to her.
"Hi" she said bewildered.
"Aelita you got to come with us now!" Terra seemed worried.
"What, did Kathleen get loose?" she joked.
"No, Nathan has amnesia." Terra told her.
"The doc's said he may of gotten it from the bullets impact and from his head falling on the sidewalk so hard." Guerrmo added.
"Oh no…what did they say about him?" she walked faster with them to what appeared to be the boys dormitory.
"They gave him some prescriptions to speed up the process but they said the combination of both injuries might take anywhere from the next 24 hours to several years before he will be completely normal." Terra told her as they opened the door.
Aelita found her familiar school guide messing with a paintball gun cluelessly.
"Nathan!" she went up and hugged him.
"Oh…uh do I know you? Your quite the friendly one." He laughed patting her head not knowing how to respond to her action.