Is it for Real?

Chapter 4 The Thoughts of A Girl From the Future

Coop looked at Jamie with an odd expression. Was he serious? Kiva told Coop stuff thinking he wasn't listening while playing his latest video game, but who said he hadn't mastered the art of multi-tasking? He lifted a hand to his head, fingers rubbing his temples. Now he regretted hearing all that stuff. Now he would be in the middle of a love war.

And if all was fair in love and war, did that make it no rules, no honor, no bars held in a love war? He didn't know. This wasn't his area of expertise. Crunching a city into submission in two minutes. Yeah, that was more his alley. He took a deep breath, wishing this all to go away for right now.

"Why can't you just continue to not listen?" Coop asked Jamie, standing up and looking away.

"Umm, because, for once, I don't want to screw up the best chance I have a getting the girl of my dreams," he said, in disbelief of the question. He thought for a few moments as to why Coop would even ask such a thing. Then it dawned on him. "Dude, do you like Kiva?"

"No. Yes. I don't know. It could be nothing. Besides, she made it clear that she liked you, right?" Coop said walking out.

"But Coop! Wait! I can't run after you like this so come back!" Jamie shouted after his best friend, hoping that he would return.

But he didn't, he just walked out, into the night where he could be alone. She looked up and saw the massively large building with only a few stars. He sighed and looked down shaking his head, walking over to where he parked Megas. He didn't fully destroy the city today, so he wouldn't be able to see all the stars. He hopped into the car/cockpit of the mecha and begins the short ride home. Actually, it would be more of a walk but we aren't getting to technical right?

Meanwhile, Kiva sat in the café, stirring her soda with the straw, looking into its icy depths. It was as if she expected the answer to appear. Did she really want to mess up a perfectly good friendship for something more? Okay, maybe not perfect, but and friendship at least. She was in a strange time and he was a strange person who landed with a strange object in his best friend's hands and had some strange girl from the future hanging out with them to defeat strange alien creatures from an even stranger time. He had his world turned upside down enough. She was quite sure the added bonus of falling in love with the strange girl who would eventually go back wasn't a great additive.

But it felt so right. Just sitting there holding his hand. Well, everything except the various beeps and clicks and the horrible dripping then the scream of children. But she still had felt perfectly peaceful. She just likes being there with him. It was like with Coop how everything was about Megas, food, and video games, Jamie actually cared. Or at least acted like it.

She took a sip of the soda and made a sour face. The ice had melted and it was all diluted now. She quickly stood up and took the cup to the garbage, dumping it out and walking out the door.

She looked at the floor, gazing up only briefly to read signs to find her way back to the ER. Suddenly she heard and sugary-sweet voice talking ahead of her.

"Miss? Excuse me, but you came in with the patient who bumped his head, correct?" she asked, giving a practiced smile. It was a nurse with rainbow and cloud scrubs on. Kiva looked up and nodded to the nurse with a questioning expression on her face. "Well, they seem to have found a problem, dear, I would much rather let the doctor explain. Come," she said, putting a hand on her shoulder and leading her to where Jamie laid. Possibly in greater peril then they ever were on one of their adventures.