Dear God, 2180
Boy, did my sister nag me! The moment she saw
my grades it was the “holier-than-though” attitude again.
Emily can be so annoying. How can You put up with her?
School is so-so. Mary talked to her mom after
school (you know, about the yelling). Miss. Andrews had to
apologize to the whole class! I guess it was
Mrs. Simon’s (Mary’s mother) way of making sure that her
daughter never gets yelled at without a reason. I
almost felt sorry for Miss. Andrews, until later on that day
she gave us a lecture about controling tempers!
Obviously she didn’t get the reason why Mrs. Simon did
what she did!
I was talking to Heather today. Apparently
after school she had seen what’s- his- name hanging around
with, I quote, “one of those girls”. A man once
perfect is now more closely related to devils. If you’ll pardon
the terminology…
I’ve decided that Jared (got his name right this
time!) isn’t as strange as I thought. He actually
talked to people. But that’s not really why I say
that. He seems different today. It’s hard to explain.
Like- like… Oh, I don’t know! He just seems different.
But not too different… Ever since yesterday he kinda ignores me.
Which of course is confusing because in one way he is
nicer but not really any better. Does that make any
sense? Guess not.
I think there are a couple of girls in class
who have a crush on Jared. I talked to Lilly (she talks
to those girls more then I do) and she said that it
had something to do with his “mysterious air” that
flouts about him. I’d call it being shy, or just
plain unsocial! Not that I don’t like “mysterious”
guys either. But I like knowing more about
them before I decide if they’re worth dreaming
over… :-P
I think that’s it for today.
Your Daughter,
Corrie Fleece
PS: Could you do something about the weather? I don’t
enjoy walking through rain on the way home from school…
Walking home in the rain isn’t a bad thing, just
an annoying thing. Especially when all you have is one of
those fold out umbrellas, they tend to be small. Which
isn’t that bad considering that they’re as big (when
folded) as the palm of an adult hand. Still you got wet
from your chest under…
Corrie never liked getting wet when she was in uniform.
She could stand getting wet in her day-to-day
clothes. At least those clothes she didn’t have to
wash!
She sighed and looked up through her see-through
umbrella to the rainy clouds. It wasn’t a thunder-storm
just heavy rain. Corrie couldn’t help but smile,
there was something special about walking in the rain.
At times like this she felt as if she was remembering
some long forgotten… memory.
The rain was coming down harder. She slowed down
and squinted, trying to see better. “Man,” she
thought. “If this gets any heavier I’m not going to
be able to see my own house!”
She kept on walking, though much slower, and
almost jumped out of her socks when lighting flashed
above her head. She frowned, wondering what she
was suppose to do. Walking around under an umbrella
in a lighting storm was not the smartest thing to be doing.
“Sheesh. I can barely see anything and now it’s
lighting…”she mumbled. It took her a while but she
eventually figured out she was somewhere near the
Cemnen Park. This was good because there was a bus
stop with a roof near there. She turned sharply
at a small dirt path that led into the park, it
was a short cut to
the bus stop.
Half way down the path she stopped, noticing a
funny flashing blue light. At first glance it didn’t
seem out of place. But the blue light began to
flicker and fade, then it suddenly brightened again.
She stopped after that. “I wonder what happened,”
she thought. “Maybe someone’s lost in the storm and
using a flashlight to see around with.” It seemed
cruel to leave that person lost in the Park. The
Park was big, and in this weather even she could
get lost! So, retracing her steps carefully, she
found the general area where the light was coming from.
She looked around cautiously, stopping at a large
bush that was blocking her way. “This person must be
really lost.” she thought. Corrie followed the bush,
hoping to find it’s end. She was beginning to lose hope
when she stumbled upon a hole in the bush! Shoving the
leaves and small limbs out of the way, she
carefully walked through.
Her umbrella was half folded and she was wet all
the way to the bone (or at least it felt like it).
A shiver ran through her body as the end of the
bush’s hole appeared. A drop of water trickled
down her nose, she wiped it away in annoyance.
Whoever was lost had better appreciate what she
was doing….
She was not prepared for what greeted her
on the other side. In the pouring rain appeared
a clear blue hologram. It flickered and faded
for a moment then brightened, now she knew where
the light was coming from.
Corrie stood there in shock with uncontrollable
shivers racking her body. As cold rain come down on
her, the bright blue hologram moved its hands and
head, she could even see a mouth moving, even though
she heard only a muffled voice. Even though holograms
existed in her time, non of them could move, they were
all still. Not only that, they all had to have
sophisticated machinery. There was nothing like that here.
She couldn’t even tell where the hologram was coming from.
“What’s going on here?” she thought frantically.
A shadow moved a few feet in front of her. She covered
her mouth to keep herself from screaming in fear,
someone else was here too! So worried about the strange
hologram was she it hadn’t occurred to her that someone
else might be watching it too.
“I’m so stupid!”she thought angrily to herself. Like
a hologram of this sophistication would be left in the
middle of a Park unattended.
The shadow moved into the light of the hologram.
Corrie could see the outlines of the shadow’s face. Now
she knew it was a he. But that was about it. Suddenly
the figure in the hologram pointed at her. She backed
up, afraid. The man who was standing near the hologram
turned to see what the holo was pointing at. At
that very moment lighting flashed, this was good and bad
at the same time. Good because she saw all
possible ways of getting out of this tight situation,
bad because the man in front of her got a good look at
her face.
That was all she needed to get running. Without
thinking she charged forward into the man. He grunted in
surprise as he was roughly shoved aside. She ran straight
through the thinning bushes (she had seen them
when the lighting illuminated the area) not looking back
or pausing. The Park was opening into the city
before she slowed down and caught her breath.
Corrie looked around and realized that she had led
herself to the roofed bus stop. In fact, at that very
moment a bus was pulling to a stop to pick up some wet
passengers. Gulping in more air Corrie ran to the
bus. The moment she sat down in the bus she felt much
safer. Whoever had been back there wasn’t going
to find her now. At least, she hoped not!
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“Who in the world was that?” said the voice through
the microphone in his ear. He picked himself off the
ground before replying, brushing leaves and small branches
from his black, water-proof coat.
“I have no idea. But whoever it was saw too much. I’ll
have to find her before everyone knows about our
meeting place.” He was not happy.
The holographic man (Mr. Stinly) stood silently. His
old rumpled face had a thoughtful expression on it.
The younger man waited for a response. He could hear
Stinly sigh through the microphone.
“I don’t think she saw enough to be any real threat,”
said the holographic Stinly. “Besides, who’s going to
believe her?”
“But she might have seen what I looked like!” he said.
Annoyed at Stinly’s willingness to brush the whole
affair aside.
“I doubt. If she had she wouldn’t have run.”
“What do you mean?”
“Didn’t you notice? She was wearing your
school uniform. She goes to your school.”
A look of surprise passed over the younger
man’s face. Obviously he had missed that. “I- I
hadn’t noticed…” he said lamely. How could
he have missed something like that?
“Well, that’s clear enough. If you are
insistent on finding whoever that was, it
should be much easier now that I’ve narrowed
down your choices.” Stinly was smiling widely.
It was apparent that he liked humbling
the younger man. After a moment of awkward
silence Stinly spoke again. “Don’t get to carried
away with your search. You came here on a mission.
And no matter what, you are going to complete it.
Understand?”
Grimacing at the rebuke, the younger man nodded.
“Understood.”
“Good. Now turn me off so I can finish my
calculations in peace.”
“Right,” he said. Reaching into his pocket he
pulled out a flat, black box. The box blinked
green and red colors. Without thinking he pushed
a small, flat button. The hologram faded then disappeared.
“Great,” mumbled the young man. “ One more thing
to complicate matters…”