Blast from the Past
1064 Words
The Sun's rays shined through the domed city of Lunar-2, coming across Rliur City and first hitting a section of condominiums near the city's town square. There was a two story building on the corner. The light bled through the top floor of a small window overseeing the street.
Kayla grunted as the light hit her eyes and rolled over away from it. The girl fell back to sleep with a muffled snort, burying her face in her pillow. She felt something climb up into her bed, panting. When Kayla turned her head toward the sound, she was licked in the face by a dog.
“Liz!” Kayla yelled at the dog in disgust while pulling it away from her face. She dropped Liz on the ground and shooed it out her room.
The Border Collie whimpered. Kayla ignored the dog’s whining as she jumped back in bed. Liz’s whimpering stopped a moment later.
Another sound woke Kayla. The short sound came from under her pillow.
Kayla pulled her phone out and opened it to a text message from an unknown number on screen.
“Hi Anedra!” the message read.
“Who's this?” Kayla replied.
“My, you've forgotten me already! It's Makoto.” The reply read seconds after Kayla sent her message.
Kayla dimmed her eyes at seeing that name. The name Makoto brought back bad memories. She started typing her reply.
“What do you want?”
“To see how you're doing. It's been a few months since we've talked!”
“What makes you think I'd want to talk to you now?”
“Kayla, I said I was sorry, didn't I?”
“Sorry doesn't cut it, bub! After what you put me through—apology not accepted!”
“Say what? Just because you saw me with that one girl, you're gonna say its over?”
“That's not what this is about! I'm talking about that little trip to Del Rico you forced me to go on last year?”
“Forced you? HA! You came willingly!”
That answer angered Kayla. She gripped her phone tightly, grumbling.
“So, he wants to play dumb, I see…” Kayla thought to herself, pausing from her texting. She started typing again.
“And you almost got us killed if it hadn't been for Tai finding us! Why didn't you tell me Del Rico was that bad?”
“We came out in one piece, didn’t we?”
Makoto’s arrogance made Kayla angrier.
“Quit evading the question, jerk!”
“Calm down, Kayla, you're too emotional!”
“Emotional my foot—you and your sinful, evil tendencies!”
“Ha! Sinful? So he's finally persuaded you to live that rigid Neo-Victorian way of life! Look Kayla, you need to get out and experience life—stop living in that small world he's trapped you in!”
Kayla just looked at Makoto's message in dismay.
“My father once said Man knows nothing beyond his life experiences.”
“And what is that mumbo jumbo supposed to mean? Babe, stop speaking in riddles!”
Kayla paused, gritting her teeth with a sinister smile. Makoto’s ignorance always seemed to amuse her. “What's the matter? Can't solve them?”
“LOL! What has Crazy Man Earl turned you into?”
Kayla suddenly laughed at Makoto’s jeering. She had heard that line from most of her peers in high school. Makoto was one of them.
“He’s still using that pathetic attempt of pressuring me… I’ll fix him!” Kayla mumbled to herself as she typed her reply.
“Into a person that has reached maturity. While you’re satisfied with jumping from girl to girl, and just being a bad boy, I've turned my life around! There's a lot more to life than following your emotions, jack!”
“Look, baby, just forget all that and chill, okay? I just wanna make amends for any hurt I've caused you! I'm a changed man now!”
Kayla’s grin widened. “Gotcha sucka!” Kayla mumbled with a sarcastic laugh.
“He never could recover from my cut ups!” Kayla then thought after remembering all the lame comebacks, excuses, and seemingly stupid replies Makoto use to make back when the two dated in high school.
When Kayla exposed Makoto for doing something stupid, he had nothing to say. Yet he always tried to say something but it was to his detriment. His alleged fake apologetic attitude made himself look like an i***t in front of Kayla and her female associates. Kayla knew Makoto had an ulterior motive behind his apologies. She wasn’t buying any of it this time around. She gonna let him have it—it was going to be her revenge for all the times he’d wrong her.
“Changed as in what—Your physical age? I know what kind of person you are Makoto. I hope you get what's coming to you! Just don't try and drag me down with ya!” Kayla replied. She quietly laughed maniacally to herself.
“Woe, Kayla, don't call all that unnecessary evil down on me! If you didn't want to go, why did you?”
Kayla dimmed her eyes once again at Makoto’s reply. He somehow forgot how she ended up going with them.
Kayla sighed, shaking her head. “Here he goes playin’ dumb again.”
Kayla continued. “Cuz ya kept bugging me!”
“So you gave in?”
“Seriously, I thought everything was going to be okay, and then the Elaine boys started lightin’ up the place with their guns and robots! You knew they lived in Del Rico all along didn't you, stupid?”
“Would ya just quit with the insults, babe? Just calm down and hear me out!”
“Nope!” You have a habit of breaking promises! Don't you understand I don't like you anymore? Go away!”
Kayla closed her phone up and threw it on her bed. She was awake now, but irritated. What ticked her off the most about Makoto was how he always evaded answering her questions. Especially if it was about something he did wrong.
“Not what I had in mind...” Kayla said depressingly as she stepped into the bathroom that was a few feet away from her bed.
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