Cali in the Summer time
Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:32 pm
Summer hoisted her duffle bag over her shoulder. She was excited and anxious but underneath her cool gaze laid a hidden fear. She was rarely scared and some of the things she was scared of were meant for comical relief in the face of a bad situation to lighten the mood of the matter. Summer took one last look at her dorm, her computer was shut off, her newspaper inspiration was all but extinct and she really wished it’d come back to her one day. She ran off a mental check list of things she needed, all her toiletries, a spare set of clothes, another pair of shoes. She bit her lower lip and looked around her dorm which looked like a bombed out house one more time.
“Summer, you didn’t forget anything…” She told herself, “Yes you did, you must’ve forgotten something...”
She slammed the door arguing internally with herself all the way the down the hall and to the left. Summer scratched the back of her head wondering if that stupid nagging feeling that she left out one thing in her bag would leave her the hell alone so she could enjoy herself on this trip with Lei. Crying out loud, this whole trip was the screwiest thing she’d even said yes too. She didn’t know Lei or her family well enough. Lei was all smiles and Summer, though extremely happy to see her smile, was worried. Even with all of Lei’s positive pushes on how understanding they’d be, Summer had learned that even the saintly can sometimes be colder than Stasis in the artic. The bad memories of all those dirty looks and all those lovely messages in her locker from people who didn’t see gay people as having rights equal to them were floating in front of her, reminding her that despite her normal appearance, her decision was still going to affect every aspect of her life, no matter where she went and who she knew.
Lei said she’d meet Summer at Paragon City Airport and she of course agreed. Lei got around in a much easier manner than Summer could. Teleporting her full mass, Lei could just appear and that was that. Summer had to actually exert herself, at high speed of course. She raced through the streets, her duffle back over her shoulder, creating more than its fair share of drag slowing Summer’s hasty progress down the streets of Paragon weaving in and out of traffic like a thread to the eye of a needle. The speed of course still helped her make good time. Her flight to San Francisco wasn’t going to leave until 5 P.M. and it was a quarter till 4 which gave her plenty of time.
She arrived with slow down in her pace going to a walk. To the average eye, a long streak formed into a small 16 year old girl with a hefty looking bag over her back. She’d been in airports before, except they had spider soldiers and the like around the entrances and it looked like a concentration camp more than a gather spot. Paragon Airport was much more calm, no spires of doom, no guards with ultra high powered pulse rifles, no spiders 7 foot high and of course no Hail Recluse posters on the freaking walls. No, this air port was calm, even with all the hustle and bustle. Tope walls, with light sky blue wallpaper gave off the feeling of being in a baby’s room. The people moved back and forth, the ticket holders were doing their moving and their talking in the security lines which seemed like the lines outside of Grandville of the weary refugees trying to get into the giant webbed city.
“Summer!” said Lei from behind her.
Her memories splintered and she turned around and smiled at her girlfriend. She couldn’t help but smile. Life was good. Least for now it was good. She didn’t know what the hell might happen when she got to Lei’s actual house.
“Summer, you didn’t forget anything…” She told herself, “Yes you did, you must’ve forgotten something...”
She slammed the door arguing internally with herself all the way the down the hall and to the left. Summer scratched the back of her head wondering if that stupid nagging feeling that she left out one thing in her bag would leave her the hell alone so she could enjoy herself on this trip with Lei. Crying out loud, this whole trip was the screwiest thing she’d even said yes too. She didn’t know Lei or her family well enough. Lei was all smiles and Summer, though extremely happy to see her smile, was worried. Even with all of Lei’s positive pushes on how understanding they’d be, Summer had learned that even the saintly can sometimes be colder than Stasis in the artic. The bad memories of all those dirty looks and all those lovely messages in her locker from people who didn’t see gay people as having rights equal to them were floating in front of her, reminding her that despite her normal appearance, her decision was still going to affect every aspect of her life, no matter where she went and who she knew.
Lei said she’d meet Summer at Paragon City Airport and she of course agreed. Lei got around in a much easier manner than Summer could. Teleporting her full mass, Lei could just appear and that was that. Summer had to actually exert herself, at high speed of course. She raced through the streets, her duffle back over her shoulder, creating more than its fair share of drag slowing Summer’s hasty progress down the streets of Paragon weaving in and out of traffic like a thread to the eye of a needle. The speed of course still helped her make good time. Her flight to San Francisco wasn’t going to leave until 5 P.M. and it was a quarter till 4 which gave her plenty of time.
She arrived with slow down in her pace going to a walk. To the average eye, a long streak formed into a small 16 year old girl with a hefty looking bag over her back. She’d been in airports before, except they had spider soldiers and the like around the entrances and it looked like a concentration camp more than a gather spot. Paragon Airport was much more calm, no spires of doom, no guards with ultra high powered pulse rifles, no spiders 7 foot high and of course no Hail Recluse posters on the freaking walls. No, this air port was calm, even with all the hustle and bustle. Tope walls, with light sky blue wallpaper gave off the feeling of being in a baby’s room. The people moved back and forth, the ticket holders were doing their moving and their talking in the security lines which seemed like the lines outside of Grandville of the weary refugees trying to get into the giant webbed city.
“Summer!” said Lei from behind her.
Her memories splintered and she turned around and smiled at her girlfriend. She couldn’t help but smile. Life was good. Least for now it was good. She didn’t know what the hell might happen when she got to Lei’s actual house.