Five years, it's been five years since three of her best friends died, and Macy's best friend had her boyfriend ripped away from her. Two lone survivors, two people who don't talk anymore.
Nobody who survived that night talk anymore, Kate, Macy, Javier she supposed, all had fallen out of contact. So now she's in New York City, working in an office that tracked storms all over the country, being able to send out watches and warnings anywhere where they were needed. An office job, in New York, dressed in the outfit she worked in nearly everyday was the last thing Macy expected of her life.
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One tornado, a misreading, her own ego, three lost lives and a scar down her leg. As she stared at the date on the computer monitor before her eyes flicked back to the weather patterns being read. Man life really did fu-
"Macy, come look at this."
That snapped her back to reality. She walked over to a computer across the way and let her eyes land on a potential that was predicted to touch down in Arkansas. All looked fine for it development, conditions perfect.
Macy studied it for a moment longer. "Go ahead and send out a watch, just in case." She said with a polite smile and a nod the country accent she had clashing greatly with everyone she talked to here, going to sit back down when the intercom rang out. "Macy Aresburro you have a guest for you in the conference room."
She groaned a bit, who would bother to come visit? Macy don't really live around anyone that she'd know. They're all back in Oklahoma or who knows where out west. But nevertheless she stopped what she was doing and made my way towards the conference room. Once Macy walked the girls eyes landed on a man in a black suit, maybe around 5'6, maybe 5'7? Curly black hair and staring out of a glass window of the high up building. As he heard my footsteps he turned around, that familiar face shining at me.
"Javi!" Macy exclaimed, going and giving him a hug.
"Macy! I'm so glad to see you, had to visit your mom to figure out that you'd moved out here, big city girl now huh?"
"I'll always love Oklahoma more than this place."
Javier just laughed a bit, "why don't I take you somewhere for lunch? There's gotta be a good cafe in the area."
Macy just sighed and nodded, "yeah, I'll take my lunch break there's one I know about in the area that pretty good."
They took the elevator down the building of the meteorology center, walking out to the road and waiting to cross.
"So, nice people here?" Javier asked
Macy replied, lying to herself more than him, "yeah yeah, great people here super nice-"
Than, just as they had the right of way, a taxi cab almost hit Macy, causing her to jump before the person driving swore at her and her and Javier picked up the pace and got back to the side walk.
"Soooo, great people?"
"Shut it Javi."
We spent a few minutes walking before finally getting to the cafe, going inside and sitting at the tiny glass table in the corner.
Macy cleared her throat first, breaking the silence that had overcome the two's already awkward conversation. "Javi, what have you been doing all these years?"
"Just traveling, join the military for awhile." He retorted back to her, flashing a small smile before taking a sip of the water that had been presented to us at the table by a very bored looking waiter.
"You? The military? You're kidding!" Macy said with a small laugh, "Never in a million years did I envision you joining the military."
Javier's just laughed and shook her head along with her, "Well I did, trying to find myself yknow? Got made to work with a weather station, could perfectly can and put models of different weather and aerial events onto a computer," He rambled on, before turning his phone around and showing Macy a picture of him. The typical army uniform standing infront of a massive weather station, which atop sat panels which she knew where likely sensors but bared a striking resemblance to the usual solar panels you'd see on most well off family's homes.
"Wow Javi, that- that's amazing, but uhm, okay ima just cut to it why did you come all the way to New York to see me? That's an insane travel distance from Oklahoma or wherever the hell you were at the time. I mean also just finding out where I was." Mary said before taking a breath, dry swallowing as she anticipated his answer. Her mind racing with 'good or bad, just stay calm'.
"Well, when I was talking about the wether station, I think we can use it to get a scan of a tornado." Javi said, his hands moving constantly as he talked, looking like they were trying to map out his point because at the moment his words definitely weren't.
Macy swallowed a sip of water, brow furrowing slightly as he talked before she finally spoke up again . "That seems like a nice ideas but- that station is the size of a building it's not like we can just build it somewhere and hope a tornado touches down."
"Well-" Javi continued on, "I got my hands on some prototypes maybe 40 pounds max? Built a whole company around it called Storm Par, we've got a great team, and inventors lined up for this-"
Macy sighed, effectively cutting him off, "Waitttt wait wait Javi, how do these prototypes even work?"
"Well, you see, we would need three prototypes, all stationed at different points of the tornado, two at the side, and one directly infront." Javier's began to list out the details, taking three small packs of butter and placing them around his glass of water, before it finally started to click for Macy, as he swirled around the water in the cup to make it look like a tornado.
"Are you saying you can get a 3D scan of a tornado? That- that's amazing!" Macy said, a smile creeping on the face and the stupid grin already plastered over Javier's flashing back at hers. But, the moment was quickly interrupted by Macy's realization, hit her like a ton of bricks as her face dropped.
"Javier no..." she said her head slowly shaking he wanted her to chase again. After the incident no. The tragedy. Her face felt like it paled a bit, she wasn't sure if it was but it certainly felt like blood was rushing everywhere it normally wasn't noticeable, like she was frozen in place just like that faithful day.
Javier's could barely make somthing that Macy saw as a good point before she stormed out, back to work, certainly another night of night terrors where nobody was there to save her, to comfort her. She chose this, it was her own hell.
10:21pm the clock on her phone read as the text popped up, Javi, still had her number after all these years. Another tornado hit Oklahoma, another town devastated in its wake the article read. Then, a bit later her eyes raked down to an audio message he'd sent.
"Hey Macy, I know the lunch didn't go well, but I think storm par could really be somthing big. Save tons of people, you have a storm sense like no other and we could really use you, that town that was hit was pretty close to your mom, even made me nervous for her, just... consider it. Please."
