In The Next Life

Chapter Seven

Em's POV

I pulled my hair back from my eyes, using a claw clip and some Bobby pins to hold my hair in a half updo. I take a minute to look over myself in the mirror.

My blonde hair, now pulled back, curled to perfection. My eyeliner along with my rose gold accented eyeshadow making my eyes glow. The pale pink and gold flecked gloss on my lips finishing the look. I flatten my hands along the front of my short sleeved button up and short-hemmed black skirt to check for stains or wrinkles. I reach up for the finishing touch, my nursing badge, as I hear a voice.

"We're going to be late if you spend any more time here." I hear as arms find their way around my waist. I smile making contact with the pair of eyes looking me over in the mirror.

Her dark black hair is still around her shoulders, her similarly dark eyes framed with black square frames. I can't see much else as she's hidden behind me, but I would bet actual money she was wearing her usual dark jeans and engineering jacket over her black T-shirt.

I rest my hands on her arms, "Good morning my love."

"Good morning Em..." she presses a kiss to my shoulder. "We need to go."

"I know I know. I'll be out in a minute. Go start the car."

"We're taking the bike."

"Wait, Yue, no-" before I can finish my plea, Shi is already gone heading downstairs to pull her bike around front. I just groan.

"I swear that woman is trying to kill me." It takes one more minute to fix my makeup before shoving a brush in my bag for after the drive and grabbing my helmet from before the door before heading downstairs.

Most of my stuff is at my girlfriend's room, I don't like staying in mine cause it makes me feel alone. At least here I'm surrounded by her stuff even if she's not here. I go and I playfully glare at her as she takes the helmet out of my hands helping me situate it on my head.

"You're cute when you try to be mad at me." She just laughs at me.

"I'm not trying, I am mad...I curled my hair this morning and now I have to fix it when we get to campus."

"And you'll look just as beautiful if not more so. Let's go pouty." She laughs again before I get on behind her, sitting sideways on the bike and twisting my body to hold onto her, my bag resting in between us.

She and I have been together for 4 years. She truly is my everything. My Yue. My Achara.

God I love that woman...

~

~a few years earlier~

I was walking through the halls on my free period. Being a 3rd year I wasn't supposed to have a free period, but one of my classes was canceled and my counselor never replaced it. I had dropped Jew off at her math class and headed off to explore.

I've seen most of these corridors before, and as long as I don't bother anyone, teachers usually don't say anything about me being out here. There were very few spaces I haven't  seen, but I traveled down the hall that led to the shop class extracurricular. I've never gone down here, feeling no need to join shop or auto courses. My plan was to go to school to be a nurse.

I heard sounds coming out of one of the work rooms, odd since they don't open till after classes are over. I walk over to the door and crack it slightly peeking in. I see a girl, probably a year older than me, messing with a motorcycle that's parked in the garage. I've never seen one here, as most of the kids are too young to get the required license, but it's interesting to me that there would be one here.