Star Dust

Chapter 12 ~ Andrew

 Just another regular work day like no other go to school or work, then head to the beach after supper. Everything is so different at night, even the people, worker by day and mad party goers by night, well us kids any way. 

 We are a planet of intellectuals, third earth, coming up with new technology and selling it to the highest bidder. Most of us teenagers go to the beach at night to party in secret, we're not the kind of people you think we are. Partying on a beach doesn't sound like a very secret party and they're right it's not, that's why we hold party hours in a cave hidden by high tide under a dock. 

 The best place to chill out and be yourself. I think of the cavern while I tap furiously on my screen, doing everyday work than transferring the data into air tech form like my boss suggested, but getting little from the terribly complicated device.

 "How's my best technological genius" my boss says clapping a whopping hand onto my shoulder.

 "hello sir" I breath, annoyed by his hovering presence, he doesn't even notice, either that or care "Andrew how's the tech coming along?" 

 Putting down the equipment I was using and look him in the eye "slow going with all the distractions, plus as I said before the first time I made it was an accident I don't recall how I made, let alone where I got the materials." 

 My boss's mouth hangs agape, but I already know what will come out of his mouth "no I am certain that it is not technology affected by blood, brain waves or specified touch" a deep breath "also hacking is no good" 

 "fine then, maybe we'd find answers faster if you pulled up the screen for examination more often" nagging even worst than my late mother sometimes, this man has to have been an only child who grew up with a really nasty nagging mother. Boss has a lot of complaints riding on him ranging from his appearance and race to how he functions. 

 We work many hours in a day supplying his needs and wants, human as anyone else the only difference is what planet you come from. We like to think of ourselves as the more intelligent human counterparts, giving us a better reason for why we left the original earth for its third duplicate. The smart people all got up and left to populate and study another planet, a planet all to ourselves. that didn't last long, soon after arriving demands for product and tech went up, their way of thinking; new resources, new tech and product.

 "Sir if you'll excuse me I have to get home now, my shift is done" the 'shift over notice' had just arrived but the sad human being before me ignored its blessed call. Walking out of the room calmly as if nothing could rattle me, like nothing could ever upset a third world person. But on the inside I'm seething and imagining tearing off that guy's head. 

 Nodding to the guards on duty I pass into the fresh cool air of the world outside the office, alive and bustling with life. Out of the stuffy building and into the streets I walk up to a cab pedestal outside the building and closer to the street. Placing my palm on a pedestal with a painted hand on its flat surface I call a cab, who comes within two minutes the taxi hovers before me obviously closer to the pedestrian walk than is permitted for a cab to be. 

 Stepping in I find the drivers face to be familiar "hey bro, who's scheduled today?" then I remember it's Drexel he does DJ with me at the cavern.

 "hey Drexel, sorry they wanted it to be a surprise tonight" he laughs "aw come Andrew" he pleads, batting his eyelashes. A few seconds pass in silence before he starts down the street "where to?" he asks. "The Jude building" he nods and the rest of the trip is spent in silence. 

 Pulling up to the curb in front of the tall Jude building I call home like many other people in this district, well except for madman Jim a crazy old man who shouts, and loves noise, that or he's deaf. He moved in a few months ago making my quiet little abode above ground life more interesting, and difficult. I had spent weeks designing the perfect earphones then rented them out to the other occupants in the building.