"Time" After Time

Chapter 7: First Day of A New Life

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Juniper awoke slowly and turned her head towards the wide sunlit window in her oak panelled room. Although she felt slightly achy and had a headache; otherwise last night's illness had not bothered her at all. In her mind she reviewed her actions of last last night, they made her cringe.

Kissing Nic like that! She shouldn't have done it; Juniper was like his padiwon and he was a hot-shot jedi. They should be more like siblings or something? Anyway, Juni rationnalised... they WOULD-NOT talk about it.

She checked her calender, January 1st, 2000! Well, at least she was in the right century now. Juni got out of bed and grabbed a wrap off her chair and went to her closet. "Open device." but, to her surprise the doors stayed shut. Feeling around the contours of the wide double doors, she attempted to find the open and select buttons.

After attempting to open the strangely mute device for half-an-hour she walked to the wooden end table in her room and grabbed her backpack. Juni took out her plasto-device a super-computer that contained 3 terabytes of data; but was only the size of a 4" by 6" picture frame.She configured the start-up program and launched her own portable network.

Feeling around the edges on the web, as primitive though it was-- with her device: she created a loophole in one of her old automation programs. Then, Juni walked back to her backpack, took out a couple micro-clips and implanted them in the wood of her closet doors. They immediately sent out little silver feelers, harnessing the planes of the wood to their will-- finally they changed color to match the wood; invisible to the naked eye.

Finally, I'll have a piece of home here, Juni thought, as she co-ordinated the program to match the microchips. After configuring the sequence on her control module she put her Plasto away, then approached the doors again.

"Open. Select." she told the doors in a measured voice. The doors swung open, and a small camera inside the chip scanned her body, mood and temperature to determine the ideal choice. A holographic image of some tight blue-jeans and a black long sleeved T-shirt that's hemline ended right above her belly-button.

Juni took her clothes out of the closet after dressing in the appropriate undergarments; then slipped everything on. With a quick glance at the calender, she hurried up her preparations. It was Monday, and today she was going to experience school in the 2000's.

She took her back-pack and placed a couple binders she'd brought along inside, writing instruments had been supplied by Nic the day before so she packed those to. As a finishing touch she slipped into some sneakers she'd also found in the closet the day before.

Looking in the mirror, Juni eyed herself up; her black hair was pulled back in a wavy pony-tail and her lips had a pale coral color on them. The rest of her didn't look bad as well she thought to herself.

Opening the door and walking into the hallway she noticed that Nic's door was still closed. She knocked a couple times on the door, seeing if he was awake.

"Wha-a-t?" a sleepy voice said through the door.

"Are you going to show me where the school is?" Juni asked patiently.

"School? What?" Nic answered tiredly

"It's Monday." she answered, getting quite annoyed.

Nic jumped up in his bed, banging his head on his headboard, "What the.. Have you had breakfast yet?"

"No!", Juniper yelled through the door, then opened it to see a rumpled Nic lying in bed, " I would've done all those things if I knew where everything was!!".

Nic looked at her and grinned sleepily, "You just can't get enough of me, can you?"

Juni just looked at him annoyingly, " That kiss, was a new years kiss nothing else; besides I was under the influence of medication."

More awake now, Nic was aware of his state of dress or, his absence of it. "Juni, go away for a sec... I have to get dressed."

"Fine!", she snapped and marched out the door. At the same time, Nic stood up-- exposing his 6- no 8-pack to her straying eyes. She quickly turned her head and moved down the hallway to their kitchen.

Quickly pulling on his jeans over his slim hips; Nic buttoned them up and reached for a T-shirt. God, he was tired-- he couldn't handle these 4:00AM bedtimes. Glancing at his clock he stifled a groan, F*ck! It was only 8:30 AM.

They walked up to Nic's sweet car and jumped in... Soon enough they pulled up at Weston College and walked together to the University Entrance. Following a broken cement path up to the red double doors they withheld any conversation.

Opening the doors to find a large hallway filled with the hustle and bustle of people Juni was shocked. Not by the plainness of the white tiling, or the eggshell white walls. In her time, people did not see each other when they went to school. In fact; they had separate little cubicles where they were taught by a computerised droid specifically formulated to meet their educational needs.

Nic walked her to a room with the name "Office" engraved on a plate in gold lettering on the door. He patted her hand gently and led her forward.

The woman they met their also gave Juni a shock, "She's human?" she timidly whispered to Nic.

"Yes, of course." he repiled, "What else could she possibly be?"

The woman introduced herself as Mrs. Beal, the building's receptionist. "How may I help you?" she asked kindly.

Thus was the beginning of Juniper Leigh's true initiation into the past...

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