He Loves You

Chapter 1: Amazing News

Chapter 1: Amazing News

-November 29th-

I raced down the concrete streets. My boot covered feet ached as a I ran faster and faster down the avenue. My heart beat rapidly and my breath hitched.

A sharp pain pierced my side and I gasped for breath as I pushed harder down the sidewalk, cutting through a street vending corner and running across the street.

I had just heard the most amazing news I would possibly ever receive. It was ready. The machine me and my best friend Alex had eagerly awaited on.

We had stayed up countless nights fixing and tuning this thing up. Listening to old rock and roll. And when I'd gotten the call while searching for vinyls in my favorite music store that it was really ready, I ran immediately out of the store.

I ran past all of the small Bronx buildings and rusty or bricked homes and townhouses. If Alex had it his way, he'd make me get a taxi can wherever I went.

But honestly, where was I going to get that kind of money? Definitely not me, a waitress trying to pay for music school couldn't afford spending her money on cabs.

Especially when I couldn't even pay rent and was on a ramen noodle every night budget.

I dodged a stout women walking her equally as chubby wiener dog. I looked down at my grey plastic watch.

It read, 4:00 p.m.

"Crap!"

I needed to be at Alex's by 4:15 for this to work.

I quickened my pace to a full out bolt as I made my way to the northern side of the Bronx where Alex's workshop was.

It was where I literally lived half the time. I cut across the street and raced through a small recreational area and took a short cut through a dark alleyway.

Alex would most likely protest of me running through those alleys like that. But seriously, if I didn't do this we'd have to wait another year to get to this exact moment.

I ran out of the alley and ran across the street, cutting off a man in a yellow cab. He swerved a little and then proceeded to flip me off and say a few less than decent words.

I held my hands up and mouth the word "Sorry". Then dashed over to Alex's.

I leaned up against the dark bricks and caught my breath before banging on the large metal door.

"ALEX?!" I yelled, pounding my fists into the metal.

I heard a noise from inside and soon was greeted by Ben, Alex's dad at the door. Their black staircases winded behind him.

"Hey Space Girl," The half drunk, scruffy, middle aged man managed. "You here for my son's sexy bod again?"

"Uh. I don't think so."

Ben gave me a drunk grin and slapped my shoulder. "Please Darcy," he became slurred and dizzy and held himself up on the door. "I know what you two do."

Ben burped and looked at me lazily.

My brows furrowed and I pushed Ben to the side. "Get away you creep." I said teasingly. But my tone sounded assertive and serious.

Ben just laughed. I spun around to him. "Where's Alex?" I demanded.

Ben sort of shrugged. "In his shop of course, where he always is."

Ben had that one right. Alex was either in his shop or working at the metal yard. Which also happens to be the place he picked up all the parts for our machine.

I twisted the knob to the door leading to the garage and found Alex, blaring some Guns N' Roses and putting the finishing touches on our machine.

There she was. Our time machine to the past. The machine that was going to take me to where I'd always wanted to go.

"ALEX?" I screamed over 'Paradise City'.

He hadn't heard me and continued welding.

I walked over to his stereo and flipped the switch.

He jumped, spun around and flipped up his welding helmet. A grin spread over his face immediately.

"Hey Mars!" He said, placing his helmet on the ground and slipping on his glasses.

"What are you doing?" I asked inquisitively.

Alex's eyes lit up immediately. Anytime he spoke of our machine he got this way. He got excited and giddy and ready to blurt out a thousand facts.

"Oh, just putting the last little things on this beauty." he slapped the side. "I added the seat."

I looked at our machine. The giant circle with a beam that supported a seat erecting from the middle.  

 

"And," Alex leaned in closer to me and whispered like it was a secret. "I tested it out."

My eyes widened and my jaw dropped. "No you didn't."

Alex nodded and pulled out his smartphone, producing pictures of a Led Zeppelin concert. Front row.

I blinked a few times. My mind was fuzzy. "It actually works."

Alex frowned. "You didn't think it would?"

I shook my head, I was truly baffled. What was I supposed to say 'No, I honestly had no faith in you' ? 

 

"I-I didn't k-know what to t-think really." I stuttered.

Alex just shook it off and put his phone back in his pocket. "Believe in me Darce."

I grinned. "I do, I do. It's just...wow."

"I know."

"It...works." I whispered to myself.

This was going to work. I was getting my dream. I was going to live along side George Harrison. To document his life.

Alex slapped the side of our machine again, jolting me out of my fantasy.

"Well, Space Girl, how about we get this show on the road?"

~HEY BEAUTIFUL! Yeah, yeah you, watcha think of this? Lemme know!~