Super Simulator

Chapter 92- Albinos In Texas

Someone shook me awake. 

"EMERA!"

I scrambled up, only to find myself fall to the middle of the floor. "You were sleep floating again," Spencer explained.

I rubbed my backside, "Ouch."

"Anyways... we, uh, get there soon. You may want to get dressed." Spencer walked into the other bunk before throwing me my cloak. "Hmph, sleep floating." That was new.

I went into the bathroom to get dressed.

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Talia's POV

I went over to Spencer. We both sat at the trailer's counter top as an awkward silence hung in the air."Er, I heard you and Emera... I heard you used to love her," I said, trying to break off the awkwardness. Spencer shook his head. "I wasn't really in love with here. I was in love with what I thought I knew, what was my dream person,  I suppose. The perfect definition of a dream girl. But I suppose you can never have a dream girl, at least you wouldn't realize it until she falls for you too. If you really love someone, it's going to be while you two are together, not when the other doesn't really know you."

I nodded. "She broke your heart?"

He shook his head again. "No, she did what was right. It took me a bit of a while, but over time, I realized she took the only option. I mean, if you really love someone you'd do whatever it takes to be happy."

"You... do whatever it takes to make them happy..." I furrowed my eyebrows, twisting one blond pigtail around. Spencer nodded. "Yeah, that's how you know you really love them."

"Do these people love each other?" I gestured to the Streaks' I used to idolize as celebrities. Now I do as heroes and legends.

"Yeah, perhaps more than the average. They'd do anything to ensure the other is happy. They're partners, the other 'Streaks' as your friends called them." He looked out of the window, before drinking a glass of milk.

"It's still so much to wrap my head around. Powers? These guys used to be anything other than... perfect. You look at them and just think 'I'd bet everything in their life has been fabulous.' And... it's hard to think some had their siblings raped or hurt in front of them-and apparently carried the guilt. It's hard to believe some of them had their parents sell them, or die, or fight. And when I heard Emera was bullied..." I rambled. It was hard to believe at the very least.

"Yeah, she's the one that changed the most. At first, she was a little bit of rug. Everyone stepped on her. But one thing that gave her hope was Jason. She liked him -a lot I might add- before the Somnium. She used to read books a lot, wear glasses and braces, the works. When in the simulator, over time she started wearing her glasses-less, we took off her braces, and she started growing a backbone. She started fighting back... and now look."

I did look. It would be the biggest understatement of the year to say Emera wasn't beautiful. With her edgy, rainbow streaks. The enchanting rainbow colors that danced about her pupils. Her strong build and her red cloak flowing behind her. Not to mention her features-her smile that lit up the room, her skin that was either fair or tan in the light, or her long lashes. "And she used to be just like Molly?"

"We'll save your friend, don't worry. She must be tricked by Pristine since the Dr. is a very persuasive woman," Spencer said.

"I-I wish I could've warned her. Stopped her from being tricked into being the bad guy."

"I believe she fell into the same trap I did. Becoming completely in love with someone who you never could." He gazed down, stirring his straw in the milk. He was referring to Molly's obsession with Jason. "You could help since you're her best friend. You can explain that she's being irrational, wrong, crazy. Something."