Plastic Memories

Chapter Four

"Tell me more about this Isla girl, Tsukasa." Aika had followed him to the little garden that he promised to tend to.

"Why so interested?" He asked, watering the plants.

"Well, from the little bit that you talk about her she sounds like an amazing partner. Where did she go?"

"She was retrieved about a year ago now," Tsukasa desperately fought back the tears in his eyes. "This used to be her garden."

"Oh, I'm so sorry, this must be a really special place for you and I'm intruding..." Aika truned to leave but Tsukasa stopped her.

"It's fine... really."

"Could I..." She hesitated to ask her next question. "...see a picture of her?"

Tsukasa was caught of guard. Should he? It might bring some memories back... its worth a try right? He slowly nodded taking out his phone.

He swipped to his favorite memory of the two of them. They were at the fair and Isla had just tried some funnel cake. Her smile was big and joyful.

Aika inched over to see the picture. A tear slipped down Tsukasa's face as Aika took a small step away.

"But that's me... but I've never seen you before in my life!" She paused utterly confused. She looked exactly the same as the girl in the picture, but how? Unless she was now using the girls body.

"You have to remember something! Anything!" Tsukasa pleades turning to face her. Tears fell down his face knowing she wouldn't remember. He flipped through pictures of Isla and himself and showed it to her.

"You've got to remember, this was us! We went to the fair a few times, we retrieved giftias together... We... we..." he stopped. He was a fool, how could she remember?

"I'm sorry," he said weakly.

Aika was stunned into silence but managed to shake her head. Could she blame him? She had stolen the body of his former partner and friend.

"It's ok, Tsukasa."

The rest of the day was uneventful. Tsukasa closed up with Aika and they headed back to the apartment. Tsukasa fixed them both dinner as Aika sulked in her chair reflecting on today's events.

What flustered her most was the fact that she must have know Tsukasa as this Isla person. But she couldn't remember anything no matter how hard she tried.

She must be important if Tsukasa had so many pictures of the two of them. She thought. And here I am, in her body unable to do anything but cause him pain.

"Dinner's ready. I made pizza tonight for simplicity." Tsukasa pulled Aika out of her train of thought. Slowly Aika pulled herself out of her chair and over to the counter, taking a seat on one of the stools.

"Did... Isla.. like pizza?" Aika asked, catching Tsukasa off guard yet again.

"I never made pizza for her so I wouldn't know." He shook his head trying to understand where she was going with this. "Whats with all the questions about her?"

"W-well I'm in her body. And I keep thinking about those pictures, hoping maybe, for your sake, that I'll remember something. But I can't. All I'm doing is causing you more pain than you've already been though." Aika explained, her voice cracking at the end.

She didn't want to upset her new partner. Especially being in his former partner's body.

She jumped when something wet fell on her hand. She reached up to wipe away tears.

"You shouldn't think about that so often..." Tsukasa voice was almost a whisper and full of sorrow. "Besides your Aika, my new partner."

"Wait Tsukasa you can't just let her go like that! Show me anything and every place you two made memories together! Maybe somthing will come to me!" Aika clung to his shirt. She was going to help him even if it meant losing herself.

"W-what?"

"Please Tsukasa, let me be useful to you! I want to help you get her back! I have her body, I must have her memories somewhere else too right?"

"But-"

"Please!"

He sighed. "You aren't going to take no for an answer will you?"

"No I will not!"

"Then ok.. I suppose it's worth a shot."

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"Sometimes we can't let go of memories, because they are constant reminders of a great story that we never expected to end." ~Unknown

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(Lol my teacher used to do that 😂. He annoyed the shit out of me 😐)