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"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there," ―Edwin Louis Cole
Year 2113. Class A. Academia Astra. A City.
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"NO WAY!"
"I didn't expect you to believe it the first time," I told Lexi as she stared at me wide-eyed in disbelief.
She finally returned after four days from the foraging trip.
The recon was with our class when they arrived before dusk. And just as Lexi had reported, they were beautiful people. Both the girls and the boys.
It almost seemed fictitious that the recon members were so fit and good looking.
"You can't be serious!" Lexi scooted over towards me. "Tram is not seventeen?"
I nodded with a small smile to confirm it.
She couldn't contain her excitement. While waiting for the class bell to sound, I filled her in with what has happened to me in the past days.
"Keep it a secret," I shushed her. "Tram said this was not for us to share around. It's only for the recon and the three of us to know."
"But how can the Academia falsify his records? Is that legal?"
"Nope. It's not." I doodled randomly on my notebook. "That's why we have to protect this information."
"Honestly, I liked Tram even though I always thought he was too short for his age," Lexi grinned. "Now that he is actually age-ideal, we got a chance! And I am dead sure that I love him like crazy!"
I laughed. "I don't think we have a shot, Lex."
"Why? We are what? Three or four years younger. That's a good age gap, Sky."
"It's not about the age," I explained.
Looking out of the window, I pointed at a group of pretty recon girls waiting outside the dispatch office.
"See those? They probably like him too."
"You have a point. Maybe if I manage to entice him when I meet him then the odds might shift in favor of me?" Lexi gave a defeated sigh.
"Oh, about that he said he can't go tonight." I gave Lexi an apologetic smile when her shoulders slumped in dismay.
Tram told me he would love to meet Lexi but he had to report back to their chief after taking a sick leave for three days.
"He has to go to their lead. Tram said he had to report to them."
"The old woman from the seniors? Does Tram dig older women?" Lexi asked with a pout, evidently disappointed.
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It was midnight when I received a message from an unknown sender.
Unknown: There's a meteor shower in thirty minutes.
Skyler: Who's this?
Unknown: Guess who? 😎
Skyler: I am not up for games. I'm going to sleep. 😑
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Astra Chronicles
General FictionIn a dying world, Skyler and other prodigies set out on Academia Astra's special mission only to discover a plethora of secrets that were thought to exist solely in a fantasy. Not the fairytale kind. But darker and twisted fantasies. #mystery #roman...
