Alexis was wearing a spacesuit that clad her figure well. She was in a strange land and there was fight going on all around her. There were sounds of laser-guns and bombs, buzzing sound of spaceships hovering above the ground and shooting at selected enemies on the ground, and people shouting and fighting for their lives. Alexis was confused as to where she was and how she got here.
With all the noise around her and this strange surrounding, she started to feel suffocated and lightheaded. As she was gasping for air to breathe, a laser beam came right at her and hit her, making her fly off the ground. She landed on the ground with a big thud and stayed down for a good few seconds.
Right as she was struggling to get up, a large man who seemed more like a beast came charging at her. Seeing this, Alexis felt a sudden rush of energy surging throughout her whole body and all of a sudden she started to levitate on air. Her body was glowing as if it was emitting azure blue fire, a purest and deadliest form of fire. Just when Alexis was screaming and charging towards the beast like man, she woke up from her warm bed gasping for air.
Alexis was trying to figure out whether it was a dream or a reality while breathing very heavily and covered in sweat. She stayed on her bed for a while, recalling everything that she saw. She knew that it was just a dream but she could not her but think how real it felt.
"Maybe it is my mind trying to make me feel strong and confident. The way I was levitating though… badass…" Alexis was impressed with her own dream and felt a bit good about herself. "If only I had such power…"
Alexis got off from the bed and freshened up. She still had a few hours left before going to the academy as she woke up very early because of her dream. And she did not want to go back to bed fearing that she might forget her beautiful dream if she slept again. So she was just exploring the new cell phone that she got from David. Other than Soulmate app, there were many apps that seemed to be new to her.
One of them was Galaxy Map. Unlike the map in her old cell phone which only showed streets of Earth, Galaxy Map showed each and every discovered planet with their coordinates and some information about the planet like who were the natives of that planet, which galaxy it belonged to, how many IGT Fed stations were there and so on.
While she was going through the app very curiously, she got a call from Natalia in her new phone.
"Hey Nat, you're up already?" Alexis was surprised that Natalia woke up so early, considering the fact that she almost always came late to the first class because she woke up late.
"Yeah, but so are you! I thought you wouldn't pick up the call," Natalia said a bit surprised that Alexis received her phone call.
Alexis thought of sharing about her dream this morning but backed out thinking Natalia would tease her for the rest of the day and instead just said, "Umm… I also happened to wake up super-early today. Never mind that. Tell me, what's up?" She wanted to know the reason why her best friend could not wait until they met in academy and had to call this early.
"You wouldn't believe what happened when I was going home yesterday. Liam caught up to me and asked me out!" Natalia shrieked in excitement immediately after saying this and made Alexis jump a little with this unexpected loudness.
Alexis poked Natalia by saying, "Are you sure that it's not the way around? After all, you were the only one to know that he was your soulmate." Alexis let out a giggle as she was saying this. You don't always get a chance to tease Natalia, if you get one, you take it.
Natalia could feel her blood rushing to her cheeks and ears out of embarrassment, but still tried to sound calm and composed. "Hey, if I had asked him out, you would know it beforehand. I wouldn't do that without including you in the planning process."
Alexis mimicked the way Natalia was talking, "Planning process, huh?" Alexis could not help but continue giggling.
"Stop laughing, cut it out already"
"Okay, I'm sorry!" Alexis said trying to control laughter from bursting out. "I am really happy for you that your soulmate is already making moves. At this rate, I'm afraid that you'll get married by next month." Alexis could not hold her laughter any longer and laughed for a good minute.
Natalia, on the other hand, was already irritated by the way Alexis was behaving today. "Alexis!" shouted Natalia furiously. Alexis stopped laughing at once because from the way she called her name, she knew she stretched out the joke a bit too much. People that were close to Alexis called her Lexi, and when Natalia called her by her name, Alexis knew she had to stop.
"I'm sorry Nat! But hey, I'm allowed to get hyped up when my best friend is finally asked out by someone. And that someone is not just anyone but also happens to be your soulmate. I mean, how crazy is that?" Alexis gave her side of argument with so much excitement that Natalia could not help but smile softly.
"So when are you guys meeting? And what are you two doing for your date?" Alexis was finally curious about Natalia's date.
Finally, Natalia got a chance to say what she actually called Alexis for and said it with a glimmer of delight in her eyes, "Well, he said that he'll come pick me up at 8 today. And I don't know what he has planned but said that he'll drive with me to P19 Street."
Alexis's emerald green eyes widened as she heard it. "Whoa! P19 Street? That's quite posh street of Area-P. Do you have enough points for the date there?" she asked her friend with a bit of a concern.
"Yeah, I have some savings from my part-time job at The Harper's. I thought I was stupid when I worked in that junkyard, but now that I think of it, I think I did a great job." Natalia worked as a part-time mechanic because as she was majoring to be an aerospace engineer, she thought the practice would help her improve her grades in the academy.
And she seemed pleased with her past decision to work in The Harper's. It was a junkyard which repaired and sold spare parts of old and abandoned spaceships to the private companies or owners. And if they were lucky, they could repair and sell the spaceship to private owners. Of course, the ones who wanted to buy should first have permit from IGT Fed to own and fly the spaceship.
"Oh! That's good then," Alexis gave a small sigh of relief and her eyes happened to fall on the time being displayed on the screen of her Personal Intelligent Assistant (PIA). It was already 9:30 in the morning and they were already late for their class. After realizing it, Alexis went into panic mode and screamed, "Nat! We're already late for class."
Natalia was looking forward to go to the academy early today, not just because she was always frowned upon by the professor for coming late to the class, but also because she wanted to have some chat with Liam before the class started. But she realized that her plans went into dump and exclaimed, "Oh my stars! I am so dead! See ya later Lexi."
[NOTE: This is the 23rd century and Earth doesn't have separate countries anymore. The 4th World Leader passed the bill to rename the places into numbering system. The world was divided into 20 areas and each area was assigned an alphabet from A to T. And the street numbers were given on the basis of the economic wellbeing of the people of that street during the time when the bill was passed.]