See You Later by Christopher Pike

Author:Christopher Pike
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: 2022-10-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

It would be shameful for me to say I knew all along. It would, in another sense, also be correct. I was completely infatuated with Becky when I met Kara. But even when I became infatuated with Kara, I consciously understood that there was no conflict. I just didn’t stop to think about why I felt no conflict. That’s all. I never stopped to look at Kara. I never stopped to look at Becky, for that matter. I was too busy daydreaming about them. That’s how it is for me with the people I love. They become unreal to me. I guess I like them better that way.

Still, now I had a real problem. I believed Kara all right, without a shadow of a doubt. The eyes, the voice, the face, the body—everything was the same. But she was talking about time travel and I hadn’t even bothered to write a time travel computer game because the topic was simply too far out. My mind quickly jumped to the possibility of Becky’s having an identical twin. Just as quickly I discarded it. Kara knew Becky as no twin could know a sister. They were the same person, I knew, and the laws of physics were simply going to have to understand.

What did I do when she made her incredible revelation? I just stared at the floor and went straight to the heart of the matter.

“Who’s going to win the World Series in the year two thousand and ten?” I asked.

Kara nodded. “You believe me.”

“I don’t know.”

“It’s me, Mark. It’s Becky.”

“What are you doing this Saturday night?”

She didn’t smile. “I won’t be here.”

“Are you going back to the future?”

“Not exactly.” She glanced at her watch. “I have to finish my story.”

“All right.”

She was concerned. “Are you all right?”

“No. But you were about to die. Tell me what happened.”

She closed her eyes again, and as she did so, she looked older. Not physically, of course, but the experiences she had gone through were there in her face, her voice. I tried not to think about what that meant. I hadn’t always been happy during my short stay on earth, but I’d never blamed the planet. I didn’t want it to die any more than I wanted Vincent to die.

I didn’t stop to ask myself who Vincent was.

“I was staring at the moon and thinking of you,” Kara began. “I was thinking about how you used to come into the record store and make me laugh. This wasn’t the first time I had thought of you in all those years. During the first few years of my marriage, I’d sometimes sit and daydream about you for hours. I used to wonder where you were, what you were doing. I did that until I was about thirty.”

“Why did you stop?”

Kara looked uncomfortable. She kept her eyes closed. “That’ll become clear as I go along,” she said.

“OK,” I said, not reassured by her response.

“The moon appears brighter seen from space. You would know this. The light doesn’t have to go all the way through the earth’s atmosphere.

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