CHPT 2: PT 1 - Almost Magical

"Come back to me, Kai." 

It repeated in his head like a mantra for most of the day, and when he finally went to sleep the next night, something strange happen. 

As he turned off the lights and flopped onto the bed, he closed his eyes and fell asleep. There was flashing light and he was on an island's beach. He was wearing an atrociously colourful shirt and tropical shorts with sandals. He found Sage sporting a sun dress, crying by the ocean tide. 

"Sage, Sage what's wrong?" He gently shook her and she looked up to him with a heartbreaking frown. They gazed into each other's eyes and Kai could see the bright light from her eyes dimming with each look. It broke him seeing her this way. But military had to come first. 

"Kai, why aren't you coming back?", she sobbed. "I thought, that we were meant to be." "But I guess it didn't mean anything to you, did it?"

"It does mean something to me-." he was stopped when Sage stood up and walked away , looking back at him with heartbroken eyes. 

"I'm so glad I spent my last moments with you." "I'm glad I got to love you and you got to love me, I think." 

"What are you talking about?! "We were in love, how could you give up on me?!?" "How could you give up on us?" 

Sage looked back to the road in front of her and said these last things before pitch black fell. 

"You left me behind." "Nothing could make me forget that pain." 

KAI: 

The dream faded away as Kia awoke on a hospital bed. There were nurses frantically running around until one of the nurses noticed he was awake. 

"Oh, he's awake." "Send in his friends."The other nurses called Arlo and Lance over. They rushed into the hospital bed and spotted me. 

"Dude, it's a good thing you're even alive.", Arlo said. "You scared us, bud." Arlo put his hand on Kai's shoulders.

"What happened?", Kai asked. The last thing he remembered was.. Sage. 'It's too late. She'd moved on without me. I've moved on without her, but I feel a empty space in my heart.'

"Kai, Kai are you there?" "Caistea to Kia!" Lance was waving his hands in front of Kai's face. Kai crashed back to reality and apologized half-heartily for the minor delay. 

"Oh, sorry I just, never mind." "Can we get out of here?!" Kai started to leave the hospital room when Arlo and Lance stopped him. "Dude, the nurses said you have to stay here until tonight, you had a pretty bad accident, man." 

Kai was about to go to sleep when he realized that he didn't know who won the training course. "Wait!" "Who won the course?" "Who, I say, who?!" 

Arlo and Lance looked at Kai with a proud look, saying they won right as Kai collapsed back there. Arlo and Lance told Kai the whole story while he was out. 

"Even though we won, we still kinda feel bad that you ended up collapsing." "We don't know what happened, exactly." Lance said with a confused tone, with Arlo nodding his head in agreement. 

"It was probably because of drill we had to do a couple weeks back, you were pretty wasted  back then." Arlo said. "But hey, we all were." 

"Well uh, we gotta go now, so we'll see you back at the apartment common rooms tonight." Lance said as they both headed towards the door. Lance opened the door and they left. Kai looked up to the ceiling and thought about Sage. 

'She's lovely and radiant. 

I can feel her shine all the way here. 

I wonder how you're doing. 

Sage.'

SAGE: 

Sage was at the doors of GoldSpring Enterprises when she realized something was wrong. She must've forgot her resume at home. But that means she'll have to go back home, and it took 2 hours to get here. Leaving now would mean she'd be late for the interview and that means she probably won't get the job. Sage would just have to press her luck and hope they won't need the resume today. 

As she entered in through the doors of the huge company, she instantly found she was lost. She never expected this place to be so big, and that was only part. Just imagine the rest of it. She try to find her way through the busy hallways of co-workers and managers bustling through and through. 

After a few minutes of hard searching and looking, Sage arrive at the Central Station. She ask the security lady where the nearest elevator was. She pointed to the nearest elevator was on the second floor on the map on her desk and said that said she needed to go on the stairs to even reach the elevator. She pointed towards the stairs on the right of the central station and told the girl that the stairs was located where to the right and then take a left. I thanked her for the information. 

"No problem, by the way, I haven't seen you around here before." "Is this your first time here at GoldSpring Enterprises?" She asked with a curious tone. Sage simply grimaced and the secretary nodded her head. She scanned me, seeing as to why I was wearing such casual clothes. 

"Sorry, I don't have any professional clothes back home." "This is my first time having a job and I don't really know the expectations of a job yet." She hung her head in embarrassment. Sage knew she was wearing casual clothes but she didn't think it was that casual that she had to mention it.

Sage turned right and saw a advertisement sign about a deluxe computer. She took a left and found the stairs. After she went up the stairs and as I about to take the final step, she almost tripped but kept her balance. She spotted the Interview Room. She went inside the room and asked someone where the manager for the interview was. 

"Oh, this isn't the interview room.", he said in a mischievous tone. 

"This is the men's employment grounds."