August 18
“I know,” I say. “It’s… well, it’s weird. Ever since you told me about the New York thing I’ve had this feeling of deja vu. Like we’ve talked about it hundreds of times before, and it’s…”
“I don’t know what’s come over you,” she says. “You don’t think it’s like, some weird past-life thing, do you?”
“It could be,” I shrug. At this point I’ll take any explanation. “But maybe… I don’t know. You think maybe you’ve gone to New York before?”
“Nope,” Kyle says immediately. “I never went there. Wanted to, but didn’t get to go for that school trip.”
“You never told me that before,” I said.
“Sophomore year, I was asked to come along with the glee club to a regional finals thing in New York City,” she says. “I was supposed to go and help with the lighting and sound board. It was kinda lame, but hey, free trip, right?”
“So what happened?”
“I caught the chicken pox,” she says. “Naturally, it had to happen two days before the trip, when I was in church. I passed out. First and only time in my life.”
“Most girls call it fainting,” I say. She grins. “So you didn’t get to go?”
“I was out of school for three weeks,” she says. “Worst possible time for it, too, except that it had happened just after the first of the year, and I had plenty of time to go through some games. Finished Chrono Trigger, like, seven times that month.” That’s Kyle for you. She found a way to make the best of a bad situation.
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