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A Future We'd Like to See 1.50 - Tales of the Sunny City, Act II
By Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne (Copyright 1994)

"Another date? Jeez, you're out with that guy every day!"
the high pitched voice on the other end of the line laughed. Her
image fuzzled, ordinary line static.

"God, Julie, how many times do I have to tell you?" I said
into the HoloPhone, tying my sneakers on. "I'm not dating. I
just go into town and kill time with him and that pal of his.
You know that."

"So are you just providing rover transport, or other types
of rides?" she continued. I hated it when she did this.
Everybody knew that I wasn't DATING Benton, I was just tagging
along on his little excursions. They knew it, but insisted to
the otherwise just to annoy me.

Everybody seems to like annoying me. It's hard being a
precision driving hard coding thrill seeking fun loving High High
funster without drawing some attention, usually of the pestering
kind. Constant jokes about me and Benton, for instance.

"JUST driving the rover," I reaffirmed. "Look, Julie, get
over it already. Now are you going to give me my movie back or
not? I need it for tonight."

"Alright, alright. I'll drop it by your house tonight. I
didn't like it anyway. I thought the bit where he chased the guy
on a motorcycle with a HORSE was a bit contrived."

"It's parody, what did you expect?" I said, making final
adjustments to my outfit. I grabbed my driving gloves off the
nightstand and fastened the velcro straps. "I gotta get moving.
Just tell mom you're dropping off the film if I'm out."

"Where you going this time?"

"Downtown. Benton's selling another one of his sculptures
and wants to hit the mall afterwards with Mitch and I."

"Mitch? Why can't he get that Lindsey to drive him?"

"Ugh. DON'T remind me about her. Kept ordering me around,
treating me like a kid, that little... little... URGH!"

"Hey, calm down, Jody."

"I'm calm. I just don't like holier-than-thou people like
that. Mitch broke up with her, to answer your question, so I'm