My
very best friend
Chelsea
always had everything first. Antigravity car. First one in town.
Clone. Her twin force-grown two years before they were available
outside of Korea. Alien pet (that didn't look like a beach ball
with chicken feet). So what if it had to be put down after eating a
Dairy Queen? She had the record. Lost her virginity first, after
downloading the entire Kama Sutra into her frontal lobe.
Valedictorian of our middle-school graduating class. Me? I did just
about everything last. My claim to fame was being Chelsea's only
real friend. I felt so bad for her. She did all of these cool
things, but no one really liked her. Some of them pretended to, but
I knew, and she knew. It was my idea for her to be the first to have
lesbian sex. Of course the plan was that she would have it with me,
and so I would be first also. Karin never really liked Chelsea.
She just did it to be first. I babysat Chelsea's twin little
brothers. I hardly charged anything; I just wanted to be in her
house. She usually wasn't there, so I went in her room. I wore some
of her things. The boys would never tell. I unlocked the Internet
controls for them. I hacked her computer, broke into her secret
diary, found what she wrote about everyone. She said a lot. She
wrote a lot about me. And the next day, when Chelsea got in her
anti-gravity car to go to high school? The controller must have
frozen up, because it shot straight up in the air, flipped over, and
then shot straight down, at top speed! It was terrible! I ran over.
But when I got there I could see there was nothing I could do. And
when the rescue AIs arrived, there was nothing they could do either.
It seems Chelsea had been carrying some high-grade nano with her.
That stuff is illegal! Especially in school, but some people don't
always obey the rules. The nano pack somehow got activated by the
crash and there was nothing left of Chelsea's brain to scan.
I
get along much better with her clone. She's nicer than Chelsea was,
and she has more than one friend. But I'm her very best friend. I
always have been.
Publ. Daily Cabal 2008
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