The truth comes out

The door slowly creaked open and Chris poked his head into the room, seeing a sick Mai lying on her bed while Simon was sitting at a desk.

"Oh, hi Simon. I didn't expect you to be here, are you sick as well? Your face is really red, dude." Chris asked, seeing Simon sweating in the corner of the room.

"Chris, what are you doing here!" Mai said surprised as she started to cough frantically and fix her hair. "Did you know I was sick, and how do you know where I live?"

Thinking about this, Mai's face started to heat up even more. At one point her and Chris had walked home together and she had decided to walk in the same direction as him. The embarrassing truth was that Mai lived in the complete opposite direction to him and now Chris knew the truth.

Chris hadn't actually noticed this himself because he was too busy thinking about how embarrassing it was for him to knock on several strangers' doors looking for Mai's apartment. Honestly, he didn't even know what he was doing and if Mai was to find out she would probably think he was some type of stalker.

"Your mom was the one that told me you were sick." Chris said, ignoring the question. "I actually just came by to make sure you were okay after what happened yesterday. I still don't know why anyone would do that. You haven't seen anyone around you lately, have you?"

Thinking about it, Mai never got a chance to figure out who the real culprit was. She had already planned to catch the person red handed at Simon's locker, but that was before she came down with a fever.

"It's probably just a random person, I mean the city is full of strange people." Said Simon. "We went to the city so it couldn't be anyone we know."

"Yeah…" Chris replied, but he didn't think that was the case at all. Chris walked a few paces to where Mai was lying in bed and just stood over her. He was frigid and didn't really know what to do or say, so instead he found himself just staring at her.

Feeling a little like an attraction at a zoo, Mai looked away but couldn't help looking at Chris in the corner of her eye.

"Thank you for dropping by. I think it's just a cold so I should be able to come back to school tomorrow." She eventually said.

After that, Chris started to move towards the door.

"I hope you get better, Mai. Just let me know if you think of anyone who might be responsible for the other day. I promise I will make them pay." He said, half joking and closing the door as he left the room.

"Well that was awkward. You'd think he rarely gets to talk to people or something, he just stood there like a giant tree." Simon said, then suddenly felt a pillow hit his face.

"You idiot!" She shouted. "Explain yourself right now, why did you do that?!"

Of course, Simon knew what she was talking about. It seemed like he wanted to forget that the whole thing had even happened.

"What, the kiss? Come on Mai, you know me, I was just messing around." Simon replied slightly flustered.

"Messing around, you kissed me on the lips!" She continued to shout. "How could you do that, you know that I like Chris, you can't just go kissing around people out of the blue like that! You can go to jail or get beat up for that type of thing, so you're lucky it was me. What were you thinking!"

"Mai, why are you taking this so seriously?" Simon said, standing up with his hands held up like he was at gunpoint. Mai could now see he was getting frustrated. At first he thought Mai was kidding, but he could hear by the tone of her voice she was seriously angry at him.

"What would you have done if Chris had walked in just then and seen what you were doing? Do you think he would have taken it as a joke? What if it was Shirley that walked in instead! How would you explain that, what would have happened if you ruined the future!" She shouted.

"What future!" Simon shouted back, throwing the pillow on the ground. "You have been so obsessed with Chris and just because he treats you nice a couple of times you think you and him now have a chance? I don't see how I've ruined any future Mai. And so what if I kissed you, is getting a kiss from me really that bad? You couldn't look more disgusted at me if you tried."

Shaking her fists with anger, she still couldn't believe how she was the one that had to explain herself, when Simon was the one who had acted.

"Get out Simon. Just leave." Mai eventually said. Simon quickly followed her wish, closing and slamming the door behind him.

Using one of her other pillows, she placed it on her face and lied down back in her bed.

'It's been a while since me and Simon had an argument like that, but why the hell did he kiss me? He's never done anything like that before, and he was the one that said he likes Shirley.' She thought.

While thinking about everything that just happened, she thought maybe she was a little too harsh on Simon. He was always the jokester, if she told him off for taking one of his jokes too far he wouldn't do it again.

'Maybe this was what Future Simon was talking about when he said he wanted to apologise for what he did.' She thought.

She was starting to understand it all a little bit better now. If after today's events her clothes ended up being in Simon's locker, even she would have turned against him.

'What if it really was Simon? No one else but us were on the bus that day.' She started to think, but then quickly remembered how upset Simon was in the future. She just couldn't believe he would have done something like that.

Thinking of the future, she decided to check her phone again to see if there was any information on the bank robbery. Lo and behold, an article had been written around half an hour ago describing how a robbery was stopped by an elderly woman.

Out of shock, she dropped her phone onto her own face, before it slid off to the side.

'Ow! But that means, those dreams. They aren't dreams at all and it really is the future!'