The most beautiful view

I finished a set of push-ups and headed to the apartment's small bathroom to take a quick shower. It was early in the morning and I had to start my shift in some time. But for now, I still had some free time, so I could take a slightly cold shower, which is damn nice when one had a fighting match the night before or the night before that. And then I could fly around the city.

After I got out of the shower, I wrapped in a towel while scrubbing my hair with a towel after which I brushed my teeth and threw on the clothes I wore to work. I tied part of my hair in a ponytail and left the bottom part alone as I thought the cut looked really good this way, but maybe it would have been better if I just left them loose because of their length.

Quietly, so as not to wake my grandmother, I closed the door behind me and went back to the room to get a few things, including the helmet, after which I prepared something small to eat in the kitchen and went outside to get the hoverbike. I walked over to the machine and ran my hand over the display to turn it on, then placed my palm on it to unlock the hovercbike. I got on and put on my helmet which was connected to the communicator so I could play some soft music in the background without looking at the communicator screen. What a great invention.

After that, I started engine and went on my way. I flew slowly through the main streets towards the biggest one. However, I was heading in the opposite direction than most people at the same time - towards the edge of the city.

I started to accelerate slightly on the main road while enjoying the ride immensely with a smile. From time to time I avoided another hovercar and kept heading forward with the illuminated night in the city. With a kind of empty head.

After a long time, I reached the destination and I parked on the roof of an abandoned building on almost the very edge of the city, after which I took off my helmet, which I placed on the hoverbike and took off my backpack from my back, from which I took out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter.

I spent the next several tens of minutes sitting on the edge of the roof, leaning on one hand and holding a cigarette in the other, just from the beginning before I finished smoking. I had my earphones on and was enjoying a moment of solitude.

The moons, illuminated by the star, the center of our system, Lucens, was extremely comforting to behold. That was the main reason why I loved dark days and nights. The most beautiful view that, in my opinion, could ever exist.

The red moon was nearest Shinrin at the moment while the blue one was furthest. That meant that I could watch some not very small details on the biggest one for now. Dark big craters and some red places. Such a nice view.

If I could I would stay on that roof for a really long time but unfortunately, everything didn't last forever and I had to go to work, as my shift was about to start soon. So I got up with a sigh, threw my backpack on my back, helmet on my head, and after starting the hoverbike, I set off in the direction of the workshop.

I got off the machine once I was there. The garage was already open as one could see, so I was able to park the hoverbike in a safe place - inside, as I greeted Hideaki, who was already there as well.

I had another job almost done, and it didn't take long to finish, so it wasn't long before I was done for good. I wiped my hands on a rag, which I stuffed into the pocket of my overalls as always, and looked up information about the piece I was in charge of. I had to go to the boss's office and take care of everything for him, so I went upstairs, where I reached one of the closed doors, which I then knocked on.

"Come in."

As soon as I heard the permission, I went inside, where the boss was sitting, as always, behind the desk in a chair, processing some documents with a cup of coffee. But in my presence, he looked up from whatever he was doing and gave me a questioning look.

So I moved closer to his desk with the tablet where I had a document on the repaired hovercar open and handed it to the guy with gray hair behind the desk with a few words about the job being done. This was mostly done by me, because the guys didn't want to and they preferred to invite me on one instead as a payback.

And the three of us agreed to go out a bit in the evening. Well, Mali, Chris with his girlfriend Mia and Hideaki. However, we didn't quite agree where we were going. Which bar, pub or club will be our destination.

After work, I returned home, where I also left the hoverbike, changed clothes and had something to eat. But I still had to check on Grandma and everything she needed. She almost didn't get out of bed anymore, and when she did - because she needed to go to the toilet - then with a cane and with the help of a wall, etc. But I couldn't be with her all day, even though I tried to limit my free time outside as much as possible - which she didn't like when she was sane. And so one neighbor used to come to our apartment to help, and I always had to leave some money for her help, even though she wanted almost nothing.

Before long, I was already in the streets in a leather jacket and exceptionally I had more decent pants, but otherwise nothing extra, because I didn't like shopping and anyway I spent money lately on the more important things plus one new tattoo.

I arrived at the meeting place - the corner of a larger street about halfway from the apartment complex where I lived to one of the pubs. Luckily for me, I didn't come first. I hate waiting, by the way.

With a nod, I smiled at Mali, who returned the greeting and the next moment greeted the new arrivals. Every other time she looked back at her communicator, where she seemed to be looking for something, and before long it was confirmed when she asked quite enthusiastically:

"Should we go to a near club?"

I shrugged, but the guys suggested we go to the pub for a drink first, since it's too stupid to come to a club when we're still sober. So we headed to the nearest one, where we sat at a table next to the wall with some paintings and ordered a few beers and shots.

We didn't spend too long in the pub, because we didn't want to get drunk and stay there, and also because we already had a plan. So we headed to the club according to Mali's navigation, however, it was located more in the center, so we had to take the train for a few minutes with bunch of other people who were out for a fun, too.

When we finally got inside the club, I wondered why I had even taken my jacket. It was cold until I started drinking and in here... it was an extra mistake to wear an extra layer. Fortunately, we found a place where we could hang out and have fun in the space around, which I didn't do at first.

I rather sat at our table for a moment while drinking the alcohol we bought together while Chris and Mia went dancing and Hideaki decided to keep Mali company for a few minutes. But before long I saw him paying attention to some other girls at the bar.

Chris came back after a while and interrogated me as to why I was still sitting at the table, but it wasn't long before he was drinking on the spot with me, while he started digging in his pocket. I watched him with a questioning expression before I saw what he had. I couldn´t help myself but to laugh.

And so after a while, we smoked in the box and drank. Me, Chris and Mia. Mali disappeared from sight with an unknown guy I caucht a glimpse of and Hideaki could still be seen at the bar. I was enjoying the silence in my head for a while, even though there was considerable noise around and the two... no comment.

Fortunately for me, an unknown person came to the box, to whom I had to throw a questioning smile. The girl with a pretty nice smile and curly hair definitely didn't come to Mia or Chris, because they had a classic couple moment between them at the moment.

"Do you need anything?" I tried to ask loud as much as possible becuase of the noise around. The dark-haired girl seemed to understand what I was talking about, so she answered with a nod to the crowd of dancing bodies, to where I shifted my gaze. I came to have fun, so the crowd of people probably won't kill me.

With a nod, I poured the rest of the contents of the glass into myself, to which I got up and went with the nameless one to the center of the action, where she came very close to me, until I could feel her breath on my neck and lower part of my face.

"What´s your name?"

She was smaller so I bent my head to her ear: "Rayne. And you?"

"Nadia."

I nodded with a smile, but was then slightly taken aback when she put her arms around my shoulders and came very close to me again. But there was no reason why I should push her away, so I let her do what she wanted and began to sway to the rhythm with her, to which I caught her with my arms around her waist.