Days Gone By: Novel
Running into a dark street is nothing special to Xaven, the pocket watch that she is holding in her hand is still glowing dark red and light yellow as she just jumped into another time
without stopping she continue to run even it is raining heavily
the street that is dark and the only thing that light her way is the street light, she run fast as she can to find a shelter from the rain
the street dosent have many buildings nor shops to take shelter with so she still run fast and turn into an alley on her right she run and run without stopping until she find a shelter
after a minute from running she finally find a gift store to take shelter from the rain, wierd it is still open even its already 11 in the evening
she hid under the roof of the small gift store and lean on the wooden wall it is the only thing that is open in the area and nobody is around
you can't even see a dog or a cat, the street is totally empty but the shop is still open even tho nobody is around
the rain start to pour heavily and the wind start to blow harder and colder, she is soaking wet from the rain but she can't do anything about it
she wear a leather jacket and the inside is a blue long sleeve paired with a black pants that is soaking wet and a white snickers that just turned into a brown color because of the mud while running under the rain, she don't have anything, she is empty handed the only thing that she have is the pocket watch, no money and no cellphone so she cant do anything about her wet clothes and she can't sleep in a hotel or inn as she don't have any money with her
the cold breeze passes into her jacket and touch her skin that makes her shiver from the cold so she hug herself to keep herself warm but no avail so she decided to take off her jacket and dry it by squeezing it to let the water out
as she was drying her jacket she check the time in her packet watch and notice that the rain seems won't stop so she decided to go so she put her jacket back and was about to run again when an elderly woman grab her hand and stop her
she turn her head to see who is stopping her and it is just an elderly woman
"Oh sorry for making you carpet wet" she said and bow to her as look around and saw how wet is the carpet is
"No, No, not that i observe you here gor a long time and you are standing here for about a minute and you are soaking wet so im here to give you this" the elderly woman said and gave her a raincoat that is blue and red in color
"No I'm fine, you don't have to give me this" Xaven refused
"Just accept it, its raining really hard right" the old woman said
"Okay, thank you for the rain coat i appreciate your help" Xaven said and put on the rain coat
"ill be leaving then, till i see you again grandma" she said and wave her hand at the elderly woman and start to run again, she know that once you interact with someone you'll be forgotten but she don't mind it, that's how the pocket watch works
she start to run faster as she looked at the time it is nearly 12 and she can't even find a single clue in this time
she is running faster when a man suddenly appear out of nowhere that make her bumped into him, the both of them fall from the ground landing with their butts as she fell from the ground the pocket watch that she is holding flee from her grip
"OUCH!" both of them exclaimed, Xaven touch her butt because of the pain that she experienced and slowly stand up and look for her watch she was about grab it when she noticed another pocket watch glowing near hers, she both picked it up and face the man to say sorry
"Im sorry fof bumping into you" she said while looking at the pocket watch that she just picked up it really look like hers but it is still glowing that means the man just recently jumped from time
"Its okay" the man said while dusting himself but it makes Xaven stop in what she is doing, the familiar voice ring in her ears, the voice that she missed so much she heard it again, petrified in her spot she slowly raised her head to see the man but the man quickly grab the pocket watch from Xaven hand and turn his back and walk away
still in shocked she didnt noticed that the pocket watch start glowing again and she jumped to another time
but before she jumped into another time she said one thing that make the man stop from his track
"Sky i finally found you" she said and then she was completely gone when the man turned back
the first clue that she ever had was Sky
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