Jack & Diane - Chapter One
He worked Day and Night on his project. Jack Futura, was married, without children. He hardly saw his wife, Diane. Jack was working on something important. He knew it. It was one of those gut feelings, and Jack mostly never had anything gut about him. He worked in the spare bedroom of the couple's two bedroom apartment. Once upon a time the neighborhood in which they lived had seemed important and expensive, but not any more. Jack was a tinkerer, and inventor. It had been a long time since technology had changed the world and Jack was sure he could play a role in the next wave.
His workshop-bedroom was littered with electronics and organics. The Futuras didn't have much, but they had the gear needed for Jack's work. They didn't even have a teleporter. Diane had actually cried one night when she felt like a bum for having to walk to work.
"Shut up!", Jack yelled back at her, "How ungrateful can you be."
Diane forced, "Ungrateful?", through tears and stormed out of his domain. Jack could hear the bedroom door slam. He liked to think he thought about getting up and consoling her, but he didn't. He never did. It was back to work.
Diane worked at the local SynthShop. She spent her days in a plastic suit, pushing atoms until they formed the various plants and animals people of the time enjoyed consuming. She had never known what she wanted to do. She had never had a strong driving force for career or success, not like Jack had. She did want love though, and she wouldn't mind installing a teleporter, like any normal person.
She met Jack back in her College days. Back then Jack seemed to know exactly what he was doing. But somewhere along the way he became transfixed on this one idea. Whenever a new opportunity presented itself, Jack wouldn't notice. He knew if he kept plugging away at it, if he continued to place the puzzle pieces and rearrange them, he would solve it. Or, at least, he would have an interesting looking picture.
Jack came up with this idea and had spent the next four years of his life prodding and probing. He believed that there was more to the world than met the eye. Even after all these years and all the amazing evolutionary advancements of mankind, there was still unexplained events. There were ghost sightings. There were spiritual awakenings. And Jack wanted to find out Why. Jack didn't have much, but Jack had a theory. Jack's theory was that our brains were far more advanced than our eyes, evolutionarily speaking. He set out to fix that.
His workshop-bedroom was littered with electronics and organics. The Futuras didn't have much, but they had the gear needed for Jack's work. They didn't even have a teleporter. Diane had actually cried one night when she felt like a bum for having to walk to work.
"Shut up!", Jack yelled back at her, "How ungrateful can you be."
Diane forced, "Ungrateful?", through tears and stormed out of his domain. Jack could hear the bedroom door slam. He liked to think he thought about getting up and consoling her, but he didn't. He never did. It was back to work.
Diane worked at the local SynthShop. She spent her days in a plastic suit, pushing atoms until they formed the various plants and animals people of the time enjoyed consuming. She had never known what she wanted to do. She had never had a strong driving force for career or success, not like Jack had. She did want love though, and she wouldn't mind installing a teleporter, like any normal person.
She met Jack back in her College days. Back then Jack seemed to know exactly what he was doing. But somewhere along the way he became transfixed on this one idea. Whenever a new opportunity presented itself, Jack wouldn't notice. He knew if he kept plugging away at it, if he continued to place the puzzle pieces and rearrange them, he would solve it. Or, at least, he would have an interesting looking picture.
Jack came up with this idea and had spent the next four years of his life prodding and probing. He believed that there was more to the world than met the eye. Even after all these years and all the amazing evolutionary advancements of mankind, there was still unexplained events. There were ghost sightings. There were spiritual awakenings. And Jack wanted to find out Why. Jack didn't have much, but Jack had a theory. Jack's theory was that our brains were far more advanced than our eyes, evolutionarily speaking. He set out to fix that.
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