Private Finished Remember Me

Boy did Sidney pick a bad night to forget to charge her phone. Sure, it sucked to have a dead phone for the day, but she never expected it to come back to bite her twelve years into the future. After getting unfrozen, receiving the scoop about what happened to her entire school, and getting sent on her merry way, she was stuck trying to figure out what became of everybody she'd known.

Her first move was to head home, if the old lady was still there, and she had to be, then she could charge her phone and start figuring things out. Unfortunately, that didn't work out as planned. It turned out that twelve years didn't treat an old sickly human so well. Instead, Sid was met by the new residents of her house, a young couple she'd never seen before or at the very least didn't recognize. After more terrible news about how the world had gone to shit, there was only one thing left to keep her going. Her girlfriend.

Aranea hadn't been at Dark Crystal Academy at the time of the supposed freezing bullshit and Sid didn't see her after when everyone was getting briefed either. That meant she probably never got frozen. But Aranea wasn't a sickly old lady, she was her kick-ass spider gal, and she was definitely still around.

Without wasting any time, Sidney asked to borrow a phone from the couple living in her old home and dialed a familiar number into an unfamiliar device. It was still hard to believe it had been twelve years since she called her girlfriend, it felt like less than a day. She held the phone tightly, muttering "pick up, pick up, pick up" into the phone and impatiently bouncing her knee.

@Kait

Sidney took a moment to register Aranea's response. It was definitely her, but it wasn't the same her as yesterday. That hello was enough to let her know that Aranea definitely hadn't been frozen. That meant she must've been 30 now.

"Rain? It's Sid, do you remember me?" She probably should've paid better attention when the situation was being explained to the whole lot of them, but she remembered them telling everyone that island's residents were still in the process of regaining their memories or something along those lines.

It was nice to at least hear that Aranea was alive and hadn’t forgotten her.

It wasn’t enough to hear her though, she wanted to see her. “I’m... I don’t know, this is all kind of fucked up. Can we meet up somewhere? This isn’t really my phone and I really need to see you right now...”

“I’m at-“ Sidney was going to say my house, but cut herself off early. That wasn’t actually her house anymore, and she wasn’t so sure Aranea remembered where it was either. So instead, she gave the actual address.

She was just thankful that Aranea was able to drop whatever she was doing to help out.

Sidney was prepared to go wait outside, but the couple was nice enough to offer her a couch to wait on until Aranea got there and she wasn't about to turn that down.

When she heard a knock on the door, she got up, getting to the entrance right after the new owner of the house answered it. When she finally saw Aranea again, she took a second to just look at her. In that moment, it really hit her that this was all real. Aranea was obviously older and different than she used to be. But she was still Aranea and she was offering a hug. Sid really wanted one of those right about then.

Very suddenly, her wings gave a short flutter and she practically jumped onto Aranea. All four arms wrapping around her tightly. She shut her eyes and just held on tight. For what was probably the first time in her life, she let her actions do the talking.