In the nick of time part 2

[Travis Kroells 0]

In the nick of time part 2...Kroells’s logs

 

Travis walked into his dorm room where O’Connor and several buddies were going a padd containing some sort of schematic.  To day was his and Kayla’s 6 month anniversary and he had planed it all out to the dime.  First he would take her out to a nice restaurant, then the two would head over to the party that Conn had planed, and cap it all off with a little illegal action Connor said would be just perfect.  Travis headed to his room to change out of his uniform and into more casual clothes.  Connor quickly got up and headed over to him while he was pulling out several shirts examining each to determine which one looked better on him.  “So what are you getting Kayla tonight?”  Connor asked as he approached.  “Oh come on now where’s the fun in that…why should tell you her gift if you wont tell me the secret project for this party you’ve been working on for the last month and a half.”  Travis replied trying to give Connor a good reason as to why he hadn’t even found a good present yet.  Travis began to take the upper portions of his uniform off as Connor just stared into space.  “Hey you done Conn???  I got stuff to do so let me get changed.”  Connor quickly snapped out of his trance as he looked to the padd, looked to Travis, snickered and then left.  Travis continued to change as he looked out to see Connor return to his dorkey engineering buddies as they once again returned to the padd that he had held on to since Travis had last seen him.  “I swear to god I will never understand engineers.  It’s like their married to the ship.  If you ask me they all have a few too many screws lose.”

 

Travis was still walking through the streets of San Francisco looking for a gift for Kayla.  This was rather difficult as to the fact that he had to avoid all the local shopping areas where his friends hung out, if Kayla found out that he was hunting for a gift just now he’d have to open a hole into the ground and have the depths of hell be his sanctuary from her wrath.  Travis blinked and shuck his head trying to get rid of the bad thoughts.  Several other customers began to give him weird looks as he quickly left the store.  

 

Travis slowly entered the restaurant where he was to meet Kayla.  He slowly looked around for her and then walked farther into the restaurant looking for her.  He slowly turned his head finally laying eyes on her and quickly pulled out the seat.  He half heartedly listened to her as he stuck his hand into his pocket and felt the little gray box that he had bought.  He slowly opened it to feel the circular object with the little stone on top.  He closed his eyes as he mustered up the courage to take that final leap into the unknown…