Cindy sighed to herself as she looked at the time

Late, Dee's going to kill me no doubt!

She scrammed out of bed and quickly took a shower, got her uniform on, and checked herself out in the mirror. Her nineteen year old self looked back at her as she struggled to put her hair up in a messy ponytail. Over the years, Cindy had grown up to be a beautiful young woman with her perfect figure and fair skin. After her hair was up, she straightened her waitress outfit and sighed for the second time that morning.

Here we go again.

She raced out of her apartment and walked down the street to the nearest subway station. Cindy was still getting used to her life in New York City; especially her college work. Coming from a small town like Retroville to Columbia University was clearly a huge change. Her mother had insisted that she should go because after all it was such a "prestigious school with many opportunities for her to grow and develop". Cindy boarded the subway and sat down next to an old man wearing a business coat and yelling into his blue tooth. She looked out into the rest of the train filled with strangers with different appearances and destinations. A pang of homesickness hit her hard in the stomach and she ached to go back home and visit Retroville. It's not that she did not enjoy her time here at New York, its just that she has not been back in three months and she wanted to see some friendly faces. The last time she saw Libby, Carl, or Sheen was when they dropped her off at the airport.

She smiled faintly at the memories of them all going off on adventures with Neutron andalmost gotten themselves killed with their naive minds.

Neutron

It has been almost five year now since she last saw or really thought about him. He was of course still a menace to Retroville and by the time he was fifteen, more and more problems arose. Yet, somehow the town always managed to forgive him and it seemed like everything was going to be fine. Even with their own relationship starting to blossom, Cindy had seen more of Jimmy and actually hung out together without any of their other friends a few time. Just as quickly as it had come, Jimmy announced he was leaving for college in a week and that he needed to find his own true potential.

Cindy had expected herself to be mad at him and absolutly hate his guts for leaving, but that never came. If anything, she was kinda glad that he was leaving to find himself, because she always felt like he didn't think he belonged in this society and that he had to use his talent elsewhere. Sure, she was going to miss him, but she had been expecting it for a long time now. The way he would stare at the teacher with a bored expression in class or when he looked through their school textbooks with an appetite for something more challenging. If Jimmy had to be gone, then at least she understood.

Carl and Sheen, of course, took it pretty hard, but they soon came to understand his life choices. Jimmy had left on a rainy day in the middle of November to go move away with his parents off to some city as he promised he would always keep in contact.

That was the last time we ever saw him again.

Yes there were times when they saw him in the news for wrecking something and then restoring peace back into it, but he never called any of the gang ever since he left. Sheen and Carl kept trying to reach him only to get voicemail at every attempt. However as the time had passed, they stopped trying.

The only regret Cindy ever had from the whole experience was not giving him a proper goodbye. There was no hug, no tears, not even a wave.

All Jimmy said to her was, "May we meet again, Vortex"

One day, Neutron. One day.

Cindy was finally able to make it to the cafe restaurant she worked at called "Dee's Place". The "place" itself was a tourist attraction ever since an Academy Award Winning Movie had been shot there a few years back. As Cindy clocked into work and grabbed her apron off the rack, her boss (the one and only Deen) came rushing towards her with a panicked expression on his face.

Deen was a good guy really and also really good looking. He is in his early thirties and starting owning the shop when his grandfather had left him the money and place all to him when he was eighteen. A good number of the female customers came into the shop regularly to catch a glance at Deen while they ordered practically every single thing on the menu. If Deen wasn't gay, then practically every waitress who worked for him would strive for the chance. However, out of all the workers, he liked Cindy the best because she was funny.

And she never checked him out in secret.

"Yo Cind! Where you been? We got like a hundred people here today!." Dean exclaimed to the young blonde.

"Sorry, boss. I slept in by accident. Won't happen again, I swear."

Deen gave her a mock stern look and walked away but not before saying, "You got double the number of tables for the shift!"

Cindy groaned but knew she deserved it. As she picked up some menus and a notepad, she was off to work. With a grin on her face and pencil in one hand she quickly went to take orders from the tables.

Today was going to be a long day, indeed.