2022-12-18 01:36:44Matilda was at the café with Steve, both wearing the designed apron. Matilda was at the counter pouring the tea while Steve was busy serving the customers. A skinny teen about her eighteen and his brother who was same age with Steve came into the café and sat on the table beside the door. The boy was carrying a blue back-pack
“Two cups please” Molly said, after a soft yawn.
“Coming here is not a good idea Molly, we discussed that we are going home straight” Dustin said to Molly.
“We won’t waste much time, just a hot coffee” Molly said to him.
“Relax, nothing is ever going wrong, we are at a safe place. I don’t even trust that clock”
“You don’t believe it?”
“It’s not real until I see it happen”
“Molly, I told you that it can only work if...”
“Hey!” Molly interrupted.
“Coming” Steve said, heading towards Matilda.
“Theirs?” Steve pointed at the cups of coffee in a little red tray.
“Yeah, for the two kids” She groaned.
“I’m leaving” Matilda added.
“What? You are leaving for the boring date? Who’s gonna assist me here” Steve chuckled.
“I don’t know and I don’t care” Matilda replied, taking off the apron from her body,
“Matilda, dad said that you gonna...” a loud electronic echo sounded loudly in the café and stopped Steve from talking.
“What was that?” Matilda asked Steve who was searching for the root of the echo. Matilda and Steve watched Dustin as he was bringing an old big clock from his back pack.
“Shit!” Matilda groaned and headed to them.
“Hey, this is a café and not a construction or mechanic shop, I hope you knows that?” Matilda said angrily to Dustin.
“It was a mistake, I didn’t mean to, it was just…it just”
“Cut it off Dust, why would you apologize for that? It was just in your back pack” Molly interrupted.
“Seriously” Matilda said and chuckled.
“Are you shocked?”
“What kind of clock is that?”
“None of your fucking business coffee man, I’m outta here. Come on Dustin” Molly said, getting up from the chair.
“What about the coffee you ordered for” Matilda asked.
“Drink it yourself” Molly replied.
“Uhmmm! Why is the clock shinning that brightly?” Steve said, staring at the clock on Dustin’s hand. Molly, Matilda and Dustin stared at the clock.
“It’s glowing” Molly smiled.
“It’s beautiful” Matilda joined.
“What date is that?” Steve asked.
“Says 9:33, October 7th 2003” Dustin replied. Steve looked at his wrist watch and stared at the clock again.
“It’s 9:33 now and today is October 7 but why 2003 instead of 2022” Steve looked at Matilda.
“Past’ Dustin sighed, still staring at the glowing clock.
“Strange” Matilda scoffed.
“Guys I think we should be going, thank you for acknowledging our beautiful clock and now we gotta go” Molly said with a nervous chuckle.
“Did you see that?” Dustin asked
“See What?” Matilda asked him.
“Oh my God” Molly groaned.
“Beside the date hole” Dustin continued
“Is that a countdown” Matilda said, looking closer.
“Yeah six seconds remaining” Dustin added.
“Guys?” Steve said slowly, leaning back slowly.
“Listen, is there a way to turn that clock off? Cause trust me, I don’t think any of these makes any sense at allllll…..” Molly screamed after the countdown went off and a huge echo accompanied with a strange strong wind blasted the table where the teens gathered.
“You okay Molly?” Dustin said weakly, struggling up from the floor he landed on.
“Yeah I’m fine, I’m fine” Molly replied tiredly.
“What the fuck was that?” Matilda groaned slowly, dressing back her hairs.
“Steve?” she called out slowly. Steve was standing in front of the transparent door, facing the road.
“Hey! Everything okay?” Dustin asked but he kept quiet.
“Steve?” Matilda called again.
“Something’s wrong”
“What do you mean? We are still in the café we were a minute ago” Molly said to him.
“Yeah we in the same place but I feel like something changed” Steve replied.
“You mean something changed just a minute ago? Ya funny” Molly chuckled.
“I think we had a…”
“Look Steve, nothing happened. It was just a minor problem. We can fix this” Matilda interrupted Steve.
“I think we had a time travel” Dustin looked at Steve. Matilda and Molly were shocked.
“What? What do you…what do you mean by that?” Matilda chuckled and looked at her watch.
“It’s still 9:35 and it’s still October 7. What the fuck are you both talking about?”
“Year” Dustin and Steve said in unison.
“I think we in are in 2003. I think that clock took us back to past” Steve added.
“Stop thinking please, just-just stop it and get me the fuck out of here” Molly sobbed.
“Where’s the fucking clock? It should be our only way out” Matilda said
“Can’t find it. I think it didn’t come with us” Dustin said
“What do you mean it didn’t come with us? It was right here, glooming with us” Molly said to Dustin.
“Jesus Christ!” Matilda placed her hands on her head.
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Dustin followed Molly after a long stare at Steve and met her sitting on a little chair in the secret room which leads to the underground. He sighed and breathed down heavily after putting his hands in his trouser pockets. He quietly sat on the ground besides Molly and cleared his throat. Molly looked at him and focused on the picture she was watching.“You know you can talk to me about anything anytime right?” he looked at her.“We didn’t grow up well like other kids” Molly said slowly.“What? Why’d you say that?” “You said I can talk to you about anything anytime”“That’s not what I meant”“I know” she chuckled and Dustin joined her.“I’m sorry” she said and Dustin looked at her.“About what?”“For not telling you about Cebus. Cebus… Cebus is like, my lifetime dream. I could even meet Billie Eillish there or more celebrities there” she added and sighed down.“Yeah”“I couldn’t have done what I did… I could have told you first before dad. You could have told me not to tell
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Steve and Dustin came to the parlor and met Molly drinking and watching television.“Is that vodka?” Dustin was surprised.“Uhmmm” she sighed and took a short sip.“When did you start… uh ‘Scream?” Dustin eyes caught the television.“Yeah, the first one was really great, the rest sucks” she replied with a soft breath.“We found something” he said to her and she looked at him, then to Steve who was standing beside Dustin, holding the device.“What?” she said to Dustin.“I said we found something… something in some underground warehouse in one of the room in…”“Dust what? I ain’t seeing anything that is worth finding and telling me. Are you tryna ruin my mood or what? Is that it?” Molly stared aggressively at Dustin.“Oh my God Molly” Dustin scoffed confusedly.“Yeah I thought so”“No Molly!” Dustin exclaimed.“That’s possible”“It’s liturgical and annoying”“It’s what?” Molly stared at him.“No… we… we really did find something… useful” Steve stammered. Molly and Steve glance
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“Ok fine, I am fed up already” Molly exclaimed, packing her purple hair with a purple rose bow.“They have gone for a long time now” Dustin stared at her, standing at akimbo.“They? Matilda’s been kidnapped and you… who are they actually… you are talking about?” Steve turned to Dustin.“My mum, my past mum”“She’s fine. Even if she… she’s… she’s just fine”“Time travel is crazy” Molly added and sighed slowly.“Where are your parents after all?” Molly asked and stared at Steve.“Ion know” Steve answered weakly and relaxed comfortably on the sofa.“Tired of this shit… no video games?” Dustin asked Steve.“Lemme check” he stood up from the sofa and headed to one of the rooms in the house.“I’mma… follow him and go check something with him… maybe a clue or maybe ummmm…”“Whatever” Molly said and interrupted Dustin who was standing and ready to follow Steve. They got to one of the closed rooms and Steve opened it’s door.“What is this place?” Steve asked.“What? I don’t know, I s
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‘Bitch’ Eunice sighed heavily when she realized that she has travelled back to 2005. First, she rushed to her closet to check if the box could be there, it wasn’t.‘Eunice is that you?’ Dr. Peter asked her and was startled, scared.‘I have been waiting for you for the past forty minutes, I knew you would come back’ he said with a faint smile on his face.‘Are you kidding me?’‘No I’m not, you know… some things are just meant to happen and we all, I mean.. you and I knows that’‘Give me the clock Peter’‘You look old Eunice, did you switch with your past self?’‘Peter’‘That’s very smart of you. At least I have tasted the past and I’m gonna taste the future you too’ he chuckled.‘The kids needs to get back, this… this was all a mistake’ Eunice said to him with a snort.‘Yeah I don’t doubt that but I like such mistake, it was a great start for me and I’m really enjoying it’ Peter chuckled again while Eunice was staring at him.‘Why are you doing this Peter?’‘What happened to the sweet
