Turning Back

Chapter 2- Virtue Virgins

Beware this chapter will be very short as long as the next few chapters but will be frequent. Once Simon and Alisha meet once again the chapters will be lengthy. So enjoy! By the way I wrote all of this ever since I got home from school today you should feel blessed Xx

-Bribeex

Simon's POV

I walk out of Seth's office pulling the orange hood over my face to disguise myself. No one can know that there are two Simon's, especially not past Simon himself. I arrive at the familiar hallway to the elevator connecting the floor to the apartment, my hide away. I find the light switch and light the spacious room up. The apartment looks very different to what I remembered. It looks abounded and some of the lights are broken. It will need more work than I expected.

I pull the photos out of my backpack and paste them onto the bedroom wall. My eyes flick to the photo of Alisha and I at Vegas. She is cuddled into my arm smiling brightly at the camera. I remember that day like it was yesterday that photo meant the world to the both of us. I set the photo aside to the bedside table of our bed. I pull the clocks out and put them in the middle of the photos.

"It needs to happen exactly like it happened" I say softly to myself. The clocks are a countdown more than anything. If I'm one second late history will change and Alisha will pay the price. I need to stop Tim, even if it's the last thing I do.

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Once everything was clear and liveable I open the elevator and make my way into society. I keep my distance from the roaming people of Southmere. Many people are dressed in dresses and suits. Rachel must of already converted the innocent community. Shit power if I say so myself, The power of selection. She is going around making an virtue organisation just because people picked on her by the virtue of being a virgin.

"You don't need to behave like this. You can be so much better" Is all she had to say before you would change your clothes, behaviour, the way you talked, everything.

Alisha would be transformed as well as the rest of the gang except for Nathan. I know what I have to do! I get on my bike and pedal quickly to the direction of the community centre to where my past self and Nathan will be. I could hear running it had to be them. I look up to see a group of virtue teenagers running towards Nathan and Simon. I hide myself from them but still eavesdropping on them. It is wrong but it's for Nathan's safety. If I don't save him he will never know what his power is. They stop dead in their tracks the virtues have circled around them. There was nowhere they could go except Simon of course.

"Go on use your power, save us" Nathan moves over to Simon.

"After everything you've done to me, you want me to save you?" He stops glaring at Nathan's way.

"Yes! Just get on with it you little freak!" Nathan yells shakily Simon violently. Simon pushes Nathan off and using his power, turning invisible.

"You're gonna save yourself you selfish bastard! I'll remember this! I thought we were friends!," He yells jumping angrily. I get out of my hiding spot pedalling closer to Nathan. They move inward to Nathan becoming very close to transforming him into one of them. "Just back the fuck up"

"Get on!" I yell when I reach him turning the end of the bike facing him. I start pedalling as he runs and jumps holding onto my back as we speed off away from the virtues. When I am far away from the teenagers I do the a quick turn throwing him off the bike.

"Who are you?" He asks, but before he stands up again I'm gone.

I had to make sure everything happened as it did before I send a note to Kelly. I stand behind the crowd and wait for Nathan to stand up on the balcony waiting for his gruesome death.

"She's got you thinking this is how you're supposed to be. Well, it's not! We're young we're supposed to drink too much, we're supposed to have bad attitudes and shag each other's brains out. We are designed to party yeah, so a few of us will overdose or go mental. But Charles Darwin said you can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, and that's what it's all about- breaking eggs! By eggs I mean getting tw*tted on a cocktail of Class As. If you could see just see yourselves! It breaks my heart. You're wearing cardigans! We had it all. We f**ked up bigger and better than any generation that came before us. We were so beautiful! We're screw ups, I'm a screw up and I plan to be a screw up until my late 20s, maybe even my early 30s. I will shag my own mother before I let her," He gestures to Rachel beside him holding her closely so she won't escape. "anyone else take that away from me!" He continues.

"Your gun's leaking," Rachel pushes him "So you threatened me with a water pistol! You're just like the rest of them, aren't you? You'd be so much happier if you-"

"I still can't hear you!" He shakes his head pointing to the earphones in his ears blasting out music. He points the water pistol towards her and shoots water at her face.

"Oh! You idiot!" She shouts fighting at him. Being at the end of the balcony Rachel falls being thrown into the ground below them. Nathan loses his balance but my past self runs in grabbing onto his hand keeping him from falling. He struggles with his weight dangling off the balcony.

"Save me, Barry!"

It was too late, Simon slipped letting go of Nathan's hand leaving him to fall to his own death.

Now I need to write that letter. 

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