Finding You

Chapter 8

Mike's POV

"Alright guys, see you all later." I said while leaving the group. Today's day was great. I helped uncle Drew to set up his tent for the spring festival and even spent my most time with Dad. Coming here from future is resulting fortune for me. Though I didn't spend much time with mom, but still I am glad that I met her.

As I reached my hotel, I went directly to the hotel reception.

"Um, excuse me, has my uncle Clemont came back?" I asked.

"Yeah, he's up in his room" the receptionist replied. Ah, I see, he's back early. I went up to my room and got freshened up and went to uncle's room. As I opened the door, I saw uncle Clemont working on some new thing which was kept on the table.

"Oh, you're back. Cool." Uncle said.

"Um, what are you making?" I asked.

"Oh, it's another time dilution machine, which is connected to the one I made in the future." He replied.

"Wait, so you mean, we can now go back to our present?" I asked.

"Yes, I was working on this and went though many books related to quantum physics. And thus, I thought of this. Now, collect your things from your room, we are going back to our time." Uncle said. Wait, what? It's already our... time?

"But uncle I..." I stopped thinking that uncle will get more pressure on himself. I already gave him some load by coming back in time. Now I don't want to trouble him anymore.

"What happened?" he asked.

"Um, nothing." I replied, preventing my feelings. But I bent my head down. Suddenly, I felt a hand on my head. I lifted my head up and saw it was uncle Clemont. He was caressing my head, with a smile.

"You want to stay here for some more time?" he asked, to which I made a very small nod.

"You can stay here." he said, to which my face lit up.

"Wait, how?" I asked.

"I knew you would have wanted to stay here more, so I set up the dilution time for you after 3 days. By this, you will come back to the present automatically without any manual work." He said.

"Um, so that means... you're leaving?' I asked.

"Well, I wanted to stay here with you for some more time, but now, am turning old, the time dilution is affecting my health. So it's better for me to go back to my present." He replied. Wait what? He was feeling unwell due to all this time travel done by me? I surely troubled him a lot.

"By the way, I will be going back in about half an hour. So am goanna recommend you to go out for some more time. And don't worry about the hotel fees and all, I have already done everything required." He said.

"Um, alright then." I said and was about to leave, but then my body automatically turned around to Uncle Clemont.

"What happened?" he asked, to which, I just walked to him and gave him a huge hug.

"Thank you, uncle." I said, with some drops of tears forming in my eyes. He smiled and rubbed his hand softly on my head.

"It's my pleasure, Mike." He replied. I smiled back to him and then went out of the room. I guess, I will just walk outside for now.

It was still day light, so I went down the streets again, hoping something interesting would happen.

Ash's POV

I was walking along the streets of the town. It had been a pretty long day. First I helped Drew and others to set up the tents for the spring festival. Then I went to the market to help mom in buying some stuffs, and now carrying some items back to my house. It's a pretty tiring day.

As I was walking, I passed the huge mansion of mayor. As I was crossing it, I heard a familiar voice.

"Ash?"

I turned my head and saw a person I least expected. It was a girl with yellow honey blonde hair, and blue lapis coloured eyes. It was Serena.

"Um... oh! Hi!" I replied. Wow Ash, first expression goes to shit.

"Um, hi." She replied. There was silence in between us. Come on Ash! Start a conversation.

"Um, how are you?" I asked.

"Um, am fine... you?" she asked.

"Oh, I am doing great." I replied. There was a dead silence. Wow Ash, try to start a conversation.

"Um, you know the festival is coming?" I asked.

"Festival? Oh, you mean the Spring festival?" she asked.

"Yeah, that only." I replied.

"Yeah, I know about that, but I never went to these kinds of festivals." She said.

"Why?" I asked.

"Um, well... the place where I lived earlier didn't had these things. So I don't remember." She replied.

"Oh, I see. By the way, my friend has also set up a tent in the festival. If you want, you can go there anytime." I said.

"Oh, I see. Thank you. Well, what all things happen in these festivals?" she asked.

"Well, this festival is kind of the period of trading and stuff. You can say it a festival where many people set up their own temporary shops and kiosks." I replied.

"Wow..." she said.

"And also, by the end of the festival, we see great fireworks done by the festival management." I said.

"Wait, fireworks?" she asked.

"Yes. They are really-really beautiful." I replied.

"Oh, I haven't seen any fireworks so I can't say anything." She said.

"Wait, you haven't? That's great then!" I replied.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"I mean, you can see the fireworks this year. Say what? Want to come with me to see them day after tomorrow?" I asked, while offering my hand. Wait, what?! What am I doing? And how am I able to do this?! I looked up to her, and she was kind of blushing, and the same was I. Ah man.

"Um...sure..." she replied. This gave me a sigh of relief. Wait, I WILL BE GOING OUT TO SEE FIREWORKS WITH HER! YAY!

"Oh... um, alright." I said while I was still blushing.

"Um, yeah. See you later." She replied, still blushing. Man, this scene is epic

I started walking away from her reached one boundary of the mansion. I turned around and saw she was not their bow. Ah man, that's a relief.

As I was about to continue walking, I saw a person whom I least expected. He was smirking, with his eyes narrowed on me.

It was Mike...

Ah no...

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