My Sister, The Murderer

Chapter 14: Another way?

I was in my room, listening to loud rock music and singing along, trying to upstage my headphones in volume because shit like that calms me down!
I was listening to "In The End" by Linkin Park when I was interrupted by Kim walking into my room and unplugging my phone from the headphones.

"You okay babe?" She asked sweetly with a hint of sexy-talk mixed in.

"Yeah... Just thinking about the last time I saw..." I said before bursting into tears. Janette was gone and there was nothing I could do to bring her back. I also received news my mother died in a freak chicken wing accident that I didn't know about until a few days ago. I was alone in a world stained in blood and tears. Kim saw me crying for the last time, she wrote on a piece of paper and left the room trying to fight her own tears so that it wouldn't make me worse. The note read: Get a life! She's gone, let it go and just be happy you have someone at all! I knew she was right, but the harshness of the note and the mood I was in just made things worse at the time. I was walking around forbidden areas of the building, because fuck you that's why, when I stumbled across a room that had "Time machine" written on the door. Being the curious little shit I was, I looked into the window and saw a ghost staring back at me.

"Terrific defence mechanism... Dumbasses!" I said to myself before entering the room. As I took my first step, I thought of life as it is. As I took my second step I thought of what time would be like if things turned out differently. On the third and final step before reaching the machine itself, I thought of the fact that maybe this future is better than the changed one, that the changed one would only end in heavier heartbreak and that my life would fall apart if I change one event for the better. I knew, from then on, that if I saved Alice, Janette wouldn't have killed herself and I would still have those two, but I also thought that if they survived that Kim would finally give into jealousy and kill Alice and herself, leaving her mother heartbroken, making her kill herself and making life for me a lot harder because I wouldn't have any incentive to demolish the enemy's HQ I would have also lost my communications and instructions person, whom I trusted with my life. What do I do... Do I change and risk it for a biscuit, or stay and pray? It's so hard too choose... I'll lose Alice anyway but do I kill the HQ and succumb to evil or kill my sister and succumb to insanity?