My Sister, The Murderer

Chapter 16: Bad Choice Part 2

"Those who use the machine only encounter misfortune and unhappiness..."

I woke up from a strange dream where an old guy was saying those words to me, over and over. I woke up in Alice's bed with her on one side and my sister on the other, both latched onto my arms. My initial reaction would have been to jump up and run to the door... But something felt different this time... I woke up more, opened my eyes completely and saw Kim standing by the door, but before I could get a clear look at what she was holding, she left around the corner. I got up, trying not to disturb the girls, when I noticed something. That something was a smallish blood stain along with a bloodstain trail from my door to Janette, who lay there still. I panicked and pulled her to look at me, saw the stab wound and tried to cover it up in a poor attempt to save her life, but it ultimately ended in failure. as she opened her eyes, she said something and than peacefully slipped away into a deep, endless sleep.

"I love you... You're the best older brother any girl could have... Thank yo-" she said before running out of breath and passing out. I couldn't help but cry as I looked at that lifeless face that, just yesterday, was my bright and happy sister. After a while, I heard a stir and saw Alice moving. I had completely forgot to check if she had wounds as well, but I was quickly cleared of suspicion when she got up ,half awake, and hugged me before leaving to brush her teeth and wake up completely. Not noticing Janette's corpse, she said I love you to me and left me alone by my sister's side.

"I warned you, didn't I?" An unfamiliar voice said to me from the doorway. I looked, but nothing was there. My room and the hallway adjacent to it where completely empty. "If you want, you can come back to the present now, or be stuck here to see the HQ fall into little pieces... If you choose here, make sure to keep Alice by your side at all times and get rid of Kim and her mother as quickly as possible. If not, you and one other can come back home... CHOOSE CAREFULLY!" The voice said before silence. I thought for a little while and decided on what I was going to do.

"I want to go back to the present, and take Alice with me!" I said, projecting my voice so that the other voice could hear me.

"As you wish, I will see it done. As soon as you hug her, you will be transported to the room you where you first touched the time machine..." It said before leaving. I wasted no time running to the bathroom to see Alice finishing with brushing her teeth. I walked in, looked at her face in the reflection, and hugged her from behind. We blinked and realised we were in a dark room with some sort of contraption in front of us. Alice turned around and looked at me. Confused, she stared silently at me for a while before I spoke up.

"You died in my timeline, so I went back in time and saved you! But I couldn't save Janette... So I brought you back to my timeline and probably destroyed the previous one..." I said to her. Only to see her looking with shock at the guy that stood before her. "I know what you're thinking, you can't trust me? Well you can, because I'm the same guy as I was before, just smarter. Mainly because I saved you from a bullet that I shouldn't have known was coming unless I had already lived that moment or had the power to slow down time... I love you!" I said with a smile. She said nothing as I escorted her outside to show her that she wasn't dreaming, or had been kidnapped, or had been killed. Tears formed in her eyes as she hugged me and smiled.

"I believe you! We're in the future!" She said to me through my shirt into my chest. "I love you Jordan!" She said to me with a smile when she stopped hugging me. We immediately went to my room and made out, like a normal couple would do after a situation where the guy had to save the girl in the past and took her back to the present to have a second shot at life. Kim found someone else and lived happily ever after at her new boyfriends house, directly after breaking up with me suddenly. I simply let her foams went back to my room to see Alice waiting on my bed with nothing but one of my shirts and a simple, black, thong on. We all lived happily ever after!