3000 miles apart

#9# Abbas pt.2

"Finally, but can we be quick because my sister..." I was saying, then I realized I had forgotten about it all, so much time must have passed and she must have arrived at the house and I wasn't there!!

"AGH.. ABBAS I WANT YOU TO OPEN THE PORTAL BACK HOME, I NEED TO BE THERE IMMEDIATELY, I MUST TEND TO SOMEONE" I almost yell anxiously.

"Oh, did I forget to mention that a virtual clone is there, to make it appear like you are at your home when you are here?"

"Umm.. what?? how??" I started questioning if im even awake.

"Oh, well, we got the information we need and got a saved scan of your body, with all this combined, an identical virtual copy of you has been sent to your house and is currently sitting on your desk pretending to study," Abbas explains."Do you think she welcomed my sister when she came?"

"No, our technology is not that advanced, it can only locate your studying space and pretend to study, in addition to replying with a few simple conversations such as 'how are you' and 'hello' in the official language".

"Well that is impresive indeed but what if people found out this copy is not real?" I ask reluctantly. " "Well this copy looks very real and people can only tell if they touched you for more than a minute, in which case the body will stop being un-permittable, thankfully you get notified whenever anyone gets near the clone of about 7 footsteps of Radius. That way you can open a screen and see what happens, you can choose the option to speak from here and the clone will sound out what you say, if the situation needs you in person, you can summon the portal and get there. Keep in mind that once you step out of the portal, the clone will automatically disappear."

I gaped at Abbas and it took me a few seconds to recollect my thought..."Well then how can I open this screen that shows the clone's interactions and is there a way to check if he talked to my sister?"

"Yepp" and then he came beside me and stopped floating, then a light blue laser beam came out from his eyes and bound together the light beams met and formed a screen that showed a table of a white desk, my desk.

"This is the clone sitting on your desk Sama, He should have opened one of your books to study but you have not started studying yet so now he was waiting till you start.."I hear Abbas explain."Well, can you make it move? Show me around the house?" "Yea, I can, just rotate my head to whichever direction you want and lean a little to the front so that I move instead of standing still" Abbas continues to explain.

I nod and hold Abbas to the left, and I see that the view has rotated as I did, I see the room, my wardrobe where I had put the SUPODs,  I saw the door room closed, and I remember I had kept it not fully closed before I came. I rotate Abbass's head a little to the left and tilt to the front a little and I see that indeed the clone's view obeyed. 

"You can't open doors, too complex, and would be super hard to handle if it was possible" Abbas remarks as if reading my thoughts.

"Ugh, well then how can I make sure my sister hasn't come? I wanna check and if I find her I wanna see what happened and tell her I was busy or something?" I wasn't sure what would be the excuse of staring blankly into my studies desk and not talking back to her if she did call.

"Well, every second this clone appears is recorded so you can see what happened and what interactions have been made. You can simply double tap the left side of the screen to rewind back, double tap the right side of the screen to play forward, double tap in the middle of the screen to stop or resume the recording". "That's neat" was all I managed to say. I go to the displayed floating screen and despite that I stood on the other side of it, I was still able to see the same things.

I proceed to double tap the left side of the screen till I find a part where Hana indeed has come into my room wearing a blue shirt and dark blue pants, the school uniform. I am sure that she did it without knocking because she always breaks into my room unannounced. She did not seem to acknowledge my existence and walked straight to the dressing table, pulled out the hair brusher, and got to the door, although before she left the audio started and I saw her mouth move and say 'Hai loozar' then leaves my room and closes it behind her. I laugh a little, not because she greets me with her sarcastic English pronunciation of loser but because I was too worried I did not welcome her and forgot how ignorant she could be towards me . 

"You good now?" Abbas breaks the silence. I forgot he was there."Yeah," I look at the time this small interaction took place and find that it was about 20 minutes ago. Mom and Hala should come soon too. I better be there before they come. Less than an hour pending.

"Yeah, I am ready this time," I tell Abbas. "Cool" he mumbles before the hallway lights get brighter again and I look closely at the many doors on either side.