The Grand Reset (Book 2 Withering Away The Clock)

Back From The Dead

I accidently fell asleep and the loneliness of my situation started to settle in. I didn't know what to do but I wanted someone here with me. For a while I just laid down feeling sorry for myself the more I lied down the worse it got loneliness creeping in on me with every thought I had I was starting to lose. Before things could get any worse I decided to just get up for what reason I don't know I just wanted a change of pace.

Is there anything else I could think about? I look back and I remember the young ones. I guess this is better than being lied to all the time. Yeah this is better than being lied to and manipulated. I thought more and more about my past situation and it made me a bit happier. Yeah this sucks it really does but I'm better then where I was. As I kept thinking about the struggle I remembered what he said. "I haven't told you everything about 11.''

I wonder what he meant, not that it matters. Still I am curious. I wonder if I could check somehow. Maybe I can, this might end up terrible but I could check possible. 12 am rolls around and I look around making sure no one sees I go to the bus stop and look at the map. I'm north east 2 miles away from here and decently close to the hospital. The local graveyard.

I might not get a lot of details this way but I think it might help if I just see 11 bodies. So I grabbed a shovel and headed to the graveyard and started to look around and look for 11's name. I checked around most of the graveyard and then saw something that didn't make any sense: "Here lies the body of the time travelers." Time Travelers plural, what does that even mean. I grabbed my shovel and started to dig up the sand wondering what this grave could possibly be. Then a hand raised from the ground.

I freaked out but covered my mouth so I couldn't make any noise. The hand went down on the ground and pushed itself up. Then some girl popped out of the ground. I was beyond confused then we made eye contact. The girl started panicking way more than I was and started hyperventilating.

I didn't know what to do so I decided to put the shovel down to show I wasn't a threat to her. She stopped hyperventilating but her breathing was still hard. I didn't want to get closer in case it started to make her panic more. She said, "What do you want from me?" I told her "I was curious about the grave, are you the time travelers?" I knew the answer to that dumb question was no but I wonder how she would respond.

She turned around and looked at the grave. She looked at me with fear and said "I don't know? I don't know who I am." I started to walk over to her and she backed away putting her arms and raised her voice "Don't come near me." I backed off. I don't know what to do but if she causes anymore of a scene I might be done for.

I tried to calm her down by saying "It's ok it's ok I'm not going to hurt you." She was still hostile towards me and got up on her feet. Then started asking weird questions "Weren't you shorter last time we met." I reassure her "Sorry but I have never met you before." She didn't seem to believe and said "Where is the girl that was with you." The moon shone on me and then the lady's eye glowed and she seemed to relax and she said "You aren't him."

I assumed by him she was talking about Young Me. I still had to confirm that I ask "Who's him?" She kind of smiled and said "Sorry it's hard to explain he looked a lot like you but shorter I mean it not you two look exactly alike you look somewhat different." I guess aging isn't really a thing here. I won't correct her but I know now for a fact it was Young Me she was talking about.

She started to approach me and said "Do you know who I am?" I shook my head and said "I just wanted to know who the time travelers are." She looked down at the grave and said "Well I guess that must be me then." I don't know what happened to this woman but she lost her mind. I wonder why Young...... Me ..... would. I looked at the mysterious woman and the moon light shone on her. On the back of her neck was the number 11.

It was her I get it now. The Young Ones were the cause of 11's death and they must have put our names as a cover up so they thought we died. I guess I screwed up that plan by running away. In my defense it was a pretty bad plan. I mean any one who was really curious if we died could have just done what I did and found out that 11 was in fact alive and that we weren't dead. I'm shocked by this trick the twelve at all.

Still Young Me *killed* 11 That is still a hard pill to swallow but the problem is what now. It's clear whatever they did to 11 made her lose a great chunk of her memories she doesn't even remember who she is.

11 looked at me and said "What is it? Why do you look so surprise." I guess I couldn't keep my face steady. Still it's obvious she doesn't know who she is. We have to keep it that way. I looked at her and said "I was just wondering what you were doing inside the grave." Her face turned pale and said "The person I was speaking of earlier is the one that looks like you put me here."

I knew Young Me killed her, but I can use this to my advantage. I say "O so that's why you were so afraid of me sorry to scare you like that then." She said "Did you really dig a grave out of simple curiosity?" I answered, "Yeah, the time travelers are a pretty big deal. I was curious to see if they really had died."

She bent down to the tombstone and mumbled "So time travelers are immortal huh." What kind of conclusions is she jumping to. Still she is almost there. The twelve are immortal and 11 being alive after spending a whole year in a grave is enough to prove that. She said "Please tell me more about these time travelers." How was I supposed to do that? I said "I can tell you more about back at my house." This does two things, one it gives me more time to think and two I might get spotted if we stay here too long then she really finds out what a time traveler is. I thought about what I was going to tell her.

Well for the obvious there stuff we absolutely can not tell her. I can't tell her about the twelve she might be able to put two and two together if she gets one look in a mirror. I can't tell her what I am if she asks, I just tell her I'm a normal citizen of The Land of Time.

I made it to my house and as I turned on the lights she started to walk around. I was ready to tell my lie till I saw 11 looking into a mirror rubbing and staring at the 11 mark on her neck.