Dhruv upon his fathers death comes to know about a pen that can be used to travel in time.As good as it sounds after finding the pen his life turns around, not in a good way and later learns the how the pen came into his hands.
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Prologue
September 2, 2022
The sound of an ambulance at a school is quite unusual, right? But on that day an ambulance was called due to an emergency that had happened to a student. It was heard that a fight had happened and had led to the injury of one of the students. The student's injury looked as if beaten brutally, with a severely broken nose and a face that would need a dozen stitches. The student was put on a stretcher and then into the ambulance. On the way to the Hospital, it was noticed that the head was bleeding and a lot of blood had run out, but this injury was never noticed when the student was first found unconscious. The nurse in the ambulance panicked and applied pressure in the place of injury and just hoped that it would be enough. As soon as they arrived at the hospital and they were quickly taken to the emergency unit. The doctors were not quite sure of the condition till now. After some time, one of the doctors came and told "We exactly don't know when he will become conscious again and it would at least take couple of hours".
Chapter - 1
- D -
June 10, 2022
It was the first day of high school I was ever so reluctant to go to school as usual, even more, to say because I had been on summer break for 2 months and every single day, I would wake up at 10 o'clock. I could not open my eyes when I woke up so early and I thought that I was going to fall asleep on the stairs on the way down. But after hearing my mother's shouting, I managed to get myself out of sleep and went to the shower. When I got out and the time that I realized that I was going to miss the bus and be late for the first day of school. So, I hurried for my dad to drop me at school. Dad got annoyed after hearing this because he would also be late to work if he drops me at school but he had no choice and even skipped breakfast. When we sat in the car everything was fine and all of a sudden dad started acting weird, he put his hands on his chest and acted as if he was unable to breathe properly. I got scared and did not know what to do, So I quickly got out of the car and called mom. Then my mom ran out quickly and started screaming in fears. This alerted a few neighbors, who heard and came running. During this time my father fainted and an Ambulance was called by one of the neighbors. After the ambulance arrived, they rushed him to the hospital then me and mom followed them to the hospital. At the hospital one off the doctors came and asked if dad had any previous medical history and if he is currently talking any medications. Mom gave one of the tablets dads has been taking recently. Then mom started to cry and was not able to fully comprehend what had happened to my dad. She kept on walking around the hospital and then she called one of my dad's close friend James. Both of our families have been close friends for a long time. After an hour or so the doctors came, I asked if we can meet him now the doctor said he has become conscious but we can't meet him now and it would take a couple of hours before they would let us talk to him. Then mom asked the doctor what had happened to him he stood silent for a minute and told us that his condition was called Myocardial Infarction and that surgery was not an option for him so they told us that he only had about a day left. This made mom fall to our knees and cry out loud. A couple of hours passed, and I was allowed to talk to my father. I knew that this was the last time I would talk to him. As I went in, I could not see him in this condition, my eyes filled with tears. I went and sat next to him, he slowly opened his eyes and I asked him how he was feeling but he said nothing then told me "I have a very important thing to say to you and I wished that I had more time to explain to you in detail but you would have to figure it out yourself". After hearing this I could not understand what he was trying to say I asked him "what important thing?". He said "Open one of the drawers in my room and see what's inside" and he told me not to tell anyone about what was inside. This made me, even more, clueless. Then I said "yes". He started telling me what to do after he was gone and how to take care of my mother. After some time, I came out and it was the chance for my mother to talk to him. And by the time mom was talking to Dad James and his wife had come to the hospital. Then they asked me about what had happened to dad all of a sudden. I told them about what happened in the morning. Mom was speaking to dad and after my mother came out, James took care of the procedures in the hospital. Then we went outside and Mrs. James took mom to get her some refreshments as she hadn't eaten anything since morning. James was telling me how be responsible and manage things on my own as dad would be gone. After about an hour mom went back into dad's room and she wanted to stay with him until the end and I was watching them through the small opening in the ICU door. During the last moments my face was completely covered in tears and mom held his hand until his last breath and stayed there for some time. Only Me and James went to the funeral and Mom and Mrs. James stayed back at home. And after we returned home, I saw dad's car and the incident that happened flashed before my eyes and my eyes filled up in tears. Then I went inside and I saw Mrs. James coming out of mom's room and then she said "Have you eaten anything? Ill get something for you wait". I refused to eat anything and then I saw Mom sitting in her room I slowly went close by and noticed she was crying I then went and sat next to her and leaned on her shoulder. But I didn't know what to say to her I was even more clueless and what we are going to do without him. Then during night, I remembered what he had told me and went up to his room and checked his drawer. When I looked inside, I saw a pen and a note. I took the pen in my hand; it was different than the pens that I am used to seeing. Then I took the note it only said two lines which were "Use it Wisely" and "Do not make Zynus angry". I took a closer look and I found out that there were three sets of dials. I tried turning the dials and found that the one on the left only went up to 23 and the ones in the middle and the right went up to 59. I tried writing with the pen. It wrote as any other pen would. I came back to the dials and tried to think what there would be their use. I first thought that they were used to entering some kind of password to open the pen and there was something inside that was very important as my father told me. I tried setting all the dials to zero as that would be the password for any newly bought suitcase but that did not work. There was a button-like thing in the back of the pen. So again, I set the dials to zero and tried pressing it again but nothing happened so I tried setting the dials all to 1 and pushed the button. I was teleported to my car and it was daytime. I was sitting next to James and I asked him "Where are we going?" he replied, "What has happened to you, where else would we go we are going home". Then I realized that I was back in the dress which I was wearing when we were returning home after my father's funeral and I check the time it was 10 am then I finally realized that I had traveled in time. I could not believe what was happening and with the pen, I tried pressing the button again but nothing happened. I thought it needed some time to recharge or something so I did a bit of math and figured I had exactly traveled 11hrs 11min 11sec as I set in the pen. I still thought things are happening to me like in a sci-fi movie. Then I went home and again I saw mom sitting in her room and this time I asked Mrs. James to give me mom's food and I went to her room and gave her the plate and told her to eat the food. She refused at first then I told her that I would not eat until she does then she got her plate and ate. I then went to my room and started playing with dials again. I found out that the one on the left was the hours the middle one was minutes and the one to the right was seconds. Then I set the minute dial to 01 and before pressing the button I took a look at the time it was 12:03 pm I pressed the button and I remained in the same place but the time had changed I tried pressing the button again but it did not work then I remembered about the recharge time and I put the pen in my pocket and was heading down but all of a sudden, I was back at my room and when I check the time it was 12:03. Then I realized how the first time the recharge time was longer but this time it worked almost after a minute. Then I found that the recharge time was the amount of time that I had traveled. I had figured out how the pen worked.
