Back To The Future || 1D ||

That asshole is my father?

It had all happened very quickly; the lightning had struck the car antenna and the car had taken off at full speed, without anyone pressing the accelerator pedals.

The motion of the car lasted a few seconds, until it stopped suddenly, emitting a final jolt. Inside it were the three teens completely shocked, their hair standing on end with fear.

"What happened?" Anne murmured, peering through the slit of fingers she had placed in front of her face out of fear. She couldn't hold back a deep sigh: the car had finally stopped; even though it had all lasted a short time, she still felt frightened.

"Damn car!" Blurted Freddie, also breathing a sigh of relief. He tried to squirm in his seat: the three teenagers had found themselves pressed against each other in the two front seats of the car. Freddie elbowed Bear, telling him to get out. "I got a shock!" Freddie continued once he got out of the car, chuckling. For a moment he had thought they were really about to leave.

He stretched, put his hands on his hips and looked ahead. It was better to take the car back to the garage, otherwise Louis would...otherwise.... what?  

Freddie opened his mouth. "It's disappeared." He croaked. 

Anne, still inside the car, was trying to fix her hair. She looked at Bear who, in turn, looked at Freddie. Bear got out of the car doubtfully. "What is it.... IT'S GONE!" He shouted as well.

Anne snorted. "What's up?" She prepared to get out of the car. "My house: it's... it's... gone."

"Don't be stupid, little Tommo, a house can't - oh" Anne gasped as she noticed that the Tomlison family mansion - the large two-storey cream-coloured villa, and its immense garden, complete with swimming pool, gazeboo and greenhouse - was really gone.

Fear began to grow in Freddie Tomlison who, after all, at the age of twenty-one, knew that a huge house like his could not simply vanish, making way for a vast prairie with a farm in the distance. So he got into the car and approached the control panel: the date was set at twenty-seven years before their present, they were on September 10, 2010.

It all seemed so unreal.

"Guys..." Freddie started to say, his throat very dry, as if he hadn't had a drink in days. "Well, you know that dad doesn't usually build anything good but-" He swallowed. "I think he succeeded this time." Bear looked around in disbelief: pure terror was painted on his face. Of course, not even a genius like Bear Payne knew what to do at that point, twenty-seven years in the past.

"Are you joking?"Freddie shook his head.

"I don't..." That was all that came out of Anne's mouth followed by a weak sigh. Bear waved his hand in front of her face. "Did we really end up in the past?"

Freddie began to set the coordinates to return to their time: lights OK, time and data OK, the engine was running...

"We're going back, right? Because I don't want to stay here." Anne complained."I'm working on it." Freddie began typing in some coordinates on the car's screen; he was not a mad genius like his father, he had no idea how to get that piece of junk started, but he had absolutely no intention of staying there. It was better to try to fiddle with those buttons than to stay there any longer.

He opened the dashboard, praying that his father had kept up his bad habit of leaving his diary lying around as usual, and searched for a long time until he found a black leather diary under the back seat of the car.