Secrets of a Utopia Vol.1

3 - Wake up

I open my eyes. I am in the same room as before.

"I got a new holo-watch?" I ask.

"Yes, that is why I wanted you to follow me," she says.

"What is different?" I ask Dr. Jensen.

"Why don't you look at it yourself?" she asks me in her usual cheery voice.

I activate my holo-watch.

I see a few new features.

Some of them I kind of expected, such as jobs I'm interested in.

There is one thing that catches my eye. It is something called "Phone compatibility."

"What is phone compatibility?" I ask.

"Now that your 13, you are getting a phone," she says handing me a phone that looks like the phone I saw a girl using yesterday.

"It looks...." I am trying to think of the right word to say.

"It looks old. It looks like something people in the 21st century would use," I say.

"But it's not," she says.

"How?" I ask.

"You can bring up a hologram. Also it is in some ways connected to your holo-watch. You can use some of the same features," she says.

"Does everyone get one of these phones?" I ask.

"Yes. Once you're older you can get a different one," she tells me.

"Anyway," she says. "We have plenty more to do. It is only 15:25."

I look at my own holo-watch. Before when I activated it to see the new features, I didn't look at the time. That is pretty weird, as the time is the biggest size of all the text on the holo-watch. Also, it is the first thing you see when you activate the holo-watch.

I thought it would have been around 15:00, but it is 15:25 just as she said. Maybe it's because Dr. Jensen had me asleep while she was getting a new holo-watch for me. Also, I can't see why it would take that long to get me a new holo-watch. I mean, it's just taking my holo-watch off and putting the new one on, right? It's not like it takes 10 minutes to take the holo-watch off. It's actually pretty easy to take off, even though we are not supposed to. It only could have taken that long if it took a while to find the new holo-watch or if it isn't as simple as taking my holo-watch off and replacing it with a new one. The first option seems more likely. The society wouldn't make it that hard. Not here, at least. Maybe in that rumored part of the society where everyone doesn't follow the rules.

Something else comes to mind. How come I had to be put to sleep for this? I already decided that it must be as easy as removing the current holo-watch and replacing it with another one. Maybe I should ask her.

"Why... did I have to be put to sleep?" I ask in a quiet voice.

"Hmm?" she replies.

"Why did I have to be put to sleep to get a new holo-watch?" I ask again.

"It seems something isn't right with your new holo-watch. I will have to put you to sleep again," she says sitting on the only chair in the room looking at her laptop.

I wonder where that chair came from. I don't think it was here when I came in. Maybe it's a teleporting chair! No Rin... Dr. Jensen probably moved it in here.

"You didn't answer my question," I say.

"You have to be put to sleep to make sure it's all working," she says.