Futureless

The Beginning...

"Excited for tonight?" asked Bridget to her best friend, Andrea.

Andrea Walker had never been more excited before in her life. The attractive and fair young lady was attending the SyFy Fan-Con for the first time in her 25-year life. She and her best friend had been dreaming of attending the convention for many years, and was so excited that it was finally happening.

"You don't say Bri. I've even got my Doc Brown sunglasses to wear right here," said Andrea as she pointed to the pair of sunglasses lying on the table.

"It will be a bit weird with you styling yourself as Doc Brown at Fan-Con," said Bridget, "Usually girls never love sci-fi."

"Bridget," said Andrea, "It's October 2015. I don't think when Marty and Doc came here, they were expecting misogynists to take over the world. They saw an extremely futuristic world without any inequality. So it's not going to be weird for me to act like Doc at the convention."

"You have a point there," said Bridget, "Anyway, we should be getting ready for the convention. We're going to take 45 minutes to drive there."

"We're driving?" asked Andrea, "Where we're going, we don't need roads!"

The two girls laughed.

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Ever since she saw Back To The Future as a young girl, Andrea Walker had been fascinated with the science fiction genre. Her other female friends had found her weird, except for Bridget. That was why Andrea could only bond with Bridget. Andrea was a normal girl like everyone else, but when it came to films, no girl had a taste in sci-fi like her.

The two girls walked out of their car and into the convention centre. They registered themselves and were ushered into the convention room. As soon as Andrea entered the room, her jaw dropped. It's Utopia! All of the people there were just as excited as her, and she couldn't wait for the night to start.

"Let's make sure the night never fizzles out," said Andrea.

"Watch out for Doc and Marty!" said Bridget with a laugh.

The night went on smoothly. Andrea had the time of her life with all of her fellow science-fiction fans there. She also met quite a number of people whom she found 'fascinating', and interacted with them. "I think they might be my embryonic twins," said Bridget as she related the experience to Bridget at dinner.

"Probably your life-long dream of a time traveller taking you in the future might come true today," remarked Bridget as she saw Andrea chatting happily.

"If that ever happens, I'm going to 2045, and going to see how my future self is going to be," replied Andrea.

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Bridget saw her mobile phone and noticed the time was 11.45pm. She told Andrea, "We need to go now. It's late." Andrea complied with Bridget's requests. But before they could leave, Bridget needed to go to the toilet. "I'll be right back."

Andrea was waiting patiently for Bridget in a corner. Suddenly, a mysterious man came and stood right next to her. She noticed the man was extremely handsome. He had black hair, and a fair complexion. He was with auburn eyes, and had shiny white teeth.

"Ryan," said the guy with his charming voice.

"Andrea," she replied with a sweet voice.

"You know the weirdest thing just happened to me," said Ryan, "I have someone else's phone with me right now."

"Really?" said Andrea. That's the dumbest pick-up line I've ever heard.

"Who's is it?" she asked after a brief pause.