By now, the rest of our acquaintances from Science had returned to class. The rest of the lesson was writing up the results, so we had to get the results off some of the fellow members of our class. Haven and I were sat on the same table, and I had some scrap paper at hand, so I discreetly sent a note to her using some of it. Haven was a quick writer, so we managed to get quite a few notes sent. I think the teacher thought that we were sending notes about the work, when they were nothing of the sort.
Once the bell went, Haven and I, hand in hand, walked over to the school field, which we were allowed to go on now due summer rapidly approaching. We finally had joined a ‘friendship group’ eventually over the years, which was a mix of quite a lot of different people, including some of the smartest, and least academic, in the year. It was a rather average group in total. Well, while we were walking past, we saw a girl of about our age sitting on her own. She looked lonely, so, after looking at Haven, we walked over to her. She looked up at us, clearly nervous over our presence. She had light purple hair, and I couldn’t quite see her eyes, but it looked like they were dark blue. “Hello” I said.
“Hello” she said quietly, but now looking up at Haven and me, especially me. “You’re Constance Dove’s adoptive son, aren’t you?” she asked quietly.
“Yes, why?”
“The blast that killed your birth parents, it killed my parents aswell” she said quietly, hiding her face, which I expected was from tears. I still cried about my parent’s death sometimes.
“Look-” I said, but I realised that I didn’t know her name.
“Kalia”
“Look, Kalia” I said. “I know how you must feel, but you should know that we all have to move on. The past has already happened, and we can’t change it”, but inside, I thought different. We can change this, we can get revenge on the person who killed our parents, and they will pay…but on the outside I had a completely neutral expression.
Kalia looked up at me. “Well, Kalia, see you around” I said, walking up to the field. “Clive, wait!” she called.
Turning around to Kalia, I raised an eyebrow. “Yes?”
“I knew you were lying” she said quietly. “You want revenge, don’t you?”
I sighed. “Of course I do”
Kalia looked at me straight in the eyes then. That was when the bell went for next lesson…
*
I was walking down the streets that lead to town. Constance lived around five miles away from where I lived before the explosion, her house was one of those you used to play you had all the money in the world and lived in that house. But I’ve learnt my lesson, life is stupid, and hardly anyone gets everything they want in their lives. Suddenly, something, or someone, came flying into me. I landed on my back, and getting up, I recognised him instantly. He was one of the scientists who worked in the lab next to our old flat. He was one of the people who caused the explosion…
“Oh sorry, young man. I was in a bit of a rush, but it’s nothing important. Are you alright?” he said, brushing himself down.
He had wavy grey hair, which drooped over one of his eyes, but from just the one eye, he looked slightly nervous. “I’m fine” I said, which I was, apart from a slight pain in my back, but that wasn’t anything overly bad.
As the man studies me, he gasped. “I remember you. You were that child that lost his parents in the blast and was trying to go back in”
“Yes, I was” I said, unsure of what he was going to do or say next.
“Well, I’m sure you probably haven’t heard the story of what actually happened, so would you like me to tell you”
This could change everything… “If you want to tell it, then yes”
“OK then” The Man said, taking us to a small restaurant a few doors down from where we were standing. After getting him and me a drink, he started to talk. “My name is Dimitri Allen, and I used to work in the lab next to where you lived. We were currently investigating time travel, and were trying to build a time machine. But the other scientist, a male, was given an offer of a large sum of money for the time machine, but he never told me this. We hadn’t tried the time machine of a living person yet, so the other scientist tried it on our assistant, Claire. But we hadn’t fully finished all the tiny features we needed to do, and it ended up exploding. The other scientist survived the blast, and received the cash sum, and quickly moved onto a higher paying job. Claire died, as well as your parents”
“Why are you saying ‘the other scientist’? Surely you knew his name” I asked.
“You will aswell, my boy. But I don’t want you too…go mad over it”
“Who was it?”
“Bill Hawks”
“The prime minister killed my parents?!”
“Hush. I warned you. Well, you see, I loved Claire, and once Bill had killed her, I grew to hate him. I probably want revenge just as much as you do”
“Then why don’t you get revenge?”
“He’s such a high rank, it would be almost impossible to get to him”
“But why don’t you backfire on him?! Make another time machine, get him to test it, since he used to be a scientist and was so interested in time travel, and purposely make it fail!”
“That, is a good idea, my boy” Dimitri said. “But not so soon. If we do it too soon, then he may get suspicious, it’s only been three years”
I noticed he was saying we. Did he want me in the plan? Surely, he knew I wanted revenge, but I was still just a child, an eleven year old couldn’t do anything special!
“What’s your name, boy?”
“Clive Dove, sir”
“You were adopted by Constance Dove?”
“Yes” I said.
“Well” Dimitri said. “I think you and I are going to get on pretty well”
