seventeen hours // muke

wishing ➵ three

i sat there for a moment. "wouldn't you want to come down?" he asked. my head snapped up and looked into his eyes.

"tell me this is not a joke or else i will stab you in the eye," i threatened. making up bullshìt about luke and me? i don't think so.

"i'm not joking, michael," his face was impassive and his tone was dead serious. "i did this not only for you, but also for me. i lost a friend the same year you lost your lover. we'll go in time together, but in different places. we will meet our loved ones, michael. the ones that we have lost. it's not only you who's in pain, it's also me. everyone is a little broken inside, ya know?"

i nodded. "i'm ready," and stood up. he followed suit.

the wooden stairs creaked at our heavy steps, it was old, and this is the first time in years that i've walked down here. the garage was dusty and a huge machine was there. it's just like a car, but there's something more inside.

my eyes widened as i realized that the back to the future movies are coming to life.

"i can see you two worked hard there," i said. frank was just sipping at his coffee and i'm not used to his quietness. "what's wrong, frank?"

"well, actually the only thing he's done about my whole project was to serve coffee to me, and hand over what i need. most of the time he just wanted to make out, i dunno. and he found out the reason i really want to do this....," he sipped at his coffee again. "and i found out he was cheating on me, for two weeks."

"oh. okay. yesterday you went to his house, right? you guys broke up?" i didn't ask about "xogee" or the other reason he's doing the time traveling project. maybe he had a secret boyfriend that he never told me about? i don't really know. he just nodded and i let out a sigh.

"let's chill. i'm gonna miss this house since we won't stay in here much longer. not until we go back present time," he informed me. and we went back upstairs to shower, to watch our favorite movies, to eat, to throw eggs at ronnie's car and prepared to go back in 2006.