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2020

"Where are we going exactly?" I ask, uninterested.
"I'm telling you my uncle was crazy but he knew a thing or two about science" Dinah said
"Obviously not enough, or he wouldn't have blown himself up"
"Rude" Dinah didn't seem very offended. "Anyway so I'm allowed first pick from his apartment, since I was his favorite" she continued.
"This is a Loft"
"Apartment, loft does it matter?" She laughed.
"Kind of " I sighed.
"Cheer up Vinny, this is his one right here" she motioned to the army green door in front of us.
"Don't call me that" I didn't care that much at this point, it was more of a habit response. The air in the loft still had ash, everything else untouched except for a few things around where the body was found. A roomba lay on the kitchen counter, batteries close by.
"What the hell is that" a immature voice called poitning to an odd looking watch.
"HEATHER, Language. You know mom doesn't like you swearing" Dinah scolded her younger sister.
"Yeha well moms not here" the 9 year old sulked.
"What's with attitude, you're not even 13 yet" Dinah said this more or less to herself. I walked over to the contraption Heather had been pointing to. It looked like a bulky watch with nobs and a screen.
"What's this? A time machine??" I joked.
"Uncle Bert always did talk about time travel!" Heather chimed in. Dinah walked over to me and took the device.
"Well there's a nob for changing the date and year" she murmured.
"LET'S DO IT!" Heather could barely contain her excitement. "Let's go to 2008, I wanna see a real life emo!!" She went on.
"Nah Vince and I lived through the 2000s, let's go to the 90s, I wanna see Nirvana live!" Dinah smiled looking at me.
"I don't like Nirvana though" I said, I didn't really believe this was a real time machine, but I decided to go along with it.
"Yeahhh but what about going to a live taping of friends?? Or see your beloved young Jlo." Dinah trailed giving me a smirk.
"Ugh fine" I gave in. This wouldn't work anyway.
"Okay 1993" she said, we all held onto the watch as she turned the nobs...
There was a rush of light, I felt a shock and when I opened my eyes again we were outside in an alleyway. I heard a few cars honk and a piano play in the distance.
"Um did they have those kinds of cars in the 90s?" Heather said a bit confused.
"Oh shit" Dinah was looking at the time machine in shock, the nobs were broken.
"how diD YOU BREAK IT?" I said with much urgency.
"I don't know, but I do know we're stuck in this time till we fix it"
"Oh shit" all three of us said in unison.