Back in Time:a Time Traveller's Journal

Chapter 2:The Time Manipulator

I didn't know what to call it.I really needed to know more about this mysterious gem pulled from the ground."Maybe we shouldn't do anything to this",Darrian suggested to me."What if it leads to consequences",he completes."What consequences?"I ask him."It's merely just a rock",I tell him.He proves me wrong when he says,"Yeah,one that glows."I start to examine how it reacts to different things,just staying still,but when my hand gets close to it,it starts to become brighter.I have an urge to see what happens if I touch it,but then Darrian grabs my hand."Uhu,no way",he says."Wait for me to get out of the building,then you can experiment with your little rock",he completes."This could be revolutionary",I tell him."It could",he explains.He grabs his things and is ready to get out of the room,right by the door,but then my urge takes control,and I grab onto it,and it lights up brightly like the sun,then we suddenly enter a blue passage,rush through it,and then I see myself in a room,as a young child,with my parents,having a great time.But I know what happens next,and it brings tears to my eyes as I hide behind the curtains.

I try to stop it from happening,but its already too late.The sounds of gunshots piercing through my parents,as I,a clueless little boy,try to make sense of what is happening to them.Me only wittnessing the true and yet so harsh reality now,as I see one of my father's friends,being the actual killer of them,but why not kill me?Why do I have so much importance?I try not to cry,but its hard seeing your parents once again dead in front of your eyes.The killer flees the scene,then after,I think of running to see what happened,but then I realise that this wouldn't be a good idea.I stare at my younger self,just crying,waiting for someone,anyone really,to help him.At this point my eyes are flooded with tears I can't hold much longer.There after,we see a bright light that overcomes the room and then were both back at the lab,in the same positions we were in,then Darrian asks me,"What.....just.....happenned?"."I'll tell you what happened",I tell him."We just cracked time-travel",I complete.

Now,what do we do if we crack time travel?You guessed it,build a time machine.It seems quite obvious,actually.So.....how do we build one?With metal(another obvious answer).Now,how do we get it?We get it from the scrap yard(didn't see that one coming,did ya?)Of course we enter the scrap yard,on new years day.We search and search for parts for a time machine,but its much more harder for me to focus,because my mind is being filled with images of my parents dying.Darrian comes up to me with a mechanical hand,asking,"Will we need this?"He's not much of a tech-guy now that I think about it.I reply,"Yes,if we were making a robot."Darrian depressingly puts the hand back where it came from.

I try my best to focus on the task at hand here(get it),but I can't ever seem to concentrate,my mind is being filled with curious thoughts.Who was that man?Why did he kill them?What sort of vendetta does he have against them?Why not kill me?If only there was someone who could answer all these questions.We continue looking for parts,not finding very much,but I'm still hoping that we will find something that will be useful for the time machine.Now,who would've thought that one day we could be in a situation like in Back to the Future?Honestly its one of my long-time favorites in the movie industry.I always dreamt of it,time-travel,it even sounds cool,time-travel.

We soon gather all the parts we need for the time machine,and get back to our lab to try and figure out how we are going to put this junk all together to make a time machine.I'm very good at hiding my feelings,but for some reason now,its not working,I'm trying to work,but I keep imagining them both dying,which leads to tears.I stare into the distance,my eyes filled with tears,as I can't seem to get those images out of my head.What would you do?

My colleague and friend Darrian kindly asks me,"Are you okay?"I reply with a solid "Yes".He doesn't believe me as there are still tears running down my face.He seems shocked and dis-heartened at the fact that I can't tell him whats wrong."Y'know you can tell me anything",he tells me.I nodd."Do you know what was that thing we saw?"he asks me,which brings back the memories even more,I shake my head.We both continue,me struggling to do so,but,we did it,even though it was in a few hours,we did it.We might have actually built the first time machine.