After work I head home with a huge smile on my face. I just got the girl of my dreams! I squeal like a little girl and head inside. My head stops spinning when I once again notice my garage door. What is with this feeling of guilt and sadness when I think about that machine? I decide to go in and run some more tests. Flipping switches and pushing buttons is kinda my thing now. It turns me on. (Pun intended) I place several different fruits on the platform and everything comes back on the second exactly how it left. It disturbs me how they come back normal. Maybe I have too much matter? Maybe it's because I am a moving, living person? I ponder this for a few minutes while I get some coffee.
As I enter the garage again I take a hammer off of the wall and place it on platform one. "Test number... Whatever, begin." I stand back to watch and the same bright light shines and blinds me for a few moments. It's so bright that I stumble backwards some and fall. I hit my head on something hard and blackout.
When I awake again, I immediately look towards the second platform. The hammer is there. Maybe it still has too little mass? I stand, with caution, and move to the doorway. I look outside to see that the sun is up. Just then, I hear my phone alarm to wake up go off. I groan and make my way towards it. Turns out it was just Leah calling me.
"Yeah I don't mind. Come over whenever," I tell her after she asks to come over for a little before work. "Okay cool. Be over in a bit, Kam." I hang up and go into the bathroom to take a quick shower. It's gonna take some getting used to these new body parts, but hopefully in time I'll be be back to my normal self. Literally.
After I get out of the bathroom, I hear a knock on the door. I go over and open it to find Leah in a cute jumper with sandals. She pushes past me and starts rambling about something. I'm too tired to even notice, so as I change she stands at my doorway. My ears managed to pick up little bits and pieces of information here and there though. "... Job... Boss... Stupid... Said no... Kicked out..." I cut her off after I'm done. "Wait, take it slow and summarize it please. I'm still exhausted." She sighs and sits on my bed next to me. "So I went to the interview the other day, as you know, and she totally shut me down! She told me I was too "hyperactive" and "sassy". I'LL SHOW HER HOW SASSY I CAN FUCKING GET!-"
"Woah woah, calm down Liam."
"Liam?" I freeze. I accidentally called Leah Liam. Thinking about my life back home made me confused. I look to her and she looks as confused as a lost puppy. "Um... I said Leah," I lie as my throat goes dry. "Hmm... Okay..." she says, still a little skeptical about me. I'm sure she must think I'm going crazy now.
As it turns out her interviewer didn't like her personality and told her no. Leah got mad and threatened her. Then security had to get called and now she's banned from that part of the building. After she explains everything about the interview she leaves. I grab a large glass of water and gulp it down. "That was close." I think to myself as I head back into the garage for another two hours before work. I close and lock the door and put on my white coat. I also grab the googles and my notes. "Let's see... I ended with the hammer," I look to see it still there, "Yep, hasn't changed any bit." I write that down. The hammer goes back to it original spot then I get a coiled piece of rope. I place it on platform one and press the same buttons and flip the same switches as always to turn each machine on. I stand back and turn the camera on to record this. "Test number," I glance back at my notes, "2076, begin." I run to press the button on the machine and run back. As soon as I get back to my place beside the camera the bright light goes off. Luckily it doesn't effect me as much as the hammer's light did. The light vanishes and the rope is on platform two, as every material has always been.
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I'm back! And with once a week updates! It's a schedule I can work with, so that's what it's going to have to be. Sorry for the pause in this, I had nothing to work with. I'll keep up with this now that everything is all right.
I really want to thank ScarletApollo99 for helping me out. You're such a good person, and I'm proud to call you my best friend!!
Anyway, I'm sorry for this long pause. I needed the time away to get my thoughts in order. Now that I'm thinking about it, this chapter will be over in less than 10 chapters. Please vote, comment, and share.
Thank you! ~ AshCat15
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Science Fiction((COMPLETED ✔)) Kimberly Hombs has always loved science. She's studied it and even earned a degree in it in college, but the one thing that she so desperately wants doesn't exist. There is still no teleporter, but her main goal in life is to change...
