The Wheel

19. Emma

It stopped! Thank God! It became quiet in the room again. What was that? I felt like I would die!

"Please, don't you dare fighting again!" said Ayama.

"You, bitch!" Michael yelled and rushed to hit the walls.

"No, no, Mike, don't do it!" Miguel shouted.

There was that sound again. No! It makes my brain explode! Stop it! Please, stop it! Aaaaah!

"Please, don't damage the property," said Ayama.

It's silent. I hope everybody simmered down. Breathe, Emma, just breathe.

"I took a moment to check my phone while you were preoccupied with pointless stuff," said Kate boldly.

What a shrew! Bitch! Emma, no! Don't do that! Don't you even think this way! I unconsciously slap myself in the face, trying to stop those obnoxious thoughts.

"Emma, what's wrong?" asked Sam. "You hit yourself again?"

Oh, no, it happens again!

"A, it is..." I protested, "I'm just trying to pull myself together. I'm okay now."

There was an awkward silence. Everyone, including me, reached to our pockets for the phones. Touching the device, I felt familiar sensations, but when I took it out I was beyond surprised.

"What is that?" I asked out loud and looked at the others. "It's not my phone. I have never seen that kind of device in my life...I think."

We were holding a thin piece of glass with rounded corners that had a graphical interface on it: I saw a picture of a cat on the screen, like on my real phone; time, date and a notification that David made a new post. We've been gone for only five hours?!

It means right after Chris had finished his speech we went here! And still don't remember anything? How is that possible? I looked over the device: it reminded me of a phone from a fantastic movie. It was surprising that the phone was slightly transparent: I could see right through it. What technology is that?

"It's the first time in my life I see that kind of device," Sam said quietly. "It's definitely not iPhone and not Android. There is a completely different operating system I have never heard of. Seems like there have already been installed Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. How did that happened?"

I looked at the phone and it suddenly got unblocked and after that I heard a soft, a little relaxing sound. Is this phone connected to my face? But I can't see any sign of a front camera. There is not even a front camera on this thin rectangular device? I just looked at the display when Instagram opened.

"No! No! God!!! Why?!" David screamed at the top of his lungs, which made my body shiver. "Not that! Not that!" he started tapping quickly on the screen.