Date with Termination

1.0

The air was cold as all power in Livendale had been shut off to be worked on. It has been a week without power and the only light we get is the reflection of the sun off of the pure white snow thick on the ground.

Currently the only source of warmth in this whole house was my best friend Pandora. She has had a fear of the dark since I've known her as toddlers, so I let her stay at mine. Every night since the town began their work, we would spend our time with monopoly and hugging beneath blankets to keep us going.

Luckily, the air was so cold that the food in my fridge has survived, so eating was not an issue for us.

Pandora was curled up in a ball on my maroon sofa with a blanket wrapped tight around her as I was in the kitchen making us both sandwiches.

Bread. Turkey. Lettuce. Tomato. Mayonnaise. Bread.

I repeated four times before bringing the food towards the sofa and sat it upon the coffee table before us.

"Thank you." Pandora whispered as she shakily grabbed her food.

"You're welcome. Sorry for having the same cold food daily. I can call over Stephen later and make him bring his lighter so that we can make s'mores. I don't know about you, but I know I could go for something warm." I laugh while laying my head on her shoulder.

As my teeth sunk into the first bite of my sandwich, all of the lights flickered on, the heat sprang to life, and my phone began to ring. The power wasn't supposed to be back on for another week, so to say I was confused was an understatement. My next-door neighbor hadn't had no electricity compared to me, which is peculiar.

I went over to the landline in the kitchen and picked it up.

"Florence." Time stopped. I got sick to my stomach as the voice that was coming through the other side was actually my own. I dropped the phone in shock before slowly picking it back up.

"Is this a joke?" I asked, confusion being the only thing coursing my brain.

"No. Please you have to listen to me. I know you won't believe this, but I am you from the future. Or you are me from the past. Either way, I need to give you some important information." My own voice spoke clearly, not sounding like a generated bot on a computer or an application.

"I can't believe you. This is so a prank. You aren't me!" I whisper shouted, trying not to let Pandora hear me next door.

"Do you need proof? Fine I'll give you proof. You have a tattoo of the name 'Stephen' from when you two had a fling in the past and you have yet to tell anyone other than him. That not enough proof still? You pierced your tongue behind mom's back in the tenth grade with your friend Milly. Your first kiss was the infamous 'Loser Lenny.' You hid a-."

"Okay, stop!" I gasped. How is this real? Nobody knows about these things except for...well me. "I believe you. What do you need?"

"The future is in your hands. Please listen to every word I say."

"Wait. What? The future is in my hands? That is ridiculous." My palms began to pour the sweat.

"It's simple, I promise. You can live your life as you want it, just please don't ever tell anyone no. You have to reply yes to any question, no matter what. It is as simple as that."

"You want me to do what? Not tell anyone no? This sounds so sketchy! How is this going to solve anything?"

"Trust me, I have lived your whole life, I would know. Just please promise me that you won't be the reason I, and the others, get killed."

"What?" My eyes bulged out of my head.

"I'm so sorry. I can't talk anymore. Just-please!" She screamed before, what sounded like, she was yanked away. All I could hear were my own screams and tears of terror before a deep voice grumbled and abruptly hung up.