The Future is in Me

01: The Future is Inside of Me

                 I'm just your average 13 year old girl named Avery. I live in Florida just off the ocean. I love to sing and I have always dreamed of being a professional singer. I'm obsessed with Ben Platt and especially his new album. My everyday goes as followed wake up, go to school, voice lessons, repeat. Well at least that's what it seems like, but in reality everyday is different. Some days I go to the beach and other days I hangout with friends. By far my favorite day is Friday because in Florida there is something called food truck Friday. Tons of food trucks come in on the beach and it's always such a fun night. The thing that makes it the most fun is the fact that I get to share my love for music. Every week I prepare songs and sing them at food truck Fridays.

                  On the night of January 30, 2019 I was wearing an over-sized sweatshirt, leggings and my hair in a side braid. I can remember Ease My Mind by Ben Platt playing in the background, while my lamp was dim in my bedroom.  I was painting my nails when I dropped my nail file and just as I bent down to get it, I hit my head. I immediately shot up not expecting to be any different. Then I felt myself falling and just before I could catch myself I was in the future. I could see everything around me, in fact I could see future me. It was throwing me off because I was different then I was right now. I can't describe it exactly the way it happened, all I know is that I was in complete shock of why I was the way I was. I was able to spot a calendar in the room and I come to find out that it was 2021. I was watching myself as a 15 year old girl with a much different life than before. If I would have known the back story behind this I think I would've tried to stop it, but I knew nothing. I had seen enough, and I blinked and it was as if it hadn't even been a second later. I was still falling and I caught myself just before I hit the floor. I just  what had happened and I began to be frightened of my future. The future was now inside of me. I couldn't change it and I couldn't  change the fact that in 2 years I would be different. All I could do was decide that I was gonna live life to the fullest because pretty soon it was going to change. The problem is I can't do anything about it.