The Watch – Part 83:

‘Hang on,’ I said rewinding the video. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. There had to be an explanation and I hope it isn’t going to be the one that I have in mind. The person who looks scarily like Amy walked out of the station and walked away to the left until she disappeared off the side of the screen. Then the video ended. The way she walked was as if she didn’t want to be noticed, as if she knew that whoever is filming this station would be there.

‘I know that she looks like you, but how can she be since you’ve never been there before?’ I questioned.

‘Does that mean you believe me?’ Amy said with a worried expression on her face.

‘I believe that you’ve never been to this station before, but what this video is indicating is something that is only theoretical, and possibly never exist anyway.’

‘So you don’t believe me?’ Amy said, trying to figure out what I mean.

‘Maybe I’m not wording this right,’ I said sighing. ‘Hang on,’ I said re-watching the video for the third time. According to this video, this is footage of Amy, and according to Amy, she has never been to that station before, which, if you put the two pieces together, that can only mean one of two things. Either Amy figures out that I have this watch, or I tell her, and I vowed to myself that I would never do that as that would lead to complications beyond anything that we would be able to get through without our relationship falling apart. I know that keeping a secret as big as this one would potentially lead to complications as well, but there is more of a chance that it won’t lead to that and everything will be fine. This video tells me that she knows, and I have to know how she came to know.

‘You have to admit,’ Amy said, ‘this is some convincing stuff.’

‘Well,’ I said, putting some logic to it to try and convince myself that there is another explanation, ‘they do say that everyone has a twin somewhere out in the world, and this person did bow her head to try and conceal her identity, leaving us only to fill in the gaps, making ourselves believe that we are seeing what we want to see.’ I literally made that up on the spot. I mean, I really wanted to know where that was going myself. I’m really glad that it ended the way it did, although I could see by Amy’s expression that it was rather farfetched to say the least.

‘Can I ask you a question?’ Amy asked.

‘Sure,’ I said. ‘Anything.’

‘You said that you were fascinated by Time Travel, and so am I – I did a talk about it for our last school project of the year – and now that there is some evidence that can prove that Time Travel is possible, why aren’t you jumping at the chance to believe it?’ That was a good question.

‘I guess I only thought it being a possibility on a theoretical level rather than actually being something in the real world,’ I said, knowing full well that I have travelled in time, many times in the Parallel World and this world, adding up to an uncountable amount of times already.

‘Despite that being a damn good answer,’ Amy said admittedly, ‘I think that you are trying to find an explanation to something that you know isn’t there. This video is saying that at some point, I am going to travel in time for whatever reason and act out what I’m doing (what I have already done). Does that make sense?’

‘Yes,’ I said simply before asking. ‘When and where was this video taken?’

‘I don’t know where,’ Amy said, ‘but I do know when. The website that I got this from said that it was in the middle of last month on the fourteenth of June.’

‘Well,’ I started to explain, ‘because this is time travel, we can take our time on figuring out where this video was taken and then how you actually managed to travel in time in the first place. However, from the looks of this we have to get a move on as you don’t look that much older for if we wait too long and you’re not the same age as you are in this video, you can disrupt the paradox and make it not complete.’ I was speaking from experience from studying time travel and my actual experiences of travelling through time myself. ‘But I will say,’ I added, ‘that we may go about this task and work out all the answers, but you have to be prepared for the possibility that this isn’t you in this video, but someone who looks like you.’

‘I understand,’ Amy said. ‘You know, I would have thought you would be instantly dismissive and thought of me as someone who had finally cracked.’

‘We have the same interest and is fascinated to learn the answers to these questions, and I have no reason to think of you as a crazy person anyway. You’re my girlfriend and I’m your boyfriend now, so it is my job to make you feel like someone has your back, and if this is the way to show that I have it, then I will help you all the way to the end.’

‘I’m incredibly attracted to you right now,’ Amy said smiling at my supportiveness. I didn’t know what to say to that so I just smiled at said.

‘Yeah,’ as casually as I could, which made Amy laugh.

I don’t want this to sound mean, but in truth, I want to know whether Amy will figure out that I have a watch that grants me with incredible powers, which includes the ability to jump through time whenever I feel like it, or she will find out through other means, and that may mean that to make this paradox complete, I will have to reveal my secret by myself. I do love Amy, but I have to know the answers to this mystery.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Thanks for reading

Antony Hudson

(TonyHadNouns)