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front of him. I walked inside the house. I was taken for a moment in the entry way. a double staircase, marble, the chandelier, it seemed like a hotel not a house. Just then my 4 year old son came running in from a door off to my left yelling daddy, daddy your home and grabbed my leg hugging it tightly. I reached down and picked him up with a smile. He looked at me and said daddy something is hurting my leg, I put him down and reached into my pocket and pulled out the device the man called mike gave me at the library. Daddy he said you got me new toy, I replied no son this is daddies. he pouted off into the next room. I looked around once more trying to take everything in, and confused about where to go. to my right there was a room with a desk I could see through the door and a book case behind it. I assumed it must be a study or office of some kind and walked in. the lights came on as I entered the room there was a brown leather couch against the wall a computer monitor on the desk next to a cordless telephone. I pulled out the high back leather chair and sat down. a picture of my wife and son adorned the desk with a small object in front of the frame. I picked it up and opened it, it was a note book with a cover. The first page said turn on the computer Scott. I looked for a tower to turn on there wasn't one, I looked back to the note, P.S. it's an all in one the power buttons on the side of the monitor. Huh, that wasn't on the note card before, I swear. I turned on the computer. the starting page came up then flashed with a small box asking for a password. Password? what would that be? I only know of one that I use regularly, I typed it in and hit enter. Success start page opened, a message popped up, please insert drive? drive I looked and the desk had opened a small hole to the right of the keyboard exposing a small metal object that looked like a cell phone charger. Drive, not what could go there I asked myself. I turned to the device the man mike had given me and looked at the side, sure enough it looked like a match. I pressed it into the interface. The screen flickered, a video began to play. That guy mike was on the screen talking but I couldn't hear, volume where's the volume. Ok now I can hear. " Well Scott I know I just saw you at the library, but, here we are again. I'm sure you have lots of questions and are probably very confused right now but pay attention I am going to recap the changes." changes, I said aloud " first yes, this is your home, your wife and child are the same for the most part, except for some different experiences. as for you, well where to start. you sent a " just then I heard "honey" what are you doing in here" I looked up and stopped the video. My wife, stood in the doorway. "you never come in this room, not since we built the house" she was beautiful, her hair I have never seen it so vibrant, her smile her eyes. " what are you staring at? " she asked, sorry you just look amazing I replied. so what are doing she asked again. oh just trying to use the room, I said. not very convincing though I thought to myself. she gave a sigh, and said you're not going to shut yourself in for another month and come out with some crazy idea again are you? I know this last one paid off but your son is older now he needs more daddy time. I know I told her, and no I'm not going to just sitting here for a minute. Alright she said well dinner is ready come into the dining room. I got up and followed. Besides I don't think I could find the dining room in this place without a map right now. I need to follow her.


I followed her into a grand dining room with a huge dark cherry table and three place settings at one end. she stopped in front of me by one the settings, I looked and pulled out the chair for her to sit. I glanced at the table and noticed a kiddies spoon and fork at one setting, I sat at the other at what I guess would be the head of the table. A young Hispanic girl came through the door with a bowl of salad. I heard the banging and clanking of dishes and pans before the door swung closed behind her. my wife turned and said Rosa would you please get my son for dinner. of course m'am she replied she set the bowl on the table and scurried through a door on the far wall. my wife plopped a serving of salad on my dish and for herself. another woman came through the door Rosa did with a platter of what smelled like steak. she walked around the table and placed a nice size filet on my plate with some green peppers and continued on to my wife and child's plate. Rosa came back with my son in front of her and he sat across from my wife in a booster seat as Rosa placed his napkin on his lap. My wife began rambling about a day of shopping or something of that nature, I couldn't focus on what she was saying right now. I was still reeling from the changes and thinking about getting back to that video. I need to know what happened. If what he said was true at the library, I had to change the past, which created a wave effect changing my whole life. However, whatever I change I still have to be able to create or use this time device in the future to send the guy back to the library. The more I thought about it the larger the flaws in time travel seemed to be apparent.

however, whatever paradox I think cannot be true if I changed my life this way. "honey" I looked up from my plate at my wife, Hawaii, can we go she asked seemingly a second time. of course that sounds great. When do you want to leave again I asked her. She said something about a private jet and Wednesday the 10th I think, she went on about the beach and after sometime another question, "honey, so can we buy it" she staring at me with a big smile on her face. buy what I asked, she went silent. in fact she went perfectly still. I looked at my son, the food he had dropped was suspended in mid air. what happened. all is still and silent, nothing is moving. Oh no time stopped. The changes that were made broke something I don't fully understand. I stood up and walked towards the door just then a breeze came across my face. I turned to my wife, she was gone. my, son the table is now a dark espresso stain and the room is arranged differently. what just happened. I heard my wife call to me from the next room I walked in she was sitting with my son watching television. She said hi as I walked in and asked if I was ready for dinner. I paused for a moment. The clock on the wall says its only five thirty, I know I didn't get home until at least seven. I don't get it, something is not right. I looked at the cell phone in my pocket, the time is different, than the clock. My looked at me, another phone, did you lose the other one again? I nodded in agreement not sure what she meant, I never lose phones. I walked back to the dining area, a young Asian woman was setting the table for us. she looked up for a moment and asked if I were ready to eat. I said yes and sat in the spot I was in before. something had to be changed in the past. but what, and why. I have a similar outcome but small details are different I need to watch that video, this isn't making sense. Imprint

Publication Date: 04-15-2010

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