Ten Days by Elizabeth Jerow

Author:Elizabeth Jerow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Publisher: Indie Author Project
Published: 2019-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

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Driving to her temporary home, Laurel felt an urge to call someone and talk about what had happened. She was electrified. Every part of her rang with energy. She needed a release valve. A few years ago, it would have been David; and a few weeks ago, it would have been Connor. Now, Laurel had nobody to confide in but Petra. Petra, who looked at her more like an experiment than a friend.

When she pulled into the garage, Petra was already there, waiting.

"We need to talk," she snapped before Laurel could shut the car door behind her.

"I know."

"This is more complicated than I realized," Petra said. Laurel hurried behind her as they entered the house.

"Today, I had to write myself that note, just because I remembered it happening. But how did it happen in the first place?"

"Someone else may have done it at first, but you’ve overwritten that with whatever happened today."

"I remember it being exactly how it was," Laurel said.

"Probably because you changed the past. Of course you’d remember it this way. Even if it wasn’t your past before, it is now. You are writing your own story now."

Laurel had never felt she held Petra’s full attention. In the past, Petra would shuffle papers when Laurel talked. She would look at a clock, or otherwise be moving, for most of their conversations. But right now, she looked Laurel directly in the eyes and didn’t move an inch.

"So maybe someone else was involved in whatever happened at the mall," Laurel said. "But now that I’ve done what I’ve done, it’s the only thing I can remember."

"Right."

"That’s bad, right?"

"Well, it depends. This incident, I think, is okay. I believe you rewrote something today, but not in a way that Past Laurel has noticed. As long as she stays on her path, the path that got you here and will eventually save your kids, you’re alright."

"But?"

"But, it unfortunately obscures the original events of today. Something happened there. Something that caused you, Present Laurel, to go to the mall and witness it again. But in doing so, you took an action that changed your path, and that obscured that original interaction."

"How do you keep this straight?"

"Time travel isn’t for everyone."

"Has this ever happened to you before?"

"No," Petra replied.

The two women shared a moment of contemplation.

"I wish I knew what happened before the note," Laurel said.

"Do you have it? Did you bring it back with you?"

"Yes, it was in my purse when I traveled back. The note is upstairs."

Petra looked at her expectantly, so Laurel went upstairs to fetch it. She unfolded it as she walked down the stairs and back to the living room, and felt a chill when she saw the messy hand again. The note was identical. She now knew that the messy writing was her own, but it’d been burned into her memory so clearly already as something more sinister.

Sitting down, Laurel looked at the rough edge where the note had been torn out of the pad. She grabbed her purse, beside her, and pulled out the pad of paper.

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