The Girl Who Stepped Into the Past by Sophie Barnes

Author:Sophie Barnes [Barnes, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sophie Barnes

“Do you mind if I come in?”

Jane stared at James in dismay. “You want to meet with me in my bedroom?” Was the man insane? “You can’t be serious. I mean, you know what everyone else will think if we’re found out.”

“No one needs to know. Not as long as you grant me entry quickly so I can get out of this hallway.”

Against her better judgment, she relented and opened the door wide enough for him to come in. He closed it swiftly behind him, locking it for good measure. “What you told me earlier, about arriving here from the future…I want to believe you, but it is a struggle for me to do so. Perhaps if you could tell me more about the place you have come from or some other details to help me understand, it might help.”

“You want me to prove it to you.” Although a small part deep inside her heart wished it wasn’t necessary for her to do so, she wasn’t surprised. So she went to the bed and lifted the mattress to pull out the dress, underwear and flats she’d been wearing the day she’d arrived. “I hid these so no one would find them.” She placed the bundle on top of the bed and unfolded the dress first. “Look here,” she said, showing him the designer tag and care label.

He squinted down at it. “100% cotton.” He looked up for a second before returning his attention to the label. “Machine wash warm.”

“That means this dress can be loaded into an electric washing machine with detergent and washed in warm water. A motor makes the barrel spin round and round while water is added. There’s no manual labor involved at all.”

“Are you able to draw this device for me?”

“Of course.” She went to the desk in her room and pulled out paper and pencil. “It is square, like this, with a round glass door on the front and buttons in the upper right hand corner.” She produced a quick sketch. “There are different models, of course, but this is what mine looks like.”

“You had your own?”

She nodded. “Most people do.”

An awkward bit of silence fell between them while he continued to stare down at her rough illustration of a washing machine. “Can you draw something else from this future of yours?”

Grinning, she set the pencil to paper once more. It didn’t take long for her to sketch out a car, a TV, an airplane and a laptop. “People rarely send letters by mail anymore. They use a computer which has a keyboard for typing and a screen that can display an endless number of images. If you want to learn something new, you just type your question into it and it immediately gives you the answer.”

“I find it hard to envision.”

“It is the sort of thing you have to see, just like the rest of these things are. I mean, I don’t suppose you’re having an easier time of imagining people climbing into a metal tube that then takes flight and carries them across the world.

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