The Incredible Future

Chapter 4

Violet had awaken after Cornelius left the room. She could still see him outside through the window, he was talking to some boy. She didn't get a good look at him because his back was turned. It didn't matter, what had mattered to her was that she was in the future, her family were much older now and it was all thanks that jerk. He wanted revenge on her for something she didn't even do. Why didn't she run when she had the chance. 'Forget it Vi," she thought 'you have a second chance at life so might as well get the best out of it.'

Dash had arrived to pick up his sister the next day. He had missed her so much. He even missed the fights they had, he would rather have a fight with his sister than lose her. As soon as he came into the room Violet ran up to him and hugged him.

'Dash if only you knew what I have been through.'

Violet followed her brother to his car. He started the car as soon as they both got settled in and it began to hover above the ground. It made violet feel uneasy.

"You get use to it after a while." teased Dash.

Violet smiled. He might have been 43 now, but she could still see the Dash she knew a long time ago.

"Violet." he said.

She looked at dash.

"There are some things I need to tell you."

What was he going to tell her, she wondered.

"So we agreed that you'll be staying at my place."

"Ok" she nodded.

"I'm married and have a son." he said

That felt weird. She had a sister-in-law and a nephew, and Dash had to be the one to look after her. There was going to be so much for her to catch up on. When they had arrived at his house and her new home. It was huge.

"your house is beautiful." she complimented.

"Thanks." smiled Dash.

They both exited the car and out came running was to whom Violet assumed was Dash's wife and his son trailing behind her. His wife had long light brown hair which was tied back in a low pony tail and she had green eyes. His son looked a lot like Dash when he was younger, except he was taller, maybe he was around her age.

"Hi welcome you must be Violet. I'm Katarina." said his wife shaking her hand.

"Nice to meet you." she replied.

She saw Katarina elbow her son in the ribs. He seem to be looking away in to the distance.

"Hey, I'm Chip." he said smugly.

Violet looked at him and smiled. My how much he looked like Dash."Well let's go inside and talk about what's going to happen." said Dash.

He grabbed his wife's hand and started walking towards their house.

Inside was even more amazing than the outside. Violet looked around and saw a tube in the middle of the room.

"What's that?" she asked pointing to it.

"Transporter tube, transports you anywhere in the house. There's one in every room." replied Chip.

"Are you a uh…" she was going to ask if he was a super, but she stopped because maybe he didn't know about them or maybe his mother.

"Super. Yep I teleport." he said.

"Wow!" she yelled softly.

"But I bet turning invisible is cool too." he said.

Violet blushed. No one has ever commented on her powers before.

"I guess so."

"Nice to know that you to are getting along so well." said Katarina.

Both violet and Chip looked at her. Violet did like Chip, he was nice and she had the same energy as Dash had.

"How old are you?" she asked.

"13." he replied.

The two continued to talk to each other and Violet had learned heaps of information from him like that Dash was a sports star, Katarina was a journalist and he also told her about how many of the gadgets worked in the future.

"Well I gotta go, see ya later Vi." he said heading towards the front door.

"Wait sweetie. Do you remember the plan?" yelled his mother.

"She's my cousin and her parents died!" he yelled back.

"huh" said Violet confused.

"We'll explain everything." said Dash.

Dash and Katarina explained that it was Cornelius Robinson's idea that she had to pretend that her parents had died in an accident and that she was their cousin from her father's side. Violet got the idea and soon they took her up to her new bedroom. the walls were painted pink and purple. She had a dresser, a computer, built in wardrobe and a netting over it and a balcony that looked over their yard. She loved her room.

"Thanks Dash." she ran up to him and hugged him.

"Glad you like it." he said.

Yesterdays incident was completely forgotten, but it wasn't with Wilbur. Why was his dad talking to Dash, his best friend's dad. It must have had something to do with the girl in the hospital. Who was she? He heard a ring coming from down the hall, it was the doorbell Chip had arrived.

"I'll get it!" he yelled.

He thought that maybe Chip could have answers to his questions.

"Hey Wilbur." he said as soon as Wilbur answered the door.

"Hey." he answered back.

The two boys headed over to Wilbur's room and laid on two of the three beanbags there.

"So… why was your dad at the hospital yesterday?" asked Wilbur.

"hmmm… Oh. My dad was making arrangements about my cousin." replied Chip. "Her parents died and were going to be like looking after her now."

"Oh."

Okay it was something to do with Chip's cousin. Nothing really important to him. A while later they started playing chargeball. sometimes he would win and sometimes Chip would win. Chip was always a good opponent, he was the only one who could beat him and he was pretty sure that he was the only one who could beat Chip.

"Chip!" called Franny. " Your mother called, she says you have to go home now."

"Ok! Thanks Mrs Robinson. Bye Wilbur." he said as he ran off.

When Chip was here he forgot about all his troubles and now that he was gone all his negatives thoughts returned.

'Why is dad keeping secrets from me, he never does that. So what if this girl's parents died. I know it is bad, but was it really a reason to keep it a secret from me.' there had to be more to this than what everyone has told him. Wilbur Robinson will get to the bottom of this.

When Chip arrived home, everyone had prepared f

or dinner. Even her real parents and Jack-Jack came. The second her mother had arrived she had given Violet another never ending hug like the one she gave in the hospital. It was a while until she had finally let go. Dinner seemed pretty normal. No futuristic stuff flying around, it was just a so-called normal family dinner.

"Oh no, the plants dead." whined Katarina as she walked pass a wilted flower.

"Not to worry." she said and she waved her hand in front of the flower and the flower rose back up as if it had never been wilted.

Violet looked at her amazed. Katarina saw her face and giggled.

"Oh yes I have the ability to control plants."

This was Violet's definition of normal, a family of supers having a normal family dinner. She wouldn't change this moment for the world. For the rest of the evening they just talked and helped Violet catch up on things. She enjoyed hearing their stories as if she was a little girl again, but it pained her to know that she had missed these moments too. After her parents had left, Violet went straight to her room and laid on her bed. 'even if I missed 33 years, I'm still glad that I have my family back.'

It was way better than being with that creep who wanted to kill her in that old warehouse.

Knock knock

Dash came in holding a wrapped parcel in his hand.

"hey Vi. I always knew you were still alive somewhere and so I started writing in this. I didn't want you to miss anything." he said giving her the present. Violet first looked at it and then slowly started to rip the wrapping. The gift was an old book. Inside there were pages and pages of writing. They were all for her. Each paged started with a "Dear Violet".

"It's full of all the things you missed. I didn't want you to miss anything." said Dash.

Violet cried when he said it. This book was full of the things she missed and it hurt her to know she did. She was also happy to see that Dash cared for her. She hugged the book close to her heart and she felt Dash hug her tightly.

Violet looked at him and saw he crying. She had never seen her brother cry since he was in kindergarten.

"Well I better get going." he said wiping away the tears from his eyes. He left not a second later.

She opened the book to the first entry and started reading.

"December 10, 2004

Dear Violet

Where have you gone?

Mom and Dad are worried sick. I miss you. Even Jack-Jack has notice that your gone that he almost put the couch on fire. Most people have given up on you, but I still believe your alive somewhere and you have no way of coming back to us. Well if you could come home I promise to be a better brother and that I take back all the mean things I've ever done to you. It won't bring you back, but I'd give anything to see you here with us all safe and sound again. Have you ever had that feeling that you don't know you have a good thing till it's gone, well that's how I feel right now except deep down I always knew you were great.

One day I hope you will come back to us and that you will get to see this. I don't know when that will be but I can feel it that you will someday.

Please come home. I miss you.

Dash.

Violet stared at the letter and it was making her cry so much. Her family had missed her. Dash needed her and it was all thanks to that creep. He ruined not just her life but her whole family's as well. All this happened because he wanted to avenge his brother.

'Violet stop thinking about this, you got your family back and that's all that matters right now.'

This happy thought helped her fall asleep more easily.