"What is this thing?"
"It's a time machine."
Fitz laughed at Olivia. It was her idea to break in the science museum. She rolled her eyes at him and fiddled with the widgets on the lever.
"Wait!"
"Oh come on Fitz. It's not a real time machine."
Fitz jumped back when the machine made a whirring noise. Olivia tilted her head and took a step backward.
"It is real." She said, with too much excitement.
"Get away from that thing Livvie."
"Oh come on Fitz. What is it going to do take us back a few hundred years in the past or the future?"
"Olivia, you are always talking about some wild science fiction stuff. You think that's a time machine. Last week you were talking about the world being a simulation."
"What if it is?"
"What Livvie?"
"I'm saying...what if this machine will take us into the future...we can find out if we really get to achieve our dreams."
"Livvie, we are not getting in that machine."
Olivia walked closer to the machine and sat inside the driver's seat, "How about we program it for...20 years into the future."
"We're going to be old."
"Yeah...35. We'll know if you really become president."
"I'm not getting in that thing, Livvie."
"Fine. I'll will let you know how cool time travel is when I get back."
Olivia stopped laughing when the lights came on in the machine. She paused, too afraid to move when the machine began to shake violently.
"Livvie!"
Fitz ran and quickly hopped in the passenger side. A few seconds later, the machine stopped shaking. They were still in the museum.
"That was a cool trick," Olivia said.
"Yeah, let's go home."
Olivia reached for Fitz hand. That was better than a rollercoaster, "I need to use the payphone. I know my mom is probably wondering where I am. Curfew was an hour ago."
"You need a quarter?"
"Yeah."
Fitz reached in his pocket, and he pulled out lint. Olivia laughed.
"Where's the payphone?" Olivia asked, when they walked outside.
"I don't know."
"Why do the cars look different?"
"I don't know, Livvie."
Fitz was perplexed seeing gadgets that looked like phones in people's hands. He looked at his watch. It was broken.
"Are those phones?" He asked, Olivia.
"I think so."
Fitz and Olivia held hands walking the short distance to her house in the dark. They paused in her driveway.
"It seems like something is very different. What if we really did travel to the future?"
Fitz laughed, "There has to be a logical explanation for this."
They hid behind the bushes when a car parked in the driveway.
"Hey, that woman looks like you." Fitz whispered.
The lady rang the doorbell. Eli and Maya answered, inviting her in to their home.
"Who is that lady?" Olivia asked.
Thunder rumbled in the sky and a few raindrops fell.
"What are we going to do?" Fitz asked.
"We're going in the house. We're not staying out here and getting soaked."
Olivia used her key to open the front door. She could hear laughter coming from the kitchen. There was a man in the foyer hanging a woman's coat. A man that looked like Fitz. He was startled to see Olivia letting herself in the home. Fitz followed slowly behind Olivia.
"What are you kids doing here?"
"Fitz, who are you talking too?"
"Some kids breaking in the house...with a key."
"What?"
The woman came to the foyer. Olivia and Fitz looked at each other, and then at the couple that resembled them.
"We're not home." Olivia said, barely above a whisper to Fitz."
"Someone is breaking in our house?" Maya said.
"She used to live here..." Fitz said.
"Wow, you look so much like Livvie."
Olivia smirked at Maya. She didn't like being compared to someone wearing sneakers, a sweatshirt and dingy jeans. She hadn't dressed like that since high school.
"What's your name?" Fitz asked, the boy who looked so much like himself.
"I don't know."
"You don't know your name?"
"We should go." Fitz pulled Olivia away from the house. They had to get back to the museum.