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"Why are you talking to me again so soon?" Jimmy asked his future self. He took a look around at the barren wasteland.
"Two reasons. One, I need you to take this," the future Jimmy explained as he handed his younger self a large, glowing ball.
"What is it?" Jimmy asked while rolling it around in his hands.
"It's the energy that allows us to have these visions. It's not safe to keep it with me. I'll be able to contact you as long as that exists, so be VERY careful with it," the future Jimmy warned. Jimmy nodded his head in understanding.
Back in the lab, Cindy was slapping the unconscious Jimmy across the face. "Wake up, big brain!" she shouted into his ear. She bent down and heard him breathing. She checked his neck for a pulse. It's like he's sleeping.
"The second reason I've called you here is to discuss your Cindy situation," the future Jimmy continued.
"What about it?" Jimmy asked.
"I think you should tell her now."
"Are you sure?" Jimmy questioned.
"I can't be sure, it's ultimately up to you when and if you tell her. But the changes I spoke of, you'll be experiencing them soon. And it would be very helpful if you had Cindy as an ally. I can see that keeping this secret is taking its toll on you."
Jimmy nodded his head. "Ok, I've got it. Changes will occur soon. Protect this ball thing. And I should tell Cindy what's going on. Now send me back to the lab, Cindy was there when I started this vision," Jimmy said.
"There was someone with you when this vision occurred?" the future Jimmy nervously asked. Jimmy nodded his head. The future Jimmy ran a few feet away and pushed a button on his makeshift lab. All of a sudden Jimmy jumped awake back in his lab.
"Oh, thank goodness. Are you ok? You really freaked me out. You've been unconscious for almost ten minutes!" Cindy told him while enveloping him in a huge hug. She looked down at the glowing white ball in Jimmy's hand. "You, you didn't have that when you passed out," Cindy said, a little scared.
Jimmy looked down and sighed. "Alright, do you still want to know what's going on?" he asked. Cindy nodded. "Well, you better sit down," he told her as he brought her his chair.
"Ok, listen. This story is long and hard to believe. Don't interrupt until I'm done, ok?" he asked. Cindy nodded her head. "Well, remember how I saved you from that truck two years ago?" Cindy quietly nodded again. "I had a vision of you getting hit by that truck a moment before. So I ran outside to save you. My vision came true."
"Over the next few days I had s lot more visions. They happened whenever I touched something. I foiled that robbery at the Candy Bar because I had a vision of it happening. I was really freaked out, to say the least. But I learned to control them over the weekend."
"Then at school on Monday you ran up and kissed me on the cheek. That sent me into the most powerful vision yet. I saw you and me in the future. But the future was a post-apocalyptic one. My future self told me that he had found a way to give me psychic powers. he did that so he could talk to me in a vision. He said that I had to train myself both physically and mentally. He said that I had to save the future. I had to save both his and my world. He said that I could only trust you. He then burnt me with an iron rod on my palm. The vision ended there."
"I woke up in the nurse's office. My psychic powers were gone. I figured that maybe the whole thing was just a dream. But when I went to buckle myself in my car once my mom took me home, I couldn't help but see the burn mark on my palm. The vision had been real. I realized that it was up to me to save the world."
"So for the next two years I did what he said. I trained. And trained. And trained. That's why I couldn't go out with you or have any fun. I had to focus on preparing myself. I had to focus on saving the world."
"And recently I've had visions with my future self again. He gave me this white ball. It is the energy that allows us to speak to each other," Jimmy finished as he held up the ball and showed her the burn on his palm.
Cindy just stared at him with an odd look on her face. "Enough lies, Jimmy! Tell me what's going on!"
Jimmy felt like someone had stabbed him in the heart. "You, you don't believe me?" he sadly asked.
"Believe what? That stupid fairy tale? God, I try to be nice to you, and you can't even tell me the truth! Here's what I think of your stupid little story!" she said as she grabbed the ball and smashed it on the floor.
Jimmy just stared at the shattered glass. "You, you, you! Do you have any idea what you've done! You've destroyed the world! You've killed all humanity!" he shouted, nearly hysterical.
"God, enjoy your stupid life," Cindy said as she walked out of his lab. Jimmy just stayed there, on his hands and knees. He couldn't take his eyes off the shattered ball.
That's it. It's over. I failed, he thought as he broke down and cried.