Lisa's eyes were bulging so much that they were on the verge of breaking her glasses! Her little body was trembling. It was kinda satisfactory to see that usually so collected know-it-all sweating with fear and worry!

'Tell me everything now,' I demanded once more. 'I swear, if it turns out that you are the one who warped my life just for the sake of your sickening experiments, I will...'

'Stop, please, stop,' Lisa extended her little arms forward, trying to sound cool and friendly (probably for the first time in her life!) 'I'll tell you.'

She walked over to the door, looked outside to make sure no one was eavesdropping and locked the door.

'Well?' I crossed my arms and tapped my foot on the floor.

Lisa sighed, removed some sweaty hair from her forehead and began: 'This world is not the original world. One of my inventions replaced the real world with an alternate reality.'

'Yes, I have figured this out myself,' I said sternly. 'Carry on.'

'In this alternate reality, the past is a little different,' Lisa continued. 'You and I have lived in this alternate world's past, just like everyone else, except we have our memories from the original world, because, when reality changed, the memories of ourselves in this alternate world were overwritten by our memories.'

'And why do only you and I have our original memories?' I asked.

Lisa sighed again. She turned around for a moment. Then back to me. 'I don't know,' she admitted. 'My initial plan was only for me to have my original memories. You shouldn't even be here. I was genuinely surprised when you woke me up the morning after the night I changed reality, but I didn't show it. I guess your presence here is an anomaly I can't explain yet.'

'Why did you do all that in the first place?' I asked, now calmer.

Lisa hesitated for a moment. 'In the original world,' she began, 'this house did not have two bathrooms as now. It had only one. The room that is now a second bathroom was an additional bedroom, where my brother, Lincoln, stayed. In this room, I stayed with Lily, my baby female sister.'

So that baby I saw in Lincoln's memory was Lily?

'Both Lincoln and Lily died,' Lisa said.

'How?' I asked.

Lisa started telling me the story. One day, Lynn's team lost a game Lincoln attended. Lynn blamed Lincoln for that, considering him a source of bad luck.

At first, Lincoln enjoyed the fact that his sisters had stopped inviting him to their activities, out of fear of his bad luck spoiling them. However, as days went by, the family's superstitious hysteria grew and grew, causing them to become unreasonable and go as far as to banish Lincoln from the house and force him to sleep in the dog house!

Lincoln tried to convince them that he was not a source of bad luck by secretly attending another game of Lynn's team. However, Lynn's team lost again.

Lincoln lapsed into depression. He decided to hide in Lisa's bunker so that his supposed bad luck wouldn't affect the others, but Lisa denied that to him, because she didn't want his bad luck to affect her experiments.

That was probably a mistake, because, at least in there, Lincoln wouldn't have had to see his family members exiting and entering the house everyday, without talking to him. Past a point, they wouldn't even look at him, fearing that even that would bring them bad luck!

I was genuinely shocked. 'How could you treat him like that?' I snapped angrily. 'Even mom and dad... I mean, even his parents?'

'Yes,' Lisa nodded sorrowfully. 'We all were despicable. Our fear had turned us into horrible people. We realized our mistake only when, one morning, we found him dead.'

Lisa's eyes became tearful. 'After that, our family never was the same again. We'd rather have suffered the consequences of Lincoln's supposed bad luck than lost him that way, but it was too late to regret our choices. Our parents became depressed, indifferent. Soon, Lily died in an accident, because they no longer took care of her properly. Of course, this made things even worse.'

Lisa paused for a while, her sobs rendering her unable to speak. I was speechless.

She took off her glasses, wiped her tears and continued: 'Our family was falling apart. I couldn't go back in time to fix our mistake, because my time machine still has several glitches. But I had another invention that could fix that.'

'The reality warper,' I continued in her place.

'Precisely,' she nodded. 'I turned reality into an alternate universe where Lincoln and Lily never existed. Though I still don't understand how you ended up here. I saw you, through my cameras which I have secretly installed everywhere in the house (both in the original reality and this one), chatting with Luan on Skype the day before I warped reality, but I never intended to tangle you into th...'

'The spirit!' I cried.

'Huh?' Lisa got confused.

'I met Lincoln's spirit,' I explained, snapping my fingers. 'He must be the one who interfrered with your process and brought me here. He was the one who helped me enter your shelter and get the photo.'

Lisa took the photo from my hands and looked at it. 'Ohh, Lincoln,' she drawled. 'When I entered the reality warper, I took it with me, as something to remember my lost brother by.'

'Lisa, you were wrong,' I held her by the shoulders. 'Lincoln still exists. Dead do not cease existing.'

'There is no such thing as afterlife,' Lisa corrected her glasses, returning to her know-it-all self. 'Science proves it.'

'Er hem,' a voice drew our attention. We turned and saw the spirit glaring at us.

'LINCOLN,' Lisa gasped.

'Hey,' I greeted him, raising an arm.

The spirit kept glaring.

'Ohh, Lincoln, I'm so sorry,' the 4 year old prodigy burst into tears. 'I understand your anger, I...'

'You understand nothing, Lisa,' I snapped. 'Lincoln is angry indeed, but not because he died. He's angry because you thought that changing external reality would make your sorrow go away. You and your family should have tried to be strong and move on. That was what would make Lincoln happy.'

The spirit nodded, showing that he agreed with me.

Tentatively, Lisa smiled and hugged him. Lincoln smiled, closed his eyes and hugged her back, in a tender moment. I could barely hold back my tears.

She turned to me. 'I guess it's time we go back to the original world,' she said.

She took me to her bunker and we entered her reality warping capsule.

'One last question,' I chuckled when Lisa was about to pull the lever. 'You said that you have cameras installed everywhere in the house? Even in the bathroom?'

Lisa nodded.

'Umm, just curious,' I caressed my nape. 'Is Lynn an intersex in the real world too?'

Lisa smiled, revealing her teeth, and nodded. We shared a laugh.

The girl pulled the lever. A flash blinded me. Then everything went black.

I found myself in my dorm room's bed. I pushed away the blankets and ran over to the mirror. I was back in my 16 year old body!

I checked the date on my cellphone. It was the day I would go with Leafa to the youtube convention.

I squealed, got dressed and ran over to Leafa's room.

When I saw the blondie, I hugged her tightly in my arms and lifted her voluptuous body in the air.

'Whoah, missed me so much?' she cried, surprised. 'It's been only 7 hours or so since we last saw each other.'

'You won't believe what happ...'

I paused. 'On second thought, I'll tell you later. Let's go to the convention.'

Leafa shrugged and off we went!

In the convention, we met Luan! Along with Lisa!

Lisa had convinced Luan to come to the convention after all. Thanks to Lisa's super fast rocket, they had made it in time!

'That was what Lincoln would like me to do,' Luan said to us at some point when we were hanging out all together during the convention.

Lisa and I, the only ones who remembered what had happened in the alternate world, exchanged meaningful smiles and winks.