Serena quickly backed away from the hug. "Come on, let's go home." she said.
"What about Sam and Freddie?" Felix asked. Serena took Felix to another hall where Sam and Freddie were laughing and sometimes Freddie would occasionally give Sam a peck on the lips.
"Well, I guess we have nothing to worry about" Felix said. Freddie looked at Serena and Felix and smiled at them. Sam turned around and smiled at them and waved. Right there, Sam and Freddie saw themselves in them. It was like they were looking at a mirror.
"Well I guess this is goodbye" Serena said to them. Freddie smiled and winked at them.
"Yeah, bye" Felix said.
"O, wait" Freddie said. He took a piece of paper out from his pocket and handed it to Felix. "Take this, but open it when you get home." Felix gave Freddie an odd look but nodded his head.
"Bye guys" Serena said taking her brother. Once they were in another hallway, Felix punched in the date and they were off.
Felix took the piece of paper and read it. "Wow, this is deep" he said. Serena took the piece of paper and agreed. Then their dad came into their room. Felix put the piece of paper back into his pocket.
"What are you guys doing? I thought that you were grounded" Freddie said. Serena squinted at Freddie, wondering if he remembers anything.
"Uh, dad…do you remember anything that happened about twenty years ago?" Freddie widened his eyes.
"I was wondering when you would ask. Give me the time machine, now" he said stretching his hand out.
"You told him?!" Felix said.
"Hey, he transported us twenty years into the future! Of course I was supposed to tell him the truth, what else was there to say?" Serena shot back.
"Guys, time machine now" Freddie said. Serena and Felix looked at each other and smiled. They both just had an epiphany. Serena hit the date where Phillip specifically created the blueprints to the time machine.
The two saw Phillip sleeping in his chair with the blueprints just finished. They were all saved on the computer. Felix cracked his knuckles and started hacking in the classified files.
Phillip woke up though. "What are you guys doing here? Who are you?" he asked sleepily. Felix looked at Serena. Stalling time. she thought.
"Hey Phillip, what's this?" Serena asked pointing at a remote.
"How do you know me? Shouldn't you guys be home? Where are your parents?" Phillip asked. Serena pulled his pants down and revealed Sponge Bob boxers. "What the heck?"
"Nerd can't catch me!" Serena said running backwards. Felix smirked and continued hacking into the file.
"I'm not a nerd!" Phillip said. He was about to run and catch Serena, but he tripped when he started running. Phillip put his pants up and held them with his hand while still attempting to catch Serena.
Felix was so close to deleting the file. Once he did that, it will be all over. As if nothing have ever happened. He finally hacked into the files and deleted it. Ten percent…twenty percent…forty percent…fifty percent.
"What are you doing?" Phillip asked. "No! Stop!" He pushed Felix away from the computer and started hitting the escape button, but nothing. It was too late.
"Do you know how long I've worked on that!? Five years!" he yelled.
"Sorry but we had to delete it! It was a matter of life and death!" Felix yelled back. Seventy percent…eighty percent…ninety percent…then it was all gone.
"No," Phillip whined. He put his head on the keyboard.
Felix and Serena instantly disappeared. They were back in the den in July 25, 2028. They watched as their adventure flashed by through their eyes, going backwards from deleting the file to arguing about what time it was. Then they were right were they left off.
Serena and Felix looked at each other. They remembered nothing.
"Does this look familiar to you?" Serena asked. Felix shrugged.
"Yeah…weird" Felix said.
The two continued looking up at the ceiling. Felix put his hands into his pocket. He felt a piece of paper.
"What the?" he took the paper out. Serena walked next to him and they both started reading the piece of paper.
Time. What is time? Well in my thirteen years of living, time should not be rushed, stopped, or changed. You should leave everything in the past, stop worrying about the future, and just focus where you are right now. The present.
Why do you think people call the present, the present? The present is a gift. It's your one way chance to make everything right. You don't have to go back in time to make the present better, because you could mess the past up really badly and have a really bad future. Don't mess with the past.
The future is something unknown, unwritten, and untold. No one really knows what the future will be like and no one should know. The future is a surprise. It could be a good surprise or a bad one. Good or bad, you shouldn't worry about the future. Just the way you shouldn't worry about the past. The future will come and soon the future will be the present. You'll eventually experience the future, why worry about it?
Then there's the past. What's in the past is in the past. No one could change it and no one should change it. No matter how tempting things are, you should never ever change the past no matter what. Don't even go to the past if you have a chance. Things you seen in the past are things you should cherish, forget, but never mourn over. Don't even watch what happens in the past, that's what they have reruns on TV for.
I learned this right when I found out that I'm going to have children with the girl I thought I hated but actually loved. I decided to write it after I got back with her. She kept on bugging and teasing me about writing. O well, I do love her.
Time, it's important. Why you ask? Because things could change in a blink of an eye…
August 2009
Freddie Benson age 13
Felix and Serena blinked at the piece of paper. "How did you get that?" Serena asked.
"I really don't know." Then the doorbell rang.
Felix and Serena opened the door to see their aunt Carly alone smiling at them.
"Hi guys!" she said smiling. Carly hugged them and kissed their heads.
"Hi aunt Carly" they responded, smiling.
"Where's your parents?" Serena and Felix turned around.
"We're here!" Sam yelled. She smiled and ran downstairs to hug her best friend. Freddie jogged behind her.
"We missed you Carly! How's New York?" Freddie asked. Carly shrug.
"Same, same" she said. Then the grownups continued talking and catching up.
Serena and Felix looked at each other and smiled.
By 2028 the Benson family was one of the most successful and richest families in the US. Freddie Benson was one of the most famous and world known directors, plus he invented a new and popular software. Ya, you could call him the next Bill Gates and Steven Spielberg.
Sam Benson is one of the best chefs to walk on the surface of the earth. She has her own restaurants all over the world and people die to at least get in.
They have two children. Felix Benson who's thirteen years old. He's just like Freddie, everything but his looks. Same brown hair but it was curly and he had blue eyes. Felix is also gullible and easy to insult. The only thing he got from Sam is that he hates school as much as she does.
Serena Benson is eleven years old and she has straight dirty blond hair with Freddie's eyes. She's fast at comebacks and makes impressive insults. She's actually smart, but hates showing it.
Freddie and Sam always spend time with their children. Even if it's about a second. They wouldn't go a day without showing them their love.