I almost choked off the last statement she just said.
"So are you saying you want to TIME TRAVEL?!" I exclaimed
âUhuh!â she exclaimed."As I have researched, Einstein's theory of special relativity says that time slows down or speeds up depending on how fast you move relative to something else. Approaching the speed of light, a person inside a spaceship would age much slower than his twin at home "
"A photon is very small, Besides you have to be so small like a sub-atom for you to pass through a wormhole. How is that possible? and a fact that We canât be a sub-atom it is so tiny!."
"well we can't be very small as an atom, but the only thing that can go through a warm hole is to be a sub-atom. so I came up with an idea on how if we will make a machine that could glitch our genes into a very small piece like an atom, but first we have to consume so much energy that enables it to be effective. And we will use the black hole to get ener----" I cut her.
ânot even a people experience dwarfism can pass through a photon....â I joked trying to lure the topic. â I'm just kiddingâ it seems like she got pissed so I take it back to the topic âso what if you are trapped in a black hole, and you canât get back here on earth. Uhhhh... That! It would be my greatest a-agony!" I said
"I know, everyone's fear is being left by someone. And I won't leave you, my boy. Not if you will sabotage the blueprint I let you made!â she saidÂ
âWait for what!?â I almost shout out of my shock.
âJust kidding!â silly girl!
âSo what's your plan?â I ask her
âI have researched so much about the functions of time in our universe, I almost over familiarized its significant functions, so I came up with an idea, what if I will time travel? Make history in the world.â She points me â And to address your concern Mister!, Dimension hopping also handles traveling into the future, since its traveling into alternate possible futures. Someone returning to the present with future knowledge only would know what might happen, not what will. This allows the traveler to take action, instead of being locked in." She pauses for a moment âAND THERE IS NOTHING FOR YOU TO BE AFRAID!â
"But black holes are thousands of light-years away from us" I reasoned out, "And to use its strong gravitational force you have to come near it. And if you come near to it, possible that you can be spaghettified by the black holesâ I said to her concisely
âWell as I said I will make a blueprint of it!â she smirk and look at me
TSS! Silly girl!Â
Days passed and I come to see my girl she was at her room busy with her stuff on her table, I saw her doing something at a big paper, and when I get to see the whole paper, its a BLUEPRINT. She means to say she is making a blueprint.
"Love, I created a blueprint on how I could make it"
And Simply like that, our conversation 20 years after, got me nervous and also proud at the same time. Because we did it! I mean she did it, she made a machine that can glitch a gene into like a sub atom by the use of energy coming from a black hole. she is extremely desperate to make a history to the world, she wants to time travel! And now She's an astronaut and I'm an engineer. She flew to the sky while I make her jet, I also make sure that her suit will not malfunction as she did this mission. I almost recheck all the functions that she is using by the time she's in space, from the oxygen vessel to the suite.
"Are you ready?" I asked her âWell you should be, youâve been dreaming this and this is becoming real, now prove to me my lady, and youâll be back! Youâll be back and we will get married!â I sobbed and wiped off the tears flowing down in my face â And I'm proud of you" I said, "your objective is to make history and standing here in with this jet I made is already history, I am so proud of you my lady!"
She comes near to me and holds my hand âthank you, love! Thank you for always there supporting me with my ambition. Thank you for being there for those times that I even doubt of myself but you are there who keeps on cheering me to do it again, and thank you for helping me create the crazy machineâ we laughed at each other âi-I'm readyâ she said
"You seem panicking," I noticed
"I'm a bit scared. What if something comes wrong?"
"we've planned this for almost a decade and I use all of my best to secure that you are safe in that suite and you are safe in the jet I made. Don't worry my love" I said, "Nothing will go wrong"
"I hope so," she said, "I do," she said again and showing me her face as if something will happen.
"I'll be waiting for you," I said, "remember? I will marry you after you came back!â
"yeah, i will be back," she said, and I kissed her and giving her my last hug.
At a glance, I saw her walking away, going through the simulated black hole along with some scientists.
She looks back I was trying to compose a word but the last I knew that come out at my mouth is "I love you" she smiles so wide, so genuine and mouthed "I love you more" my silly girl again.
I witness her stepping into the artificial black hole as to how she slowly steps and go through the black hole, it was all sound safe not until A hour later the ESA cannot detect them in the space, which means that they were lost in the space. I was shaking at the moment a lot of questions bugged me, a question that was composing around my brain. What if they canât be back?
I was shaking I donât know what am I going to do, and due to panic I am even making a scene here I was begging at one of the scientists to recheck if they can detect there spaceship again. But ended up nothing.
Days, weeks, and even months passed by, everyone lost their hope. Some even counted them dead, I was also about to lose hope but I keep on convincing myself. "no, I'm not taking any conclusion. I'll only consider her dead once I saw her stagnant body. As long as I can't notice anything, I won't believe even a single thing they say."
In those days that were passing by, I was out of my mind, I kept on thinking of her that even my responsibility as an engineer is compromised, I was out of my mind. One time my friend Julia was there to visit me at my apartment. I felt her sympathy the way she comforts me gives me more hope. Days and days Julia was there consoling me, I felt her concern in times when I donât eat due to reminiscing the days when she was here, she is taking care of me, we cuddle on bed andâ
âwhat are you thinking?â Julia asked out of nowhere
âuhmm.. nothingâ I responded,
âthis past few weeks I notice that you're always daydreaming, are you okay?â
âI think so,... I miss herâ I said pouty.
She put the tray on the table, and sit beside me, âShe's dead rickâ she said âscientists can detect their spacecraft, and its been almost a year rick! Move on!â she added
âNo, Sheâs not dead!. I will not consider them dead, not until I witness their stagnant body!â I said out of my anger and stood up. I was about to go to my room when I felt her hand tap at my shoulder. I stilled for a moment and trying to absorb what is she doing.
âRick, you donât need her anyway, I'm here rick, you donât need her. I know youâve been got off your sexual need, well you can have me rick. I'm here rick~â
âSorry Julia!, but I only see you as my little sister. I canât be with you.â I said politely and saw her eyes with full mix emotion. She took back her hand at my shoulder and turn back. I even see her sobbing. I am so sorry Julia, I am so much in love with the girl I am with 20 years ago.
I was sitting at my couch and leaning my back on the sofa relaxing out of the drama. I was at peace when I heard my phone ringing. It was one of the scientists so I answered.
âWe receive something from the space~â I cut him and got off the couch and took the key out of my pocket And drove faster to the basement.
âIâll be back my love!â
"What the fuck is this?" one scientist said, "A photon passed through a wormhole just to send this?!"
My eyes grew bigger, hope fills in me. I remember the day when she said that if we can be a sub-atomic we can meet each other in the future. And so this is it!
"THAT'S HER!" I exclaimed, "She did it! She wants to prove that Einstein's theory is true now she did it! She manipulated the time and utilized the wormhole just to glitch genes into a sub-atomic. She composes that, that message is from her! Sheâll be back!â
Just like that, everyone was filled with hope not until one of the scientists can no longer again detect their spacecraft. Some theories are spreading, gossips are very rampant but most firm one is they are swallowed by a wormhole and stuck in a very dark new universe. Some scientists even declared them dead as they can no longer detect their spacecraft. I was so devastated, I even begged one of the scientists to recheck it, sounds funny but this scene happens year ago.Â
Everything was in duskiness, I can't rest at night, I almost isolated myself just to cry, staring at the stars, missing her so bad. I can't keep my life go on, I can't live my life without her. Everyone was devastated and even lost their hope, there are around 20 passengers at the spacecraft, each of their families declared dead as the announcement was distributed. it was my bad moment not until I got a call from ESA it was one Sunday afternoon saying they got a really strong electric energy coming in the Earth atmosphere. It means someone's coming.
I knew it. I fucking knew it!
As fast as I can, I get to go to the basement and saw the spacecraft, THE SAME SPACECRAFT, THE SAME PEOPLE, SAME FUCKING PEOPLE. I wasnât able to compose any word. I am so shocked, in all those years that pass by, they still made it. They got to get out of the vague dark universe inside a black hole.
My eyes got fixated at the woman being encircled by people, using the suit I made, I can still remember what did I put in there, her suit is the most special than the other. she is crying as she hugs everyone.
"I canât believeâŚ.. it! It was insane. We are trapped atâŚ. something dark inside a wormhole⌠it was like.. a universe, a new UNIVERSE!!" she exclaims, crying, "I'll write a book about it!!â she was panicking, she was roaming her sight at the people composing around her.
âWhere is my love? I gotta see him! Â Where is he? I gotta tell him that einsteins theory is real, the faster you travel the slower pace you get old.â she said while catching my figure.
She paused a moment as the times she sees me, slower she come near to me, as the gap is compressing I felt her eyes with a lot of emotions until Her tears Fell.
"Congratulations, you did it!â I said in a straight voice, tears are now trying to fell out at my face
As she was inches apart from me, the thought of what she said when we were high school recall.
"For you to travel, you need to have very high speed so that you pass through a warm hole, and so by that, you can get to go in the future," she said,
"What does that mean?" I asked
"The time dilation could break the time manipulation, like for instance, living in space for a year is like living in the earth for a decade. So basically means that if the mission takes almost a year our love story will ends in a decade generally but YEAR specifically."
I smiled and try to hold back my tears flowing down in my face. âYou did it! you manipulated the time. Welcome back to earth, this is now the presentâ
She was sobbing removing the tears flowing down in her face I canât believe that her research is real. Einsteinâs theory is real.
"S-Sorry..." she said in a stumbling voice while look at the old quality of my face.
"You're too late," I said, and I smile, so weakly
âI waited for 70 years straight." and my tears fell,