It was two weeks ago, John and some of our friends were not here. I smiled from far away while looking to beautiful Aren and his husband Gabs. She is talking to the other visitors (wearing her wedding gown with lots of big angelic feathers) and we are now at her reception area after her wedding ceremony today at the church of Mandala. I am present together with Knight that makes her very happy.
Aren approached me, kissed me on my right cheeks, and hugged me tightly.
"Congrats, my friend!" I said happily.
"Thank you. Finally I am now a wife." She said to me with a sweet smile.
"I am very happy, Lyrids." She said to me while removing her hugging arms.
"I am happy for you too." I said and she nodded with a smile then return to other visitors.
I was standing and just looking around the reception area filled with artificial scented roses which changes colors to pink and red every 2 minutes. From a distance, Knight was talking to Gabs in manhood motion.
"When will I marry?" I suddenly asked myself in a silent voice.
I stare at Knight and tried to think about us.
"I was too young but he will be too old soon because of our age gaps." I said to myself because of this complicated situations between us.
"I want Knight to be my husband but..."
"...but I need first to be a successful woman." I think deeply.
"He won't like me more if I became too dependent on him." I even added.
Knight saw me looking. He smiled at me in a formal manner while walking towards me.
Knight was a seductive man in 32 with a muscular body. He also earned lots of money that can sustain our life and make us stable if incase we get marry soon.
Knight stand at my left side and smile.
"Soon we will be the next couple to marry." He happily said while looking at me.
I nodded to him while swallowing my saliva to the unpredicted words that he said.
After the wedding and eating at the reception area, Knight and I went shopping at Jardine's e-Mall. We looked to some of latest technical clothes. Knight chooses a conservative clothes for me that I often agreed to look nice on his eyesight though I want a much sexy look that fits on my age like other in 20's.
Sometimes because he was older to me, he is the one who often decide on clothes, foods and needed miscellaneous things. When it comes to that he was too good in handling money and well practical person that makes me think that he was too awesome.
We went to his floating house at Sky 888 Village, and there I saw the newly improved teddy cyborg who operated the whole system of his round optimized network house with full of different types of time machines and research study on the second floor of his house.
I can see that teddy was no longer an ordinary teddy bear appearance. He was increased by 1 feet and his body was now a robotic metal. There is no more hair of the teddy bear stuff toy.
"Good day, Lyrids..." Teddy smiled while cleaning some dirt on the floor.
"Good day too Teddy. How was your day?" I asked with a smile while sitting to the sofa and Knight was arranging our bought foods.
"Ah, I forgot. I already created a microchip device to insert inside your palm." Knight said as he search for it.
"What type of microchip device?" I asked him.
He shows a circular bluish transparent chip in half inch size with a smile.
"You told me last 2 weeks that a small robot from the future attacked you right? I won't let that happen again. Give me your palm. This will take only 1 minute planting in your hand." He said to me while holding my right palm.
"I don't want to be a cyborg." I silently said to him that makes him stopped a little from going to insert the microchip.
"You are not going to be a cyborg…1% cyborg I think."
"Trust me. This device will save you in times of danger." He said with a smile.
"Okay. Just insert it quickly inside my palm."I nodded as he uses his insertion device.
When he is inserting the device, I closed my eyes for the pain but suddenly I think that my mind just time traveled.
I saw my older self walking in the floating aisle in water that waves on the white glowing wedding dress.
"I am so beautiful in that dress." I said from faraway while seeing my older self.
On the edge of the Aisle, I saw a different guy. I can't clearly see his face and gets blurry as I focus my eyes on him.
"He is not Knight." I said as I can distinguish his height and body structure which is potentially near to the age of my older self.
"What? I know this is only a dream."
"I should wake up now."
"Knight is supposed to be my future husband and I had already time traveled in my future time but why this time is different. "I said to myself while holding my lips. My right palm suddenly flashes a light that makes me disappear.
I woke up and saw teddy on my side.
"Is it painful right? You almost lost consciousness." Teddy said while pointing into my right palm.
"Ah. Yes. I think so." I said while looking into my right palm with the unseen implanted microchip from Knight.
"I can detect you everytime and anywhere you are in trouble. That device is is awesome I think and it's more from that.That device is collective study and work of Knight. I therefore can say that it is small but it is greatly powerful."Teddy additionally said in a happy motion.
"It was boring here, so I travelled at different time but a kid tortured me thinking that I was only a toy that is why I returned back. It was a very traumatic experience. I was an artificial intelligence used for time travelling being played by some abusive kids in the past time dimension." Teddy funnily explained to me with lots of crazy movements.
"It is okay teddy. You are the best time machine ever created in this time." I complimented teddy while tapping nicely on his head.
"I know that! Thank you so much!" Teddy smiled at me while circling and jumping all over the living room with happiness.
I turned on the Holographic television of Knight to watch news. While watching Knight, he suddenly called me to cook the food for us. So I rushed and turned off the TV.
While cooking a delicious food (wearing apron with a happy smile), Knight unexpectedly hugged me from my back. He sweetly smiled at me and looked into the shrimp being fried. I rotate my head and smiled sweetly. He kissed the back of my bobcut hair and then returned back to his research room.
"Oh, I love Knight even if he was not romantic like other guys in my time." I said to myself while tasting the soup that I mixed with shrimps and squids.
Finally, I am done and all were prepared to the dining area. I went to Knight's research room to call him.
"You work too hard my dear. Let's eat now." I said to him.
He smiled and follow me to the dining area. He know that it was my first time to call him like that. He dreamed to call each of us "my dear or dear" but I do not like the term, so he just allowed each of us to use our own name.
Knight sips the food I cooked. He smiled and said that it was too delicious. Teddy dance, and dance to the table and compliment me.
"I also want to taste that amazing food!" He is just kidding because he wasn't eating food.
I smiled happily and we all eat in a peaceful manner after praying to God.
While eating Knight asks me where do I want to go?
I replied that I want to go at planet Earth where there is a snow because i want to see it together with him.
Knight agreed that makes me happy.
Knight took me home without holding hands and we just walking together like strangers walk on a synchronized parallel lines.
"Good bye..." I said to him before entering the underground tunnel of our Down 444 Village.
"Good bye too, my dear." He replied and he turn back and go by riding the available up escalators connected to the road on the sky town.
I went home and I saw my mom waiting for me in a strict womanly appearance. Her arms were crossed to each other and she was sitting on our wide sofa as if she is waiting for me to say sorry for being too late again.
I already knew it, she doesn't like Knight for me because of our age gaps.My dad too had the same opinion. He wants me to break up with Knight because he said that Knight might dominate me or control me because I was not yet as mature as him. They were actually not close to him because of his being a loner and mysterious person.
I kissed my mom and say sorry. She stopped looking angry and just whispered a word.
"Mother knows best." She silently said that makes me a little bit humiliated.
I went into my room and read books for my preparation on my final interview.
"God, how long will I endure this?" I asked God while thinking that there might be something wrong.
On the other day, I passed my final interview and finally I got my first job as a Guide time traveler keeper at Marsian Wired System Company. It has a total of 2200 employees of November 2071 which provides service and assistance on time traveler tourists at planet Earth. My job will be assisting the tourist on traveling back in time on Earth while not making any changes to the timeframe of planet Earth.
I forgot to mention that here in Mars we are not allowed to travel back in time because this planet was fully guarded by technologies which were highly secured to avoid any minimal changes. Only in planet Earth, we are all allowed with a permission or pass-card travel for tourists only, researchers and for time traveler employees like me.
While standing at the slow elevator, I heard a woman in 30s speak to the other woman and it was about me.
"Did you know that she is the girlfriend of well-known researcher at Sky 888 Village?" The blonde woman silently said while hiding her pointed finger.
"Ah, she was too young..." The black haired woman was chocked.
"Maybe a dependent mountain climber." The blonde woman laughed that sounds like humiliating.
"Yes, I think. Who would like to marry a guy which is too old from you?" The other girl whispered.
I looked at them in an angry appearance but I can't do anything.
"I think Knight can be my boyfriend because we surely fit with our age together... Hahaha..." The blonde woman said in a medium tone.
Instead of being angry I just looked down and leave the slow elevator.
"I looked like a mountain climber but I am not." I sadly said to myself.
I went to Facent Artsy café, my favorite hang-out, the whole place was build with glasses and walls were 15 feet mirrors. I ate my favorite blueberry cheesecake while crying a little about what I heard. I looked into my appearance. They were right, I looked too young for Knight.
Tears fall more on my cheeks.
After eating I went at the glassy mirror rooftop. I was alone and looking to the fake human created clouds and sun. I am still sad about what they said to me. So I called Knight in my 2D phone where we can only here our voice together.
"Hello, Lyrids." Knight answered.
"How much do you love me? I insanely asked for no reason.
"Why?" He asked me.
"Nothing, just answer." I silently replied while wiping my teary face.
"I love you like the way I love the planet earth." He said silently that makes me feel nothing by his answer. Then suddenly he said something that makes me cry.
"I love planet Earth because it was a true beauty of the heart. It was never been fake and it was breathing in its trueness. It was very innocent like you but strong in the inside."
"I love you Lyrids, you are my Earth." Knight said that marked into my mind.
"I love you too." I turned the phone off and cried again.
I was walking alone again when a group of seems like unknown time travelers approached me.
They are all wearing a much advanced shades and seems like wore fashionable and protective clothes.
"Come with us. We had topics to discuss." One of them said while attaching a flexible transparent device on my back to allow my body to be intact to their movement as they walk.
I want to scream but it seems like they used a device to shut the sound of my mouth.
I was scared and I don't know why my life nowadays start to be endangered.
We time traveled to a dark place or planet that seems like being destroyed by war.
"Where are we?" I said as I saw dead trees, cracked soil, and empty sea. Also ashes were falling towards us.
"We are on Earth young lady. In our timeframe!" One of them angrily said.
"What happened to planet Earth?" I asked.
"No need to explain that. We need you to pay for this destruction." Their lead man said.
"Should we contact him now?"
"…Or just kill the lady to show him how ruthless we are?" One of the asked.
"Poor young lady. You won't have experience of married life. Since this is your last day of existence in your time frame."Their leadman said while releasing his long sword.
I was too scared and my sweat is flowing.
As their leadman is going to attack me, my right hand flashes that freezes their time.
Knight suddenly came for me in a flash of light. He implanted bomb to their clothes as we disappeared infront of them.
Returning back to my time and at my favorite cafe, Knight shows me no reaction that seems like nothing happened.
"I am going back to work. They won't return back." He said to me while disappearing in a flash of light.
I was overwhelmed to what I saw. and I got full of question about why they want to kill me. Did Knight already had a knowledge? Knight kills them.This is terrible. Probably he will be a murderer.