"Banana again? Are you sure, professor?", seeing the girl placing a banana on the bottom plate of the time machine, Dylan asked unbelievably. Well, that was pretty much believable since it was the professor.
Last night, on their way home, Scarlett told Dylan that she was agreed for the second time travel without her, which was done by putting a heavy rock on her heart as she desperately wanted to experience it herself. Today when they entered the laboratory after attending all the scheduled classes, the girl took a banana out of her bag. If she wasn't travelling, her banana would travel at her place.
"It will also travel with atoms. Cells and atoms. We can conclude our findings better this way", Dylan didn't step in to go against her decision as she was right. Sending a living and a non-living thing in the past together would provide them a number of aftermaths to deduce their hypotheses and propose certain facts based on those results.
"Let's begin it then. What should we put as atoms?", scanning the surroundings, he asked.
"This would be fine", the professor was looking around when Dylan uttered, eyes fixed at something. When the girl looked at him to see what he referred to, she defensively put her hand on her chest, guarding the jewel against evil eyes.
"I won't give you my necklace!", she snarled, stepping back.
"You don't wanna give it because Edric is the one who gave you this?", the boy smiled mischievously at his friend.
Last night he asked the girl about the necklace matter. When she told him that Edric lock it around her neck after running down through streets all the way to a park, Dylan's eyes grew too wide, head rotating in the professor's direction. Caught up to the unexpected surprising moment, he forgot that he was driving a car which resulted in Scarlett leaning abruptly forward towards the steering wheel, swirling it to prevent the car from crashing into the vehicle stopped at a signal.
"What the shit. of course not!", well, Edric gave it to her, but that was not the reason why she was refusing. As mentioned before, it was too beautiful to let it go wasted in time travel. What if it wouldn't come back?
Now, she was thinking about the possibility her friend was trying to make her understand. But she couldn't say it aloud. Dylan wouldn't let her travel unless they found solid evidence to support the travel of a human.
"Then hand it over", he reached his hand out, the palmer side facing up the ceiling. The boy didn't have any hidden attention. He was just doing it for the sake of some fun. No matter how genius the girl was, at the end of the day, she was twenty-one years old that Dylan enjoyed teasing.
"We can use anything else. Why are you being an adamant a*s to send it?", opening the hook, the girl took it in her hand, slowly motioning it forward as if Dylan would change his mind until it reached his hand.
"I want to see whether your burning desires to have Edric showing you stars are intense enough to pull out his gifted thing back in the present time or not", the boy winked, making his way towards the time machine.
"Ahh...Alex must have shown you too many of them that you're wishing for me to see them as well", the girl walked to the machine's console.
"It felt as if I was in another universe", just as the boy was about to put the necklace next to the banana, he turned around hearing the professor.
He would name that night the best night of his life. Every moment of it was special to him. Though it was the first time with the intention to take it as a one-night stand, it didn't feel like they were having sex. Making love was what he would call it.
"Put the necklace there before I change my mind", turning on the machine, the professor warned the boy who smiled cheekily and stood next to her after putting the piece of jewelry there.
"Don't get grumpy. You'll also see them someday", the girl rolled her eyes. Stars? Everyone was seeing stars. What was new? She would like to see something else. Something nobody had seen before.
"I don't want to see stars. I'd want dinosaurs flying around me. If I won't see them, I'd kick him in the groin and walk off", operating the next commands to launch the time travel, the professor replied.
"Flying dinosaurs? What are you? An alien-maid?", Dylan asked, looking stupified. The professor hoped fireflies to fly in her stomach when she would be in love and wished to see dinosaurs with wings during sex. It wouldn't be surprising if she wanted to date a supernatural being as no human had ever dated them before.
"Alienmaid?", the girl's hand halted in the air over the part of the screen that had years list to be selected from, curiosity moving slowly in her body.
"Yeah. For wishing to see dinosaurs with wings during sex, I won't call you a mermaid. You've odd, off-the-base thoughts. Means you're too weird to be simply called an alien too. So, you're an alienmaid. An alien who has a tail like mermaids", the entire time the boy was babbling, Scarlett was looking at him with the so-done-to-the-blackhole look, her lips pursed, eyebrows pulled up.
"F*ck off, Dylan. You're giving me a shitty headache", dramatically rubbing her temples with one hand, the professor selected the year 2020 with the other hand followed by the robotic voice activating the launch. Alienmaid? Couldn't he find a name better than this?
"The system is safe to initiate the launch. The transfer will begin in"
"10"
"9"
"8"
"7"
"6"
"5"
"4"
"3"
"2"
"1"
"Enjoy your journey."
The voice, the sentence, to be exact, had become a blessing to the professor's ears. For months, only the warnings and launch failed voices were echoing in the laboratory.
The girl doubted that if she continued hearing those, she would grow a phobia of the programmed voice of her time machine. Thankfully, before the year of hard work would turn into a nightmare, she got to eat the fruit of her labour, living the envisioned dream in reality.
The week passed like all other weeks. Students had eventually started distancing themselves from the parties and clubs to pay the little time they had left for exams preparation.
The same went for Scarlett and Dylan. Where the professor wasn't stressing out under the pressure of exams, as she had never had to struggle with them, Dylan was trying to make both ends meet to ace in every subject.
Today, when they entered the laboratory just like their usual routine after attending all the scheduled lectures, the momentary joy on the professor's face to catch a glimpse of the necklace in the machine was swept away by the peel of the banana lying next to it.
The necklace was all intact, the banana's inner side missing again.