Grandma Vic was so devastated that she decided to commit suicide to be with her love. But she thought of Shanti, her daughter and though in so much pain losing Aunt Liz, she moved on and lived on for her love one. Today is 19th of July and I only have three days left before the serum I injected to work so I could return back home. I figured on a plan to save Aunt Liz and even told grandma regarding the accident. Aunt Liz didn't want to believe it but we all decided not to go to the park that day. Yet Shanti needed to be fetched from school and Grandma was caught up in traffic from a meeting at REVO Center so she couldn't drive to school to pick Shanti. So Aunt Liz and I were left with no choice but fetch Shanti and I took the wheel to drive the car for her. I am not used to flying cars though. Year 3000, we have flying cars too but we have a choice to live on land or on air. So as if we are living normally below but there are people living in the sky with their flying cars, trucks or planes. We are about to leave Shanti's school when a man driving his car recklessly bumped into the car I'm driving. I was relieved for Shanti and I weren't hurt but I didn't notice that Aunt Liz who was smiling at me just froze and groaned in pain. I looked at her side, the car that bumped into us sliced the door of our car and some part of the squeezed bumper of the man's car stuck on Aunt Liz's side. She cried in pain, so I called for Grandma Vic then dialed for the emergency number on Aunt Li's phone. The ambulance came down from flight and took out their advanced mechanical and digital machines to free Aunt Liz from her misery. Shanti and I left with the ambulance to the hospital and Grandma Vic followed us there. The doctor said that Aunt Liz broke a couple of ribs and her hip needs a surgery since dislocated. The man apologized for it was indeed an accident since his car lost its brake.
I was crying at the hospital lounge and Shanti was asleep on one of the benches near the cafeteria when Grandma Vic came in rushing, asking about hoe Aunt Liz is. I couldn't explain everything for I was so tired from crying and blaming myself for what happened. Grandma looked at me and told me it's not my fault and it's an accident. Yet she almost lost her patience with the man who ran us over and when he knew who he was up against her sobbed and asked for pity. But Grandma looked at him and advised one of her guards to take the man to the police station for questioning. Grandma is the queen of Montfort and the current leader of REVO, that she can do whatever she wants with the man but she still did the right thing and gave the man his rights. She said, the courts will judge him according to the law and will bring to justice what happened to Aunt Liz. But Aunt Liz didn't survive the surgery and passed while being sewed back together. Shanti was still asleep in the room couch where Aunt Liz was staying while Grandma is crying and touching her loves face, hair and lips. She was silently sobbing and now murmuring something that I didn't understand and shouted calling out Aunt Liz's name over and over again. I couldn't contain the grief I have on my chest that I ran out of the room let out all the tears as they run on both of my eyes and sobbed without hesitation. I blamed myself for her death and I couldn't forgive myself for the loss of my dear grandma's partner and love. I know I am about to leave this era and return to the future, so grandma sat beside me and hugged me. Both of us cried on each other's arms, until I saw myself turn into a ball of blinding light and immediately disappeared right in front of grandma's shocked face. I was trying to hold on to her hands but I couldn't stop myself from being pulled back to the future like a magnet unable to change the course of time. I woke up breathing air at my own bed in year 3000, August 22nd. I have been out for two months and as if in the past it was just a week or so. I was crying when I saw with a blurry view, Vicky, Dalia, Dr. Stevens, and some friends from the laboratory.
I almost fainted from exhaustion and grief I couldn't breathe. So, Vicky gave me a digital oxygen mask that I could breathe from it for a while to feel better and be a lot calmer. I told her about what happened in the past and about grandma. She hugged me and held me in her arms not willing to let go until I cried over the spilt milk and let the past go. I couldn't let grandma go but I needed to move on and live for her and the rest of the Montfort line. I wanted to hold my tears and sadness but I couldn't. I let my grandma down and she was unhappy when I left her. But I hope she forgave me and she was able to cope with Aunt Liz's loss. I was still on that zone where I felt out of tune of the future. As if I am connecting the dots from my past back to this day and age where I'm living and all. So, it took me three days to recover from the trauma of Aunt Liz's accident in the past and the heartbreaks I went through thus needed to go through series of tests and psychological exams, including therapies for my quick recovery. I came to the past as Marnie the granddaughter of Victory but I came back as Marnie the next leader of REVO and next in line as Queen of the Montfort line. Nowadays, royalties can wear modern clothes and carry fashions according to what's fad or current. But I never imagined that being a leader at my age is difficult and the weight I carry on my shoulder is now felt like when Grandma died and no one in our family wanted to take the responsibility as REVO head. My great grandmas and family has left me with a mission and I won't let them down.
Now, I wanted to lay down on my own bed at home and be still to think, to organize my thoughts, feelings and plans for the future. Vicky, Dalia and Dr. Stevens came in to my room to check up on me and I always tell them I'm fine and I'll be okay in a couple of days, so they don't need to worry. Vicky, on the other hand, doesn't really believe me. I just look and wink at her to convince that I'm perfectly fine. My parents came to my room and knew about what happened. My mom couldn't stop crying as I hug her tight. She gave me a letter that Grandma Victory gave her when she was on her death bed. I was peculiarly wondering what could grandma say after what I did and trying to prevent Aunt Liz's death was a mistake on my part.
I opened the sealed letter with Montfort ensigna, and read the whole thing. My tears came down like river when on the letter grandma explained to me everything that she thought of me when I visited the past. She loves me like she loves Liz and everyone else in the family. She said that there's nothing to forgive for she knew I was trying to help them especially Liz. She also honestly mentioned that she was hurt from Liz's passing but she was more lost and her heart broken when I left thus not saying what she felt, how proud she was of me and my work, and how she loved me so much. I stopped and looked at mom who is also crying in front of me. Dad hugged mom and I and we laughed while our tears and drool mixed together. We are all glad for the heroic bravery, love, unity, generosity and passion of our family from the moment our ancestors were born until now and the future generations. I can honestly say that I am proud to be a Montfort and happy that grandma loves me in spite of everything that happened, especially the tragic experience with Aunt Liz.
I don't need to travel or go to other places or countries to feel happy or experience the beauty of nature or the world. I can already do that in my mind, my imagination even if I'm at home or in the corner of my room listening to my favorite music, reading a book or watching a film. It only takes a rich imagination to live in fantasy, reality, made up or even scary world, and only I or you can see and experience that. Our minds can think things hard or easy, pretty or ugly, amazing or shitty. But we can always think otherwise and feel that whatever we face every day is going to change and can change if we let ourselves be open for new possibilities.