The First Step.

I blame my stupid mouth.

It all started when Ming and I were taking a cigarette in the middle of the night out of boredom. When my mind brought me to Life is Strange.

"What if we manage to time travel to an earlier era of our lives?"

What if we could change the future with the knowledge of the current present? What if we had the weapon of knowledge? What if we could have saved her?

So we didn't think too hard or too much about it, but it was obvious that I had the most general regrets about my life. Ming didn't have too much he wanted to change. Perhaps never having dated half the gals he's dated.

That was in April of 2016.

So, I woke up in a familiar but different room. My room was back to how it was in 2008, and I spent the morning groggy. The curtains were different, my desk was rearranged, and everything about it was...altered. It felt so surreal and dream-like, that I didn't think much of it, until a phone rang. I sprang up, thinking it was my iPhone, but the tone was much different--it was my Motorola phone from my Secondary school years.

'Wei Ming HP'

I picked it up, and Ming immediately started on a tirade.

"What the fuck did you do, Ted."

I hung up, and walked out the door, and saw Mel's door left ajar.

I don't think much else matters right now. I knocked, went into her room and saw her brushing her hair. I just hugged her tightly, without a word.

"What do you want, you weirdo?" She said, annoyed.

I think whatever the consequences of this weird time travel thing, nothing else matters right now.

Melanie's back.

-Ted

(IRL published on the 10th of April, 2016)