A communication.

Once upon a time, in the year 2094, busy with his delicious lunch, and those French fries that have always remained one of the most favorite snacks of humans for decades, Dr. Sato, the researcher, was working in the time travel department of one of the largest scientific research institutions. When his boss suddenly barges in to disturb his lunch.

“Hey Dr. Sato! The meeting has started and you’re the only one who is not present!”

“R..Right away, sir!” said Dr. Sato, while dipping 6 fries in the sauce and shoving them into his mouth, when a drop of sauce landed on the touch screen keyboard in front of him.

“Oh, damn!” He looked for a tissue and wiped it, only to find that some order had been activated by mistake. "Oh no! No, no, no, boss!"

“What the hell have you done?!” said his boss, as he leaned to check the screen. “Let me see you moron! How are we supposed to figure this out now! This project is still incomplete and you proceeded with the order!”

“I don’t know, I’m sorry! Please help me fix it!”

"Get out of my way and let me see!" he said, as he pushes his back to empty the chair for him.

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“Listen, tell me what this room you're in looks like?” said the man, while lowering his head as if he was hiding his face, even though nobody was actually paying any attention to him.

Mira looked around, still in disbelief “Ah.. I don’t know.. There are clothes piled on a grey chair.”

“Really?! Oh really?! CLOTHES?!”

“Sorry.. Haha. Ah.. there’s a poster of a band called Oasis on the wall.”

“That’s it. How did you barge into my house, miss?”

“I DON’T KNOW. MAYBE I WANT YOUR POSTER SIR! Great taste by the way.”

“Thanks. NOW WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!”

“Look sir, we need to calm down and think. Obviously both of us don’t know anything about this whole thing. I have to admit it’s terrifying. But let’s just go over the day from the beginning, okay?”

“Ok ma’am.. help me please.” said with a whiny childish tone in his voice.

“Why you!”

“Wait, since you’re at my apartment, would you please unplug the water heater? Hehe.”

“You’re joking right?!”

“Well, that thing is so old it might explode any minute, I mean if you’re okay with that...”

“Okay okay I will! God!”

She walked to look for the water heater, thinking that this man is driving her crazy more than this unfortunate situation.

“Oh wait wait, my girl!”

“Your “what” now?”

“I just had a great idea!”

“And what is that, genius?”

“You have my phone right? Please go back to where you were the moment you firstly appeared in my room, go to the maps app, and then..”

“Wait, WAIT. Maps app.. Okay, found it. Then what?” said Mira, with clear annoyance in her voice, while walking and lying on the bed.

“What does it read in your location coordinates?”

“It reads **.****° N, ***.****° E”

“Oh, search for that please, sir.” He said hurriedly, and as if he was speaking to someone else.

“Just tell me what are you trying to..”

“Okay, my girl. It’s confirmed. You are now standing exactly where I’m standing!”

“HUH?!” said Mira after she took a moment to absorb the nonsense this man is saying.

“Yeah yeah. Right, old man?! Doesn’t this read the same as hers?”

“Man, who are you talki..” said Mira when she suddenly realized something. If this guy is speaking the truth about the location coordination, then she has a theory that might really apply to this whole situation.

“Oh. Hey..”

“Yes?”

“So, you’re saying we are standing exactly on the same spot, right? And of course this leap in time for both of us, this leaves only what conclusion in my head.”

“What is that?”

“Look. I live in the year 2094. And I just remembered now that there is a serious ongoing time travel project. Just what if that project has something to do with this whole thing?”

“Are you serious now?”

“I mean, can you imagine any other explanation?”

“Honestly, I have never even fathomed that time travel would actually work someday.”

“Yeah but that applied for every technology there ever was.”

“I guess. So, if we consider your assumption to be correct, and from what you know about your people, what do you suggest we do now?”

“Well, If it was actually them, don’t you wonder why they targeted us out of everyone?”

“Maybe just a random target? amongst other “random targets”?”

“Uhhh I don’t know this is so frustrating.”

“What did you used to do for a living here anyways? Maybe you were suspicious hehe.”

“Shut up! I was a kindergarten teacher!”

“Wow, this is fertile ground to be a suspicious person haha.”

“I swear to god…”

“Hahaha I’m sorry, I’m kidding. Okay so you were a normal person. Nothing specific would make them target you.”

“Yeah. But I think you’re the one who is not normal that made them target us.”

“Hahaha good one. I am starting to like you now.”

“I don’t.”

“Haha, I’ll take it, my girl. Listen, we have to stay in contact until we figure out how to go back. Or until they bring us back.”

“Ok but on one condition. I’M NOT YOU’RE FREAKING GIRL!”

“Hahaha don’t be like that.”

“So what do we do now?”

“Well first of all, this is not my device that I’m calling you with. I used this kind old man’s device and searched for the oldest working app and luckily found that FacePeek is still active. So I created an account to call my own account. So now, I have to return it to him and find another device to call you.”

“Sigh. I guess I have no other choice. You can go to my apartment for now. But I swear if you do anything questioning..”

“As honored as I am to enter such a pretty woman's house, why exactly?”

“Okay, nevermind. I guess you’re good without a warm place to sleep tonight.”

“No no no I am sorry. That’s very kind of your highness haha.”

Mira thought that she might have rushed into inviting a stranger—moreover, such an odd person—to stay at her home. She checked his phone again to make sure she guessed the year right, and she was right, it actually said 2024. And because she has great knowledge of how life was in that time, she knows that he doesn’t have a chip planted in his head yet to exist within the government’s system, that’s exactly why she has to secure herself and be more careful from now on. This man is an abnormality she’s never dealt with, nor does she know anyone who ever has: he is a living person without a chip.

“Just so you know, the security in my era is EXTREME. Any suspicious activity you’ll do will be detected and reported.”

“No worries, I will be as delicate as a baby pink flower. Please send me the location.”

“Sent. When you get there, you can use my PC to contact me.”

“Got it. I will call you when I get there. By the way, I’m Kai.”

“I’m Mira. Talk to you soon.”