Chapter 20

"Ugly?" Rev had a whole recap of ever being called ugly in his whole life before turning the future into a mess and after making this mess. Gladly the walls nearby made glass reflecting partially, so confirmed if this transitions in the world made him somehow ugly. To reach to conclusion he had never heard it once. Even though the old age made him quite wrinkly but he had never heard being ugly after grooming himself to be a man. From the shock of suddenly hearing Gianna, he stepped out of the guiding tile. "Damn!"

"I can still hear you. Why is it that I'm the one who gets this weird changes in the system. Wait-" From what it sounded like it was Gianna talking to Jiro in version of Rev on display, his microphone being on and she just rushed somewhere off her phone display. Phone display? Rev knew the era was the display could travel around with their owner. Then why is Gianna's display fixed to one side. Wait, did he travelled back in time in the progress of redoing it all. But the interior in Gianna's room quite matches to the time when she was meant to join university, probably in a year. And why doesn't Rev won't know about the interior because he had stalked his wife, past and future, till her last moments. Well, it could also be called as monitored but seeing his drooling sides, it is definitely stalking. Like of course, there are meant to be few screws loose on the protagonist.   

"Wait, it's Rev's older version-" After hearing this Rev's hearing ability just shattered into pieces. Dramatically, there was Rev's adolescent picture in the year book of Gianna. "WHAAAT?" Gianna and Rev belonged to two different school, moreover the neighboring cities. Why the hell is the picture of Rev, who had never once encountered each other until the age of 16 was in the yearbook of  middle school. Just top clarify if it's not, Rev had few encounters meeting after 16 like in the café they used to visit but never interacted, which basically did happened after few years. 

What in this world could have happened to meet the person who attempted to kill thrice in his version to be innocent and to lose Dario by his side, additionally to the top to have met Gianna before even meant to meet?

"I remembered you from the school because yo used win so many science awards that you were a celebrity even though you are a little nerdish, not to add we have never interacted, you were quite famous too for always being ill-mannered to speak with someone." Teen Gianna said, after that Rev's face which was in shocked turned into poker face, dude had his own early version explained by his teen version wife. Then he turned the display setting to default to let it run by the bots and record it, after that he ran to the passage to catch Bridget to explain this sh*t full a version.

He rushed to the main door, pushed it but instead of walking into a passage or a lobby he was in a tunnel, not the one roads but a tube like lift structure to get banged himself on he glass wall, and have names in button inside of floor in the lift. It was long list of people living the dome shaped lab. Surprisingly, Rev was on the top from all of the name on the list was familiar but few. He clicked on Bridget's named button, which sonic speed him to her lab, and had the door opened on his left which wasn't the side he came from. 

"You toss me out and you come my humble lab yourself." Bridget chimed.

"I never kicked you out. I just wanted to be myself for a moment." Instinctively, Rev grabbed an apple on the front side of the table, like this is how he always does, maybe when with Dario but not this version.

Bridget was utterly shocked by his action. Rev had never once stepped out of his lab in Bridget's point of view, let alone that he had never also shared simple food with her. 

"Who are you?" Bridget asked. 

If the silence after that was shoot for a movie, the cricket sound in background to addition with pan zoom to both faces but nothing more than that. "Rev in short for Revel." Rev said pointing himself, which Bridget replied with a sigh.

 After coming back from Bridget's lab, Rev was born in the same city as Gianna and probably every possible citizen because there is only one city in this version. He was living that city itself in his version but wasn't born in. To have one school and whole system in one in this version. Dario was on the rebels side so the place he lives was the leftover of habitable places on Earth except for there city. Gianna died because severe infection left from surgery, which was because of the shreds of glass that were left in her back, not in her backbone to do this time. Her first boyfriend left her, because what happened to her was because of him was an heavy toll to take and was to embarrassed to look her without any guilt. Rev and Gianna met after high school not in university but just in a random place (because how can Bridget know were they met) and he fell for Gianna in first which was the same way here. She had her new set of insecurities in this version, which was her disabilities and Rev won her over by courting her. Yeah, like the birds do. And left the world after the marriage of 12 years. It was too depressing to learn the truth for Rev. This version and memories of not his own, at least from his version of world. 

And why hasn't his memories got refreshed with the system around? Being played and played over and over again, this version granted him 9 more years with Gianna which he cannot himself remember. What is it that led him to wasn't his own. The emptiness was eating left over part of his brain. One clear thing that stayed the same in this version too that it was ruled by the woman Taabitha.