chapter four
it happened by seconds

Conrad didn't bother to get inside of Doc Emmet Brown's garage but Austen is very excited to look at it.

She teases her brother, "Are you scared that Doc Emmet Brown's ghost will be there," Austen teased her brother.

"I am not very comfortable to get inside there. No one got to check the place for the past thirty years."

Austen playfully rolled her eyes. She couldn't believe that her brother is a total chicken, "Whatever. I will just get inside by myself."

Austen went out of the car and looked at the garage. It was night and the place looked scary but the girl isn't afraid to get inside all by herself. She turned on her flashlight and went inside.

She looked around and noticed her grand uncle's messy garage. Her grandmother was right, Doc Emmett Brown is one messy scientist. She remembered her grandmother's stories about him.

She would tell this story about her dead brother who made an actual time machine.

In her childhood, she believed in her grand uncle. Austen was absolutely obsessed with time traveling and she tried to make one like her grand uncle Emmett did but as time goes by, it was all futile. But right in front of Austen was the DeLorean that her mother would tell her right after she sleeps. It was incredible and unbelievable at the same time; she slowly walked to the DeLorean. Her parents told her to stop believing about the time machine; he even told that the side of the Brown family was crazy so they insisted that the time machine is not true,

Austen felt bad that her grandmother received a lot of mockery from her parents but she felt guilty that she also stopped believing in her grandmother.

The car is very dusty and a bit rusty but Austen was baffled how the DeLorean came back. The time her uncle died, her grandmother told her that the DeLorean vanished even his companion, Marty Mcfly.

"The poor young man also vanished at that time. Lorraine and George separated when their son was lost."

Austen knew that time-traveling had several consequences, leaving their loved ones or the human existence would be erased forever. Her Grandma missed her uncle dreadfully, the fact that there are the only children of the Brown family. Austen opened the door of the car; she sat in the car and looked around. She tried to open the engine and to her big surprise, the car suddenly turned on.

She read the date; it was October 24, 1985. All of a sudden, the car door closed automatically. Austen tried to open the car, she screamed for help and she tried to open the door but it was locked. Austen panicked on what is going on.

"What the hell!" She said.

Austen doesn't know how she will get out of this car. Her grandmother was right, the DeLorean is cursed. Austen looked for her phone, Conrad is just outside the garage, he can get her out of this car but while she is searching for her phone inside her pockets.

"Shit, it is inside the car of Conrad!" She said in a frustrated tone.

Austen looked around the car if they're anything that would help her to get out of the car but all she can find is a jacket and cap.

She screamed her brother's name but her efforts are futile.

"Damn it, Austen. You are stuck in a freaking car!" She said to herself.

Then the DeLorean started, Austen grabbed the stirring wheel and she couldn't hear herself screaming anymore as the car broke the front door of the garage. She saw her brother absolutely flabbergasted and it also scraped his new car.

The DeLorean was so fast that Austen couldn't control it anymore. Pedestrians almost got hit by the Delorean while Austen kept apologizing. She could also hear police cars, calling her to stop the car but Austen knew that she can't.

"This is a very big problem." She said while she tightly gripped her hands on the wheel.

The DeLorean passed through a tunnel, Austen can hear the sirens of the police cars. She had no choice but to step on the gas, she knew this is one of her gravest mistakes but being in jail is out of the question. Her mind was bombarded with her upcoming graduation at her university. She will be receiving her honors and of course, perceiving her dreams but it will all ruin on being reckless.

The speedometer was getting higher as Austen tried to avoid the police cars. Then as the meter is in 70, she could hear something in the car but she is a lot more preoccupied with hitting the gas again, she wanted to get away from the police. She didn't notice that her speed accelerated in 88 when she is about to look at the meter, a car was approaching her.

Austen screamed in bloody murder and quickly turned the wheel on the other way. She was relieved that she didn't hit the car. When everything was about to be well and thinking to go back to the garage, the DeLorean suddenly stopped.

"Oh come on!" Austen murmured.

She went outside and looked around; the police are no longer in sight. It was night time in Hill Valley and she is on the road where the forest is. Austen hoped that there will be a car and of course, she needs to call her brother.

Austen sighed, good thing that she is wearing her thick hoodie. She can't believe that Hill Valley is absolutely cold in May. All of a sudden from afar, a certain car was approaching her. The car stopped in front of her, it is an old woman.

"What are you doing in here at night, deary?" The old woman asked her in a soft tone.

"My car broke and I need to call my brother to help me," Austen said.

"I have a phone in my house, just remember where you will leave your car."

Austen smiled then the old woman let her get inside her car. It was a blue convertible.

"It is rather chilly in this month of May," Austen said.

The old woman suddenly laughed which made her confused.

"Deary, it is October, not May."

Austen was speechless, she could feel her sweat on her forehead and her hands are suddenly shaking. October? Her eyes suddenly dilated when she remembered the time in the DeLorean.

Austen couldn't believe it; she is in the year 1985.