"Wait a minute what do you mean by lab rat?" I ask getting up from the couch and he still sits on the ground and looks at me.

"David, explain now! Isn't your project like time travel." I ask again now pacing back and forth in the room.

"See, Hayley, please don't call my baby a time travel machine, you know it's more advanced than that. Next, yeah! That's why I want you to try it out, thus lab rat." He says leaning against the couch looking at me expectedly.

"Hold up you want me to test out your baby? Which is a machine that would transport to me a parallel universe, which is still something not proved completely and is still a theory with a bunch of numbers backing it up?" I tell now screaming at him.

He gets and starts coming closer to me, but I just move away from and go towards the water dispenser.

"Hayley, don't be like that, I know it's just a theory. But I believe in my research, you have also seen the papers right? Do you still think it's just a theory with no base." He says sadly.

I refuse to look back at him and gulp down my second glass of water. Finally I turn back at him, that's when I notice his state. He really looks battered to be honest, with the dark eye bags, also he has lost so much weight since the last time I saw him.

"But why can't you go?" I ask stupidly, the thing is I am really scared. I know I trust this idiot with all my life, but he is legit asking me to die for him at this rate.

"Hayley, you know I would have done that in a heartbeat, if that were a option in first place." He says sincerely.

I just nod my head and sit down onto the couch, he comes and sits next to me leaving out a deep sigh.

I look up at him once again, with his heals held low an shoulders dropped down, know I made my decision long time ago.

"Ok cool, but if I die I need a gold casket capiche?" I say seriously.

He ignores the comment and hugs me tightly and says, "I will make sure nothing happens to you! Thank you so much Hayley! Love you!"

I smile and rub his shoulders, ok so what now? Am I traveling to parallel universe?

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"Ok if you sign this last page, that's it you are done for the travel. You understood all the rules and regulations right?" David asks me for the umpteenth time.

I huff and say, "Yes to the hundredth time, do not form relationships with people, only do it when it's absolutely necessary. Do not go and change anyone's lives or be a integral part of any one's life. Be low key and remain under the radar. Also, if I want to come back, I have to press the the keys 130613 on my calculator app. It may take some while, I will have to sit or stand in a secluded place and I will be back to this universe. Done did I summarize right?" I say as I sign and close the ten page document file.

David just shakes his head, his eyes filling up with tears he comes up to me and hugs me tightly and says, "I got your back ok. Don't worry about anything. Thank you so much once again!"

I smile and pat his back.

After over brother and sister bonding from both of us, he takes me up to the room with all of his equipment.

"I know I don't need to worry, cause literally there is only you and uncle in my life. I am actually a great candidate for this project right, even if I don't make it out alive. No one will lose anything, uncle may be sad for few days. You will move on like what three days max after self wallow and pity." I say controlling my laugh.

"Bad sense of dark humor, my child. I am just going to ignore the nonsense you said. Ok so this is the first trial." He talks to the camera he set up in the front.

"We are going to do a test run, you will be there for five minutes, which is the duration of time of this universe. If my calculations are right, you are going to be there for one day or less. You will alright! Please don't go around and do your inappropriate jokes." He tells as he straps me into the machine.

Actually, it looks like the time travel machine we see in movies. But if I will tell him that he will cry like a baby.

The thing is only my conscious shift is going to be there. Like my body will be here, but I will be like in coma stage here.

But there I will be living inside a body of a person who has the same name and all that jazz. I sincerely pray, it's someone who I always hoped for I look like.

Saying the last prayer, I give a thumbs up to David and he nods his head and goes behind the computer.

"On the count of three, close your eyes. You ready?" He screams from behind the disc as the sound of machine working increases as time goes by.

I nod my head and wait for the countdown. The number one was the last thing I heard after that I was pushed into a deep slumber.

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