Time Turner

Their silent conversation went unnoticed by Alfizar. On the way home, Aurina kept sending him a glance at him and Zio send him a glance through the car's mirror. No one said anything. It was 4.30 pm by the time they get home. Zio told Henry to help Alfizar to get clean up. Henry was about to help Alfizar clean up, only to get himself kicked out the room.

Not even fifteen minutes past when Alfizar has done and he walked out from his room. Henry, Zio, and Aurina were surprised, and Henry more to freak out. Alfizar simply said that he had graduated from the wheelchair. His leg feels great if you ignore the dull ache from time to time.

The only bruises on his body were on his chin, elbows, left shoulder, and two big blacken bruised on his kneecaps. Henry had asked if it hurts, Alfizar said, "Because it's on my kneecaps, it doesn't hurt as much". Soon they were in the dining room, waiting for the early dinner to be prepared, Zio took out a syringe that was filled with Sclerosant. A special chemical that was used to treat bruised within seconds. Zio injected it right in the middle of the bruise, and the bruise disappeared in no time.

"Uncle Zio, can you buy me an exercise machine?" Alfizar asked Zio while eating the chocolate pudding Aurina gave him earlier. They just finished their dinner. Zio was about to stand up and Henry was also about to go followed him to wherever they want to go in the house. Alfizar doesn't know that they were going to discussing him.

"For building up some muscle? Sure, but don't overdo it. And you had an 'assistant' to help you here." Zio said pointed at Henry mockingly not caring about the laters twitching smile at all.

"As much as I would love to have some help, but I need to be independent" and he doesn't want to be a burden to anyone.

"But you can depend on us," Aurina said with a smile. She was not wrong, he could depend on them, but he wants to be the one they depend on, instead of being a burden for his family. He couldn't have someone to always helped him. If he could push himself to rehabilitate without anyone stopping him out of worry, he could begin to rebuild his body much earlier. He could recover much faster.

"Sure, but I need to be back in shape real fast to protect you, Aurina." There was no need to say from what... She was well aware of what had happened to their parents. Alfizar looked at Zio and Henry with the same look, eyes filled with determination. "Uncle Zio and Henry too. The both of you have become my family. A father and a brother figure."

Zio feels touched. He had been taking care of the two siblings and Henry who came along by his father's requested. He loved them like his own children. Not that he had any. But to think he was being appreciated, his c.h.e.s.t feels warm. Henry also felt happy, he thought he was the only one thought of them as little siblings, but to know that he really had become their brother figure. Looking at Aurina who looked at Henry and Zio with the same looks Alfizar had, it was obvious that she thought of them the same way with Alfizar.

"You don't have to think about what had happened in the past or think about how to protect us. Finish your education first, get healthy again, be happy, and I will take care of everything." Zio said as he stood up. "I will have your requested thing by tomorrow." Then he left the dining room with Henry followed after him.

The d.e.s.i.r.e to rebuilt his body as soon as possible growing stronger with each day past. And with each day past, he became even more unsettled. That dream he had after he fell in the school's yard made him felt really sad... he even still felt sad now. Every single one of his vision-liked-daydreams and his dreams felt so real, gave him the feelings of nostalgias and sometimes it really happened although it was a bit different from the vision.

Alfizar was currently in the living room waiting for Aurina to bring some snacks over, she had asked him to accompany her to watch a movie. After he made himself comfortable on the couch, he took out the pocket watch and thought back at the dream he got at the schoolyard.

"If only I could go back in time." He remembered that part well.

"Go back in time," Alfizar mumbled to himself. "Time?" The watch turned warm, Alfizar narrowed his eyes. He took out the watch. 'Could it be...?'

"Movies time!" Henry said loudly while he throws his body to the couch beside Alfizar. Alfizar jumped in surprise, the pocket watch in his hand fell to the floor. The moment the watch hit the floor, a sharp pain shoot through Alfizar's heart. His hand reflexively went to his c.h.e.s.t, clutching his shirt fabrics. He gasped in pain. As fast as the pain came, it also went away just as fast.

"Ah, sorry to surprise you." Henry said with a big smile. He doesn't look sorry at all. Alfizar shook his head. Then he bent down to picked up the watch on the floor. Aurina came in bringing snacks and soda on a tray followed by Zio behind her.

They were watching a zombie apocalypse movies for the next hour. Aurina was screaming for the characters to get away, Zio explaining to her that it was only a movie and the story went along according to the script, while Henry kept protesting that the main character was way too weak to his liking. All in all, it doesn't feel like watching a movie together with your family but hearing a live movies review.

Alfizar can't keep his attention to watch the movie. Somehow he knows how the movie would end. Half-way to the end of the movie, his mind wandered back to the pocket watch that he always kept with him now. He feels like it had become a habit.

The pain in his c.h.e.s.t earlier before, could it be because the watch hit the floor? Alfizar hit the watch on the table with a bit forced. Just as he thought, he could feel a flash of faint pain in his heart. 'But, how?'

Alfizar froze. Yesterday he got a vision about him get hit by a gun and he ended his own life. Is it possible that he had died then traveled back in time? It was impossible, beyond human reason! But it explained the nostalgias feeling and Deja Vu he kept having.

But, shouldn't he remember the future? What if... those dreams, weren't as simple as he thought it to be? What if there is much more to it, like... it was a future vision? But the familiar event happened after the vision was different, so it was not a future vision. What about alternate-self memory? There is a theory about a parallel world. It makes a little sense to him, but his earlier theory about him being traveled back in time would be out of the note.

'Maybe it was the watch.' Alfizar stared at the pocket watch. Let's went along with the travel back in time theory for now. Let's say he had died in the future, how did he come back alive? Not that he against it, since he wants to live, thank you very much. And, why did the accident happened? The shop collapse, no... there is no shop, and there was no old man. Then how did he got this pocket watch?