Week 1 Response

I reach in my pocket and find five items. This includes; a 1997 quarter, keys to a car, a receipt to The Red Mule, bullets and a ripped brochure to Defiance College. I look at these items for a long time and can't remember what happened.

Looking down, I realize I'm not wearing my own clothes. I'm wearing a ratty old pair of sweats and a t-shirt three sizes too big for me. 

As I look more closely at the five items I found in my pocket, everything slowly starts to come back to me. The quarter is from the year I was born, looking shiny and brand new, no scratches or smudges in sight. The keys are to a 1987 Chevy Silverado, my mom's car she had the year I was born. The receipt is to a restaurant that has been closed in my hometown for almost ten years. The bullets are from a gun that I had last night. The brochure is from giving a recruit a tour two days ago.

I remember that while I was giving the recruit a tour, two days ago, I passed out and was transported to my hometown two days before I was supposed to be born. I wake up to a mysterious man standing by my head. I get up and look around. He starts telling me about how something is after my mom and if I want to live I need to stop it. He tells me where it is going to be and when. I'm baffled. I don't understand.

Suddenly, he disappeared. I'm stuck in a random park and my stomach starts growling. I find my bearings and realize that I'm 10 minutes away from a restaurant that everyone talks about but has been closed down for about ten years. I decide to go eat there and see what the fuss is all about. Once I get there, it's so crowded and there's people I know everywhere. It's just a dinky little bar but I stay and order some mini tacos. This was probably one of the best decisions I have ever made; they were so good. Once I'm done eating I pay my bill and make my way outside. I look down and see something shiny. I bend down to pick it up and find it's a quarter. I put it in my pocket.

I make my way towards my mom and dad's house to sit and watch just in case the monster shows up early. I get there and see that the monster is already there. He's looking through the window.

I'm really confused. Like extremely confused. That guy said the monster wasn't supposed to be around for another day. I look down at my pants and see something shiny. I realize it's a gun so i take it out of my pants and start to shoot at him. I miss but fire a couple of more times; I hit him in the leg and he starts running off. I run inside the house, surprisingly both my parents are still asleep, I take my mom's keys to her truck and start to follow the monster in it. He doesn't get far and I'm on his tail within seconds. I stop the car and start to chase him. Soon, I'm right there and shoot him in the back killing him. He falls to the ground and starts to shake and catches on fire. He disappears completely and all that's left is burn marks on the ground.

I head back to the truck and that guy is sitting in the passenger seat. He explains what happened; then touches my forehead and sends me back to the future. I ended up sleeping through the next day and woke up in a jail cell two days from when I originally left. I don't know how I ended up in a jail cell or how I ended up in these clothes either. All I know is that that is what happened.