90 Years
Simon was the most important
scientist in the world, he had the greatest family, he was leading the biggest
research program on teleportation in time by injections financed by the United States
government and was paid the most in the world, what else could he
ask for?
Simon every day spoke about how
his mother always told him that he constantly needed to thrive for more, that
he couldn’t be a conformist or a lazy man, that he was meant to be a part of
history in some way, and that he was right there to change the world.
Simon took this advice by heart
and converted it into his law of life. Day and night he lived by this law he
had preestablished and would get upset if he didn’t do anything productive or
if he didn’t make progress on his investigation. Simon was very hard on
himself, he wanted to make his mom proud, at least before she died since she
had Ebola.
Last week aa hemorrhagic eruption
appeared throughout his mother’s body. Hemorrhages started on her
gastrointestinal tract, causing Mary to bleed from both the mouth and the
rectum. No one really knew how to cure Ebola. Simon was carrying two investigations
at the same time, the one to safe his mom and the one about teleportation, so he
didn’t sleep, or rest well, nor eat the right amounts. Working was consuming him little by little, but he
didn’t care. He was going to do all in his power to safe her, she was the only
and most important woman in his life. The only problem was that he had maximum
4 hours to save her life.
Simon kept working on both
projects until he realized that if
he went to the future, it was probable that
the cure for Ebola had already been invented. He focused all his attention on
teleportation and the unbelievable occurred. He had created the only trial
injection for teleportation since it was something so dangerous.
Simon insisted he was the one
going to the future, everyone thought this was nuts since he was the one
leading the investigation, and so if the injection needed some adjustments who
was going to be there to give the orders and supervise and lead? Obviously all
this people only said because thy didn’t know his only purpose was to safe his
precious mom.
Simon ended up taking the
injection and passing out for an hour, it was now 9 o’clock, he had three hours
left, he had until midnight. Simon woke up in a completely new age, he was in
the future, cars were flying all around him, everything was grayish, there were
no trees, everyone was wearing oxygen masks because of the polluted air. He
didn’t stop to think where he was, he just set the clock and started running to
the nearest hospital.
Simon was running like a crazy
man through the streets, he was lost and couldn’t see a hospital, he tried to
ask other people were to go, but they acted like he was a phantom.
After 2 hours of looking and
running he found a hospital, he went to the nurse station asked for the chief,
told him it was an emergency and after insisting during at least half an hour he
came down to help him. Simon didn’t even say hi, he just asked if they had the
cure for Ebola, sadly they didn’t, they were still running the investigations.
Simon thought he had time to return and create a cure, the only thing he hadn’t
realized was that because of some strange reason in this new age time run slower
so by the time he returned home his mother was already dead.
Simon never forgave himself for
his actions, fell into depression, not because he hadn’t saved her but because he
was so involved in the investigations that he didn’t spend the last days with
his mom.
By Isabella Duarte, Step 9.
The End
