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I lay still with my eyes firmly closed, mainly because i didn’t want to know where i had travelled too and what i was about to face. However, that was soon forgotten when cold droplets started falling upon my hot, flushed skin before carelessly rolling down my cheeks and ceasing to exist seconds later.
Peaking through my eyelashes, i saw Harry pacing around my stationary body, his hands running through his long, lustrous curls. It was raining hence the droplets which seemed to be accompanied by massive grey clouds floating above us. I sighed as i lifted myself onto my hands and caught Harry’s attention.
“About time” He grumbled chewing at his bottom lip before stopping at my feet.
“Where are we?” I groaned in response.
“In front of some house in the garden, i don’t know when or where but its pissing it down Nath can we go somewhere before we catch our death”
It was more a rhetorical question than anything; i hurled myself to my feet and looked around. I didn’t know where we were, what year or date it was or if i was meant to even be alive in this day and age but nothing seemed to have massively changed such as no flying cars about or horse and carriages with people rolling about in the streets, so we couldn’t of travelled that far.
For someone that didn’t know where they were, Harry surely made a bee line for the coffee shop a few blocks down the road.
“How do you know where to go?”
“When you were lying down on the ground for god knows how long, i heard a group of walkers saying how they can’t wait for their tea a few blocks down. Like i said i don’t know where we are, i’m just purely guessing until we somehow go back”
I decided asking anymore question would be pointless considering they most likely wouldn’t be answered, i trailed behind Harry at his heels as he pushed the coffee shop door open creating that annoying beep for the anxious owners in the back. I understood why they did it, it however just caused annoyance to me.
We sat down about two tables away from the window as Harry muttered something about getting coffee, i slumped in my chair and glanced around the place. Slight mould and damp caked the ceilings which made my stomach twitch with disgust, the walls were in desperate need of a paint job and the air condition unit was making a peculiar sound like some sort of creature had been wedged in between the vents. Besides myself and Harry, the walkers that Harry must of eavesdropped on earlier sat gossiping in the corner to the right of me whilst on my left and man with his sleeves pulled over his hands, probably in an attempt to keep warm and his hood pulled back but still perching on his head. He looked like he needed a decent wash so you would think he would take advantage of the shitty weather outside if he was unable to fund daily washes.
I stared down at myself, noticing that i was still in my work clothes although they were muddy and wet. I some how remembered my last recollections before being awoken here; i was in the library looking for the writing about dickens for Jay. God i was taking a long time, he must of got bored of waiting and complained to Luke which probably made him gain even more anxiety than usual which probably gave Niall a I body for reason likes to travel.
“Stop worrying, i know that look on your face” Harry said moving his chair creating a grated feeling throughout the shop.
“Sorry, i’ll stop worrying once we get back home and not in some year and place that I’ve never been before!” I whispered yet with a raised voice stirring my coffee
“Too be fairly honest, i wasn’t sure about drinking this because judging by the state of the front part, I’d hate to imagine the catastrophe happening back there”
“Get what your given Nathan, that’s the shit we deal with”
“Yeah okay we’ll sit here and drink contaminated coffee and not worry shall we?, for some reason Harry that doesn’t sound like a particularly good fucking idea”
“Your sarcasm really doesn’t help you know”
“Nor does your stupidity”
He raised his top lip and rolled his eyes, he probably knew there was no point arguing as it would lead somewhere and it was definitely not home and that’s all where we wanted to be right now.
“Wait, did you get a receipt?” I exclaimed
“Yeah...why?”
“They put dates on them things!”
Harry shoved his hands into his pockets and dug out the tatty piece of paper before flattening it out with the palms of his hands.
“We’re only two years foreword Nath” He whispered “2016, and shit look the address”
“We aren’t far at all, an hour drive maybe?”
“Yeah drive with what, my car is back in 2014 in my work car park, fuck i’m so getting a ticket”
“Is that really your biggest problem right now!? Getting a ticket!?”
“Yes and No...Do you know how much those things cost?”
“Yeah they’re fucking expensive but do i need to remind you where we are?”
“Shut up Nathan, i know where we are”
“We need to wait until i move, it just happens as you know. I can’t control it”
“Well learn!”
“Oh yeah sorry Harry, as soon as i get back i promise ill go find some community class or some book to help stop time travelling!”
He slouched back in his chair and folded his arms before kicking his feet under the chair.
“We need to find something that maybe reminds you where you last were”
“You think that will work do you?”
“Worth a shot i guess. Haven’t got much to loose”
“Explain to me Harry, how we are meant to get to the library which is about an hours drive?”
“Sorry to interrupt but do you need a lift to the next town? Its just that I’ve got to go there next” A stranger spoke behind Harry, we turned around to see a skinny man, quite tall-ish and strong accent slumped in the chair behind running his fingers around the table.
“Uh yeah sure cheers man” Harry said standing up as the stranger did.
My eyes widened as i looked at Harry, who just shrugged his shoulders.
“Like I said; we haven’t got much to loose” He whispered as the figure opened the door to us to leave the cafe, following in his foot steps.