This choice: Indeed she's older, because time travel is involved! • Go Back...Chapter #7This is Your Warning by: hoodiesd   The Other Gloria turned her head, gazing at Danni and Our Gloria like someone seeing an angel on their deathbed. She took a cigarette and zippo lighter out of her breast pocket, stuck the cig in her mouth, and lit it. Our Gloria was confused. She didn't smoke.
The Other Gloria removed the smoldering cig from her mouth and held it between her fingers. "Good, I remember this." She gestured to a sofa across from her. "Be seated, you two." Our Gloria and Danni hastily sat at Other Gloria's request. They didn't want to fuck with whatever forces were at work here. She continued, "I know you want to know who I am. I know because," she pointed at Gloria with her cigarette, "I was here. Gloria, I am you. I'm you from 29 years in the future."
Neither woman knew what to make of this. Danni was pale and silent while Gloria sputtered, "Wh-what do you mean you're me?"
"I mean I'm you." She took a drag of her cigarette. "I've traveled back in time from a failed future to warn you two of your mistakes and the things you must do to stop from going down the same path as we did."
"A..." Danni blinked for the first time in a while. "A failed future?"
Other Gloria cleared her throat. "Yes, a failed future. Human beings have free will, but sometimes they make the wrong choices. Have you heard of the butterfly effect? How hypothetically killing a butterfly could cause a hurricane on the other side of the world? You two are butterfly killers if you do not take my advice. When I was you, Gloria, sitting in this lodge room, I chose to think of this conversation we're having as a bad dream. I paid no mind to the things I told me, and the planet paid the price. You don't want to know the things that happened because I didn't listen to me."
Danni and Our Gloria were listening intently, leaning forward on the couch. Gloria anxiously yelled, "Get on with it then! Shut up with this philosophical bullshit and tell us what we have to do!"
"Okay." From her other breast pocket, Other Gloria removed a folded piece of paper, which she promptly unfolded. "I've written everything down that I remember telling myself. Since I'm here, and everything is as I remember, I must have gotten it all." She cleared her throat. "Gloria, you must go ahead with your plans for this lodge. It is crucial that it exists. When you are hiring a chef, and this is important, do NOT hire Susan Feyer. She might seem like she's the greater candidate, and she is, but she is needed somewhere else. Understand? Do NOT hire her."
Our Gloria scratched her chin. This was making her itchy. "Alright. What else?"
Other Gloria continued reading. "Two years from now, famous Italian model Elena Garofolo will come to the lodge. You need to give her THREE pancakes, not two. Make it seem like it's an accident."
"Okay." Gloria was scribbling on a napkin.
"Finally, Danni."
The timid girl looked up. "Yes?"
"You need to start eating, Danni. You need to start eating a lot. You..." Other Gloria trailed off for a moment, lost in how best to convey herself. "You are incredibly important, Danni, and it's important that you put on some weight."
Danni was confused. "I... You think I should put on weight? How much weight?"
Other Gloria closed her eyes. "It doesn't matter how much, as long as you're softer. You'll like it more than you think, I promise."
That didn't do much to clear things up for her. "What?"
Other Gloria stood up from her chair, tossing her cigarette into the dark fireplace. "That's all the time I have. Goodbye you two. Maybe I'll see you aga-" She suddenly vanished into thin air, cutting off her sentence.
Gloria and Danni sat motionless on the couch, their eyes still affixed to where the Other Gloria just stood. Danni spoke up hesitantly. "Miss Vandergast? What... What was that?"  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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