This choice: "I wish you and Bill would just become the old married couple you guys act like! • Go Back... Gloria shook her head. Bill and Tom were so ridiculous sometimes. It's like they were joined at the hip! Tom never ONCE stood up for her the way he always went to bat for Bill.
“God, you two should get a room! It's like you love Bill other more than you love me, Tom!”
“Hey, at least Bill was there for me when you turned everyone against me, Gloria!”
“I only told them the truth, you idiot!”
“You're full of shit. I never did half the things you accused me of!”
“Hey Gloria, don't call Tom an idiot. He's going through a hard time right now” said Bill with his hands out in front of him. He was trying to signal to Gloria to calm down a little. Somehow, he instinctively knew that the gemstone Gloria was holding was about to do something bad if she got anymore angry. Gemstones aren't mood rings, at least ordinary ones. They don't erupt into colors the second somebody gets angry.
“I thought I told you to shut up!” spat Gloria, not even looking over at Bill.
“Bill can say whatever he feels like saying, Gloria! He's not one of your sycophantic cheerleader friends!”
Gloria's face was turning red. She was losing control.
“You fucking idiot, Tom! You're so out of touch. You don't have a clue what's going on! You don't want to get back together, fine! Get out of my life! I wish that you and Bill would just become the old married couple you guys act like!”
The moment Gloria said that, the gemstone burst open an onslaught of emerald magic. Turning deathly cold, Gloria dropped the gemstone as it covered the street corner in its gelid glow. It fired on for a moment, and just as quickly vanished into nonexistence, as if nothing had happened at all.
Where Bill had just been standing now stood a middle-aged man, himself at fifty years old. He was a few inches taller now, and unlike a moment before, he was actually in pretty good athletic shape despite possessing a small paunch. He had a well defined musculature, and he was more handsome than he had been as a teenager, somewhere along the way having developed rugged good looks. But the world did seem somewhat different, sharper, and Bill was suddenly aware of a pair of glasses resting on his nose. He felt a tickle beneath his nose and a quick check later revealed a bushy moustache spanning across his upper lip. He felt a coolness on top of his head that hadn't been there before and another cursory check revealed a receding line of short course hair. His clothing seemed like he was about to go to work. He was wearing a short-sleeved polo shirt with a collar and a pair of nice looking pair of khakis and a pair of brown tennis shoes. Definitely business casual, almost as if he was preparing to go to work!
Where Tom had stood now stood a middle-aged woman of about the same age as Bill. She was blonde haired like Tom was, although she wore it in a long bob that framed her pretty, well made up face. Despite years as a sedentary housewife, her figure had somehow only barely diminished, and she was overweight, with a large rear that bulged from her 'mom jeans'. Most of the weight was concentrated in her posterior and hips, her stomach not swollen but certainly not fit as a small muffin top poked against her white undershirt and sky-blue cardigan. Her breasts were still firm and full and a pair of small framed glasses sat on her nose. All in all, especially for a woman who was nearly two feet shorter than Tom had been, she looked good.
"Really good" Bill thought as he stared over his own changed hands at the woman, who was examining her own petite hands with a smile on her face. Bill felt something stir in his dockers before a flash of dark hair drew his attention as Gloria quickly picked up the Ahn'Ger stone from where she had dropped it on the ground, and she looked up at the two strange adults with a mixture of fear, curiosity, and laughter.
Option 1: It is still the present day. Bill and Tom have transformed into Bill and Tammy Strasserman, a married couple who live across the street from Gloria's house. Bill is now Gloria's mother's boss at work.
Option 2: It is now forty years in the future. Bill and Tom(Tammy) are still old and married to each other, but Gloria has aged as well.
Option 3: Bill, Tom(Tammy) and Gloria are in the past! But when?   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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