The Chosen One
Tommy, her best friend, a handsome twenty-two-year-old giant of a man and an orphan who has been an unsuitable parcel shunted between overcrowded foster homes, smirked at her, “So, Di, what the hell happened to you? You looked dead, by the way.”
“I'm not dead!”
“Yeah right.”
“I am not dead; you can see me, right? I'm doing okay,” she said, rolling her eyes at him as she remembered how crazy Tommy was. Freshmen days, and they met in the library, and ever since they became best friends. They have worked part-time at Bean Coffee for two years now. He was the one and only person on the planet who seemed rather fascinated with everything about time travel and such. She mentally shook her head. How could she not acknowledge the fact that he becomes crazy about it, watching every damn movie about time travel and every bloody book that has time travel in it? He even makes her read the one he loves the most—his favourite. The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, in which she ended up reading the chapters twice because, for the love of God, her human brain couldn’t even fathom the idea of the writer,
but she finished anyway just for the sake of Tommy, who asked her every bloody time about what happened and what her feedback was per chapter.