Time Apart Novels & Stories

I turned around. He had stood too. He was three feet away, which was the distance that had been reducing since September with the specific patience of someone who had decided where they were going and had not been in a hurry to get there because they had already waited four years and a few more months was not a significant variable. I looked at him.

Not from this timeline. From another one.

I never do. Eighteen hours. That number keeps replaying in my head, detached from everything else, like it’s its own separate thought. Eighteen hours since I left the country. Since I put physical distance between myself and Devin. Since I made the decision everyone keeps telling me was necessary, strategic, unavoidable. I hear those words in other people’s voices, layered over each other, dull and reasonable and completely useless

I’m going home. The coming three months blur together. Work. Packing. Saying farewells to Kigali. Amon goes to New York. We video call less. Both busy. Both guarding ourselves. The distance between us isn't just geographical presently. It’s emotional. A gap that used to be filled with constant communication is now filled with silence. I’m alarmed we awaited too long. That the damage is unrecoverable. But I keep counting down. Ninety days. Sixty. Thirty.

“She probably thinks none of us are coming.” “What time is it in Sweden?” I asked. “They’re about nine hours ahead,” Dillon told us. So, morning?” He phrased it as a question, because although we’d been doing this for years with Jordyn and Dakota, none of us could ever seem to keep the time difference right in our heads. “Oh my god,” Stella said. “They must have sent it late yesterday afternoon, their time. And then waited all night. We are HORRIBLE people.” “We can fix this,” I said, whipping out my phone. “Come on, everyone. We’ll Facetime them right now.”

Lulled by his rhythmic gait, she fell asleep somewhere around midnight. After shutting down her communication portal, Ariandre turned back to her companions. “You heard all that. Time flows differently in each world, and not always at the same rates. It ebbs and flows, sometimes moving faster in one world, sometimes in another. Years can pass in one while only a few days go by in another. Right now, your world is moving faster. It has been that way for some time now, though the difference is shrinking. From what I could sense through my portal, I think it will be perhaps three or four hours in this world before Leah and Kai reach the place in theirs where I can transport them.” “That should

Then suddenly, Reifus flew few meters away from where he is. The time difference when everything happened is only in three seconds. The moment he teleported and appeared infront of Reifus, only for a second, thus the moment their eyes met add another second and while the moment Reifus flew from the impact of his fist add another second. In total its only three seconds all of it happened.

He demanded. "Well, you can continue. I'm going out for a coffee and some foods for them, anyway." Nasir answered and waving Catherine goodbye. "Nathan, how are you. Oh, gosh. I missed you." "Of course you do, but tell me everything, okay?" Nathan retorted. It takes a second or two for the new information to sink it, even though it is right before his eyes, Then he feels his lips spread wider into a gaping grin "Sure, but I'm still not over yet with the fact that I'm time traveling. The ideas were absurd." She replied.

I asked. "That's a secret. I haven't been gone that long," he said. "You've been away for two years; don't you think that's a long time?" He seemed appalled. "Two years? You're kidding." "Seems like you've been in another world— or maybe another realm," I deducted. "I was, but I didn't know time passed that quickly. It was my first time going there, so I knew nothing about the time difference. Forgive me, Wolfie. I never meant to be away for that long."

I wasn't as surprised as Steph when she broke the news of her engagement with Daniel to us a few weeks ago, I'm just concerned about his safety because Lisa is quite the impatient one and no guy I know of has been able to withstand her craziness. "He said 9pm but he is currently ten minutes late" she replied checking her phone again. "He is just ten minutes late not an hour, calm your tits ma'am" I chided her playfully and that earned me a vicious glare. My phone vibrated softly and I peered at it to see a message from Mr Hyde. Mr Hyde: where are you? Me: with friends. Mr Hyde: who? Me: my friends Our banter went on for about a minute and I was smiling widely oblivious of the glare Lisa was