5 A Long Day

Here we were stuck at this prison, along with different people.

Jay was the one who tried to wake me up, as I decided to sleep again. This was just how we spent time here. As there was no need for any food/water or toilet, we had nothing to do. We sleep, wake up, mess with others, and then sleep again.

Today, we decided to explore the place more. We walked on the boundary to prevent bumping into others.

We had no fear of getting lost, due to the band. We haven't spoken to anyone else. So were on a journey to find someone our age.

This was going on for how long? We don't know, we had no watch to look at the time.

It was really exhausting, and from moving endlessly I was bored. We had spent too much time to count and still had no success.

We had to talk to someone, but being socially awkward, we both didn't. But this was also making me furious. So I decided to talk to any person who was able to understand me.

This time, I woke up before Jay, so I went on a stroll to find someone to talk to.

We had a lot of place to cover; this meant a lot of movement. But even after all that, we never felt sweat. The clothes we were wearing kept it all under control.

After a while, I saw a kid sitting on the boundary. The whole space was a sphere, so I had to look above to actually see him.

I found him to be another socially awkward person.

As I was about to greet him, Jay appeared. We had registered each other's head on band as a joke, but I guess it did work.

Then we both went to greet him. He was startled to see two strangers, but was not much surprised.

"Hey, we need a friend for a group project; my teacher wants it to be submitted by tomorrow. Will you help?" I asked jokingly.

"Dude, you shouldn't talk like this" Jay commented.

"Let me guess, you guys are from before 2020, am I right?" the kid replied to me. He had a very low voice and spoke in a very polite tone.

"How do you know?" we both were surprised on his comment.

"Cause if you were, you would not be talking about group projects." He said, "See, the thing is, in 2020 we all stopped doing group projects. The schools were closed. So no one did anything like a group project."

…

"…so that's why we all started to attend online classes." The kid explained the reasoning behind his comments. "Also, my name is Tim."

After I broke the ice, we all started talking about the different things we did, our experience with the power of time travel.

His story about the whole virus thing scared the hell out of me; I had no idea that something this big was coming in just one year.

Jay was silent whole time we talked. He closed his eyes, looking like someone in deep thought, until…

"Grab him, he started to float"

"What the hell, how did he fell asleep?"

He was sleeping the whole time, that guy.

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After Jay woke up, we went to Tim's spot.

He had chosen the center of the whole place. This was strangely open. We thought that more people will be concentrated in center, guess we were wrong. This was not as we thought; people were concentrated in a doughnut like formation. The center was almost empty.

Probably when we were told to choose our spots, most people tried to get to boundary, but gave up in between. This is why both places were empty.

But the view from here was very strange; it looked like we got cornered by a mob. Then, for first time, I focused on Tim's uniform, it was different. Where we had black with green edges, his had orange edges.