chapter 1

I'm in my favorite restaurant, I love this place! It is as if I were in China, there are many people tasting very exotic foods but I always come for the same dish, it is my favorite food, a delicious sushi, it really could not be tastier; When I go for one of my last bites, I see the restaurant owner answer a call. I do not understand absolutely anything of what he says, because I only speak three languages. (English, Spanish and French) but you can tell that he is very worried as if he had received very bad news; He looks at a woman, I think she is his wife and apparently he tells her what happened, I would like to understand what is happening to see if I can help! I see that the Asian woman talks to some of her employees. I am so intrigued that I do not realize that my cell phone is vibrating inside my bag; I put my hand inside my brown bag to take out my phone, I see that it is a call from Natalia, my fabulous coworker, who is also my best friend; I answer the phone immediately.

"Hi Nat��� I greet you cordially.

"Hi Samantha, I know you're on your lunch break, but we need you right away in the lab" says Nat very upset.

"What's going on?"

"Please Sam come soon, it is very difficult to answer you by pone."

I nod and say, "Okay, I'll be here soon."

I run towards my red BMW sports car, I drive as fast as possible, but at this time the traffic on the streets of my hometown Washington DC is very saturated. I manage to move forward and at the same time I try to control myself, that call from Natalia left me very tense. After a long time of driving in my car. I come to my job, NASA, I have been working here for five years, I graduated very quickly from university and the first place I wanted to work was here at NASA, although it took two years to call me to work, but I have been here since I was 24 years old, I consider myself a very successful professional. I enter through the front door, and the security guys greet me very kindly, along I see Leo one of my lab colleagues running. His face is as if he had seen a ghost, he is extremely pale; finally he comes closer and tells me:

"Sam don't you know what we found out? "

No, I really don't know, everyone is strange today.

"Sam Answer! " Leo says

"Sorry! But what happened?"

"Come on I'll explain while we walk."

We entered the elevator heading to the 10th floor.

When I enter, everyone is observing an image of space on their computers, apparently something very serious is happening, of which I am not aware. Natalia calls me with a slight cry.

"Sam you have to see this."

I run over to Nat and see on the screen an image of a blue hole, which is very close to the ground.

"Sam, 35 minutes ago in Shanghai a very strange event occurred, part of the city changed, its structure went back to how it was many years ago."

"What? What are you talking about? Impossible!" I say very upset

I can't believe what they tell me, that doesn't sound very sane. Suddenly a slight thought comes to me; the owners of my favorite restaurant, that call, their incognito faces... I wonder if this has to do with that call the Asian people received from the restaurant?

"Finish saying what you suggest is happening in the city of Shanghai" I demand Natalia

"As I was telling you, a large part of Shanghai changed and we discovered this blue hole that is clearly almost on top of our planet, we don't know if this has something to do with it! but I do know that this is nothing normal" Natalia explains

I agree with Nat that blue hole that I see through the screen, is something that I had never seen, and why is it almost above the ground? and the regression of years of this city. All of this has really shocked me, it seems like this is a dream, or a science fiction movie, but no! It is happening; I try to convince myself to stop asking so many questions inside my head and to start investigating what is happening. I ask for more information. Nat and Leo try to explain, but there is nothing logical to match what happened in Shanghai and that blue hole in space.

Jack interrupts the explanation of the boys.

"Do you remember Henry?" He asks curiously.

"Of course we remember," Natalia grumbled as she rolled her eyes.

"What does Henry have to do with all this?" I ask Jack, staring into his eyes.

"Well, if you don't remember, Henry had already told us what is happening. That's why three years ago, he was dismissed. " Expresses Jack

"Henry has a lot of mental problems." Natalia declared coldly.

"It's not true." Jack defends him and continues speaking. "Henry does not have mental problems, he is one of the best scientists I have ever met, and he discovered this phenomenon in the universe more than three years ago, and since it was not understood here, that is why they ran him away, for an accusation without proof of his alleged madness. "

I'm not feeling good at all, the return of Henry to my present makes me extremely anxious, he was the love of my life, he was my boyfriend since my last year of university, we had a relationship during 5 years, we started working here together, I had my life visualized by his side, but suddenly he left me. I stopped believing in love for a moment. But I'm fine now, I'm over it, now I'm engaged to my boyfriend Carl. So I don't even want to hear Henry's name anymore. Not now. And I don't want to hear this discussion between Jack and Natalia anymore. The door opens and a chubby man with gray hair enters, about 65 years old, along with Parker, my boss and all his work team, they begin to install their equipment inside the laboratory...