Chapter 1 : Exposure

"Ah, today, what is the news?" I asked as I saw a news being broadcasted online on Television at the road.

The news said...

"Good Day"

"It was kept a secret for 50 years..."

"I would like to announce that time traveling are nowadays executed from different places in the world and was no longer a secret.

However, still we are doing innovations on how to improve this, since our technologies need to be improved fast too. Our society including other nations were collaborating for this through funded AIR Project. Only few people were given a chance to time travel and also few of them returns back on time."

"As we already know,  time traveling is a top secret since year 1980's. We are now proclaiming to our dear society to accept the truth that extra-terrestrial beings like aliens, cloning, power of telepathy, auras, extreme robotics & other strange creatures in combination with artificial intelligence are being studied."

"The good thing about this is we are unfolding secrets of life and getting to know deeper that we are all wired & interconnected in different dimensions".

"Everyone, Let's expect LONG LIFE & MORE EASIER LIFE in the future for our upcoming grandchildren!" She waves her hand high that makes all people claps as a sign of agreeing.

(One of the announcement of the President of Amri being shown in the flat screen of TV)

"Miss President (Hamerly Loken woman with white hair). Is not insane?" A man from my back at the train station said while watching his online streaming at his phone.

I slightly looked on to his phone to check time.

Ah, it was already 7:30am. The train was not yet here.

Hmm... You might pity me. I was an electronics engineer but I do not buy latest technologies like cellphones & the digital folded watch like others now if you look to some people around me.

The reason is I'm saving money for my future & I'm contented in what I have right now.

As you can see, I'm not wearing necklace, bracelet or even earrings. Ahem, you know what. I am middle type pretty.

So what do I mean about middle type pretty. It means I am considered pretty by people but not the type of Models or famous actresses' appearance. I looked good & innocent with my transparent bangs and wavy medium dark brown hair. I have a rounded big Asian eyes, small nose too & fair skin. Actually my height is normal & my weight too. The good thing is my Body Mass Index (BMI) is medium or Average.

However, despite of that I am single...

I am still single for a longer time.

Actually not a longer time. I'll be honest since birth I was single.

I saw two couple holding their hands while in line. I stare to them secretly. So when the train came. I moved in between them & bumped the woman a little bit away from his boyfriend.

"Oh, sorry." I said with a smile though I know I mean it. I'm just insecure. I do not like seeing couple it front of me.

The woman rolled her eyes on me. "She though she's pretty." She silently said.

"Hmm... I do not care." I said to myself.

I entered my company but before that, I smelled the air & my clothes too then I changed into blue fitted suit that covers my whole body. I also worn a covered glass before entering our Production area.

Our company is in partnership with the time traveling machine makers of different countries around the world since 5 years ago. We produces digital watches used & reprogramed by whiteSpirit company to be used by time travelers.

I looked & examined it & thinks our product is so amazing.

"Ma'am, we heard news about time traveling & I think that our company will increase customers & demands due to this reason." One of the man worker said whose wearing gray suit.

"You are right. We need also product innovation." I replied while using loupe to the first layer glass of the digital flexible watch.

I go back to the office I saw my co-workers are talking also to time traveling news.

'Oh, Loreal, did you heard the news?" Anna, a 25 year-old Engineer asked me.

"Is it the time travelling thing?" I asked.

"Hmm.. Yes, I've watch news that the whiteSPIRIT is doing AIR project. They are inviting Engineers to join them." Anna replied.

"Psstt... Be quite they might think that you'll be resigning soon." I said to her.

"I do not mean like that. Even if we are still employed we can join it." She said to me.

"Ah?"

"What do you mean? It will still need to consume time?" I asked in a doubt.

Our Supervisor came that makes Anna stopped talking.

I was curious about what she said. Anyway, everyone likes to go to future.

While working I was smiling alone because I imagined myself going in year 2040 & see my future husband with my future children.

"Oh , we are lucky because time machine in our time starts to bloom." I said to myself.

It was already 8:30pm. I am still working.

"Hey, Loreal, go home." My 6ft tall Supervisor said to me as he prepares his things before going home.

"Yes, Sir. Good bye." I replied stressly.

"There is a ghost here. Goodbye." He said that scares me.

So when he leaves the office. I prepared my things too.

I walked slowly I closed all lights that makes me scare after hearing a footsteps.

While walking I smells a lavender perfume on my way.

I saw lady guard in bobcut walking on the hallway that gives me a relief. She smiles to me & I smiled back.

"Maybe, she uses lavender perfume."

Another scary thing is tomorrow is holiday, that is why employees were now at home. Only few people is here.

I finally went outside the company. It was raining & no people was seen outside. The shuttle bus was not yet arriving.

When it arrived, I came & I entered alone. The driver talked to me.

"You are pretty. You shouldn't let yourself be alone. Your boyfriend must fetch you." The old driver scares me to the bone so I secretly find something in my bag to protect myself in case he will do something wrong.

"Ah, my boyfriend is waiting to me at the shuttle departure area." I said to the driver as a lie.

Is your boyfriend the one with innocent young appearance with eyeglasse, broaded arm, musculine, whose height is 6'1 ft with black hair in a different hairstyle? He asked to me.

I visualized the appearance he stated before I replied a lie.

"Ah... Yes..." how did you know?

"Okay.' The driver said & started to drive.

Before I'm going to step out, the driver ask me again.

"Does your boyfriend worked at whieSPIRIT company?" He asked.

I nodded.

"Ah, okay, that's why he is wearing the Double Star badge of the whiteSPIRIT Company. I saw him also rode with you but he suddenly disappeared when I mirrored him inside."

I was scared but when you said he was your boyfriend, I little bit became calm.

After hearing, my eyes became widened & I became scared too.

The driver of bus shuttle looked after me & he was searching for my boyfriend but he saw nothing. He leaves after realizing that I was just lying that he is waiting for me.

I was at the shuttle departure & again few people are walking here.

"Does the driver saw a ghost?" I asked on myself.

Rain gets heavier. I wrapped my shoulders on mine.

"We are all concerns about technologies but why paranormal things are not deeply studied?" I crazily asked on my own.

My nose started to smell lavender scent once again.

"Probably, it was not the guard lady anymore." I said to myself.

While I was walking with my transparent umbrella going to my house, I heard a footsteps on my back. I was scared so I walked fast until I saw the newspaper on the ground. I stopped & read the bolded title portion.

It says...

GO WITH ME IN DIFFERENT TIME & EARN MILLIONS.

Just give your seconds to us.

But prepare your weapons. It is dangerous but worth taking for.

>Sponsored by whiteSPIRIT company & government - where time is your time.

BE PART OF THE AIR 2020 PROJECT. Call as now just dial 777-4444 for your screening.

Initial Qualifications needed are Electronics & Electrical Engineers (License or not will be considered)

"I fit on it." I silently said while looking down.

Suddenly, when I touched the wet newspaper, I felt a little electricity/static ground flows in my body.

I saw a different type of shoes (It was metallic type with red & grey color. It has also a LED light) that makes me stand & looked whose shoes it.

I hold my umbrella tightly while a lightning suddenly flash on other area with grumbling sound.

My eyes dilated & was too shocked to what I had seen after the lightning.

It rains so heavy. I hold my umbrella tightly.

I saw the handsome man that he driver was exactly describing to me.

The Double Star badge was pinned on his right shoulder

He stands infront of me but the different thing is rain is not pouring to his body.

His face looks emotionless when he looks to me but I felt something different on him.

"My Loreal." He said then after another lightning flashes, he disappeared infront of me.

I stopped moving & was shocked for 1 minute. His smell was a strong lavender scent.

"He said my name & I do not know him. He seems like from other time but he is wearing the whiteSPIRIT's double star badge."

"He might be an employee or a time traveler of that company?"

My reaction was too late. I ran fast going home after what I had seen.

"Ah!Aaah!" I shouted though nobody is here in the street.

"A ghost? A Time traveler? Am I only hungry? Am I hallucinating because of stress or lack of sleep?"

"Do ghost smell like lavender?"