Part 1: Guardian Angel
Elizabeth Manton is now 21. She has recalled the most recent of her previous lives. But what stands out so much is the pain of her last life as her closest friends all evolved beyond human level ego consciousness to such an absolute extent that they vanished off the face of the earth as if they had never existed. Elizabeth is now convinced that she is more aware than anyone about the true nature of reality. Indeed, almost all of earths population experience eternal recurrence. But this just adds to her loneliness. The vast bulk of her pain that she feels is due to loss and abandonment feelings. Or to put it more precisely, her losses… of Sarah Aston, Lara Hine, Jen Wilson and Olivia Hargreaves.
She wants them back. But she is convinced that she has no more access to those people than she does to the Buddha.
Elizabeth craves an atheistic death but even that is denied to her due to consciousness being indestructible. So she drinks herself into oblivion every night.
And she is getting worse. She is heading for a sectioning order in the local Mental Hospital.
Elizabeth Manton is undatable, unrelatable and unstable.
Its just after 1.30 in the morning and she is walking down the street where Jen and Olivia used to live. She is very drunk and she is singing (in a terrible voice)…
“HERE IN MY MIND, YOU KNOW YOU MIGHT FIND, SOMETHING THAT YOU… YOU THOUGHT YOU ONCE KNEW, BUT NOW ITS ALL GONE… AND YOU KNOW ITS NO FUN, YEAH I KNOW ITS NO FUN… OH I KNOW ITS NO FUN”
And now she’s banging on the door of the house that she knows (but no one else knows) her friends used to live at.
“JEN! OLIVIA”
A man called Michael shouts through the letter box that he has phoned the police. He adds
“You have the choice… clear off… or wait for them to take you to the station.”
But Elizabeth thinks she has another choice. She starts trying to climb their house in order to jump off head first from the roof top.
Despite being drunk she does quite well… well, quite well considering her drunken state… but she doesn’t get far enough off the ground to kill herself. And as she continues her struggle a police car pulls up.
The police put her in a cell for the night. They plan to lecture her the next morning or afternoon… depending on how quickly she sobers up. And if she is still angry in the morning they will tell her that they will talk to her and then release her but only when she calms down. They hope this will motivate her to behave.
It is 11.25am the next morning and Elizabeth is sat facing PC Brady. Brady says
“This is the second time in a month that we have had to bring you to the station for antics similar to last night. You do realise we could go further than just talking to you now. You are afterall breaking the law. What is troubling you so much Miss Manton?”
“You wouldn’t understand.”
“Try me.”
“Ha. Oh man” Elizabeth says finding a moment of amusement in the thought of how crazy it would sound to start talking about what she knows about the nature of reality. So she continues on by saying
“No. You see the problem is that I am not just 99.9% certain that you wouldn’t understand. I am 100% certain. With cherries on top!”
“Talk to me anyway. I still might feel sympathy.”
“Do you believe in reincarnation?”
“Not particuarly.”
“Right. Conversation ender right THERE” says Elizabeth who prods her finger down on the table in-front of her as she says and emphasizes the word ‘THERE.”
“Ok… lets look at this from my point of view. If I let you go and you cause trouble again it looks bad on me. It looks like I am not doing anything. On the other hand I can see you are suffering and I don’t really want the law to punish you. How about counselling?”
Elizabeth thinks about her situation. Brady thinks she’s ignoring him and he’s just about to start speaking again when Elizabeth says
“I know what I need to do. I won’t cause anymore trouble. I will decline the counselling as well.”
Brady leans forward
“I need you to PROMISE me that you won’t cause any more trouble. Look me in the eye and promise.”
“I promise.”
“If you do cause trouble, I will have to take action next time. I am warning you Miss Manton that you are out of chances. Because think about it, you banged on someone’s door at after 1 in the morning. That is intimidating. And you disturbed the sleep of most of the street. There is simply no way that you will get away with doing anything else wrong so please, please stick to your promise. Whatever is bothering you will not be made any better by getting into trouble with the law.”
“I will keep my nose clean.”
“If you are being honest, I hope you get yourself back on your feet.”
“Thanks.”
“Ok, you are free to go.”
Elizabeth’s plan is to go beyond ego to the extent her friends did and then to simply vanish. It seems like a bad idea on grounds of it being almost impossible. Her friends could recall countless lives before they evolved enough to do that. Elizabeth would have to go from being drunk and disorderly to unique in a super-psychologically advanced way… and she wants to do this overnight. No chance! As she walks out the police station it is a matter of seconds before she realizes how unrealistic her aim is. And then her mind drifts, back to what she has lost forever. The loss is so profound that even her own family are no consolation. They are dust compared to her cosmic friendships. But this is especially the case given they do not even know what she has lost. As far as her parents are concerned Jen, Sarah, Lara and Olivia are invisible friends rather like children possess. Elizabeth reflects on their vanishing act. It was like they had experienced so much drama over countless lives that they ceased to be human as their ego had fizzled out completely. Their reaction to Olivia’s murder was calm in Elizabeth’s view.
The next night Elizabeth is again walking down Jen and Olivia’s old street. She really doesn’t care anymore although if there is one saving grace here its that she is sober. She hangs around for about 20 minutes. Then she notices the couple who live at Jen and Olivia’s old house rush out in what seems to be a panic. She hears Michael shouting
“WE CAN BE THERE IN 10 MINUTES. HURRY UP GET IN THE CAR!”
His girlfriend, Jane, says something partly inaudible about not having the keys to lock the door but Michael responds clearly
“F*** IT! JUST GET IN!”
And with some screeching of tires the car speeds off.
Elizabeth walks into the house.
She helps herself to wine like old times.
She speaks out loud to herself… “does this count as breaking and entering or just the latter? The front door was open.”
In her depressed mind-state, she slumped her back against the kitchen fridge as she drank wine from the bottle… her thoughts are rather scattered and desperate… not forming any healthy course of action or direction… other than into complete collapse.
Then for the first time since before her memories returned she felt a surge of positivity as she heard something coming from the front room.
Because suddenly Oasis’ Live Forever came on by itself on the DVD player.
Tears of joy overwhelmed Elizabeth… she ran into the front room right up to the DVD player. And there was an A4 piece of paper with a scribbled note on it. It read
“I AM ALWAYS LOOKING OUT FOR YOU! I AM YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL. LOVE OLIVIA”.
Elizabeth, hanging onto the note from Olivia, then heard a door slam. It sounded like the front door. Elizabeth ran to the front door, opened it and ran out. There she was met by a woman of about 40 to 45 years old who shouted
“WHO WAS THAT WHO CAME OUT OF YOUR HOUSE? SHE VANISHED BEFORE MY VERY EYES. WHO WAS IT? WHO WAS IT? WHAT WAS IT???”
Elizabeth looked the woman in the eye and calmly said
“Olivia. My Guardian Angel.”
Elizabeth observes that the piece of paper with Olivia’s message has also vanished. But she is on a high.
Elizabeth goes back in the house. Cleans up after herself so that the couple who live there do not suspect anyone has been in their home. She even tops the wine bottle up with water. Maybe they will choose another wine next time. And finally she takes herself away from hanging around the couple’s house.
Elizabeth wonders if Michael and Jane saw Olivia materialize (out of nothing) in their home or was there panic over something more down to earth such as a family member involved in an accident? Elizabeth guesses the former but she doesn’t know. What she does know is that she is grateful that one of her cosmic friends is listening when she speaks to her.
That night back in her family home she asks Olivia a question out-loud… and then goes to sleep. Her question is…
“Why did you leave me?”
Elizabeth is asleep but her sleep is suddenly disturbed by a voice. She awakens and to her astonishment Olivia is there in the room with her and she is saying
“Because we evolved beyond the ego and drama’s of the earthly human condition. I am here now though because you are unable to cope with your loss of so many special friends in one go. We understand that. We would have been the same at your stage of evolutionary development. You need some guidance, some support. That is my job.”
Elizabeth rushes over to Olivia and hugs her more tightly than she has ever hugged anyone before in her life.
“Don’t leave me! Please don’t leave me!”
“You know so much Elizabeth. Understandably you feel very isolated. So yes, I will be here quite often so you maintain sanity and do not become permanently clinically depressed. And so you don’t get in trouble with the law again and again. And so you do not take your own life. I advise you sooner or later get back to turning up at University, maybe straight after the weekend? You are good academically. It would be wrong for you to fail to graduate.”
“I will do almost anything if it means you will hang around. I can’t live without you.”
“Or Jen or Lara or Sarah?”
“Well yeah, I would love to see them too but if I can only see you I aint arguing.”
Olivia hugs Elizabeth and says
“You have come along way since you drugged me and put me under a train.”
Elizabeth ceases eye contact as she doesn’t have a clue what to say to that discomforting comment. Instead she asks
“What are you lot doing now you have evolved?”
“We are like teachers. Helping humans like yourself… but we don’t push them to evolve to the point of vanishing. That is so rare that it would just be constant failure on our part. We just try and keep those suffering to keep healthy within a normal context… keep stable rather than go off the tracks like I wish that train had done.” Olivia laughs.
Elizabeth again doesn’t know how to react to the uncomfortable jokey bit at the end.
Olivia sings
“But you and I will never die. The world is still spinning around. We don’t know why… why why why why…”
This taps Elizabeth’s curiosity. She asks
“Do you still feel an ego identification to Oasis?”
“I can remember it but I can switch it off like a light switch. Its not the same as it was.”
“And you are here to support me. But do you love me? I mean you guys are supporting others now, right?”
“I am here for you. I care. I understand that the loss you felt for us is too much for you to deal with. Not only did you lose four very special friends but that also left you feeling like you are the only person on earth who knows so much about the nature of reality and that you would be considered insane if you blurted it all out. I was there when you were talking to PC Brady at the station. You were right to tell him he wouldn’t understand when he asked what the problem was.”
“So you are here to tell me what to do?”
“No. The Uni thing is an obvious suggestion that I am sure you agree with. But let’s say you cheat on someone or cheat on your essay… like you once did… that’s the stuff of life. I may think you shouldn’t but I don’t own you. Just by being here as your friend, well I am saving your sanity and maybe saving your life. That’s my role.”
“Why didn’t you show yourself visibly at your old house?”
“I had to get you outta there! We don’t live there anymore.”
“How the hell in the previous life when you, Sarah, Lara, Jen vanished did that couple and all there stuff replace you?”
“Complicated. Think of it like a timeline switch or a parallel universe.”
“So how advanced are you to just vanish like that?”
“100% Buddhahood.”
“But I am still an ego. So how much lower level does that make me?”
“Well you are like my pet” says Olivia laughing.
“You laugh but you mean it”
“Well just look at how much people love their pets” replies Olivia.
“So I should think of Oasis Olivia as Buddha now?”
“Its up to you. You can think of me as Olivia, Oasis Olivia, BuddhaOlivia or like I am a beyond human intelligence advanced extraterrestrial”
“I don’t know if that is humor or serious.”
“Its both.”
“You shocked a passerby when you came out of the house and vanished. Do you or anyone else ever do that for a laugh?”
“No.”
“But it does happen.”
“Yeah, you know so due to that incident. The woman who saw that is now basically creating a new timeline as it breaks her eternal recurrence existence.”
“Well isn’t that a good thing?”
“Unanswerable. You are obviously miles beyond eternal recurrence so its safer helping you out. You already change everyone’s eternal recurrence that you come into contact with”
“Yeah, so why are you bothered about doing so. Its more of the same for you.”
“True. But given I am not really of this earth anymore I have more responsibility not to do so.”
“I see.”
“Have a good night’s sleep Elizabeth. I absolutely promise to be back tomorrow morning. Hang around in quiet areas so I can just materialize without being seen. If you go to an Oasis concert I would like to materialize but be unable to do so. Too many witnesses”
“Yeah, I get it.”
Olivia vanished.
Elizabeth felt cured from depression already. Her depression was mainly of course, due to loss/abandonment feelings. But secondly, it was due to knowing so much that no one else would ever believe. Isolation was another cause of her depression. And now she thought the following to herself
I can record Olivia on my phone materializing and dematerializing and make a fortune from it. I won’t allow Olivia to know what I am doing. I will be stealthy.
Another thought she is having is
I want the old ego Olivia back. I’m not going round thinking of her as a beyond human level intelligence extraterrestrial who is treating me like a pet!!!
The next morning Elizabeth was in Salford, and found a discreet alleyway that is deserted. She is armed with her mobile phone which she is pointing in one direction so that when Olivia materializes she will capture it on her phone. Unfortunately Olivia materializes behind her.
“Hello Elizabeth.”
Elizabeth turns round.
“I do see where you are and what you are doing before I materialize. You can’t catch me out. Nice try though.”
Elizabeth replies
“I could make a frigging religion out of this.”
“Lets chat over a coffee.”
“Good idea.”
“So Elizabeth, I accept you need us or at least me. This is a bit of a worry. But I accept that I am saving more than your life.”
“How can you be saving more than my life? Oh wait. You mean my lives?”
“Yup. I think that you would live a miserable life, and either end up in prison or a mental hospital. You would suffer clinical depression or go insane. You might commit suicide. And then you will repeat the life. Not from external reccurrence because you know about all of that. You can’t cope with the loss of your friends. Its very flattering by the way” says Olivia laughing at her final few words.
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“Four deaths in one day of the only people who know as much, indeed more, than I do. And no one else even knows they are just repeating every detail of their previous life. They need to know the nature of reality. They need a trauma and or a culture shock” replies Elizabeth.
They enter a coffee shop. But Olivia is suspicious of Elizabeth’s last comment.
“Hhmmm” says Olivia, thinking that Elizabeth is wanting her to do miracle materializations and de-materializations.
“Almost all humans have shit for brains” says Elizabeth. She orders two lattes.
“I know. I know. But I still think they have to become more aware through their own efforts to a large extent” Olivia says while taking her latte from Elizabeth’s hand.
They find a table.
“I can’t continue to live with a population of people that not only know nothing about reality but are actually merely repeating every last detail of what they did in thousands of previous lives. Its so depressing.”
Olivia puts her hand on her friends hand.
“I am here for you. I understand.”
A tear falls from Elizabeth’s eye.
“I want the old Olivia back.”
Olivia places a finger under Elizabeth’s chin and whispers
“Hey chin up.”
Olivia is aware that Elizabeth’s discovery a handful of lives back about the nature of reality means she can only be with her close friends as she knew them. Maybe she could handle a glitch in the Matrix or a parallel universe. In the former she would still look for her friends at some point and in a parallel universe she would be best off if her friends were as she knows them.
“I’ve never experienced the Void” says Elizabeth.
“I know. But what makes you say that?”
“Lara and Sarah go on a-lot about how you can actually choose your next life there.”
“You are not going to commit suicide Elizabeth. It might not work anyway. You could easily just experience literal rebirth. You are struggling because of loss, because of your isolation and because you feel forced to evolve to catch up and that is indeed profoundly unfair on you.”
“Can you give me fairness?”
“I think so.”
“How?”
“You need to be with parallel universe versions of your friends… who know the truth but aren’t beyond ego.”
“Drink up… and come with me.”
Elizabeth finished her latte. The two women walked out the coffee shop and there was Lara waiting in a car. Elizabeth recognized her instantly. She ran to the car crying with happiness. She got in the car as did Olivia. Olivia says
“TIME TO CURE OUR FRIEND.”
Elizabeth is sat on the back seat. Lara looks back at her and says
“This is going to blow your mind.”
14 minutes into the 15 minute drive back home… there was a sudden great white flash.
“What the f*** was that? What miracle have you done now???”
Seconds later they exit the car outside of Jen and Olivia’s old house.
Olivia explains
“You are in a parallel universe. We are in a parallel universe. Inside that house is Jen, myself, Sarah…
Lara finishes the sentence
“and another me, another Lara.”
Olivia says
“Lets let ourselves in and give them a surprise.”
Elizabeth says
“Wait! Is there another me in there too?”
Lara says
“We are in a parallel universe where you died 2 years ago from cancer.”
“I think I am going to faint” replies Elizabeth.
“So will they in a second”
Lara walks to the door.
She considers just walking in but rings the bell.
Olivia answers and screams as she opens the door to herself, Lara and Elizabeth.
Nevertheless she lets them in.
As they walk into the front room there is shock per se.
The most evolved Lara and the most evolved Olivia explain what happened in the other Universe and how it was threatening to destroy Elizabeth. The most unevolved of the two Olivia’s says
“You should have blackmailed me to stay with endless Oasis and Stockport County gifts.”
Olivia rushes over and hugs Elizabeth.
“I’m so glad to see you again.”
Elizabeth is sick of hearing about Oasis/Stockport County given that Oasis band members are Man City fans.
“You do realize that Oasis are Manchester City fans, right.”
Everyone is feeling high, especially having gone through so much with Elizabeth’s cancer. So they put an old Pointer Sisters song on that reflects that feeling of being high.
“I feel like a UFO buff on the day of Disclosure!” declares Elizabeth.
“Hasn’t that happened where you are from?” asks Jen.
“No” replies Elizabeth.
“What year is it back there?”
“2028.”
“Same here. We got Disclosure in 2021.”
“How?”
“They called it Catastrophic Disclosure when Walters did a Snowden. Everyone thought he was going to prison for a long time but then over 70 others came out in support of him, many of whom broke their NDA’s in doing so. This in-turn snowballed it further.” says Jen.
“Avalanche” replies Elizabeth.
Then advanced Lara and Olivia started hugging their friends, saying
“Goodbye”
Elizabeth guessed what was about to happen.
They vanished.
“How did they get you and themselves to us Elizabeth?”
“F*** knows! Something about being genuinely one hundred percent beyond ego consciousness. But really, that doesn’t make me think that I understand it now! I suppose I would have to be at their level to understand it. But anyway, I am still amazed with the level we are at. You all know about eternal recurrence and living life after life and how trauma is the way that most people snap out of the detailed life repetition right?”
“Yes” answers Sarah. But she continues
“However, here there is a difference that will add to your knowledge”
“What’s that”? asks Elizabeth.
“When UFO Disclosure happened, just over 25% of the modern world’s population remembered.”
“WOW!” replies Elizabeth.
“Yup! Ontological shock, culture shock… like the positive side of the shock coin. As in positive way to break free from eternal recurrence. The negative side of the coin for breaking free from eternal recurrence being things like nearly drowning, nearly dying in a house fire or nearly dying in a car crash and so on.”
“So what about the other 75%?”
“Well they are also slightly out of the eternal recurrence. I mean they aren’t living exactly as before. But they don’t quite believe it. So they are like your family. You effect their life so their life isn’t identical each time but the 76–24 figures are an estimate of percentage of people who will remember their previous life in the next life. The estimate is 76–24 in favour of forgetting.”
“Is that good? I mean it sounds amazingly good compared to most lives I, and you lot have experienced.”
“Unknown. The figures could be wrong. Some fear huge power and control manipulation by the smaller group over the larger group. It is feared they will operate a Control System that is aware of everything that is going to happen… used to enrich themselves and maintain/preserve the system in their own favour.”
“What’s new about that?” replies Elizabeth with genuine sincerity.
Her friends laugh.
Elizabeth looks at her friends and says
“Well thanks for the knowledge. Seems like we have given each other more knowledge. I’ve educated you that the goal, as much as I dislike it, is to overcome ALL Ego… and I mean ALL Ego.”
“Could you tell that your friends from the other universe had done that?” asks Sarah.
“Not really, no. For example when Olivia returned she communicated to me very much at my level. I wondered myself if I were like a pet to her?”
That comment provokes a-little laughter.
Lara bends down slightly and pats the top of both of her legs while asking
“Did she go like this when she was calling you over?”
“Ha Ha, very funny” replies Elizabeth.
She continues
“By the way, the fact that they have inserted me into this universe cures me and worries me. Because while I feel like I am on a high now, they think I need ego and drama. And I know the sort of things that means in all of my other memories from all the other lives I can recall.”
Elizabeth continues focusing on Sarah and Lara
“By the way, why aren’t you two in Brooklyn?”
“We moved” replies Sarah.
“Yeah, about 12 lives back” replies Lara laughing her head off.
Then Lara adds
“I have been a mad Stockport and Oasis fan for the last 2 lifetimes”
“Oh for F***ks sake!” replies Elizabeth. She continues
“Is there no parallel universe that frees me from the Stockport and Oasis madness!?” Elizabeth is half joking. She loves them immensely for who they are.
Olivia and Lara then break into song.
As Whatever finishes the girls hug one another, overjoyed at the return of Elizabeth… when suddenly a brick comes crashing through their window.
The screams are deafening. They fear another brick coming through the window so they take their time to re-compose themselves.
The brick has a note attached to it.
The note reads
TO SARAH AND LARA FROM MIKE FOR YOUR DISLOYALTY AND FOR MY DEATH IN THE CAR CRASH! WATCH YOUR BACKS!!!
“But that was like, nearly a thousand years ago!” shouts Lara.
“Or over a 100 lifetimes ago” replies Sarah.
“Maybe it happened in the last lifetime for him” guesses Jen.
Sarah agrees.
“Yeah! That must be true.”
“Right. Whitney Houston we have a problem. We have an enemy. Ancient Mike Aston!” declares Lara.
Elizabeth says
“Yup! I am back in the ego/drama world. Right where I belong apparently.”
“Stupid Mike f****r. We are rich. Lets go and stay in the most luxury hotel in Manchester for the next so many weeks while our window gets repaired. And if he smashes it again, we just extend our stay. I bet he isn’t rich. Acting like that, he sounds like a newbie to remembering former lives. Even less advanced than you Elizabeth!” states Sarah.
“Cheek!”
Elizabeth continues…
“So what happened with Mike?”
“When we first got together I won Sarah from Mike. We went to a Lakeside cottage and he followed us there. He was even in the cottage under our bed while we were flirting. We did not know at the time obviously. But the next day he followed us from the cottage in his car and tried to ram us off the road. Fortunately he ended up unable to make a turn around the corner and plunged to his death. There’s more to it. But in terms of looking at it from Mikes perspective, that’s the gist of it” says Lara.
“You were one hell of a scheming bitch!” states Sarah who is recalling the more to it context!
“Yeah I had considered getting out of a shower with Sarah at just the same time as Mike would be coming back home. Something like that. Forgive my memory. It was about a hundred lifetimes ago. That was the last life that me and Sarah couldn’t recall previous lives. We broke eternal recurrence after that one.”
“It wasn’t a hundred lifetimes ago for him” replies Sarah.
Jen says
“Lets get to the Lowry hotel before it gets cold in here. Jose Mourinho used to live in that hotel when he was Man Utd manager. That’s how rich we are Elizabeth.”
“Yup, I know, its like that in most of the universes I think.”
The women walk out of the house but this is a mistake. Mike Aston is stood outside a white van. He approaches the women. He points a gun at them and says
“GET IN THE VAN! CONFORM OR I SHOOT ONE OF YOU DEAD IN 10 SECONDS TIME. WANT TO RISK YOURSELF? WANT TO RISK A LOVER? WANT TO RISK A FRIEND? IF NOT THEN GET THE F**K IN THE VAN RIGHT NOW!!! ANYONE REFUSING TO GET IN THE VAN WILL NOT BE SHOT DEAD… BUT ONE BY ONE A LOVED ONE WILL BE SHOT DEAD SO GET THE F**K IN!!!”
Mike starts counting to 10. But they all get in quickly.
He gets in the drivers seat. His intention is simple. It is to kill Sarah and Lara and to let the rest go.
He recalls that his death was the result of failing to take the turn on a country road. So he takes them to a country road on the outskirts of Manchester.
He opens the back of the van.
“Sarah. Lara. Get out.”
“You don’t scare us!” declares Lara.
“Ahh the woman who stole my girl speaks.”
“F*** me! It was ages ago… talk about not being able to get over it!” replies Lara.
“For me it was moments ago!” shouts Mike.
Lara then insults Mike.
“Well you see, in your time Sarah was a psychiatrist. She preferred to treat Mental patients rather than get into bed with them!”
Sarah spoke up before Mike responded.
“Mike, we are very rich. We can pay you off.”
“I want to hurt you. I don’t want your money.”
Mike continues
“Right. Sarah, Lara, stand on the edge of the cliff!”
“Why?” asks Lara.
“Why do you think? JUST DO IT!!!”
Olivia shouts
“Are you planning on killing them?”
“Absolutely” replies Mike.
“Well as you know, their consciousness is indestructible so it won’t work” replies Olivia.
“Ahh yes, but they still don’t want to die. That’s why Sarah just tried to placate me with money.”
Olivia goes to speak again but Mike points the gun at her
“SHUT UP! I know what you are doing… delaying your friends death.”
Olivia conforms.
Mike continues
“SARAH! LARA! STAND ON THE EDGE OF THE F*****G CLIFF!”
Sarah and Lara make moves to the edge of the cliff… a little too slowly for Mikes liking.
“I HATE BOTH OF YOU BITCHES!!! I HAVE DREAMED OF THIS MOMENT!”
“F***K YOU!!!” shouts Jen from the back of the van. Who continues
“If you shoot them I will personally avenge it. Is that what you want? Permanent war?”
Sarah and Lara are stood on the edge of the cliff.
Mike ignores Jen.
He has the gun pointed at Sarah and Lara as if they were German traitors to Hitler in the 1930s or 40s and being lined up for assassination.
He is about to shoot them both dead when the Lara that brought Elizabeth into this universe walks up behind Mike and puts a gun to his head… and she pulls the trigger.
The other women swarm their hero LARA and hug her, overwhelmed with love for her.
“What stops him simply returning again and again?” asks Jen.
The heroic Lara answers
“He is always at a disadvantage due to there being more of us. And me and Sarah and indeed all of us recall our past lives before him. This is the closest he ever gets. Believe me, I’ve done this before. You are safe now.”
Heroic Lara then vanishes before her cosmic friends eyes like a UFO blinking out of existence.
“Oh wow, she is a miracle” says the less advanced Lara, showing off for her other self.
“Well I saved John Lennon’s life in another universe” says Olivia.
Elizabeth takes in what is being said and notes
“Clearly I am in the ego world.”
Olivia quoting Lennon declares
“Instant Karma is gonna get you. Gonna knock you on the head. You better think about it darling. Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead!”
The women get in Mikes van and drive to the Lowry hotel.
“I was in the most luxurious hotel in Manchester with Lennon in another universe” declares Olivia.
She continues
“The Lowry hadn’t been established yet.”
“Oh so what! I slept with Noel Gallagher in a previous Universe” replies Lara.
“No you did NOT!” replies Olivia.
Lara did NOT sleep with Noel Gallagher in a previous universe.
Elizabeth joke prays to heroic Lara saying “Advanced Lara… please come back and send me to a parallel universe where my friends are a-little less ego inflated.”
2 Weeks later
The girls are back at Olivia and Jen’s house rocking out to Morning Glory.
Mike Aston has returned from the Void and is within 5 yards of their front door. But the advanced and heroic Lara is right behind him. She puts a bullet in the back of his head again. Everywhere Mike Aston goes advanced Sarah and Lara are right behind him. They protect their less advanced friends like the cosmic protectors they are. Mike Aston has no way of getting around this.
Mike Aston lies dead on the doorstep of Jen Wilson and Olivia Hargreaves home as Oasis hit song Morning Glory is blasting out on max volume.
The next morning Sarah and Lara walk out the house to buy some milk. Sarah looks at the body on the doorstep of her friends home and says
“Better luck next time Mike.”
Part 2: Victims of Crime
1 month later
Sarah and Lara have memorized football scores for todays and tomorrows upcoming Premier League football fixtures and they are in Ladbrokes placing a bet on the exact score-lines. The profit made them multi-millionaires.
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But on this timeline the women are slanted towards ego hence they contacted the local news media to show off and receive some attention. The local news media were all over the story. It made the headline on the local TV News, and the headline in the Manchester Post Newspaper and then it went national and made national TV and national Newspaper headlines. It also went viral. It then hit the magazines and even made news abroad especially as they said that their best friends have won similarly big. Podcasts online asked “Are they Psychic?” and “Are they time-travelers?”
Lara and Sarah are now living at the Lowry Hotel until they can be bothered to buy a nice house. Elizabeth is house hunting but she is also happy to stay at the Lowry and other times stay at Olivia and Jen’s working class terrace house.
Over the next 12 nights a car patrols the street Olivia and Jen live on as if they were cops on a stakeout or perhaps professional burglars researching when the home owners of a specific house go out. The suspicious people in the car manage to be discreet enough to go un-noticed.
Location: Olivia and Jen’s House, Stockport
Date: 22 September 2028
Time: 7pm
The women are celebrating Lara and Sarah’s big wins now that the press have stopped turning up at the Lowry and stopped turning up here at Olivia and Jen’s house. These celebrations are due to the fact that it has not been that many lifetimes that they have been able to do this. So it still excites them.
“How much did you spend on your shopping spree at the Trafford Centre?” Jen asks Sarah.
“Lets just say it was in the low thousands.”
“Disgraceful” says Olivia who continues
“Look how modest we live in this Terrace.”
“Yeah, but you splash out” replies Jen.
Lara chips in with
“Low thousands between two. More like a thousand each.”
“Well that’s a bit better” replies Olivia.
Sarah shows off some of her clothes purchases.
Olivia for once starts to sing a Non-Oasis song. She sings Material Girl by Madonna.
Lara cracks open a bottle of champagne. And she actually starts playing Material Girl on Youtube at full blast, played out on a widescreen on the front-room wall.
Living in a Material World and I am a Material Girl. You know that we are living in a Material World and I am Material Girl.
When the songs stop playing Sarah (who has been a psychiatrist in hundreds of previous lives) says
“I did buy something brainy. Does anyone else on this planet other than us understand that the nature of reality is rather how can I put it… [the previous song they were singing and dancing to decides her wording] beyond scientific materialism? So I purchased a book titled Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal.”
Jen eye-rolls saying
“What’s the point. We know what the nature of reality is. Jung is just wishy washy. He doesn’t tell the reader what the nature of reality is because he does not know.”
Elizabeth then lets herself in the house.
“HI GIRLIES” she shouts.
She picks up the Jung book and slams it to the floor saying
“Don’t read Jung. Just take DMT. Then you get closer to REALITY”
Lara empathizes
“Experience beats the word any-day”
Although she goes beyond the empathy by adding
“However, DMT is boring. We know the Void through countless experience. We know about countless past lives. We can recall them so much we get RICCCHHHH” she shouts as she throws a bag of twenty pound notes in the air, that all come back down on her like confetti.
Olivia says
“I still like DMT” as she is stands smiling like a cheshire cat with twenty pound notes raining down on her head.
Sarah sings “I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it. I’m about to lose control and I think I like it.”
Next to play on wide screen Youtube is Sinatra’s Who wants to be a Millionaire?
Sarah shouts
“I remember you singing that when seriously pissed during your Psy-Op”.
Elizabeth thinks to herself that sounds interesting but chooses to sing along instead of asking about the Psy-Op.
Lara grabs another bottle of Champagne. She shakes it and then opens it. Champagne sprays everywhere. The women’s faces and clothes are getting soaked as they jump up and down with smiling faces. They start singing at full volume
“I’M SO EXCITED AND I JUST CAN’T HIDE IT! I’M ABOUT TO LOSE CONTROL AND I THINK I LIKE IT! I’M SO EXCITED AND I JUST CAN’T HIDE… AND I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW, I WANT YOU!”
They start joyfully dancing around the room
“OH I WANT TO LOVE YOU, FEEL YOU, WRAP MYSELF AROUND YOU, I WANT TO SQUEEZE YOU, PLEASE YOU. I JUST CAN’T GET ENOUGH. AND IF YOU MOVE REAL SLOW I’LL LET IT GO… I’M SO EXCITED, I JUST CAN’T HIDE IT…
Suddenly the atmosphere changed ONE HUNDRED PER CENT as three armed men in balaclava’s burst into the house.
“ON THE FLOOR NOW!!!!!! HANDS ON YOUR HEAD WHERE WE CAN SEE THEM!!!!”
The women comply.
Sarah, Lara, Elizabeth, Jen and Olivia are on their knees with their hands on their heads. One of the armed men walks over to Sarah and with a gun he pushes her back so she falls onto her front. He then ties her hands together. He repeats this process on all the other women.
Sarah incredibly dares to speak. She says to her friends
“We didn’t go to the press in our previous life. So recurrence was no advantage to us.”
One of the armed gangsters brings his gun down in Sarah’s back, giving her painful bruising. He then says
“The super rich typically have access to high-end banking services that allow them to transfer large sums of money quickly and securely. So… Lets do it girls! Otherwise one of you gets to discover what happens when you die!”
Twenty minutes later the gangsters are each over ￡300,000 richer as Sarah and Lara transfer ￡330,000 to each of their accounts.”
The gangsters steal a bottle of champagne and make their exit.
Sarah phones the police.
The robbery was a shock for the women but none of them suffered clinical PTSD because none of them fear death. Elizabeth again thinks that advanced versions of her friends brought her here knowing these drama’s would happen. But bizarrely, her mental health is much better here despite being robbed at gunpoint.
None of the women can remember any other football score-lines hence they decide to go back to the news media arguing their case that they were aware of the previous score-lines because they are reincarnated into the same life as before. This splits public opinion. Some people think it must be true not only because its almost impossible to predict an entire weekends exact scorelines but also because their stake was so high. Others say it must have been luck arguing that they can’t repeat it and that proves it was luck. But most people believe them because Sarah and Lara’s best friends had done exactly the same thing and making exactly the same claim about reincarnation into the same life. But its only a slim majority that believe them because the sceptics argue that they couldn’t even foresee their own traumatic robbery. Nevertheless their fame further increases and they win back the money they lost by winning themselves interviews with various news media outlets on TV, in print newspapers, with glossy magazines and with an online podcast. For example they were paid a fortune by CNN and they went over to the States as part of the agreement. ITV contacted them about a TV Drama they were going to screen about them… and started to negotiate terms with the women.
Location: Jen and Olivia’s house
Date: 4 November 2028
Around 6 weeks has passed since the robbery. And the women are discussing Olivia and Jen’s reluctant view that they will have to move out of their beloved terrace house, and get a luxury home with a sizeable safe room.
“Anyway, lets chill girls” says Lara handing Olivia a pipe to smoke DMT.
“I come bearing gifts” continues Lara as Olivia takes the pipe.
“Oh yeah. I will be seeing gnomes any minute”
“She doesn’t cough” states Sarah.
“That’s because I’ve done this before” replies Olivia.
“Many times” adds Jen knowing her girlfriend well enough to be able to provide an approximate number of times if asked.
“What do you prefer. money, Jen, Stockport County, Oasis or DMT?” asks Sarah.
“Ermmm, in 5th place Jen…”
The women burst out laughing. And then, would you believe it, 3 men in balaclava’s burst their way into their home AGAIN.
“ON YOUR KNEES! ON YOUR KNEES! ON YOUR KNEES!”
The women comply again, going onto their knees and placing their hands on their heads.
One of the gangsters forcefully shoves the back of each woman forcing them onto their front.
Suddenly Mike enters through the open door and he’s armed. He has come to kill Sarah and Lara. Just as he enters the front room advanced Lara blinks into existence out of nowhere and she shoots Mike dead.
The gangsters turn their guns onto advanced Lara. One of them shouts
“ON YOUR KNEES!!!!!!!!!! NOOWWW!!!!”
But advanced Lara instantly vanishes out of existence. The other Lara fears they’ll think she is advanced Lara. But they don’t because, well, from their perspective how could that be possible? Although vanishing in and out of existence isn’t possible either in their opinion.
“WHAT THE F***!!!!!!” shouts one of the gangsters as the others look around the room as if advanced Lara was just hiding behind the couch.
“WHERE THE F*** IS SHE????” shouts another of the gangsters.
The women are now more optimistic that they’ll win this one with a little help from their more advanced cosmic selves.
Suddenly advanced Lara blinks back into existence with advanced Olivia and Sarah. They just appear out of thin air and each woman has a gun in their hand and placed on the back of each of the three gangster robbers heads.
Advanced Sarah shouts
“ON YOUR F*****G KNEES NOW!!!”
The police are contacted and the gangsters are arrested. When the police arrive they enter a bizarre scene whereby there appears to be two Lara’s, two Sarah’s and two Olivia’s. But the police put that to the back of their minds and focus on getting these vile gangsters behind bars. As for Mike lying dead on the floor, they think that he was one of the gangsters although they are amazed that he didn’t wear a balaclava.
The Next Day
The women are at the Lowry Hotel Bar.
They are all supping wine. Elizabeth picks up a spoon and stands up while holding her wine in one hand and hitting it with the spoon in the other.
“May I have your attention please.”
Her friends stop chatting and look at Elizabeth who shouts
“I F*****G LOVE THIS TIMELINE!”
THE END.