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I couldn’t believe it. My “future” mother really had the hots for me? Hopefully everything will turn out right, and everything will be back to normal.

“Whoa, this is heavy!” I exclaimed to Doc. Then Doc said, “There's that word again, ‘heavy’. Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?” “What?” I asked? “The only way we're gonna get those two to successfully meet, is if they're alone together. So you've got to get your father and mother to interact at some sort of social-“ I interrupted and said, “What do you mean, a date?” He then replied, “Right.” I then asked, “What kind of date? I don't know, what do kids do in the fifties?” He then said, “Well, they're your parents, you must know them. What are there common interests? What do they like to do together?” I then said, “Nothing,” We walked to a poster in the hallway. Then Doc exclaimed, “Look, there's a rhythmic ceremonial ritual coming up.” Then I added quickly, “Of course, the Enchantment under the Sea Dance they're supposed to go to this, that's where they kiss for the first time!” Then Doc said, “Alright kid, you stick to your father like glue and make sure that he takes her to the dance.” It was now lunch time, and I found my “future” father sitting at a table. I walked over and sat next to him. “George, buddy. Remember that girl I introduced you to, Loraine.” I saw he was writing something, “What are you writing?” He then said, “Uh, stories, science fiction stories, about visitors coming down to Earth from another planet.” I was so surprised, “Get out of town! I didn't know you did anything creative. Ah, let me read some.” He got real nervous. “Oh, no no no, I never uh, I never let anybody read my stories.” “Why not,” I pleaded. “Well, what if they didn't like them, what if they told me I was no good. I guess that would be pretty hard for somebody to understand,” he said. I know where I got that from. I then said, “Uh no, not hard at all. So anyway, George, now Loraine, she really likes you. She told me to tell you that she wants you to ask her to the Enchantment under the Sea Dance.” “Really?” he asked. “Oh yeah, all you got to do is go over there and ask her,” I claimed. “What, right here right now in the cafeteria? What is she said no? I don't know if I could take that kind of rejection. Besides, I think she'd rather go with somebody else,” said me dad. “Who?” I asked. “Biff.” We listened into Loraine’s and Biff’s conversation they were having. “Come on, come on,” said Biff to Loraine. “Leave me alone!” insisted my “future” mother. Then Biff said, “You want it, you know you want it, and you know you want me to give it to you.” Then she said, “Shut your filthy mouth, I'm not that kind of girl.” “Well maybe you are and you just don't know it yet,” insisted Biff. “Get your meat hooks off of me!” said Loraine. I walked over to them. I then said to Biff, “You heard her, she said get your meat hooks, off, uh please.” He then said, “So what's it to you, butthead. You know you've been looking for a, since you're new here, I'm gonna cut you a break, today. So why don't you make like a tree, and get out of here.” I left. School was now over. I found George walking home, I exclaimed, “George!” He then asked, “Why do you keep following me around?” I then said, “Look, George, I'm telling you George, if you do not ask Loraine to that dance, I'm gonna regret it for the rest of my life.” He then said, “But I can't go to the dance, I'll miss my favorite television program, Science Fiction Theater.” Then I said, “Yeah but George, Loraine wants to go with you. Give her a break.” Then George said, “Look, I'm just not ready to ask Loraine out to the dance, and not you, nor anybody else on this planet is gonna make me change my mind.” He walked into his house. “Science Fiction Theatre,” I said to myself. It was night now, and I decided to sneak over to George’s house. Everyone was sleeping in his house. I dressed as Darth Vader. He might believe me now. I found him in his room. When I came in he said in a scared voice, “Who are you?” I then said, “Silence Earthling. My name is Darth Vader. I'm an extra-terrestrial from the planet Vulcan.” I then convinced him to go to the dance with Loraine. The next day, George didn’t go to school. He found me though after school. “Marty, Marty, Marty!” I turned around, “Hey, George, buddy, you weren't at school, what have you been doing all day?” He then said, “I over slept, look I need your help. I have to ask Loraine out but I don't know how to do it!” I then said, “Alright, okay listen, keep your pants on, she's over in the café. God, how do you do this? What made you change your mind, George?” He then said, “Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan. And he told me that if I didn't take Loraine, that he'd melt my brain.” It really worked, I thought to myself. Then I said, “Yeah, well uh, let’s keep this brain melting stuff to ourselves, okay?” Then he said, “Oh yeah, yeah.” We walked over to Lou’s Café. We were standing outside the restaurant. Then I said, “Alright, okay. Alright, there she is, George. Just go in there and invite her.” He then said nervously, “Okay, but I don't know what to say.” Then I said back, “Just say anything, George, say whatever is natural, the first thing that comes to your mind.” “Nothing is coming to my mind,” he commented. Then I said, “Boy, George, it's a wonder I was ever born.” In a confused voice he said, “What, what?” Then I said back quickly, “Nothing, nothing, nothing, look tell her destiny has brought you together, tell her that she's the most beautiful you have ever seen. Girls like that stuff.” I looked over at George, “What, what are you doing George?” He then said, “I’m writing this down, this is good stuff.” “Yeah, Okay,” I said. “Oh,” he responded. “Let’s go,” I said as we started to walk toward the entrance. Then he walked over to the counter and said to Lou, “Lou, give me a milk, chocolate!” Lou passed it to him and he drank it in one gulp! He then went over to the table where Loraine and her friends were sitting. He said to Loraine, “Loraine, my density has popped me to you.” She stared at him and said, “What?” Then he said, “Oh what I meant was- “Loraine interrupted him. “Hey, don’t I know you from somewhere?” Then he said, “Yes, yes, I'm George, George McFly, and I'm your density. I mean, I'm your destiny.” “Oh,” she said. Then all of a sudden Biff and his friends walked in. He then said to my dad, “Hey, McFly, I thought I told you never to come in here. Well it's gonna cost you. How much money you got on you?” My Dad then said, “Well, Biff.” “Alright, punk now- “He was about to hurt my Dad I had to do something and quickly. I then said, “Whoa, whoa, Biff, what's that?” He turned to look. I swung my fist at him, but he caught my fist. I burst out of the restaurant and ran over to two kids with a wooden box with wheels. I said, “Whoa, whoa, kid, kid, stop, stop, stop, stop.” I took the wooden box thing and took of a piece of wood that had two wheels on it. One of the kids said, “Hey!” “I'll get it back to you, alright?” I promised. I took the piece of wood with wheels and skating with it. It worked just as good as my skateboard in 1985. I then realized that Biff and his friends were getting into a car. They were going after me. I heard the kids I borrowed the skateboard from say, “You broke it. Wow, look at him go!” Everyone was in awe. They have never seen a skateboard before until this very second. Everyone thought I was amazing. I then clung onto the back of a car and rode along with them. Biff and his friends were catching up. They were only looking at me, not the road. They were trying to ram me. All of a sudden, they crashed into a manure truck that was in the way of their path. It fell all over them, even in their mouths. They were all steaming. Everyone thought I was really cool. Even my “future” mom that said I was an absolute dream. I went back to Doc’s house. I opened the door and came in. He was sitting next to his TV watching the Doc I knew say, “My god, they found me. I don't know how but they found me. Run for it, Marty!!” Doc sitting next to the TV kept on replaying and replaying that part, trying to figure out what was happening.


I felt the microscopic pieces, which were my heart, suddenly dissolve into my blood. Now, I couldn’t never ever and ever put them back together. My heart would never be the same again. I could barely hold back my tears. I couldn’t bare the sight of the 1955 Doc watching that terrible moment, which I lost my best friend.


“Doc,” I said to the Doc crouched around the TV. “Oh, hi, Marty. I didn't hear you come in. Fascinating device, this video unit,” he said. “Listen, Doc, you know there's something I haven't told you about the night we made that tape,” I said sadly. He answered and said, “Please, Marty, don't tell me, no man should know too much about their own destiny.” “You don’t understand,” I said pleadingly. “I do understand. If I know too much about my own future I could endanger my own existence, just as you endangered yours,” he said. “Your, your, right,” I said starting to burst out in tears.

“Let me show you my plan for sending you home. Please excuse the crudity of this model; I didn't have time to build it to scale or to paint it,” he said. “It’s good,” I said back, trying to be happy. “Oh, thank you, thank you. Okay now, we run some industrial strength electrical cable from the top of the clock tower down to spreading it over the street between two lamp posts. Meanwhile, we out-fitted the vehicle with this big pole and hook which runs directly into the flux-capacitor. At the calculated moment, you start off from down the street driving toward the cable execrating to eighty-eight miles per hour. According to the flyer, at 10:04 PM, lightning will strike the clock tower sending one point twenty-one gigawatts into the flux-capacitor, sending you back to 1985. Alright now, watch this. You wind up the car and release it, I'll simulate the lightning. Ready, set, release. The car went down the model like he said it was supposed to. But, the whole car caught on fire. “You extol me with a lot of confidence, Doc,” I said. Doc promised, “Don't worry, I'll take care of the lightning, you take care of your dad. By the way, what happened today, did he ask her out?” I replied, “Uh, I think so.” Then Doc said, “What did she say?” There was a knock on the door. “It's your mom, she's tracked you down. Quick, let's cover the time machine.” We covered the time machine and opened the door. “Hi, Marty,” said Loraine. Quickly I said, “Uh, Loraine. How did you know I was here?” Then guiltily she said, “I followed you.” I then introduced her to Doc, “Oh, uh, this is my Doc, Uncle, Brown.” Loraine said, “Hi.” Doc said, “Hello,” back. Loraine then said, “Marty, this may seem a little forward, but I was wondering if you would ask me to the Enchantment under the Sea Dance on Saturday?” I was absolutely shocked. My “future” mother was asking me out on a date! I quickly and nervously said, “Uh, you mean nobody's asked you?” Loraine said, “No not yet.” “What about George?” I asked. “George McFly? Oh, he's kinda cute and all, but, well, I think a man should be strong, so he could stand up for himself, and protect the woman he loves. Don't you?” she said, trying to convince me of going with her. I was scared out of my mind. “Yeah,” I said. She left. I guess now I was going to the dance with her. I went over to George’s house. I found George outside. “I still don't understand, how am I supposed to go to the dance with her, if she's already going to the dance with you?” “Cause, George, she wants to go to the dance with you, she just doesn't know it yet. That's why we got to show her that you, George McFly, are a fighter. You're somebody who's gonna stand up for yourself, someone who's gonna protect her,” I said to him. “Yeah, but I never picked a fight in my entire life,” he admitted. “Your not gonna be picking a fight, Dad, dad dad daddy-o. You're coming to the rescue, right? Okay, let's go over the plan again. 8:55, where are you gonna be?” I asked him. I’m gonna be at the dance. “Right, and where am I gonna be?” I asked. “You're gonna be in the car with her.” “Right, okay, so right around 9:00 she's gonna get very angry with me,” I said. “Why is she gonna get angry with you?” he asked. “Well, because George, nice girls get angry when guys take advantage of them,” I said. “Oh, you mean you're gonna touch her on her-” I interrupted and said, “No, no, George, look, it's just an act, right? Okay, so 9:00 you're strolling through the parking lot, you see us struggling in the car, you walk up, you open the door and you say, your line, George.” He then said, “Oh, uh, hey you get your hands off her.” “Okay, so now, you come up, you punch me in the stomach; I'm out for the count, right? And you and Loraine live happily ever after,” I told him. “Oh, you make it sound so easy. I just, I wish I wasn't so scared,” said George. “George, there's nothing to be scared of. All it takes is a little self confidence. You know, if you put your mind to it, you could accomplish anything.”


Heart Broken,
-Marty McFly