Lisslike: the story of the CHOPROFF.

"Hello Liss.", the Choproff said when I entered the academy.

"Hi Choproff. Ready for the interview?", I asked. He said "Yes".

"So. I have an important question.", I said. "How was your life before you became a famous professor?"

"Ah.. An interesting question... Many people ask me this question. I will tell you the story about me. A long time ago..."

Matt was playing with his magic cube. He loved this toy. Matt was very intellegent. Math was his favourite hobby. The magic cube was finished so he grabbed his play crate. When he wanted to get a new toy he found an unknown apparatus.

"Dad! What is this?", Matt shouted. He held up the grey apparatus. Matt's dad told him that this was a time machine. Matt asked, if it worked.

"No. And you really shouldn't try to use it.", Matt's dad said. He was serious. It could be dangerous. Matt nodded.

Although his father said that he shouldn't try to use it, he was very curios. The time machine layed on dad's table. Should he try it? Maybe it would work... Or he could make it work. So he grabbed the apparatus. It was probably the big red button which would bring him in an other time. When he would press the button he would come in an other time... He could bring his grandma back. His grandma which died while a car crash. He could safe her. Then she would be here and he could hear her old storys. Without thinking he pressed the red button. The world blurred in front of his eyes.

July, 1946.

"What is this?", Matt asked himself when he saw the city in front of him. It looked... old. Without flying cars! And the people wore other clothes. Where did he land?

He knew where he landed. But he couldn't realize it. He was in the past!

"Oh my god. This didn't happen. This is a dream!", he thought. Wait! Didn't his dad say, it wouldn't work? Oh, man. He just wanted to stop him using the time machine... A man walked next to him.

"Hey, you there.", Matt said. The man looked at him questioningly.

"Which year do we have?", the boy asked. The man shaked his head. Matt understood that. Which person would ask after the year?!

"Did you fall on your head? Or why do you ask this?", the man asked. Matt sighed. Why did he ask this question?

"Now he thinks that I'm crazy. Oh man. What could I do?", he thought. Now he had to have a great idea to explain why he asked after the year.

"Uhm.. This... was just a joke...", he said. The man didn't say anything. Matt didn't seemed like making a joke.

"I don't think you are saying the truth. What is?" Matt became nervous. What should he do now?

"Okay." He sighed. Should he say the truth? "I come from a different time. 1971."

"Are you sure that you didn't fall on your head?", the man asked a second time.

"Yeah. There was a time machine in my play crate. My dad created it." The man's eyes became big.

"You... How does it look like?", he asked. Matt didn't understand. Why did he ask that?

"Uhm. It is a grey apparatus with a big red button. Around the button are colorful lamps.", he said. The man's face seemed shocked.

"I have a time machine like that. But it doesn't work." Matt was near to faint. Who is this person?

"Are you okay?", the man asked after they went to his home.

"I think so. Why do you have this time machine?", he asked. He looked at his cup of cocoa.

"Oh, I wanted to travel in the time. Sounds exciting, I think. So I tried to make a time machine. You know, I am a scientist. But the time machine doesn't work...", he said while he made a cup of coffee. They sat in the man's kitchen.

"Okay..." He gulped. This was too much for him. "Ah. What's your name by the way?"

"Richard."

"Richard? And your last name?"

"Brown. Why do you ask?" What? This couldn't be a coincidence. This... would be so weird. Matt was shocked."What's up?", Richard asked.

"You are... my dad...", he whispered.

"What?"

"Uhm... That can't be true, I haven't got a child...", Richard said. He was shocked. What was this kid in front of him?

"Forgotten? I come from the future. You will get me in a few years."

"But... Who is your mother?", Richard said. Oh god. This was too much for him.

"I won't tell you. It could change the future.", Matt said. He calmed down. It was crazy. But maybe just a dream? It felt so real but dreams feel real sometimes.

Richard asked Matt after his age.

"So... You are just 4 years old, huh? But... you are very smart! When I think of a four year old kid I think of little boys who only can talk a little bit. But you! You understand everything! God. Will I have such a smart kid?", Richard said. Matt blushed.

"Uhm... Yes.", he said only. What should he reply? "Ri-... Dad?"

"H...Hm?" Richard stammered after like 10 seconds. Yesterday he even couldn't think of a boy who would say "Dad" to him!

"So... Where is the time machine? You know, I have to go home. My dad- Your future-you will be very angry."

"Just a second.", Richard said and walked to the living room. Matt sighed when Richard was in the living room. He thought about all the things which happened in the last time. Didn't he want to do something in the past? He forgot that! He couldn't go home now. There was something he should do. But first he had to repair the time machine.

"You should change the button. It is broken."

"But I couldn't see that it was broken. Where did you idenfity that? It seemed like everything was okay.", Richard said confused. He felt as if he was silly. His own son knew more than him. A four year old son!

"You aren't a scienist so long, huh? Your future-you is smarter.", Matt said while he searched after a new button. "Where is a button which I could put in?"

"On the desk."

Matt took the button and went to the machine. He had already taken the button out of the apparatus.

"Matt?", Richard asked. Matt looked up. "Why did you use the time machine?" Matt looked down.

"This is something what I can't say."

"Why?"

"Because it also affects you.", Matt said and was nearly to cry. Richard's eyes became big.

"What?", he asked. Matt couldn't hold it back. He had to cry.

"Uhm... Matt...", Richard whispered. His own future-kid sat in his kitchen and cried. But he couldn't say why he cried.

"I want to change something...", Matt said.

"What? You want to change the past?", Richard asked. Matt cried continously now.

"Yea...", Matt stuttered. Richard sighed.

"Matt...", he whispered. "You can't change the past. It would be very dangerous. Even if you change little things, it could change the future drastically.

The home of the Browns, 1971

"Matt?", a man said when he came in Matt's room. It was the man from the past, just a few years older. Matt's dad. He saw the time machine on the floor.

"Matt?!", he screamed. No! "Damn!" This couldn't be true. He said it to him!

"Matt...", Richard whispered. He saw the year on the button. 1946. What did he want to to?

"I will save you.", he said and pressed the button.

Year 1946

"That doesn't matter for me!", he screamed. He ran out of the house. The only thing he wanted to do... Nobody could understand him. Why?

"Granny, I'm coming!"

Matt ran to the old house of his grandma. It looked like one year ago. (1950) He knocked on the door. A few seconds later the door opened. His grandma stood in the door.

"... Who are you...?", she asked. He didn't think of that. His grandma didn't know him! He didn't exist in this year. How did he imagine that? 'Hi grandma, you will die in the year 1950 because of a car crash. So please be careful at the 4. September.' What a rubbish!

"Uhm...", he stuttered. What should he say?!

"Matt!", a voice shouted. "Ah! Hi mommy." It was his dad! But his real dad! What did he do here?! Matt was shocked.

"Matt, I searched you everywhere.", his dad said. What?

"Uhm... Who is he? And why do you look like this?", Granny asked. It hurt that Matt's grandma didn't recognize him. His dad didn't answer why he looked different like his younger-him.

"My neighbors wanted to eat in a restaurant but they didn't know what to do with him, so I said 'I will take him with me'.", my dad said. "Sooo... Matt? Let's go."

"Okay. Keep an eye on him!", my granny said. "I hope he doesn't get lost a second time."

"Of course not. Bye, mom. Say 'Bye' to my mom, Matt."

"Bye.", he said sadly. He wouldn't see her again...

When Matt's grandma went into her house, Matt looked at his dad. "Dad! What do you do here?!", he screamed.

"You are asking me this? What is with you?! I said you can't go into the past!", his dad said, a little bit quieter.

"I just don't want Granna to die.", Matt said between his tears.

"Listen. Everybody will have to die someday. You can't stop this." He wiped away Matt's tears but Matt still cried.

"Matt..."

"Matt? Where were you?!", Matt's younger dad said when Matt and his father came back. "Wait... You... ME?!" He pointed to his future-him.

"I am from the future. The father of my... uhm... our Matt."

"Oh god...", the past-dad said. "Give me just a second." Tick Tock Tick Tock... "Okay. So... Do you wanna go back to your home?", he asked. He didn't want to know now why Matt ran away. He would know it in a few years. The only thing he wanted to do now, was to relax on the sofa while watching football and eating crisps.

"Yes, I think so. Matt?", my dad answered.

"Yea. I can't cange the past..." He was sad. He couldn't see his grandmother a second time. But... he knew, it was good like this.

"Okay. The time machine is ready.", the past-Richard said. Matt thought about all the things for a moment.

"Wait.", he said. The two Richards looked at him.

"What is it?", they asked. What did he want to do?

"I wanna do something.", Matt said while he was smiling.

"...and what?", the two asked.

"Just wait.", he said and ran out of the house.

"Bye, Granny.", he said when he stayed in front of the house. He laid a letter in front of the door. He drew the picture some time ago when his grandma was dead. Then he ran away, to his two dads.

"Ready.", he said when he entered the house. He took his fathers hand.

"Let's go." They heard a last "Bye" from Richard. Then they closed their eyes and traveled home.