Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 12 | Page 314

Back to the Past
Lycee Francais de Shanghai , Depres , Maylis - 10

T onight , like every night , Windi and Hugo , two friends and orphans are sleeping in their room . They live in

Shanghai . They are inventors and they are making a time machine to go back to the past to see their parents . This morning , on the 21 st of July , Windi woke up on the floor . Hugo had punched her of her bed . Then he screamed , “ We need only one more piece for our machine !
“ I know , but you did not have to push me ”, Windi replied .
“ Yes , but come , I found the piece ”, said Hugo .
Windi followed Hugo to the famous time machine . Hugo put the piece on the machine and opened the machine door . Him and Windi weren ’ t clear through and didn ’ t know which parents they wanted to go see first .
When he opened the door , he said , “ We will go see my parents before yours .”
“ No , mine first ”, said Windi getting into the machine .
They did not have any idea that criminals were listening to them . When the criminals left , they had the idea to steal the time machine to change the past . We could still hear “ No !” from Hugo and “ Yes ” from Windi .
“ No ”
“ Yes ”
“ No .”
During the orphans ’ fight of Yes or No , Windi pushed a button . This button , was sending people to old Shanghai ! The machine started to move . The two friends stopped fighting . They opened the door and saw strange people . They saw some people entering a casino and Windi remembered her mistake when she pressed the button of the time machine . When they entered in the casino , they saw people playing Mahjong . Again , they looked around and saw criminals doing crime everywhere .
Windi tried to stop them , but Hugo pulled her so she couldn ’ t . Hugo said : “ don ’ t do that , they are the two criminals from 2016 , I saw them looking at us when we were fighting in our time machine .” Then , they started to insult them . “ Let ’ s go see if the Peace Hotel is built , we could see if there is a room left ” said Windi
“ Yes ” said Hugo .
Then , after they checked into a room in the Peace Hotel , they went back to Nanjing Xi Lu .
“ We have to find the two criminals ” said Windi
“ Yes ”, said Hugo , “ we have to find them before they go back to 2016 ”.
“ Maybe ,” replied Windi , “ but I don ’ t understand why we need a room in the Peace Hotel ”.