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Chapter 17 - S3: Who is who?

The group walks on and Jordi sees a picture of a blond girl with big eye-catching sunglasses all the time. The sunglasses look familiar to him, but then again they don't. He knows he knows her, but from what? Jordi looks around irritated. Is this some kind of sign? Then his breathing starts to become heavy. There is a bizarre pressure on his chest. He notices that Cato has that too. She looks at Jordi scared. "Is this a monster?" Cato gasps for breath. Alice looks with a broad grin at how the two are choking but does nothing.

Jordi puffs up and sees Cato chatting with a girl with blond hair. She also has large eye-catching sunglasses and a striking top. Jordi recognizes her from the photo. "Jordi, you're awake." Cato says enthusiastically. "I'm Lilly." Lilly is smiling next to Jordi in his capsule. Jordi slowly crawls out of his capsule and looks around: "Jordi." "Test 298 fails. Jordi Jason's is the 298th dead." Test 299 successful! Guys, we did it again! Cato Mercado passed. Our second passed." "What?! I am also alive." Jordi looks angrily at the scientists. Cato looks around anxiously: "Where's Yowie, Zack? and and... Alice, Maggy and the name was Jason... I thought?" The scientist looks at Cato and says these words as if it were perfectly normal: "All people were fake. We made them up with the hope that you would react differently."

It has been six months now. Jordi is in his spaceship. Everything was fake. Very fake. The earth is a pile of sand. Cato, Jordi and Lilly travel through space with the hope of one day finding life on another planet. Which their thinking is not going to succeed. They are the only surviving children on planet Earth. Jordi and Lilly. The only children? Both seventeen. Cato? Eighteen. "Hey, you don't write it right on Jordi! I'm eighteen, three months and six hours. Oh yes, twenty-three minutes." Jordi rolls his eyes and tries to ignore it. Jordi has to cry again. He doesn't want this to be the rest of his life. Lilly looks out of the spaceship: "Land in sight!"

When the three get out of their spaceships, they see someone who looks very much like Alice. The girl looks at the three dreamily. She doesn't look like Alice... As if the scientists copied it! "Have you seen Maggy?" "Yes..." Cato thinks about the Maggie in the other universe. They have seen her technically. But is it that Maggie? "Good." The copy of Alice shakes hands with the three: "I am Alice. The hitman. I have a very important murder now that has seven million Euros on it. I have to kill her! Then I would feel richly stupid." "Who... Who should you kill?" Jordi looks scared at Lilly. "I'm not allowed to tell that because then it would get out of hand. I'd tell you it's not one of you." Alice wants to walk on again, but Jordi stops her: "You told her, That means it's a girl. Is her name Jenny?" "You guys are weird." Alice looks angrily at Jordi and walks away. Then someone comes out from behind a rock who looks exactly like Maggie. She has long, pointed ears with a ball on them as big as half the size of a ping-pong ball. Then Alice runs back and grabs a knife. Maggy grabs some glowing potions and throws one at Alice. "Wow, wow. You are friends. You are in a relationship." Cato stands between the two. Maggy looks confused at Alice. Alice rolls her eyes at Maggy. "You are not just weird. I've never met such strange people." Alice picks up her knife in fighting mode.

"Alice, lazy at me! Maggy and you are not enemies." Cato grabs Alice's hand crying. "I'm sure we are." Maggy hisses angrily. At that moment, Alice takes a gun from her pocket and shoots Maggy. "That's a nice few million." She chuckles. Then a Maggy taps on Alice's shoulder. Alice continues to look in amazement. Blue small wings of feathers and a light blue ring floats around Maggy's head. "I've become your elfelr dork." Maggy continues to enjoy it with the fear in Alice's eyes. Is this to protect her or a terrible nightmare?

Alice is lying on the hood of her car. Maggy hovers above her, grumbling. "Can't you leave?" Alice looks wearily at Maggy. "I'm an elfelr, I have to be where you are." Maggy sighs. "That's bad news." Alice reaches into her pocket. Now that she is nineteen, she is allowed to drive a car. She can't do it but she still enjoys it. "Where are my keys?" Alice still feels in her coat. "Those who can't drive shouldn't drive a car." Maggy plays with Alice's keys with a knitted grin. "What do you want from me?" Alice sighs irritated: "It's clear that you want something from me so just be honest." "What do I want from you?" Maggy gets a broad grin: "I want this assassin to be nice to me. Secondly, I liked the words of that crying smart guy. So maybe it will be something between us." Alice fiddles with Maggy's dress and Maggy comes downstairs. They give each other a small kiss. This feels good!

Cato plops down on the grass sighing: "I really can't walk any longer." Jordi grumbles irritably and takes his guitar out of his bag. "Jordi, we're used to sitting." Lilly looks irritated at Jordi and then at the guitar: "Do you have any food or drink in that bag?" "Only Annabel is in my bag." Jordi looks at his guitar with satisfaction. "Does your guitar have a name?!" Cato looks irritated at Jordi: "After Jenny you got even crazier or not." "You don't understand." Jordi grumbles irritably. "I know someone who looks a lot like you, but he's not nearly as stupid as you." Lilly rolls her eyes. Jordi starts playing and thinks of a love affair. How nice would it be if he had a girlfriend again? He plays the guitar and he thinks of Cato. But... He doesn't have a crush on Cato? He tries to think of Jenny and Diede, but then he thinks of the clouds. He notices that he cannot control his thoughts. When he thinks of Jenny or Diede he thinks of clouds and when he thinks of love he thinks of Cato? Is this some kind of weird magic trick that his head played on him? Jordi drops the guitar irritated. "You can play super well." Lilly looks at Jordi: "Even though I'm not into rock music." Then the ground starts to shake. An old house is starting to come up. The house is right in front of them. "Shall we go inside?" Cato asks. Jordi touches his strings for a moment, thinking about love before he puts it away. But he doesn't think about Cato? He thinks of a girl who has never seen it before.

"Yowie are you hurrying?" Denise is at Yowie's door. Yowie is busy with all kinds of robots in full concentration. "What do I have to hurry for?" Yowie looks tired at Denise. Denise has long brown hair that almost drags her along the ground. She is very clumsy so always has plasters everywhere. Her braces and brown eyes speak sweetly but also cheerfully. Denise takes a robot monster from Yowie: "Our special guests are almost here." "I don't know who you mean." Yowie likes to have robot monsters that he has made himself fight against each other. He therefore also takes the robot from Denise in irritation: "they have to fight. Don't listen to that boring talk." Denise sighs: "It's the hell of the lab! The heroes of whom you have been a Copy in their experiment!" Yowie turns on the monsters' buttons: "Oh, did Zack like me in that world? Did me and Zack have a relationship in that world?" Yowie knows that Zack is going to him, but his crush for him remains too big. Even though he is not allowed to hang out with Zack at all. "I have no idea." Denise walks out sighing. Does Yowie find it so difficult to think about anything other than the robots? For example, the heroes who are going to save their universe? Then she hears Yowie cheering loudly: "Yes! Spider long leg has won from duck feather beak." Mrs. Future knocks on Yowie's door irritated. She knocks on the door very quickly. Eight times that means important. That's what Yowie learned.." Yowie, come on, they are already at the front door and of course we have to set a good example!" Mrs. Future then quickly walks to the hallway. Everything has to be perfect!

Zack takes off his hood. He looks at the stranger at the door of Mrs. Future's house. They are two girls and a boy. They can probably become good friends with that sucker, or not. Zack thinks about what his name is again. At that moment when he thinks he shouldn't think about him, he comes up with the name. Yowie that weird guy. He is only in his own world. Zack tries to watch as quietly as possible as the group walks in. This can only go wrong. "Welcome to this Vila full of talented children." He still hears Mrs. Future say. Well, they are not that talented. Zack thinks before he goes back to his cabin in the woods.

"How nice to see you!" Denise is more enthusiastic than ever. "What makes us so special then?" Lilly hopes for food. Not on pleasant talk. "I think we should have a group photo." Alia takes her camera from the table. "How many times have I said that you can't pass it up?" Mrs. Future looks irritated at Alia. This is totally rude to the guests. "I wanted to have it ready." Alia gets a tremor in her voice. "That makes it even more rude." Mrs. future shakes ashamed no: "we don't take a group photo yet. Maybe later." Disappointed, Alia puts away her camera. Then he looks at the group. Oh no, Yowie has run upstairs again. Mrs. Future notices it too. She walks upstairs stamping her feet and knocks on the door six times, which means. I'm really angry. Yowie slowly opens the door and walks downstairs irritated. Denise is already busy talking to Jordi. Then Jordi notices that she is looking at someone very much. He can't see exactly who. Then Mrs. Future shows a photo to Jordi: "If everything had gone well, you would have had a relationship with Maggy by now. Maggy is unfortunately stubborn and ran away from home. That's why we cloned Maggy. Maggy was first called Denise but then Maggy wanted a life of her own with her own name. So now our little friend here is your next girl." Denise looks happily at the photo where Maggy is standing with Jordi. Then she smiles at Jordi. Jordi is in shock because that if everything had gone well... Then he would have had a relationship with a bitch.

Jordi looks at Denise. She is picking out a dress. It's a small closet but the dresses just keep coming out. "You're so tough." Denise blushes. "And you so handsome." Jordi tries to joke when he says that, but secretly he means it. Her freckles resemble Jenny's and also the clothing style. The hair resembles Diede's. Then Jordi thinks of Cato when he starts playing. He gets to see images of Zack but.... That's weird. How would they have a connection? He stops for a moment and starts playing again. He doesn't understand his thoughts when he plays the guitar. Wait he understands is that playing does him good. He starts playing again and then sees that girl again when he thinks of himself but... that's exactly Denise. Jordi looks at Denise to find out if they look exactly the same. Then he stops playing and immediately notices that the images disappear. "Is there anything?" Denise asks. Jordi shakes his head no. "Do you really think I'm pretty?" Denise asks with a tremor in her voice. "I don't think I can take a girlfriend anymore. I miss Jenny very much. I lie crying night after night because she is no longer with me and... Never mind" Jordi looks at his guitar: "Annabel is the only girl I want in my life." "The fact that you name your guitar is super cool!" Denise looks cheerfully at Jordi. She picks up the guitar. "Wait Denise is heavy!" Jordi wants to take Denise's guitar but lets it go. This also feels good. Denise running her fingers over the strings and looking at them in amazement is just like Jenny. By the way, how would Jenny have reacted if she found out that Jordi had given his guitar a name? Jordi thinks about that several times a day. Then Jordi sees Denise looking at the other guitar leaning against the cabinet. It's a guitar that Jenny has filled with all kinds of Doodles. He named that guitar Jenny. It is his most special guitar. He doesn't dare to play it. Soon it will break down. That's why he says, "Jenny doesn't like attention very much." At that moment Denise drops the guitar down with a big bang. A bang that can be heard throughout the house.

Cato is sitting in front of the window with a book. At that moment there is a loud banging on the window. Cato opens the door. Zack quickly comes in: "When is the next time rollback?" Mrs. Future had explained that they can still save the world if they turn back the time every 48 hours. So it will remain the cold December months in 2021 all the time. "No idea but come in quickly. You already catch a cold." Cato skips a thinking zack. The day of Christmas Eve fell at the last 24 hours. Yet Christmas is only celebrated once in six months. They have been here for 3 months now and the tension is still there. Jordi has safely stored the guitar after Denise and the guitar. There is an extremely exaggerated ending to it. Annabel? It is next to the cupboard. Zack and Cato start kissing. This is their secret. Their special secret. This felt so good. Alia knocks on the doors as her bird flies after her. Little is always where Alia is. "Christmas Eve guys, that means time for gifts." Nothing opens at Cato's door. Neither does Yowie's door, but that's usual. His robots had to fight. This way he can later earn a lot of money to sell them as protective robots. That is his goal. There is another knock on Cato's door. "Catotje? Presents." Jordi chuckles as he hopes for a thick sweater for the winter. Christmas works in the way of giving and receiving. Everyone had to buy gifts for others but also got something in return. This month Jordi had to buy gifts for Cato. He is very curious what she thinks of it. He had bought something but this was not for Cato. A candle for Jenny. An hour before he goes to sleep, he thought. Nice to think of Jenny at Christmas. It couldn't be better. Mrs. Future opens Cato's door and is then startled when she sees that Cato and Zack are kissing.

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