Andy stared down at the grave stone. He was looking at his own name, his own grave! He invented the time machine to learn about the future of all mankind, he only wanted a small glimpse into his own. When he discovered what fate had planned, he was shocked. He never considered the fact, he might not be around. He kept staring at the tombstone, his mind started going over all the bad decisions in his life. He had spent 15 years of his life designing this time machine and for what? Only to be dead! It was then he noticed the date on the tombstone, January 15th 2015.
That was the day he left, the day he activated the machine. Then it all started to make sense, of course people thought he was dead, he was in the future, he didn’t live the past ten years because he wasn’t there. He skipped over them. He would travel back in time and everything would be fine. He would live his life. He set the controls for a return trip. He rematerialized in the middle of the street, in his own time.
He didn’t see the bus coming.