At first, Amy was confused. Each person she talked to said the same thing. Ten years ago, everyone on Earth simply disappeared. They were the only one left alive.
But how was that possible? She, too, knew this to be true for herself as well. Well, at least she thought nobody else was alive, until suddenly everyone popped back into existence.
“Yeah, I dunno. I tell myself we all somehow got teleported to an Earth where there was nobody else. This all is…confusing,” Jack told her.
Amy put her coffee back onto the table. She could not help but think about how Jack said “...confusing.” The pause, how he said the word - con-FUSE-ing. There was something about it, but she could not put her finger on it.
Amy’s concentration on this must have been visible on her face. She heard Jack say “You okay?”
“Yeah,” Amy replied. She did not know what to make of what she thought of, so she left it at that.
They went on with the conversation. What they have been doing for those ten years. How they felt being alone for such a long time.
After they were done, they went their separate ways. Amy was really glad that she was able to talk to Jack again.
When she got home, she went straight for her couch. Slumping into her couch, that same feeling came back - the one that she felt when Jack said “...confusing.” She decided to submerge herself into the feeling.
The more she thought about it, the more she thought it could be as if she was reminded of something familiar, or something that has happened before.
Déjà vu.
Yeah. Déjà vu.
Why did it take her so long to get to this conclusion? And why did she feel like she went through this before?
Amy heard a very faint sound in the distance. It sounded familiar, but it was too faint for her to tell what it is. After a moment of listening to it and not being able to figure out what it is, she went back to trying to figure out why two things that happened today made her think that she has lived it before.
She must have been deep in thought because that distant sound she was hearing was suddenly much louder.
…beep beep beep…
Her alarm clock. The one that she would set up to wake up every morning. That was what it was. She did not set it up to ring now. Why was she hearing it? Why was this realization disconcerting for her?
Then it hit her.
She has lived through all this before. Not just that talk with Jack, nor slumping into the couch, nor the sound of her alarm clock randomly starting and getting louder. All of it. The ten years of being alone on Earth. Everyone coming back into existence. Everything.
And in a moment, she would be going back to that fateful day ten years ago when she woke up on the day she found out everyone else had disappeared.
But why? Why did this happen?
…beep beep beep…
She then had the feeling that she was going to remember the reason why she is stuck in this loop. She knew that the moment before she was going to remember, she was going to loop back to waking up.
She was so deep in thought that she did not hear the beeping of her alarm becoming louder and louder, and that slightly after the next time she would hear it she would wake up. But she really wanted to know why this was happening.
…BEEP BEEP BEEP…
She was not ready to go back. Not yet. She wanted more information. The reason for all this was on the verge of being recollected. Not wanting to go back yet, she started blurting out “Mother fu-”
Amy woke up. She stopped the alarm. She had no idea what was going to happen today. The shock of finding out she was the only one on Earth. How it was going to be like this for ten long years. And how she would be experiencing this over and over again.
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