Because I can...

Hey, Bails! It's me, you. Yeah, I know. You're probably pretty confused. I know I'd be if I were you, which I am, so you must be. Anyway, enough of that madness.

Today, I'm going to die.

Well, twenty-four hours from now, if you're going to be technical, but "today" sounded so much more halting.

As I was saying, I am near then end. I have lived long and loved deeply, and I have come to my closing. Time travel has become available, however, and I wanted to give you a little shout-out before I said goodbye to our reighn of terror.

The reason I keep saying that I'm dying rather than we're dying, is because you are not in fact. Time has proved to be infinite, accessible, and reusable, so even as I am dying now in this time, we'll always exist somewhere in the loop. Besides, if my timing was correct, you just got out of the hospital from a kidney infection. You graduated less than a week ago from high school and basically, even though you feel like dog-crap right now, your life is just beginning. You have college starting in the fall, and after that... Nah. I'm not telling you shit. You're just gonna have to wait and see. Obviously, I can tell you vague, annoying stuff like "There will be ups and downs" and "you'll write a lot of things" but I'm not spoiling anything substantial. You probably expected that, though; You are me, after all.

So I'll just tease you with these questions that could easily hint either way:

Are you still dating David? Why?

Have you published anything new lately?

What do you want to name your kids, if you have them?

Still want to be an English Education major?

Bahahaha. That'll irritate the hell out of you.

So why did I contact you from the future?

That's easy.

Because I could.

Cheers, little me! You probably want to kill yourself right now, and by yourself I mean myself, and by myself I mean your future self.

Now I'm really just messing with ya.

One word of advice, though; don't stop being you... Or us... Or me. I'm pretty cool, anyway.

See ya in no time!

-B

Ps. Do people still call you Bails? Hehe