The sound of my alarm going off woke me up. Memories of the past night kept me in bed even after I turned off the alarm. I would have stayed in bed had my mom not come up and forced me to come eat breakfast.

"You really shouldn't be lying on bed so late in the morning you know?"

She lightened this statement by passing some food onto my plate.

I looked down at my plate, and then back up to her.

"Besides, you've been so happy since you got yourself a girlfriend"

She added.

I choked for a second on my food, not expecting anything like that from her.

"I don't have a girlfriend"

I finally got out after finishing my food. She looked at me, and replied.

"Well if not a girlfriend then you made a friend. You should bring them over sometime."

She smiled after saying this and began to eat.

As I began to have a retort back, something had dawned on me. I had heard her say those exact words before, but in a slightly different way.

At first, I thought it might be a coincidence but suddenly I realised that the breakfast was exactly the same as the yesterday’s one.

I pinched my leg to see if I was still asleep, but no I was definitely awake. I rubbed my leg where I pinched it, and asked.

"Mom what’s the date today?"

She looked back up at me, pausing from eating her breakfast.

"It's the 19th of August, why?"

She looked back down and continued her breakfast. Thankfully she did, because if she had seen the look on my face there would have been more questions.

I finished my breakfast, and went back upstairs.

"What the hell is going on?"

Then my mind had strike after recalling what day it was. Suddenly everything hit me at once.

She had died.

Now it was the same morning and she is alive.

“I've gone back in time… B-But how?!”

Overwhelmed, I got into my bed while massaging my scalp. It was as though my brain was being overloaded with emotions and suddenly I fainted on bed.

I woke up an hour later and found my phone missing from my pocket. As was my bag that I was supposed to take to the cafe today.

"Something really weird is going on "

I thought to myself.

I washed up, and got dressed to head out. Grabbing some money and a spare bag I had. I figured I could at least go buy a cheap phone to use until I figure where it went off to, as searching my room had zero results.

Passing by the entrance to the family room, my mom looked over and smiled, then quickly looked puzzled.

"See you later again I suppose."

I tilted my head, and replied.

"What do you mean again?"

"Well you left earlier, but you had your other bag with you. Did you leave something?"

She asked me, but I merely continued looking at her so she just shrugged it off.

"Well anyways, have a good day son."

“Y-Yeah. See you.”

She turned back towards the TV and left me alone.

As I left the house, my mind was anything but calm and collected. The events from the last day were causing my brain to be overwhelmed, to the point that I didn't even know where I was headed.

The sounds of someone speaking to me finally registered amongst all of the chaos.

"...So, are you gonna buy anything or just keep staring into space?"

I got my mind back together and looked up at the shop owner in front of me. Somehow I had made it to a phone store.

"I'll just take whatever is the cheapest, sorry."

The owner looked at me for a moment before picking up one of the cell phones from the case.

"Well this one here won't be able to do anything fancy, but you can call and text on it. Just no picture messages. It's 5000 yen since no one else seems to want this model."

I dug through my pockets, finding the cash I had grabbed. Pulling out the requested amount, I handed it over. He counted it, making sure I wasn't shorting him.

Satisfied, he put the money away and handed over the phone with a charger.

"Sorry kid, but I don't have a box for it. But the SIM card works and has some minutes on it at least."

I nodded, and thanked him.

As I walked along the sidewalk, I wondered what to do next. I almost didn't even notice how far I had walked until I saw a cafe further up the road. The same cafe I was supposed to meet Sakura.

Inside I could see someone at the counter, wearing what looked a lot like my clothes. It wasn't until he turned around to head towards the window seat.

“N-No way!”

I gasped and was stunned.

It was me… the me of yesterday. I tried to hide myself, not realizing I still had plenty of distance between to two of me.

What should I do?

Why is there two of me?

When I woke up this morning, there was just me. How did the nap cause this split?

The earlier confusion that had filled my head started to come back, but I fought back this time. Finally getting myself under control, I realized that I could try and warn myself.

Pulling out the new phone, I typed in my number and began a text message.

"Hey! I'm you from the future and I need your help."

Staring at the words on the screen, I realized immediately that wouldn't work. I'd just ignore a text like that, unless it came from Sakura. She'd probably pull some kind of joke like that and think it was hilarious no matter I responded.

“What should I say to myself? Why had I come back?”

That question popped into my mind as I wrestled with what to say, and then I knew what I had to say to myself.

"You have to save her"

There was only one "her" that I truly wanted to save, even before this morning.

"There's no way I wouldn't understand that"

I thought to myself.

Hitting send, I waited for my other self to jump into action.

And I waited. Why wouldn't I put the book down?

Tired of waiting, I decided to take matters into my own hands. Pulling out my phone once again, I pressed the call button this time. Looking back up, I saw my other self finally pull myself out of the book.

"You can save her."

I needed to get the main reason out of the way, otherwise I knew I'd end up going in circles and wasting my time. But clearly this wasn't going to be easy.

"Save who? Is this a prank call?"

Hearing my own voice come back through the phone was not easy to get past, but I had to keep trying.

Her life depended on this.

"It's not too late, you can still save Sakura!"

By the end I couldn't contain myself anymore, all my emotions and frustrations taking away my caution. But it was all in vain, as the other me responded.

"I'm afraid I don't understand, who is this?"

"I'm you, I don't understand it either but I'm really you!"

So caught up in what I was saying, I didn't realize that the call had ended before I even said anything. Trying to call again, this time a women’s voice filled the receiver.

"You are out of minutes, if you wish to make a call please add more."

I hung up the phone in defeat, and began to walk again. If past me couldn't do anything, then I would have to.

“But what should I do?”

At this point in the day, I had no idea where Sakura was. She would have already left her house by now, and knowing which streets she would take was beyond me.

But I did know where she would end up.