A short story adapted from Award-winning short screenplay Cane Film Festival Khon Kaen Province Written and directed by Mr. Panithan Nakkrae.

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Phon, student of Physics, some faculty. who tried hard to return to their home

Ek, Phon's roommate Studying at the Faculty of Engineering He was a roommate who for some reason never told his story to Phon.

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For many people it is easy to go home, or even when you go home you take a car, some people take a plane. Even though the way home for some people is very difficult, But trust me. My way home was more difficult.

“Hello, sir?” Mother's voice came from the other side of the phone.

“Yes, what do you say?” I replied as always.

“Will you come home this semester break?”

“Well, I probably won't go back, Mom. When I go back to Phon, I don't know what to do. So I'd rather stay at the university."

“Oh, okay, when Phon comes home, tell mom. If his father is free, he will go to receive the troops at the university.”

"yes"

My mother would call and ask me this every time after a short semester break. I was studying physics. What kind of group? At a government university, normally I don't like to do activities with other people. I prefer to read in a quiet room. Most of the books I read are non-fiction about new scientific theories such as inter-dimensional travel or wormholes, and the history of scientists is indispensable.

I like many people too, like Neil Bow, Schrödinger, Max Planck. And of course you can admire him without understanding what he's saying. Albert Einstein, but personally I like Stephen Hawking the most. His theories are It is an inspiration that makes me want to be a physicist to this day.

“Phon...Pon,” a voice called out, waking me up from my sleep. I woke up one afternoon on the summer break.

"I'm going home first. The semester break has been almost a week and you haven't come home yet?" asked my classmate, Major, who studies engineering.

"Probably not. I'm not finished yet," I replied, raising my arms to block the light shining in my eyes.

“I think you should take a break,” Donna said, stuffing things into a suitcase.

I sighed, “If I don't finish this, I won't be able to go home.”

“I understand you. Anyway, you need to find some time to rest. If there's anything I can help with, just tell me." Aek said and looked at me. “Um,” I replied, even though I didn't realize it because of work that was always in my head.

"Let's go. I'll say hello to you on Facebook." Aek said as he picked up his stuff and walked out of the room. "Um, have a safe trip," I told him with the sound of the door closing.

After a few days of Ek's return, the bedroom became more and more cluttered. My desk was surrounded by boards and post-it notes with equations and numbers as reminders. The open space in the room was replaced. With scrap iron and solder tip The walls of the room were covered with paper of my work process in order. Ek's bed became a place to store a lot of unnecessary things.

Comic books or homework and textbooks were piled up like mountains. It's a good thing they went back first, otherwise I couldn't imagine how we would live.

I've been writing programs on my old computer since morning and it's almost five o'clock and I still haven't gotten up from my chair, and more importantly, I haven't left my room for a week. I subsist on instant noodles and have eaten them for three meals since the school break. Now it's like my tongue can't taste anything anymore and when I eat it, it tastes the same.

Almost done, just one more set of instructions left. I'm going to get up from this damn chair I've been sitting in for who knows how many hours? After the final command was written, I uploaded it and the kit I made via USB cable.

Pip! The final work sound sounded and I reached out to remove the cable. Along with picking up the set and putting it in the joints, the set has a green LED light indicating the ready-to-use status of the set. On the left wrist there is a control screen for locking the hooks at various joints tightly. before raising the arm to set the work settings via the status display

The screen displays the word Set up a destination goal. I set the number to June 13, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. After that, the screen displayed the words:

Ready

Coming up, I let out a long sigh and pressed the button in the middle of the screen. A screeching sound sounded for a moment and the LED light changed to red indicating that the set was starting to work.

All at once! I stood in my room and it looked much cleaner than before. There was no mountain of trash on Ek's bed, the walls in the room were still white and clean, and there were no colorful papers stuck to them. The light bulbs in the joints of the suit were still red, which meant that I was living in the past. I looked out the window and the sky was black. From when I arrived it was still bright white.

I walked over and turned on the TV in the room and scrolled through the news channels.

“There was a collision between a car and a ten-wheel truck on the main road in front of the university. Three people died from the incident…” The news announcer's voice came from the TV.

“Again?” I said, my voice shaking. My hand trembled and the remote fell out of my hand, bouncing on the floor a few times before falling flat on my stomach.

I heard footsteps coming from the sound hall, hitting the floor hard and heading towards my room. I hurriedly turned off the TV and put everything in its place, then hurried to the balcony door behind the room. The sound of the door opening sounded as I ducked under the window outside the room.

The owner of the footsteps slammed the door shut before he threw himself onto the bed and raised his hands to cover his face to hide his eyes from the outside world. I heard soft sobbing coming from the room. I understood his feelings well. Because the man lying there crying...was me.

All at once! The light on the bulb turned green. I sat on the balcony where the last rays of the day's sunshine shone through the white clothes that had been dried on the line.

“Failed…” I said softly.

I've come this far since I started experimenting. The day my father and mother will come to take me home. I have never gone further than this...not in two years, never.

I clenched my fists tightly, my hands trembling unbearably. Anger and disappointment attacked me from every side. I turned and punched the wall furiously. I tried to do the experiment until I lost track of how many times it took. Every time I try to solve the equation over time and try adding new variables, the results are the same. It's like someone in the sky is bullying me into seeing the news from that day every time I go back in time.

Tears streamed down both cheeks. I knelt on the ground and faced the wall. I didn't want to face anyone, not even the setting sun. Red blood seeped from both hands, which were swollen and purple.

“Someone once asked me if we humans have reached the end of our potential yet. I just smiled and replied to them, Everything you've seen since A toothpick supporting a spaceship is only a tiny fraction of human potential.” Stephen Hawking's voice came from my computer. I listened to his lecture while wrapping gauze around the wound.

“If I try to do an experiment and I've done it so many times I'm at my wits' end, what would you do if I were you?” one man asked Stephen.

“That's a good question...if it were me. I would probably try harder and focus more on it. Because even Thomas Alva Anderson had to do tens of thousands of experiments before he could make a light bulb turn on, which I agree with. That's what he said as well,” Stephen replied through the computer.

“I have not failed, I have just discovered a path that is not yet ten thousand paths.” Stephen’s voice reverberated through my ears like the deep sound of a bell resonating within a temple.

My new endeavors began again. I sat back in the same chair and solved equations over and over again. I had been working since sunrise. until the sun sets I still haven't gotten up from the chair next to the table full of instant noodle bowls and water bottles. I only got up from my chair to go to the bathroom. Some days I woke up at noon because I fell asleep with my face on the table without realizing it.

I just got up and went to the bathroom for a bit and then finally started working…

I waited for the program to upload a new set of commands into the time jump. I watched the upload without blinking.

Bip! The sound of the time travel suit being ready to work sounded. I quickly put it on and began to set its destination. The screen displays the word

Ready

I immediately pressed the button in the middle of the screen.

promising! I felt like I was hit by a ten-wheeler and stepped on again. I fell backwards and my head hit the ground. My whole body was numb. I saw the white lightbulbs on the ceiling slowly become dim, like looking back up from the bottom of a swimming pool. I felt a nauseous mass in my stomach pushing up from my stomach. The darkness began to consume my eyes until everything was completely black.

"So what do you plan to do? In just one year we'll be finished."

“I don't know either, I haven't even thought about that yet,” I replied in a nonchalant voice, fiddling with the blades of grass before plucking them from the trunk and using my fingers to rake another plant next to me.

Donna looked at me with worried eyes. “You still haven't come to terms with that?”

“I never got over the fact that I felt like I wanted to do better when I had the chance. Now I know how important family is to me. Even if I go back, it's just bricks and mortar. Without them,” I let out everything in a trembling voice, tears starting to flow from both eyes. But I tried to stop myself from crying in front of my friends.

Donna pursed her lips and reached out to lightly touch my shoulder.

“Pol...I have to go,” Ek said. I nodded slowly without looking.

“Here.” He handed me a small piece of paper. I slowly unfolded it. What was inside caused the things I was thinking about to disappear immediately. I swept my eyes back and forth several times, trying to compose myself of what I was seeing. This front was real, not a dream.

“Ek, this is it,” my voice trembled.

“Um, that part of the equation that you still can't solve,” Donna answered me simply.

“But why?” My hand still didn't stop shaking when I saw what I had been trying to find all my life.

"I'm sorry I didn't give it to you sooner. They said humans weren't ready for such high technology." Aek was silent for a moment before continuing. “I have been watching over you since the first day you started this job, and today is the last day I will be here. Consider it…a gift from me.” Aek said as usual every time, but I felt that it wasn't like every time Aek said goodbye to me as if it was the last time I would see Ake.

I immediately turned around to face Ek. “Ek” beside me was only an empty field of grass. The marks of the grass where Ek was sitting were still attached to the ground. Ek was gone.

It didn't take me long to repair the time travel suit. I tested the equation that Ek gave me countless times until it was true. Every parameter entered was physically verifiable: my chest swelled up like an inflated balloon. I haven't been this happy in nearly two years. I quickly packed my bags for the trip home. I couldn't wait to get home. I threw my bag on my back and sprinted towards the door.

As I sat looking at the view on the train heading home, the cool wind blew in my face and blew my long hair out of my face. In my head I imagined the first thing I would do when I got home. I will hug my parents and sister as tight as I can. I'll tell Mom to make something to eat first. I've almost forgotten the taste of Mom's cooking. Should I invite Dad to go play football together? Since I was in high school, I haven't gone to play football with him anymore. I think I can hardly wait.

After taking the bus from the train station I walked for a while before stopping in front of a house. The entrance to the house was only leaves and the grass in the yard was cluttered. Empty pots lined the walkway into the house. No one has been here for two years. I took out the time travel outfit from my bag and slowly put it on.

The joint was locked and the LED light emitted a green light. I set the destination on the display. Date: June 13, 2014 at 9:00 a.m. The screen displayed the words:

Ready

I pressed the button slowly.

All at once! My body stayed in the same position for a while and I turned to look at the LED bulb that was emitting red light. The entrance to the house looks clean. There was a car parked inside. The grass had been cut along the ground and flowers were blooming in the pots that lined the walkway into the house. I could hear the sound of the TV coming from inside the house. I slowly walked in.

This feeling that I had been searching for all along, the joy of returning home, was rushing towards me like a wave crashing onto the shore. I grabbed the doorknob and opened it with the force I had been waiting to speak for so long.

“I have returned.”