Entry 58. June 17, 2009.
[x] Tell them you have to go home and think first.
"Eh... I don't know. I was ready to turn these guys in without a second thought, but now I really want to know everything they can tell me. Though I certainly can't forget what happened last time I trusted guys from NewFuture. I guess it can't hurt... If they want to gain my trust, they won't push me."
"Sorry, I can't do that. I can't trust you guys yet. Let me go home first and think this over. Give me a way to get in contact, and we'll do this like normal people," Felix tells them. James is clearly disappointed by his answer, but he maintains his cool and writes down his cell number and hands it to Felix. "Please call as soon as you're ready to talk again. It probably won't be long before we're taken in, too," James says, a grim look on his face. James, Garet and Clare say goodbye to Felix and walk off to where they hid their van. Felix places the number in his pocket and shakes his head at this nonsense.
Finally back in the comforts of his own home, Felix ponders what to do about this new development. He decides he should bring Melanie up to speed, since they agreed to deal with this together. After a quick phone call, Melanie rushes over and joins Felix. "What happened? Tell me everything!" she says impatiently. Felix tells her about his conversation with George and his suspicious behavior. He tells her about his strange conversation with Nick and mention of something odd in a NewFuture employee's van. And of course, he tells her about the van stalking, Clare and the forest incident. Melanie takes it all in quite easily, probably because not much phases her anymore. "Do you honestly believe them? Altering free will? This is a joke! They're clearly messing with you Felix!" Melanie laughs. "Well...I'd like to believe that... But just what if Melanie? It would certainly explain his desperation. What else could be so important? What else could affect my mom so greatly?" Felix questions. They argue back and forth for a while before Melanie agrees to at least play along with the idea for now.
"So let's assume it does exist. How does it work? Is it a physical machine you can carry around? It emits some type of wave?"
"I don't think that could be possible. If it was anything that obvious, more people would have seen or know about it. I think it has to be something discreet or maybe even..."
"What?"
"Well, my dad kept the information on it in his diary. What could he write down? How to build it? I doubt that. What if it's something more like... I dunno. Something like a computer program? Some special coding or something?"
"That'd certainly be easy to keep hidden, but how on earth could something like that work?"
"I have no idea. Just playing with ideas."
"It could also just be a very tiny device, you know."
"I realize that. It's probably more likely. Something like that would have been easy for Dad to use on my mom, too. Slip it wherever while she's sleeping."
Felix can't stop thinking about its bizarre similarity to his voices, but he's afraid to tell Melanie about that. After more debating and hypothesizing, Felix checks the time and it's already past 4 PM. "Melanie, we need to decide what to do now."
[] Call James and Garet.
[] Forget them and do things on your own.
[] Try getting more information from Clinton.
[] Call the police.
What are the voices inside Felix's head telling him to do?