Letting out a sigh with complex emotions, jake could not believe he not only reincarnated 20 years in the past, but in a fictional show.
Two and a half men huh, jake thought. While unbeknowst to him a virtual search bar appeared in front of him.
Two and a Half Men (2003–2015) is a CBS sitcom focusing on hedonistic jingle writer Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen), whose Malibu life is upended when his uptight, divorced brother Alan (Jon Cryer) and nephew Jake (Angus T. Jones) move in. Following Sheen's departure, Ashton Kutcher joined as billionaire Walden Schmidt, who buys the house.
This video shows some of the show's cold opens:
Is that?... oh my god is Argus.
I front of him he could see wall of text accompanied by a miniature to a youtube video.
it suddenly dawned of jake that he seemed to have reincarnated with the AI-search engine he was paying 500 dollars a month.
Now thats a good service, jake tougth to himself.
Getting rid of the third shock of the day, he started to tinker with the virtual screen in front of him, firts by touching it, and then by just "thinking" of touching it.
Wikipedia,YouTube, instagram.
For some reason Jake's brain seemed to work as a router, since it seemed he was still connected to the modern internet.
Quickly checking the news, jake came on an article about himself;
"Man Fatally Injured After Overclocked PC Explodes in Home Office"
Staring for a few seconds at the the news article about his death he quickly moved on, deciding not to think about it. His parents were dead, he had no siblings just some distant family, but they didn't communicate much either. Had some friends, but no one particularly close enough to miss them.
Thinking about it, he decided to close Argus and think about his future.
2002. spiderman released in thetaer 6 months back, brazil won the world cup a couple months ago,and gta vice city just released a few days ago.
It was certanly quite a nostalgic year simpler, slower world. No smartphones, no social media, no constant noise.
You'd have to wait for things, dial-up internet, Saturday morning cartoons, calling a someone on a landline not knowing if they're home.
Thinking about it gave jake some drowsinees and made him slowly close his eyes, quickly falling asleep in the hospital bed.
...
"Jake, jake, hey sweetheart how are you feeling"
Judith slowly woke up jake by nudging at his shoulder.
Suddenly looking at his new parents and the newly arrived doctor, jake realized he had fallen asleep.
"Hey mom, im alright" Said jake,fully assimilated at his new life of calling Judith his mom.
"Oh thank god" said alan at the back, finnaly relaxed his son spoke fluent English again.
"Hi, Im dr reyes, how you feeling?"
Suddenly the Hispanic women women in her late 20s spoke up.
"I'm fine, feeling Normal." Jake answered
"Any Headache?"
"No."
"Dizzy? Nauseous?"
"No."
"Alrigth, follow my finger real quick."
He does as she nods.
"Well, that seems to be all, scans were clean, you were only out for a few seconds, and you've been fine all night. Honestly you're good to go."
She scribbles on her clipboard.
"Take it easy for a few days. If you get a headache that won't go away or feel off at all, come back. Otherwise you're done"
"Thank you. As one doctor to another, I appreciate the thoroughness."
Dr reyes looked at alan
"You're a doctor?"
"I am" he said somewthat proudly
"What's your specialty? Asked dr reyes with curiosity
"Chiropractic."
" Oh." A dissapointed almost amused sound came from her mouth.
With that Oh. She goes back to writing.
Alan stands there for a second.
"That's still a doctorate." Somewhat offended by her reaction, alan doubled down
"Mm-hm." Dr reyes just procceded give him a polite smile, and ignored him.
"I went to school for a very long time." Thinking.he was not clear enough he decided to triple down.
"Have a good day, mr Harper."
She said before leaving
"How rude, can you belive that" said alan tryng to get so acknowledgement from his wife.
"Alrigth honey, do you want some ice cream" said Judith while ignoring her husband.
"Sure,i could eat some ice cream" responded jake.
As they got ready and walked to the parking spot Alan kept ranting about the healthcare industry.
"You know what this industry is? It's a subscription service. You don't get cured, you get managed. There's a difference. Cured means you don't come back. Managed means you come back every three months and bring your copay."
They drove around for around 20 minutes before getting in ice cream shop
Jake leaned over the ice cream counter, as he exakined the options.
"What can a i get you" asked the tennager employee.
"Ill take chocolate in a cone please" Seeing all the flavors he decided for a simple one
Alan kept ranting in the background
"They have a pill for everything now. Sad? Pill. Anxious? Different pill. Side effects from the first pill? Third pill. At some point you're not treating a person anymore, you're just managing a chemistry experiment that occasionally complains."
"Just a single scoop of vanilla. Cup not cone." Oredered Judith while still ignoring alan.
"Nobody actually wants you healthy. Healthy people don't spend money."
He sat down last and looked at their ice cream. It took a moment before he realized he hadn't ordered anything.
...
The day quickly passed, and before realizing it, they were back home.
Looking at this strange yet familiar house, a weird feeling arose in jake, like a weird deja vu, two completely different memories in his head gave him that felling.
"All rigth im gonna make dinner, make sure you shower, jake"
"All rigth mom" he answered quickly.
Dinner at 6 pm was a thing he had to adapt, in his last life that was snack time before dinner, but in the states, it was a relatively normal time to have dinner.
Giving a quick look at his room alredy used to the felling of strangeness and nostalgia, he grabbed his clothes and went to take a shower.
Dinner came quickly and jake helped tend the table.
"Are you ok jake?" Judith seemed concerned for a second.
"Uh, yeah, why do you ask" jake didn't seem to know what he did wrong.
"Well you never helped tend to the table before"
Jake froze for a fraction of a second before coming up with something.
"I just wanted to help you mom" answered jake while acting cute looking at her with his big hazel eyes.
"Awww thank you sweetheart" said Judith as she gave him a kiss in the forehead.
Whew, jake expressed his relief memtally, acting like 9 year old took a certain mount of mental tax
Luckily dinner went by without any other faux pas.
As night came by, jake was alredy in bed before 9pm.
"Alritgth son good night" once alan finished tucking him, he was ready to sleep.
"Night dad" jake drifted to his sleep for second time since being in this world.9