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said a second time before the tears started.
Ty pulled me to his chest and hugged me as I cried. I didn’t mean to cry, and I thought I didn’t have any more tears left, but they still came pouring out. Of anyone I met at college, Ty would be the one to know how much my mother meant to me. We often talked about our parents. He missed his greatly as he had been parted from them since he was four. I only had a week to get used to my loss.
“I’m very sorry, Mari.” As my tears dried and I pulled back, Ty asked, “How could she just take your mother away?”
“It was part of their agreement. Once I could travel into the past on my own, my mother had to return,” I answered as we began to walk again. I sniffled a little. Ty kept his arm around my shoulder. “I need to go back and get her. She doesn’t belong to that time. She has spent most of her life here in the present. She belongs here.”
“Easy enough. We first bring her back, and then deal with Seth and Dee,” Ty said. He was certain saving my mom was the priority, I couldn’t doubt him. Ty was truly a best friend.
Ty led the way into the library and to the fourth floor study area. I fished my keys out from my bag and unlocked an empty room. There were some perks of being a tutor, beyond meeting my best guy friend and my new boyfriend who currently resided in ancient history somewhere. There was the free access to quiet study rooms, which were perfect to discreetly use and plan an unbelievable journey. I wasn’t giving up on Seth yet for being my boyfriend. Heck, he had even asked me in the past to marry him, so maybe he’ll be even more than a boyfriend where he comes from.
“We first need to figure out the time travel, and then we need to make a plan,” I said as we closed the door. “I can’t go back knowing nothing of the time. I know my mother was a princess, but where? What were her people called? Where did she live? Who was in charge? What were the rules? How do I go about finding her? I have so many more questions. I needed to know more this time. I’m not going blindly into the past again. The more we know, the easier it will be to get everyone home.”
“I know you couldn’t use computers before, but I wonder without Seth here, can you do it now? I’m not of his people. Maybe it will work now,” Ty suggested.
That was something I didn’t think about. I wasn’t technically messing with the past when Seth wasn’t here. Even if Ty was from the past, he was not Egyptian, I could learn more without affecting his future, hopefully. Only Seth and Dee were actually Egyptian. I could learn more about Seth and his time, and there was no reason not to.
I took my coat and bag and placed them on the table. Ty did the same. First, I had to try the time travel back to the moment earlier in the day when I told him to come to the study rooms with me. I sat down across from him.
“How did we do it?” I asked, getting right to it. Time travel was easy when I was going back to Seth. There was something about him that drew me. All I had to do was follow that string, and poof, I was right there with him. I had no clue how to do anything else with the time travel.
“I don’t know. It wasn’t like we talked much. I was studying on the couch when suddenly you were standing in front of me. You told me to hurry up and come back with you so that we could do this,” Ty explained. Great . He wasn’t going to be much help.
I stood and began to pace around the small boxed room. There was a window to peek into the room on the wall beside the solid door, but it only allowed the person to see the study table. I stopped behind the door and out of view.
I was nervous to even try time travel this time. During my previous time travel experience, I didn’t think about it. I just went with my gut. It felt right. But now I had to think. I had to do this correctly to end up in the right place at the right time. It was reassuring to know I already did it,
Ty pulled me to his chest and hugged me as I cried. I didn’t mean to cry, and I thought I didn’t have any more tears left, but they still came pouring out. Of anyone I met at college, Ty would be the one to know how much my mother meant to me. We often talked about our parents. He missed his greatly as he had been parted from them since he was four. I only had a week to get used to my loss.
“I’m very sorry, Mari.” As my tears dried and I pulled back, Ty asked, “How could she just take your mother away?”
“It was part of their agreement. Once I could travel into the past on my own, my mother had to return,” I answered as we began to walk again. I sniffled a little. Ty kept his arm around my shoulder. “I need to go back and get her. She doesn’t belong to that time. She has spent most of her life here in the present. She belongs here.”
“Easy enough. We first bring her back, and then deal with Seth and Dee,” Ty said. He was certain saving my mom was the priority, I couldn’t doubt him. Ty was truly a best friend.
Ty led the way into the library and to the fourth floor study area. I fished my keys out from my bag and unlocked an empty room. There were some perks of being a tutor, beyond meeting my best guy friend and my new boyfriend who currently resided in ancient history somewhere. There was the free access to quiet study rooms, which were perfect to discreetly use and plan an unbelievable journey. I wasn’t giving up on Seth yet for being my boyfriend. Heck, he had even asked me in the past to marry him, so maybe he’ll be even more than a boyfriend where he comes from.
“We first need to figure out the time travel, and then we need to make a plan,” I said as we closed the door. “I can’t go back knowing nothing of the time. I know my mother was a princess, but where? What were her people called? Where did she live? Who was in charge? What were the rules? How do I go about finding her? I have so many more questions. I needed to know more this time. I’m not going blindly into the past again. The more we know, the easier it will be to get everyone home.”
“I know you couldn’t use computers before, but I wonder without Seth here, can you do it now? I’m not of his people. Maybe it will work now,” Ty suggested.
That was something I didn’t think about. I wasn’t technically messing with the past when Seth wasn’t here. Even if Ty was from the past, he was not Egyptian, I could learn more without affecting his future, hopefully. Only Seth and Dee were actually Egyptian. I could learn more about Seth and his time, and there was no reason not to.
I took my coat and bag and placed them on the table. Ty did the same. First, I had to try the time travel back to the moment earlier in the day when I told him to come to the study rooms with me. I sat down across from him.
“How did we do it?” I asked, getting right to it. Time travel was easy when I was going back to Seth. There was something about him that drew me. All I had to do was follow that string, and poof, I was right there with him. I had no clue how to do anything else with the time travel.
“I don’t know. It wasn’t like we talked much. I was studying on the couch when suddenly you were standing in front of me. You told me to hurry up and come back with you so that we could do this,” Ty explained. Great . He wasn’t going to be much help.
I stood and began to pace around the small boxed room. There was a window to peek into the room on the wall beside the solid door, but it only allowed the person to see the study table. I stopped behind the door and out of view.
I was nervous to even try time travel this time. During my previous time travel experience, I didn’t think about it. I just went with my gut. It felt right. But now I had to think. I had to do this correctly to end up in the right place at the right time. It was reassuring to know I already did it,
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