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but I still didn’t know how. I tried to think of Ty like I had to travel to Seth. If I thought of him hard enough, maybe I’d end up with him in the past. I closed my eyes and waited a moment, but I didn’t go anywhere. There were no fuzzies, and I knew I was still in the present.
    “I need something to go by,” I said to Ty. Ty paused for a moment and thought.
    “I was sitting on the couch. The TV was on, but I wasn’t watching it. It was some basketball game for background noise. I had just finished my bio homework and was pulling out my math homework. It is due tomorrow. You know, one of those great profs that like to make you work over holidays. I got my book out.” Ty dug through his bag and grabbed the faded, navy blue book.
    I pictured the Sangre house as he described it and could even picture Ty on the couch. It wasn’t like I hadn’t seen him sitting there over a dozen times in my multiple pasts. I felt the fuzzies as he placed his book on the table. I didn’t have time to speak as I was instantly in the Sangre living room.
    “Ty,” I said, surprised to see Ty sitting on the couch and not in the study room.
    His mouth dropped in shock, and he didn’t reply. I had to stifle my laugh. Yep, he looked just like I felt not even ten minutes ago.
    “Mari?” he asked, like it wasn’t me that had just popped into his house. Maybe he thought I was an alien.
    “Yes. Me, Mari. You, Ty,” I replied in my best robot voice. Ty didn’t even smile. “Yes, Ty it’s me,” I said more normally.
    “Why? How?” he stuttered.
    “Well, in ten minutes you’ll walk back with me to school and the library to one of the study rooms. We’ll try it then and you’ll help me do this,” I replied, pointing to myself and then the room.
    “You will time travel?” Ty replied, slowly catching on.
    “Yes, with your help, and as long as you get your butt out there to walk back with me. Otherwise, I was just going back to my room,” I answered.
    Ty stood and hastily grabbed his books to throw into his bag while he was sliding on his shoes. As he was putting his coat on, I saw a figure through the glass window on the kitchen door, Logan. I rushed back to the living room.
    “Hurry up,” I told him as Ty zipped his coat and grabbed his bag. I looked down and saw the same navy book he pulled out in the library on the coffee table. “And don’t forget your math book. You have homework due tomorrow.”
    Ty took his bag and grinned at me. “I knew we could do this.”
    Ty was out the door, and I hung back as I watched myself walk by. It was strange to see myself, to say the least, but I did worry about all that science fiction stuff about being in the same place at the same time would cause some sort of damage. I watched as they walked to the road and knew exactly what was being said. I went back to the living room. It was as good a time as any to go back.
    I thought of the study room and Ty’s face as he saw me fade. Closing my eyes, I pictured everything clearly and waited for the fuzzies. Nothing . I pictured it in more vivid details, the bags strewn on the table, the book in his hand, the faded white walls pressed to my back. I waited. Nothing again . I wasn’t going anywhere. Now, this was a problem.
     
    I flopped onto the couch. What was I to do? I was stuck in the past and had no clue how to get back. This wasn’t a good idea after all. Sure I could go someplace, but it did no good if I couldn’t return. I laid my head back and sighed. This wasn’t as easy as we pictured it to be. I needed help, and only the person I could think of to help was the goddess. I wasn’t exactly happy with her after she took away the people I love, therefore I was more willing to just sit and wait. I had traveled into the future, now I just needed to find a way to go back.
    “If you’re here and I saw you walk away with Ty, is it safe to assume that you’re not the current Mari that just yelled at me moments ago?” Logan asked