November 2024

"Hey Sug, I'm bored" I told my twin sister who seemed to be engrossed in some stupid award show on T.V.

She didn't even look at me and said "What do you expect me to do about that?"

I sighed and answered "I don't know, let's go out or something. Besides mom and mami won't be back till late so we got loads of time to hit a party or something. It's the last day of summer."

She turned off the T.V. and looked at me and said "Your right but there's one problem with the party idea."

I burrowed my eyebrows in confusion and just looked at her waiting for her to continue.

"You always get wasted and I end up having to come up with some bullshit excuse as to why your throwing up in the morning and I swear if mami catches you drunk, it will be the end of us. So I don't know about you but I am not risking that."

I blushed. She had a point and I said "Okay but then what do we do? I really am bored."

She did that goofy thing with her eyebrows she always does when she's thinking of something. Then suddenly her eyes light up and she looks at me with a smirk. I look at her and raise my eyebrow.

"You know that time machine mamma said she had finished?" she asked and I nodded not following just yet.

"Well since this is the last summer before our senior year, let's use the time machine to go back in time and see what high school life was for mamma and mami" she squealed in excitement.

"I don't know Sugar, mom hasn't even tried that thing out yet, we could end up in the past forever" I said voicing my worries.

My sister never was the rational one and always jumped to do things without thinking of the consequences and I was always stuck getting her out of trouble with mom. But, she always did the same with me and mami. So I guess we made a pretty badass team.

"You're just being a wimp" she said interrupting my thoughts.

I scowled and said "No, I'm not. I just don't want to get stuck in the past with a bunch of losers."

"We'll be fine" she said and added "Come on" she got up and started towards the basement.

I sighed and followed after her. But before I went down there I made a quick stop to my room and grabbed a picture of Mom, Mami, Sugar, and I on our first Christmas together. Every time I saw the picture and read what our moms wrote on it when they gave us each a copy the picture, I felt safe. I tucked the picture into my pocket and ran downstairs.

Sugar looked slightly annoyed and said "Finally, what were you doing? Taking a dump?"

I scowled and said "No."

"Good, now come on help me figure out how to work this thing" she said.

I chuckled and said "Maybe it would help if your read the instructions mom wrote."

She looked confused and I pointed at the piece of paper on the work table next to the machine. She picked it up and noticed it was written in crayon. She laughed and said "Some things will never change."

I laughed with her and then got serious and asked "So, how do we work it?"

"It says to type in the date and location and press the Start button" she said and I nodded and stepped in with her.

She punched in a date and typed in Lima, Ohio and said "Here goes nothing."

I squeezed my eyes shut, not really knowing why, and opened them to see we were both standing in front of William McKinley High School.

I looked at Sugar and grinned.

"It worked!" I said beyond excited. She laughed and grabbed my hand and pulled me in to the school.

This school looked way different than our school back in Los Angeles. I guess Lima, was a pretty rusty town even back then. I looked towards Sugar and saw she was frozen in place.

I walked over to her, punched her lightly on the arm, chuckled and said "Hey Sug, what's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost."

She seemed to snap out of it and said "Look over there Kenny!" I looked in the direction she pointed and my mouth dropped. There in front of the lockers were our Mom and Mami's younger selves.