Heya guys! So... I've always been a Disney Channel sucker and now that I moved on to more adults things (or so I thought) my little sisters gets me back into it. So I was watching Best Friends Whenever and I just couldn't help but to notice their chemistry specially when my 11-year-old sister pointed it out too. And I kept thinking, that if while growing up, my favourite series had some sort of reasurance that it is okay to like girls even if your a girl or to like boys if you're a boy, my teen years would've been so much easier. I don't think people realise how influential TV is, and if they do, they dismiss it. It's a shame Disney doesn't explore this... They would be making some kids lifes better. I know they would have made mine. So, when stuff doesn't happen in real life what do we do? FANFICTION YEEEY hope you enjoy :p

Disclaimer: Unfortunately I do not own any right to these amazing characters.

Spoilers: Well, last episode I've seen was Episode 13 Season 1. But as it comes out, I might add some info from the series.

Chapter 1 - Take A Stand, Take It Back

Shelby turned off the second alarm clock and sat down on her bed with a bored sigh. Her backpack was ready, she had slipped into her school clothes and all there was left to do, was move Cyd out of bed. Well, at least try.

She allowed herself to just sit for a minute. One of the things Shelby loved the most about her best friend was how she could be so peaceful and undeniably content in her sleep. She truly had to be fully pieced together on the inside to be able to look so transparently blissful on the outside. Her half drooled smile was enough to make Shelby's heart pump comfortably warmer in her chest. She couldn't even imagine being through what Cyd has. She didn't really talk much about it, or even showed signs it bothered her, but Shelby knew that when her parents left for Peru, choosing a job over her, it killed a little something inside her. But nonetheless, there she was, dozed off in the purest, most innocent state of mind, and smiling. And so Shelby wondered how did Cyd always had it together. She wondered if she would ever be as strong as that snoring monster in front of her. The third alarm went off.

'Alright, time to wake up Cyd…' and so, Shelby got to her feet and prepared to jump on the other bed. 'Come on Cyd, school time!'

'Seriously? School time? Do you want me to get up or voluntarily go into hibernation?', her voice was low and her eyes remained shut.

'Well…' Shelby let herself fall half on top of her best friend. 'If you get up and get dressed, I'll cook some decent breakfast.'

'How decent are we talking?', still half asleep, she only opened one of her eyes.

'Bacon and eggs?'

'Shelbs… Are you bribing me with food?' Cyd sounded completely outraged. 'Because it's totally working!' flourishing into an enormous smile, she jumped out of bed. 'What are you still doing laying there, get me some fried delicious pig woman!'

Shelby was just too astonished of how easily she got up that time.

'I should have bribed you with food a long time ago. So many hours wasted. It all could have been avoided.' She slowly got up as well, processing everything.

Cyd just laughed at her pained face. She knew she gave her a hard time in the mornings, but she also knew that even though Shelby would never admit it, she loved trying to wake her up. Sometimes Cyd would even hear the alarm clock ring and still completely ignore it, maybe even fake some snores. However, if she was really being honest, she kind of loved it too. And not due to the attention or the effort (even though those were nice), but because of the triumph sparkling in her friend's eyes when she would finally get her on two feet.

'Well, now you know a good breakfast in bed will do it in the future.' Cyd said slapping Shelby's shoulder only to realise always instantly what she had done. 'Oh, no!'

Both girls felt the usual warmth from the place they've touched travel their entire skin, like they were on a spot where the sun could reach them with no barriers. And then, that one millisecond windy cold breeze, taking them to their worst nightmare. One second they were in the attic room and the other, they were strapped again, hopeless, in those lab tables. They knew what was coming even before hearing the footsteps.

'No Cyd, don't even think about it.' Shelby's voice was strangely firm when she rose her hand towards her. 'We're going back, now.' And as soon as Cyd heard that inch of terror in her friend's voice, she reached for her hand and thought of home.

'Shelby! We can't keep running from this!', now, back in the security of their room, they both felt like they should've stayed and at least tried to figure out a way to not end up there.

'I know! But it's useless to keep going there Cyd. We're tied and bond to a lab table, security muscly men and high tech machinery preventing us from leaving. We will never find anything there. Not when we can't even escape to do it!'

'So are we just going to do nothing and let it happen? You know my ideal death is from a heart attack in the front row of a pop rock band with pizza give away, not that stupid lab.' Cyd sat down feeling hopeless once again.

'Maybe the lab is not the end…'

'What do you mean Shelbs?'

'I mean, the first time we thought of the future and went there I guess we just assumed that would be the end, right? That we would probably never get out of that one and die strapped to a slab. So, every time we jump to the future, we end up there because unconsciously we think there's nothing left for us after the lab. What if maybe we get out of it? What if the lab is just another part of our path and we thought it was the finish line?'

'So if we try to jump to a future after the lab and there's something there, it means we made it out. And we can try to get how to do it, without having lasers pointed at us!'

'Yeah!' Shelby was thrilled that they finally got somewhere and extremely relieved it didn't involve going to that terrifying lab again. But then, something hit her. 'But Cyd, what happen if there's no future after it for us? What if that's it?'

Cyd felt that exact same fear. She felt it swirling and twirling and the very bottom of her stomach. However, she took a step forward and she smiled to Shelby.

'Then we come back and we figure something else out.' She took her friend's hand and squeezed within hers, trying to show her she was there. 'Together, as always.'

'Okay then.' Shelby smiled back and they shook her entire body and jumped twice on the same stop moving her arms back and front. 'Alright, let's do this! Are you ready?' she asked screaming like a personal trainer.

'Hell yeah!' Cyb scream back.

'Yeah?'

'YEAH!'

'Let's go!' she raised her hand 'Five me forward!' And by focusing desperately on that so wanted future, they both did. 'Oh my god Cyd, we made it! No evil lab! Oooooh and we still live together! I told you we'd live together forever.' Shelby turned to her friends unable to contain her excitement. 'And by the looks of it, not much has changed. What's up with you and the whole "no pants policy" man?'

'I'm just saying, if the shirt is long enough, why should you wear any pants?' they both laughed and looked around. The room they were in was definitely smaller than the attic room. There was only one bed, and the decoration was like a mutual consent between their clashing tastes. There were two desks and it was obvious, based on the level of neatness, which one was Shelby's and which one was Cyd's. Taking over the entire wall opposite to the writing tables, there was an immense cork board filled with information on the "Cyd and Shelby Incorporated". 'Cyd, look… We're doing it. Last year of college and these plans on our company. There's nothing to worry about!'

'I can't believe it… We actually did it.' She stepped closer to the board and placed her hand on her name and Shelby's, trying to grasp the reality of the situation. 'Alright, try to figure out around here how we did it and I'll go take a look downstairs.'

'Okay…' Shelby wasn't really paying attention anymore having sit at her desk and starting to go through her paperwork. Cyd searched for some pants and made her way to the kitchen to meet Naldo cooking breakfast.

'Naldo! What are you doing here?'

'Breakfast, most important meal of the day.' Said Naldo as a matter of fact sort of way. 'Want some?'

'I was promised some decent breakfast this morning…'

'Is bacon and eggs decent enough?'

'Oh lord, praise the pig. Yes, give it to mama!' Cyd sat down and took over her plate.

'So… How was it yesterday? Did Shelby like your surprise?'

'What surprise?' she could barely even speak with her mouth stuffed with food.

'You know… Your anniversary surprise! You were planning it for months, how did it go?'

'Anniversary?' Cyd had stopped chewing and was now looking completely taken by surprise, trying to realise the very obvious, plausible explanation for what Naldo had said. And that when she saw it, to her left, at the edge of the living room. Among other frames with other photographical moments, there they were, herself and Shelby, in each other's arms, so close to kissing they might as well have been. 'We have to get out of here.' She got up, throwing her plate on the floor in the process and stormed upstairs. Shelby was still sitting at her desk, so completely absorbed on her reading she didn't even notice when her friend touched her shoulder to jump back.

'Cyd! What the hell?!' They were back to the attic room.

'Listen, we know we get out of it somehow. We don't need to find anything else. We know it's gonna be okay.'

'What are you talking about? You agreed we should try to understand what happened. Don't you want to be prepared.'

'Barry is right; we mess too much with this time traveling thing. We should stop.' Cyd turned her back on Shelby and started dressing for school.

'Cyd, what happened in the future? Is everything okay?' Shelby was genuinely concerned; she knew there was something definitely wrong.

'Nothing happened. I just think that if time travelling is what got us into this mess, maybe we should stop.'

'Cyd, seriously, you're scaring me. What happened?'

'Nothing happened!' she didn't scream, but to Shelby, it felt just like it. She looked at her friend, she truly just wanted to help.

'Whatever it was, you can talk to me. And we can get through it, like we always do.'

'I don't want to talk about it Shelbs.' She swung her backpack over her shoulder and turned to look at her friend with a pleading look on her face. 'Please…'

Shelby didn't know what to do or say. Whenever Cyd decided to be silent about something bothering her, she always knew how to deal with. But for some reason, she felt lost there. The assertive way Cyd said those words made Shelby doubt everything she knew about being a good friend. What if she couldn't help her this time? What if when she went back to sleep, the blissful half drooled smile was gone? She said the only thing she could think it felt right:

'You know I'm here right?' Cyd responded with an affirmative nod. 'Okay. Don't forget that then.'

Without another word, they left for school. And Shelby noticed how when they locked arms as usual, Cyd simply slid away once she got the opportunity. It was going to be a long, long day for them.

So, that's it for now gorgeous peeps. Do let me know what you think about it though ^.^ happy readings KISS KISS