Sitting up in her bed, Sugar went through one of her parents' many photo albums, page by page. She had a few more stacked up on the foot of her bed, right at the edge. The girl looked at the digital clock that was placed on the night table next to her. It was 1:31 am. She didn't care. All she'd been thinking about all day was what happened that morning. Her teacher had caught her day dreaming multiple times in class and she hadn't been able to complete her homework How could she stop thinking about this? It was unreal. Time travel was something that happened in movies, or books, not real life. Sugar was almost positive that she had somehow went back in time and saw her parents when they were about the same age as her.
Flipping through the photo album that she had tip toed out of her room to get just a few minutes earlier, she knew that the girls she had seen were the same ones from the photos she was looking at. There weren't very many of her Moms at that age, most of the pictures were of them two in high school, but still. She knew it had been them. The girls at the park had even introduced themselves to each other as Brittany and Santana. She looked closely at the picture of them two at the park. It was the same red slide, no doubt about that.
"Hey Tubbs," Sugar greeted the big cat, in a whisper. She didn't want anyone to wake up so they could see she was still up.
"Finally gave up on trying to get those cookies on the counter?" she asked with a quiet giggle. "Or did you end up getting to them?" she cocked an eyebrow in suspicion. When the girl had gone out to get the photo albums from the living room, she'd passed but the kitchen and saw the cat pawing at the oatmeal cookies someone had forgotten to put away. That cat was always getting himself into trouble.
Sugar scooted over on her butt to the other side of the bed and patted down with her hand on the space she created beside her for Lord Tubbington to jump up. The cat leaped onto the bed and got comfortable beside her. She scratched him in between the ears and moved her legs over. Sugar bounced back startled and Lord Tubbington lifted his head when they both heard a loud noise. The girl cringed when she realized that she had accidentally knocked the stack of photo albums off of the bed. "Shoot," she said crawling to the end of the bed, leaning over to pick them up one by one.
"What're you still doing up?"Freezing mid-action, Sugar slowly turned to see her Mom standing in her door way. She didn't look upset, just really tired. She should've been more careful. It was hard to miss anything in the tiny apartment, of course she had heard the crash.
"Mommy," she started, giving her an apologetic look. "I had a bad dream."
Brittany frowned with concern and walked over to sit on the edge of her bed. "Do you want to tell me about it?" she asked, running a hand through Sugar's light brown hair, then placing a kiss on her forehead.
Sugar bit down on her bottom lip before asking, "Do you believe in time travel?" She hadn't answered her Mom's question but she wanted to know.
"Yeah, I suppose I do," she nodded, completely confused as to why Sugar was asking.
"In my dream I time traveled. But I stayed there for... forever. In the past, I stayed in the past forever," she clarified. "I wouldn't ever see you, or Mama again. Not the way you are now." It was scary just thinking about it. Would it happen again? Would Sugar time travel again? It was cool, yeah. But it also completely scared her.
"Don't worry, sweetie," Brittany said with a sad smile. "It was just a dream. You've got Tubbers here to protect you." She let herself really smile this time, and gave the cat a scratch underneath his chin. "There's nothing to be afraid of, alright?"
Smiling she replied, "Alright."
There was something to be afraid of though, she knew there was. She just had to stop thinking about it.
"What's with the photo albums?" Brittany asked with a giggle, going over to pick up the few that remained on the floor. Laying beside her was the album Sugar had been looking through. Still opened to the page with the picture of her Moms as little girls at the park, she picked it up and sighed.
"How did you and Mama meet?"
Brittany held up a hand to cover her mouth as she yawned. "It's getting late, Sugar. Remind me tomorrow. Me and your Mama will tell you, okay?" She smiled down sleepily at her daughter sleepily before giving her another kiss on the forehead. "You need to get to sleep. You have school tomorrow."
With that, Brittany picked up the photo albums and placed them on Sugar's desk. She gave Tubbs a kiss goodnight and then shut the lamp. "Come get me if you need anything."
Her eyes started to get heavy and Sugar dozed off, but not once did she stop thinking about the two girls who had found her laying in the field. The two girls that would one day be her parents.