This was exactly what I had needed. Find the woman of my life and lose her to Stephen Hart. Out of all people. If It had even been Captain Becker or perhaps a younger version of Nick, I'd be okay with it! Maybe! But no, it had to be Stephen. Stephen who had never once stopped to care about anybody except himself. Hell, Stephen didn't even think to stop. And trust me, Hellen Cutter didn't count.

That was the day Abby had lost all interest and respect for Stephen. Hell, we all did. The day it was made known that he and Hellen had been romantically involved. Abby looked so horrified that I couldn't even stop myself from feeling absolutely horrid. Afterall, I had been convinved that I had loved Abby. And then I had met Trinity. But that was another story.

I must have been staring for at least a couple of minutes, because Stephen had cleared his throat. "Well, we'll see ya later then. We better be off. Trinity?"

"So soon? Yeah I s'pose so. Well, I'll see ye in lunch, yeah, Connor? Ya can sit with us if ue want," she said, bouncing once and grinning before skipping off with Stephen at her side. Damn. There was no way that I was going to be able to tolerate for long periods of time. Which was quite irritating, since I had since promised myself that I wasn't going to let Trinity stay with Stephen.

The day passed quickly and lunch soon rolled around. Throghout the day I managed to find out that Stephen Hart really was the model student. He was quarterback and Captain of the Chess Team. I'd also learned that he was top student in Zoology. Which had explained a lot, since both myself and Trinity were the same as we had been in the future. But still, I was bothered. Nothing good could come of this.

As I made my way into the cafeteria, I heard several shouts and turned the corner to see Stephen kicking the hell out of someone. I groaned. Knowing Stephen, this happened quite often. There was a loud gasp of surprise from behind me, and I knew without a doubt Trinity had just walked in. I turned in time to see a somewhat rumbled red head behind me smelling of turpentine and chai tea. She darted forward, getting to the other side of the room quickly.

"Feck! Stephen get the feck offa 'im! I've told ye a 'undred times t' jus' leave 'im alone! Jus' because someone finally has more muscle value than ye doesn' mean ye kick his arse!" She fired, yanking Stephen off of a dark haired boy. He had a rugged "I'll fuck you up" look to him.

"If that's the way you feel-"

"Feck! Yes, tha's how I feel. I feckin' told ye that a thousand feckin' times! Get it right or get los'!" She snapped. "Sorry 'bou' tha', Becker," she fumed, standing beside a tall dark haired man.

"It's fine, Trinny. Calm down, you're getting hard to understand," He said, smiling a bit. I smiled, too. Trinity's accent did get heavier as she got angrier. I suppose it was the classic accent. Trinity made her way back over to me, frowning.

"Sorry abou' tha', Connor," she said, her accent lightening a bit. I shook my head, already I knew what it was she was going to tell me. She tugged at a braid nervously, biting her lip. "Uh, would ya sit with me? I usually sit with the football team, unless Stephen and I are fightin'."

"Ya mean ya don' have any girlfriends ya can sit with?" I asked, almost shocked.

"Naw, don't get along with girls. Too catty. I don't do well with drama. I'm more like a ferret, see. I'm fairly cute, moderately cudable, and extremely adorable until you provoke me. Then I just suck," she said, her tone light and cheerful.

Nothing had changed. Nothing at all. She was still the same old Trinity, right down to the ferrets. Stephen was still all brain, all brawn, all badass. That's just how things were. And as the rest of lunch passed and Trinity and I clicked instantly, I knew that after everything I still loved her. Nothing had changed, nothing at all. It's a bit interesting as to how things were still the way they had been years lunch, Trinity had squeezed my hand and disappeared mysteriously. I didn't hear anything from her for the rest of the day. When I opened my locker, I was greeted with an origami crane sitting on top of my physics book. I picked it up, unfolded it carefully, and read what was written on the piece of paper.

Connor,

Hey! It was really bleeding awesome hanging out with you today! Meet me at my nan's store before school tomorrow, same time, okay? We'll walk to school and then afterwords I'll invite you over. I honestly think that I'm going to like you just fine. Don't pay any mind to Stephen. He can be an arrogant bastard at time. Just go along with it, okay? Haha, we'll see each other soon, okay? Promise you''ll come over!

Trinity

I looked up from the note to find a blushing Trinity hiding behind the corner, peeking out shyly. I smiled, glanced down at the note, looked back up, and noticed that she was gone. Trinity had randomly dissapeared again, and she was also still the hopeless romantic who believed elementary love lasted the longest.

Nothing had changed at all.