I stared at Molly. This weird situation had just gotten even weirder. Was that another thing that had changed because of Second or whoever had messed with time? Molly wasn't only supposedly my sister, she was also Gavin's cousin? Did that make me Gavin's cousin too?

"What does he look like?" I asked cautiously.

"Well, his hair used to be kind of the same color as yours, but a couple months ago he dyed it jet black with some purple. And he's taller than you, but maybe about the same age… how old are you?"

"Thirteen." Molly's description of Gavin matched my friend/brother Gavin to a T, right down to the purple in his hair. What was the likelihood that there would be two kids in the same state with the same name and the same look?

"Yeah. My cousin's thirteen too."

"I think we're talking about the same person."

Molly's eyes were wide with apprehension. "What does that mean?"

"I don't know. I guess it means… I guess it means that you have Gavin's phone number!" I grinned triumphantly. "Do you? Do Mom and Dad? Can we call him?"

"I do, in my cell phone," said Molly. "Mom and Dad—this mom and dad—don't. They don't even know Gavin. He's my cousin from my other family."

Molly reached into her pocket and pulled out an iPhone in a purple case.

"Not fair," I muttered. "I didn't get a phone until I started middle school. Who got you that one—my parents or your other family?"

Molly frowned, as if trying to remember. "My other family gave me this one for my tenth birthday last month. And… I don't have a phone yet, with this family." She swiped across the screen and brought up her address book. "Here's Gavin." She touched Gavin's name and then hit Call.

The phone rang. And rang, and rang, and rang. Please let him pick up, I prayed. I needed to talk to him about this.

"Molly?" Gavin's voice came out of the phone.

"Um, hi Gavin," said Molly, suddenly sounding a lot younger. "Umm…I'm here at my Michigan house with your friend…"

"With me," I spoke into the phone. "Daniella."

"What? Molly and Daniella—you guys are together? In Michigan?"

"It's where Zechariah put me back," I explained. "At my old house."

"And my mom thinks Daniella is part of our family," added Molly.

Gavin was silent for a moment. Then he said in a fake-nonchalant voice, "Molly, you know Carter and Callie, right?"

"Who?"

"Carter and Callie. My brother and sister."

Molly flashed me an alarmed look, then spoke into the phone. "You don't have a brother and sister."

"You too?" I exclaimed. "What's going on? Did he put us back in the wrong dimension? Is this that alternate world Second created, or whatever? That time agent that talked to us—is he Second?"

"I don't think he's Second," said Gavin. "Antonio would've recognized him. Probably some of the other kids would've too. But this is really freaky. When he sent us all out of the time hollow, I ended up back in my room, like I was before. But when I went to the kitchen to get breakfast, there were two kids there. And my mom was insisting they were my brother and sister. I'd never seen them before in my life."

"That's almost the same thing that happened to me," I explained what had happened since I'd arrived back at my old house.

"This definitely has something to do with time travel," said Gavin. "I tried calling Jonah and Chip, but they both didn't answer. So I called Maria, and she said that some extra furniture had just randomly appeared in their house, but she and Leonid figured that was normal in the 'future'. You know, our time period. No extra people, though. I asked if I could talk to Angela, and she said Angela wasn't there. She said Angela left about an hour ago with JB."

"With JB? Where were they going?"

"Maria didn't know." Gavin's tone was dark. "But she said they seemed like they were in a big hurry."

I thought about that for a moment. Zechariah had said that Gary and Hodge were the ones who sent us to the time hollow. Maybe JB and Angela had been trying to stop that?

Or maybe they had been trying to stop this. Whatever this was.

"So what I don't get," said Gavin, bringing me back from my thoughts. "Is this whole thing with you and Molly. I mean, Carter and Callie are random kids who popped out of nowhere. But you and Molly both had families before. How are you in the same family now? Is it your family or her family?"

"It's my family," Molly and I both said at the same time. "Well, my Michigan one," Molly added.

"What are you talking about?" Gavin snapped, and for a moment he sounded like the angry, fake-tough kid he'd been when I first met him. This voice was the one he used when he was nervous or scared. "Are your parents still my Uncle Rick and Aunt Sue?"

"Yes. I still have both sets of parents. My Rousseau mom and dad and my McCarthy mom and dad. The only difference is Daniella." Molly's face paled suddenly. "At least… I think I still have my Rousseau parents."

"The Rousseaus are your only parents! You've never been part of Daniella's family! Daniella… do you think the real reason Gary and Hodge got some other guy to send us to the time hollow was because they were busy doing something really awful with time? Something that caused all this to happen?"

I didn't get a chance to answer, because all the sudden, Molly screamed.