As I showed Paul out of my apartment, I smirked.
Paul would find someway to cheat me out of that little deal, I mean, it's only the Paul Slater tradition!
So, if he wants to cheat me out of my deal, then I am just going to play against him at his own game.
I grinned more, and then took a shower and went to bed, Susannah's face racing through my head.
The next day, at work, Paul called me.
"De Silva! I need to know all of the information about how Suze died okay?"
I was checking out an old lady in a walker, who was buying lots and lots of sunglasses and shampoo bottles.
"Paul, I can NOT give you any of the information right now! I'm working! I actually have to work to get paid!"
Then my manager came walking down the hallway.
"PAUL I HAVE TO GO BYE!" I screamed, and I shoved the phone into my pocket.
"That will be $56.43 ma'am." I said nervously as she slid her credit card through the machine.
My boss walked over to me.
"Jesse De Silva? Were you just talking on the phone while on duty?" He asked me, putting his hands behind his back.
"Um, Yes sir, I was… sir." I said, scanning a pack of bubble gum.
"Jesse, you know the rules around here! Get back to WORK!" he screamed, and he walked over to Kyle's cash register, and I grinned at him, as I scanned a DVD, and it landed on the floor.
"Hey! Watch it BUDDY!" She screamed at me. I looked up at her as I put the DVD in the bag. She had one big unibrow.
"I'm sorry ma'am." I said, finishing scanning the rest of her items.
When it was my lunch break, I told the boss that I had to leave because of an emergency in the family.
My poor grandmother died.
Yeah.
Right.
She's been dead for almost 230 years!
I immediately called Paul back.
"Jesse! Took you forever!" He screamed into the phone.
"Sorry Paul. Okay, here's the information." I said, as I sighed and closed the door of my car behind me. I told him EVERYTHING.
"Okay. So you think that if we go back in time to when you were still a doctor and Suze was still alive and going to go get pizza, you could go get the pizza, and then let Suze stay at the hospital, and then give her a medicine that will remove the cancer completely from her body?" He asked.
"Yeah, pretty much." I nodded, as I pulled into the driveway of Paul's house.
"Hey, I see your car. Bye." He said, as I got out of the car and walked into his house.
"Jesse! Buddy!" He said, swinging me a seat.
"Here, have an apple!" He said, shoving one in my face. "No thank you." I said, pushing them away.
"Jesse, we need something of Suze's that will let us go back in time to where she was." He said.
I started to think. What was hers? She didn't have a ring…. She didn't have anything back then that I could remember.
Then Paul snapped his fingers. "I got it!" He screamed and ran up the stairs.
He came back and opened up his hand.
It was her tortoise shell barette.
"Paul, this is too old. This is when she was 16! I was a ghost!! That's too long ago." He sighed, and looked at it as he tossed and twisted it in his hands.
I looked down at the table.
"Jesse." Paul said. "I want you to have this." He said, as he opened up my hand and placed the barette inside. "I think that you would like it more then me. And it's really special to Suze. According to her, it was her great-grandmothers. I think that you should have it Jesse." As I put it into my pocket. It then hit me.
Her house.
"PAUL! HAVE THEY CLEANED OUT SUSANNAH'S HOUSE YET???" I screamed.
"No I don't think so De Silva." He said. I bolted out of the door and ran to the house across the street, and fumbled with the keys as I unlocked the door.
I ran up to her room and threw open the door. I looked around for a lot of things. I looked in her closet, but didn't find anything significant.
Then as I was about to leave, it hit me.
The small jewelry box that was sitting on her dresser, right next to a picture of me and her at the winter formal.
I opened up the box, and it sung a happy tune.
As I looked through her necklaces and bracelets, I spotted one thing I knew she had been wearing.
I picked it up with shaky hands. It was the gold bracelet I had given her almost 3 days before I brought her to work, and got into a car accident.
It had two golden hearts that dangled from the chain.
In cursive one said Jesse and one said Susannah.
It meant we would always be together.
Just the thought of it brought tears to my eyes.
As I returned to Paul's house, I showed him the bracelet.
He nodded and told me what to do. I closed my eyes and thought about the apartment that Susannah and I were sharing at the time. Paul had just come by to give Susannah her birthday present. We clutched the bracelet and when I opened my eyes again, I was in the apartment. I did it! I had gone back in time.