Chapter Six: Party of Four, Plus One
Liz, Maria, Isabel, Lithia, and Kyle are all laying on the ground surrounded by all leftover pizza, taco bell, and burger king bags and boxes.
Lithia: Does it always feel like you're going to explode after you eat?
Isabel: (Laughing) Only if you eat four slices of pizza, a whopper, and two tacos.
Liz: I didn't know I could eat so much, but you'd better watch it though cause you're going to have to pay for it later.
Lithia: But I don't have any money
Maria: She means you have to burn off the calories by exercising. But unlike my flabby self, Liz has a pretty fast metabolism.
Kyle: I'll help you exercise….
Isabel: (Whispering to Kyle) If you think….
Kyle: I was serious! I'm not going to try to put the moves on her, at least not yet.
Isabel: You are hopeless you know that?
Maria: So, Lithia, do you have any powers? Can you turn Kyle into a toad?
Lithia: I can do this
(Everyone looks around but doesn't notice that all the food has reappeared)
Maria: What did you do? Are you saying that you can't do anything?
Lithia: I'll give you three guesses
Maria: You didn't turn Kyle into a toad. So I guess you can't do that. I have no idea, Isabel.
Isabel: No clue, Kyle
Kyle: Buddha says…
Isabel and Maria: Next!
Liz: (Sitting up looking around) It can't be! You changed time.
Lithia: Yes!
Isabel: You mean we can go back and prevent Tess from killing Alex?
Lithia: (Looking sad) Not without consequences. You can't live life changing the past.
Isabel: But you can though.
Lithia: Not when I'm in this form. Besides, ask Liz what kind of consequences you can have if you try to change the past.
Isabel: What is she talking about Liz.
Liz: This isn't the time.
Isabel: If there is a way to get Alex back…
(Lithia puts her hand over Isabel's)
Isabel: (Crying) Alex? No, no more.
Lithia: You see what can happen?
Isabel: Are you sure that is what will happen
Lithia: That was one of the better possibilities.
Maria: Ok, I'm totally out of the loop, why can't we go back? I mean what if there are no consequences, you changed time and there were no consequences.
Lithia: Only because I only changed time for us and for this room for only an hour.
Isabel: We can't bring back Alex.
Maria: But
Liz: Just trust me on this Maria, please
Kyle: So I guess we can't go back to the 7th grade when you were in love with me huh?
Maria: You're never going to let that go are you? Seriously though, if we did change the past, what would you change, if there were no consequences?
Kyle: I don't know. I guess well, don't get mad Isabel but I wish that we'd never found out there were aliens on this planet.
Isabel: I agree with you, if you guys had never known about us, Alex would still be alive. But I would have never ever gotten to know Alex. So I guess I would like to change the day that we found out about Tess. I wish we'd never met her.
Maria: Yeah, me too. But if we hadn't met Tess, Alex wouldn't have been able to translate the text allowing you guys to be able to leave and Michael wouldn't have opened up to me like he did. So I don't think that I would change anything. How about you Liz?
Liz: I guess I would change the day Max slept with Tess. I wish I hadn't pushed him away.
Lithia: But you have him now.
Liz: He still has a son out there, wait a sec, can you see into the future?
Lithia: I can see all the possibilities that can happen after certain actions but there are so many that I'm not always right. You shouldn't let what will happen in the future decide what you do in the present. You know how futile it can be.
Liz: You're right, sometimes you're better off not knowing anything. You have all my memories, would you have changed anything?
Lithia: Not a thing, you've come so far. You've all braved so much. To change anything would take away from all that you've accomplished.
Kyle: So what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger? Sounds like something Buddha would say.
Liz, Isabel, and Maria: (Groaning) Kyle!