-Thanks to my reviewers, you are awesome! Here's the next chapter! Oh, and the title, if you didn't already know (and shame on you!) is the title of a song by the late great Bob Dylan. So don't sue me.-

I'm looking back and I can't see the past anymore-I Am An Animal by Pete Townshend

The shaggy haired boy smiled and was about to reply when a blur came barreling through and pushed the boy over. The blur turned out to be another boy with blond hair. He started yelling at the boy on the ground. "No way! You always get all the girls, but not this time! I'm gonna instruct this one! Me! Freddy! Not you!"

Then the boy, whose name was apparently Freddy, turned to Katie. "I'm Freddy," he said. "Want some instrument lessons? I can teach you drums and...that's all I can teach you. So, drums?"

Katie found it hard to say no to the extremely good looking boy, so she nodded and said, "I've never played drums before. At least, I don't think I have. I mean, I'm searching so hard for any kind of memory, but I can't find one!"

"You must be new. I'm Freddy."

"Katie. So, do you still have any memories?"

"One. It's pretty strange. All I know is that my hair is purple and there's someone on my back. Weird, right?"

Katie nodded. Freddy led her to a drum set that was sitting there conveniently. She sat down on the stool and tried to show her how to play the drums. She wasn't bad, but that didn't mean she was good either. Within about half an hour it was apparent that Katie would never get to be a good drummer. Freddy and Katie knew it, so they both gave up. The drum set instantly disappeared. Katie looked a little shocked at how something could just disappear right in front of her eyes, but Freddy seemed used to it.

"So, you wanna do something? We can do whatever we want here. Like go anywhere in the world. Sure, it's not real, it's just a simulation, but you could never tell the difference. So how about it?" Freddy said.

Katie blushed as he asked her out. Every bit of her old ninety five year old self had completely vanished. She pondered on whether or not she should go out with him. He was totally cute, but then again he had pushed down the other boy, the one that Katie had really wanted to meet. She decided that she wanted to meet the other boy, and turned Freddy down. "Uh, sorry, I just, I'm too new here, I need to get used to everything."

"When you do get used to stuff, here's my number. You know, if you wish that you had a cell phone, just tell yourself you have one and you will." He grinned wickedly.

Now Katie was a little glad that she had said no. When he grinned, a little bit of fire came into his eyes. It was a fire that scared her, because it looked like he probably enjoyed seeing things enveloped in fire too. She turned quickly and started walking away, pretending not to hear him yelling after her.

She found the other boy, the one that she had wanted to talk to in the first place, sitting in a chair at the same place where she'd first seen him. She went up to him and reintroduced herself. "So what's your name?" she asked.

The boy smiled and said, "If I like you enough in an hour then I'll tell you."

Katie put on a fake pout and agreed. The two walked off, not really knowing where they were going. It took a few minutes for Katie to realize that they weren't going in any particular direction, they were just walking. Noticing awkwardly that they were both silent, Katie made some conversation.

"So, do you have any memories from your old life?"

"Well, it's really hazy. But I'm up on a stage with lots of people around me, and I'm holding something gold. That's it."

"You're lucky. I can't remember anything, and I just got here...well, I don't know how long ago, but it wasn't long. How can I tell what time it is?"

"You can't. There's no real time here. You're never tired, and eventually a millennium will seem to pass like a second."

Katie gasped. "You've been here that long?"

"No, but I spoke to someone who has."

They slipped into silence again. That it, until Katie said, "Well then how can you tell me your name when an hour's passed? It could've been an hour or a year or a decade! Can't you just tell me now?"

The boy smiled, but shook his head no. Katie sighed playfully, and they continued walking. The boy gave her a detailed description of Heaven through the eyes of a real person, not from one of the glittery but not glittery men. It was filled with a lot of humor, and it seemed that the boy was just naturally funny and a magnet for people.

Katie felt herself falling for him even as they spoke. It didn't matter that she didn't know his name. What's in a name? A rose would...what? she thought. She'd almost had a memory there, but it had faded. "I've decided to tell you my name," the boy said. Katie was ecstatic. It was a little extreme, the way she was feeling.

But the way his hair fell around his ears. His face, the way that it was cute and sweet, but also made her laugh. Oh yeah, she had definitely just fallen. And what made her fall harder was the fact that he seemed familiar. There was something about him that she had known before, she knew she had. And because of that, she was comfortable with him.

So comfortable, in fact, that she felt like she'd known the boy for years. Katie decided that it was probably a good time to stop thinking and start listening. The boy, the one that she already loved, opened his lips and said three words.

"My name's Dewey."

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