6. Friday (or half of it anyways)
The next day was thankfully a Friday. They at least knew that it was the last day of that week that the other Catty would go to school. Catty and Jimena had to dress exactly the same as they had on that one day so that no one at school noticed anything suspicious. Catty remembered what she had been wearing that day, and that time, so did Jimena. The other Catty was wearing low rise jeans, a long-sleeved black shirt with a pink kitty on it, and sneakers. Catty found another pair of sneakers, another pair of low- rise jeans, and another long-sleeved black shirt, even though it didn't have a kitty on it. The other Jimena was wearing a long denim skirt with sneakers, and a white t-shirt. It was really easy for Jimena to find something just like that in Catty's wardrobe. "You know what? I never noticed it before Catty, but we have really similar taste in clothes," said Jimena with a smile as she picked out the clothes that she needed. Catty smiled back and went in the bathroom to change. They had had to wait until the other Catty was gone to get into the room, get dressed, and put back the clothes that they'd been wearing the night before. It had been extremely boring to watch the other Catty sleep. Every 15 minutes, they had searched around the room, hoping that the watch would fall there. But of course, they didn't find anything. Now, they had to hurry and finish getting dressed so that if Catty's watch landed somewhere between her house and their school, they would be there to get it. But if they waited too long, the watch would already be gone by the time they got there, and they would be stuck living that day over and over again for the rest of eternity. No matter how important Catty knew that was, she couldn't help but feel like inside, she wasn't really realizing the impact that it would have, since she wasn't worried at all. She looked over at Jimena and saw a determined look on her face. "I wish I could feel the way Jimena looks," she thought to herself. "You know what, even though I know this is about living the rest of my life normally or stay stuck here for eternity, I don't truly feel worried. Is that a side effect of time traveling, numbness?" Jimena had just said that, pulling Catty out of her own personal thoughts. Catty laughed and said: "Wow! I was just thinking about how you looked determined and how I wanted to feel like you seemed to." "Well, you sure got that wrong!" Catty and Jimena both laughed and went through the security gate of La Brea High. The man who checked their bags stared at them for a few seconds with a look of recognition on his face. But then, he shook his head and mumbled: "I've been working here way too long." Jimena and Catty walked away, giggling. The whole school day was really tough. They walked around the school aimlessly and hid in the bathroom every time they heard footsteps in the hallway. But every ten minutes, they made sure to look through the door of whichever class the other Catty was in, and tried to look on her desk and around her seat to see if the watch was there. Every time she came out of class they checked once again. The hardest thing was probably to avoid meeting their "double" in the hallway. Once, Jimena saw her "other self" walk down the hallway. The only thing she had time to do was to lean really close to the lockers. Luckily, the other Jimena walked right past her. Jimena smiled remembering how she'd been thinking about Collin. She sighed and whispered: "I love you, Collin. Will I ever see you again?" She waited for the hallway to empty itself up. She then walked around the hallway of that floor and the one underneath three times in a row. Catty was taking care of looking on the other floors. They had agreed to meet up in front Catty's and Jimena's last class of the day. Biology. They did the same thing as for every other class of the day. Once, Jimena thought that her "other self" had made eye contact, but she soon realized that she was only daydreaming, and staring out the door. But she still moved out of the way carefully, her heart beating really fast for having come so close to being discovered. She looked at a clock that was right in front of her in the hallway and thought: "20 minutes to go and the day is over." She thought it was extremely weird and extremely cool at the same time, how she could always be looking at herself like that. "Maybe that's how it feels to have a twin," she thought. She walked back to where Catty stood, a few feet away and said: "This better be the last day we have to do this. Or at least the last school day. Besides, wouldn't it be much easier to just go talk to the other Catty and ask her if we can follow her around? She, I mean you, might even offer to help us look." "I don't think it's that simple. There might be some rule that would make the watch disappear if our "other selves" saw us. And besides, I think that if we talked to the other me, it would cause her to go to places that I didn't go to originally, and the watch will only go to the places I went to originally. In the end, it would only lead us off track." "Yeah, I understand," said Jimena, nodding. She looked at the clock once more and realized that there were now 10 minutes left to wait until school let out. "Well, I guess it's my turn now," said Catty, looking at the clock as well. Catty stood up and walked over to the class. She looked through the door and saw nothing around the seat, or on the desk. She sighed and walked back to Jimena while shaking her head. Jimena nodded and looked down. It was finally the end of the day, and just in case, Catty and Jimena inspected carefully every classroom, every hallway that the other Catty had been in that day. They also checked the cafeteria, but they didn't see anything. They then walked out of the school and walked over to Catty's mother's shop, where the other Catty was working. It was really hard to actually get in. They came in through the window of a room in the back. The only thing that broke the store and the office in the back apart, was a curtain made out of beads. It wasn't really a convenient kind of cover, for people who were trying to see without being seen, but it was all they had. They saw a few costumers come in and leave. They watched the other Catty draw flowers and other objects of nature while the shop was empty. They also heard her answer the phone a few times. At 6 o'clock, it was time to close the shop. Catty and Jimena were afraid that the other Catty would want to go into the office to get something, but thankfully, she didn't. They watched Catty walk out of the store and carefully closing the door behind her. Catty and Jimena both let out a sigh of relief. They then waited a couple of minutes, and jumped back out the window of the office. They double checked to make sure that the window was locked, which it was obviously not when they had come in. They then headed for Vanessa's house where they knew that they would find the other Catty.
The next day was thankfully a Friday. They at least knew that it was the last day of that week that the other Catty would go to school. Catty and Jimena had to dress exactly the same as they had on that one day so that no one at school noticed anything suspicious. Catty remembered what she had been wearing that day, and that time, so did Jimena. The other Catty was wearing low rise jeans, a long-sleeved black shirt with a pink kitty on it, and sneakers. Catty found another pair of sneakers, another pair of low- rise jeans, and another long-sleeved black shirt, even though it didn't have a kitty on it. The other Jimena was wearing a long denim skirt with sneakers, and a white t-shirt. It was really easy for Jimena to find something just like that in Catty's wardrobe. "You know what? I never noticed it before Catty, but we have really similar taste in clothes," said Jimena with a smile as she picked out the clothes that she needed. Catty smiled back and went in the bathroom to change. They had had to wait until the other Catty was gone to get into the room, get dressed, and put back the clothes that they'd been wearing the night before. It had been extremely boring to watch the other Catty sleep. Every 15 minutes, they had searched around the room, hoping that the watch would fall there. But of course, they didn't find anything. Now, they had to hurry and finish getting dressed so that if Catty's watch landed somewhere between her house and their school, they would be there to get it. But if they waited too long, the watch would already be gone by the time they got there, and they would be stuck living that day over and over again for the rest of eternity. No matter how important Catty knew that was, she couldn't help but feel like inside, she wasn't really realizing the impact that it would have, since she wasn't worried at all. She looked over at Jimena and saw a determined look on her face. "I wish I could feel the way Jimena looks," she thought to herself. "You know what, even though I know this is about living the rest of my life normally or stay stuck here for eternity, I don't truly feel worried. Is that a side effect of time traveling, numbness?" Jimena had just said that, pulling Catty out of her own personal thoughts. Catty laughed and said: "Wow! I was just thinking about how you looked determined and how I wanted to feel like you seemed to." "Well, you sure got that wrong!" Catty and Jimena both laughed and went through the security gate of La Brea High. The man who checked their bags stared at them for a few seconds with a look of recognition on his face. But then, he shook his head and mumbled: "I've been working here way too long." Jimena and Catty walked away, giggling. The whole school day was really tough. They walked around the school aimlessly and hid in the bathroom every time they heard footsteps in the hallway. But every ten minutes, they made sure to look through the door of whichever class the other Catty was in, and tried to look on her desk and around her seat to see if the watch was there. Every time she came out of class they checked once again. The hardest thing was probably to avoid meeting their "double" in the hallway. Once, Jimena saw her "other self" walk down the hallway. The only thing she had time to do was to lean really close to the lockers. Luckily, the other Jimena walked right past her. Jimena smiled remembering how she'd been thinking about Collin. She sighed and whispered: "I love you, Collin. Will I ever see you again?" She waited for the hallway to empty itself up. She then walked around the hallway of that floor and the one underneath three times in a row. Catty was taking care of looking on the other floors. They had agreed to meet up in front Catty's and Jimena's last class of the day. Biology. They did the same thing as for every other class of the day. Once, Jimena thought that her "other self" had made eye contact, but she soon realized that she was only daydreaming, and staring out the door. But she still moved out of the way carefully, her heart beating really fast for having come so close to being discovered. She looked at a clock that was right in front of her in the hallway and thought: "20 minutes to go and the day is over." She thought it was extremely weird and extremely cool at the same time, how she could always be looking at herself like that. "Maybe that's how it feels to have a twin," she thought. She walked back to where Catty stood, a few feet away and said: "This better be the last day we have to do this. Or at least the last school day. Besides, wouldn't it be much easier to just go talk to the other Catty and ask her if we can follow her around? She, I mean you, might even offer to help us look." "I don't think it's that simple. There might be some rule that would make the watch disappear if our "other selves" saw us. And besides, I think that if we talked to the other me, it would cause her to go to places that I didn't go to originally, and the watch will only go to the places I went to originally. In the end, it would only lead us off track." "Yeah, I understand," said Jimena, nodding. She looked at the clock once more and realized that there were now 10 minutes left to wait until school let out. "Well, I guess it's my turn now," said Catty, looking at the clock as well. Catty stood up and walked over to the class. She looked through the door and saw nothing around the seat, or on the desk. She sighed and walked back to Jimena while shaking her head. Jimena nodded and looked down. It was finally the end of the day, and just in case, Catty and Jimena inspected carefully every classroom, every hallway that the other Catty had been in that day. They also checked the cafeteria, but they didn't see anything. They then walked out of the school and walked over to Catty's mother's shop, where the other Catty was working. It was really hard to actually get in. They came in through the window of a room in the back. The only thing that broke the store and the office in the back apart, was a curtain made out of beads. It wasn't really a convenient kind of cover, for people who were trying to see without being seen, but it was all they had. They saw a few costumers come in and leave. They watched the other Catty draw flowers and other objects of nature while the shop was empty. They also heard her answer the phone a few times. At 6 o'clock, it was time to close the shop. Catty and Jimena were afraid that the other Catty would want to go into the office to get something, but thankfully, she didn't. They watched Catty walk out of the store and carefully closing the door behind her. Catty and Jimena both let out a sigh of relief. They then waited a couple of minutes, and jumped back out the window of the office. They double checked to make sure that the window was locked, which it was obviously not when they had come in. They then headed for Vanessa's house where they knew that they would find the other Catty.