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anyways. Just because I'm really stubborn when it comes to ending stories.
Chapter 10
Catty started to run towards the light. She could hear Jimena doing the same thing behind her. They didn't know where it was coming from, and whether it was a good idea to run towards it, but they did anyways. Catty felt closer and closer to the watch. Finally, they got to the point where Catty could actually see the watch in front of her, in spite of the extremely blinding light. Everything felt extremely unreal at that moment when she first saw the watch. She no longer saw anything but the watch, she no longer felt anything, not even the cold of the icy water or her wet and dirty clothes that stuck to her skin. Everything was just completely unreal at that moment. Then, she made an amazing dive for the watch and as she clasped it between her fingers, she felt herself being transported through the tunnel of time.
Jimena was seriously panting. Even though she couldn't exactly feel it, she was aware of the fact that her body was tired. But when a very bright light appeared in front of Catty and her, she stopped thinking about it. Even though she was distrustful of the light, the fact that Catty was carelessly running toward it convinced her to do the same. She soon realized that the light was farther away than it had seemed before. It took them several minutes for them to get there. Even though Jimena wasn't actually tired, she the fact that she had been sprinting for about a dozen minutes discouraged her and she started to slow down. But in front of her, Catty just kept running at full speed. The next thing she knew, Catty was diving forward, and she disappeared with the light.
Catty landed hard on what seemed to be asphalt. But unlike the time before, the shock wasn't enough to knock her out. She got right on her feet and started jumping up and down. But she promptly stopped when she noticed a woman with a worried look on her face dragging away a scared-looking little boy away from her. She started to say:
"Oh, Jimena, I'm so happy that we ...."
But she stopped when she noticed that Jimena wasn't there.
"Ha, ha! You can come out now. It's not funny anymore."
But Catty soon realized that she was talking to herself. Her first thought was to go to Maggie, but she remembered how no one had answered the door when she and the girls had tried to go to her apartment for the last few days. And then, she had a flashback of Maggie's sad face when she had seen her with Jimena in the past. She hadn't really been paying attention to what Maggie was saying, but she thought she had said something about leaving, before she had turned around and left her and Jimena. She sighed and realized that no matter whether she was in school or out of school, she never seemed to be paying attention when adults were telling her important things. That explained all the bad grades she got in school and all the bad situations she got herself into. She looked around and tried to identify the place where she was. She slowly recognized a clothing store and a café that she had gone to a couple of times. She sighed again and started walking.
Jimena gasped and started to look around for Catty with the help of the flashlight she was still holding. But she soon came to the realization that Catty was gone and that she was alone. Now, she had no chance of getting back to the present. She could still try to go find her other self or another one of her friends and try to live with them. Eventually, she would catch up with the present anyways, right? But then, she remembered that the time wouldn't keep going for her, she would just go back to two days ago, when she and Catty had first appeared into the past and re-live the same thing over and over again. And every single time, she'd have to see Catty leave without her. It was now her destiny. She sat there wondering when she would be taken back to two days ago, and waiting for the unavoidable.
After walking for two hours, Catty finally got to Vanessa's house. When she knocked on the door, no one answered. As she looked up, she detected no movement from any room of the house. She started walking towards Tianna's house and then realized that they were all still in school. And she was supposed to be there too! She looked down at her watch to see what time it was, but she saw that it was broken. Now completely discouraged, she started her way toward a grocery store where she hoped to find a clock that would tell her what time it was. She hoped it was close to the end of the day, because she really didn't feel like going back to school after all she had gone through, but it was the only way to consult her friends on how to get Jimena back as soon as possible.
As Catty walked into the store, she noticed a clerk looking at her weird. She looked down at her herself to see what made him act that way towards her and realized that she was still all wet and dirty from her time down in the sewer with Jimena. She even had used toilet paper stuck to her elbow. She understood that the clerk must have thought of her as homeless and certainly didn't want her in his store. At another time, and in other circumstances, she would have rebelled against that man and told him that he should accept any customer, but in this case, it just wasn't worth it. She walked over to the man and said:
"Excuse me sir, would you be so kind to indicate to me what time it is?"
At first, the clerk seemed startled by the way she had talked, but then he looked down at his watch and said:
"3:40"
"Thank you," said Catty with a smile.
She turned around and walked out of the store. The first thing she did after turning around the corner was to rip away the piece of toilet paper from her arm. She looked at it, disgusted, and threw it away in the nearest trash can. School ended in twenty minutes, and it would take her about that long to get there from where she was. She knew that the guards wouldn't let her into the school looking like she did now anyways.
As she got nearer to the school, she started to recognize classmates on the sidewalks. But they didn't seem to recognize her. Good, she thought. The last thing I need is people pointing fingers at me while I'm trying to not to lose any time. Catty quickened her pace and smiled when she saw Vanessa, Tianna, and Serena standing a few meters away from her. She broke into a run and yelled when she stopped:
"Hey guys, I'm extremely glad to see you. I've been gone for the past two days and so has Jimena, but you just don't know it. We got lost in time because my watch fell while we were in the tunnel. And we saw Maggie and we looked for the watch everywhere, and the watch was in the sewer, and we went looking for it, and we found it, but the watch was disappearing because it couldn't stay there too long, and I grabbed but Jimena didn't, and now I'm here and she isn't and she's stuck in two days ago for eternity," Catty had said all that in one breath (A/N: I know it's possible, I've tried it.) and now, all three of the other girls were just staring at her wide-eyed.
Apparently, while everyone was silent, Serena had gone into Catty's head and seen all that had happened. She knew that no one had understood Catty's hurried explanation and thus she turned herself into some kind of bridge and communicated all of Catty's memories of her time spent with Jimena for the last two days, starting by their skipping class to Vanessa and Tianna. As they took in what had happened, their eyes got wider and wider. Tianna was the first one to speak, but "Whoa!" was all she managed to say. The first one to actually articulate a sentence was Catty:
"Okay, we really need to find a way to get Jimena back. It just has to be possible somehow. I'll tell you honestly, I never was as close to Jimena as the rest of you guys, even though Tianna got here last," Tianna nodded as she heard her name being said, "but during this whole thing, I've come to like as a best friend more than a partner in fighting the Atrox. (A/N: I know, cheesy. But it was just too tempting.) You guys always think of the really cool plans, so come on, I'm listening."
Then, Vanessa smiled and said: "I'm glad you're better friends with Jimena now, and you know what, I thing I've got a plan."
That's all for today. I beg of you to review if you're reading this, just to let me know that at least one person is reading this. But if you don't review, then shame on you, and be aware that you destroyed one ficwriter's dreams of actually having reading fans. Just kidding! But review anyways.
Chapter 10
Catty started to run towards the light. She could hear Jimena doing the same thing behind her. They didn't know where it was coming from, and whether it was a good idea to run towards it, but they did anyways. Catty felt closer and closer to the watch. Finally, they got to the point where Catty could actually see the watch in front of her, in spite of the extremely blinding light. Everything felt extremely unreal at that moment when she first saw the watch. She no longer saw anything but the watch, she no longer felt anything, not even the cold of the icy water or her wet and dirty clothes that stuck to her skin. Everything was just completely unreal at that moment. Then, she made an amazing dive for the watch and as she clasped it between her fingers, she felt herself being transported through the tunnel of time.
Jimena was seriously panting. Even though she couldn't exactly feel it, she was aware of the fact that her body was tired. But when a very bright light appeared in front of Catty and her, she stopped thinking about it. Even though she was distrustful of the light, the fact that Catty was carelessly running toward it convinced her to do the same. She soon realized that the light was farther away than it had seemed before. It took them several minutes for them to get there. Even though Jimena wasn't actually tired, she the fact that she had been sprinting for about a dozen minutes discouraged her and she started to slow down. But in front of her, Catty just kept running at full speed. The next thing she knew, Catty was diving forward, and she disappeared with the light.
Catty landed hard on what seemed to be asphalt. But unlike the time before, the shock wasn't enough to knock her out. She got right on her feet and started jumping up and down. But she promptly stopped when she noticed a woman with a worried look on her face dragging away a scared-looking little boy away from her. She started to say:
"Oh, Jimena, I'm so happy that we ...."
But she stopped when she noticed that Jimena wasn't there.
"Ha, ha! You can come out now. It's not funny anymore."
But Catty soon realized that she was talking to herself. Her first thought was to go to Maggie, but she remembered how no one had answered the door when she and the girls had tried to go to her apartment for the last few days. And then, she had a flashback of Maggie's sad face when she had seen her with Jimena in the past. She hadn't really been paying attention to what Maggie was saying, but she thought she had said something about leaving, before she had turned around and left her and Jimena. She sighed and realized that no matter whether she was in school or out of school, she never seemed to be paying attention when adults were telling her important things. That explained all the bad grades she got in school and all the bad situations she got herself into. She looked around and tried to identify the place where she was. She slowly recognized a clothing store and a café that she had gone to a couple of times. She sighed again and started walking.
Jimena gasped and started to look around for Catty with the help of the flashlight she was still holding. But she soon came to the realization that Catty was gone and that she was alone. Now, she had no chance of getting back to the present. She could still try to go find her other self or another one of her friends and try to live with them. Eventually, she would catch up with the present anyways, right? But then, she remembered that the time wouldn't keep going for her, she would just go back to two days ago, when she and Catty had first appeared into the past and re-live the same thing over and over again. And every single time, she'd have to see Catty leave without her. It was now her destiny. She sat there wondering when she would be taken back to two days ago, and waiting for the unavoidable.
After walking for two hours, Catty finally got to Vanessa's house. When she knocked on the door, no one answered. As she looked up, she detected no movement from any room of the house. She started walking towards Tianna's house and then realized that they were all still in school. And she was supposed to be there too! She looked down at her watch to see what time it was, but she saw that it was broken. Now completely discouraged, she started her way toward a grocery store where she hoped to find a clock that would tell her what time it was. She hoped it was close to the end of the day, because she really didn't feel like going back to school after all she had gone through, but it was the only way to consult her friends on how to get Jimena back as soon as possible.
As Catty walked into the store, she noticed a clerk looking at her weird. She looked down at her herself to see what made him act that way towards her and realized that she was still all wet and dirty from her time down in the sewer with Jimena. She even had used toilet paper stuck to her elbow. She understood that the clerk must have thought of her as homeless and certainly didn't want her in his store. At another time, and in other circumstances, she would have rebelled against that man and told him that he should accept any customer, but in this case, it just wasn't worth it. She walked over to the man and said:
"Excuse me sir, would you be so kind to indicate to me what time it is?"
At first, the clerk seemed startled by the way she had talked, but then he looked down at his watch and said:
"3:40"
"Thank you," said Catty with a smile.
She turned around and walked out of the store. The first thing she did after turning around the corner was to rip away the piece of toilet paper from her arm. She looked at it, disgusted, and threw it away in the nearest trash can. School ended in twenty minutes, and it would take her about that long to get there from where she was. She knew that the guards wouldn't let her into the school looking like she did now anyways.
As she got nearer to the school, she started to recognize classmates on the sidewalks. But they didn't seem to recognize her. Good, she thought. The last thing I need is people pointing fingers at me while I'm trying to not to lose any time. Catty quickened her pace and smiled when she saw Vanessa, Tianna, and Serena standing a few meters away from her. She broke into a run and yelled when she stopped:
"Hey guys, I'm extremely glad to see you. I've been gone for the past two days and so has Jimena, but you just don't know it. We got lost in time because my watch fell while we were in the tunnel. And we saw Maggie and we looked for the watch everywhere, and the watch was in the sewer, and we went looking for it, and we found it, but the watch was disappearing because it couldn't stay there too long, and I grabbed but Jimena didn't, and now I'm here and she isn't and she's stuck in two days ago for eternity," Catty had said all that in one breath (A/N: I know it's possible, I've tried it.) and now, all three of the other girls were just staring at her wide-eyed.
Apparently, while everyone was silent, Serena had gone into Catty's head and seen all that had happened. She knew that no one had understood Catty's hurried explanation and thus she turned herself into some kind of bridge and communicated all of Catty's memories of her time spent with Jimena for the last two days, starting by their skipping class to Vanessa and Tianna. As they took in what had happened, their eyes got wider and wider. Tianna was the first one to speak, but "Whoa!" was all she managed to say. The first one to actually articulate a sentence was Catty:
"Okay, we really need to find a way to get Jimena back. It just has to be possible somehow. I'll tell you honestly, I never was as close to Jimena as the rest of you guys, even though Tianna got here last," Tianna nodded as she heard her name being said, "but during this whole thing, I've come to like as a best friend more than a partner in fighting the Atrox. (A/N: I know, cheesy. But it was just too tempting.) You guys always think of the really cool plans, so come on, I'm listening."
Then, Vanessa smiled and said: "I'm glad you're better friends with Jimena now, and you know what, I thing I've got a plan."
That's all for today. I beg of you to review if you're reading this, just to let me know that at least one person is reading this. But if you don't review, then shame on you, and be aware that you destroyed one ficwriter's dreams of actually having reading fans. Just kidding! But review anyways.