I've only gotten one review, so it's still possible that I will take
chapter 11 down and chapter 12 with it too. I just want to answer
Alcapacien's review right now. Okay, so what you said made a lot of sense.
I thought about it about half way through the story. I right my stories
chapter per chapter and honestly, I still don't know how this story ends.
You remember how in book #3, Cassandra had suggested that followers go back
in the past and kill Veto? Well if you don't, I do. So I guess that in some
alternative reality, Veto was still alive and was still Jimena's boyfriend,
and she never went out with Collin. But the past had been changed, and
nobody except the followers remembered what had originally happened. So
that just shows that it is possible to change the past, but then no one
except whoever changed events in the past remembers what was originally
happening. So, I wrote most of my story based on that theory. Enjoy chapter
12!
Chapter 12.
Jimena woke up with a start. At first, she thought she was home, in bed and that the weird thing that had swallowed Catty and her in was just a dream. But she soon realized that what she was lying on was grass, not her soft, warm bed. She tried to get up but she felt too exhausted to. She felt like she had just fallen from the sky....... without a parachute. She felt really dazed and closed her eyes hoping that the next time she'd open them, she'd be back in her bed, or even better, in Collin's arms. Maybe both. Jimena's eyes snapped open. This situation felt oddly familiar. She didn't know how or why, but somehow, she knew that she had found herself in the exact same position, in the exact same place, not such a long time ago. And she didn't like that feeling.
Catty was staring down at her watch, she could feel the world around her fading. She was trying to concentrate on getting to the right time. It felt weird using a watch that wasn't her own, but she knew she shouldn't let that affect her. She knew her class had started at two. She clearly remembered that the clock above Mr. Jones's shoulder had read ten past two when she had looked at it right before she had asked him if she could go to see the nurse. So she concentrated on stopping the hands of the watch at two o' five. She stopped them a little early at two o'three.
"Perfect," she thought. "I came here too late to warn myself. The only thing I can do is stop myself from traveling in time in the first place. I'll just waylay (A/N: Isn't this word so cool?! My computer says it's a synonym for "ambush") myself then."
Catty smiled at her plan as she fell hard on the ground in the boys' bathroom of the third floor. She giggled when she realized where she was, but soon got up to identify the floor she was on. When she did, she stepped into one of the janitors' closets she knew she was going to pass sometime during the next five to ten minutes. Her plan was to reach out and grab the arm of her other self, drag her in the janitors' closet and explain to her what the situation was. It seemed like a very good plan, but somehow, she wasn't sure it was going to work.
(A/N: Just so you don't get confused, this is Catty's "other self.") Catty had just broken into a run, trying to get away from Jimena. She really didn't want to hurt her feelings, but she couldn't afford to have Jimena seeing her while she was time traveling. The only thing she could do was get away, FAST. Then all she'd have to do would be to come back from her time traveling, meet Jimena in the hallway and say that she really had to run to bathroom to throw up or something. It sounded like it would work. Of course, then, she really wouldn't get to miss much of her biology class, unless she really went to the nurse's office. She shook her head fiercely in order to stop arguing with herself and to be able to concentrate more on her running.
Catty was still standing in the janitor's closet. Her body was completely stiff. She hadn't moved a muscle in about ten minutes. She was straining to hear every little noise coming from the hallway. She was also trying to keep an eye out without anyone who might walk by seeing her. She just hoped that no school janitor would choose that precise moment to come in and get some supplies. All of a sudden, she heard steps coming from the outside, she could also hear someone panting. She realized that the person was her. She opened the door a little bit wider, and started to stick her hand out. But all of a sudden, someone slammed the door on her wrist.
There you go! Here's the end of chapter 12 (if I kept count correctly).
Chapter 12.
Jimena woke up with a start. At first, she thought she was home, in bed and that the weird thing that had swallowed Catty and her in was just a dream. But she soon realized that what she was lying on was grass, not her soft, warm bed. She tried to get up but she felt too exhausted to. She felt like she had just fallen from the sky....... without a parachute. She felt really dazed and closed her eyes hoping that the next time she'd open them, she'd be back in her bed, or even better, in Collin's arms. Maybe both. Jimena's eyes snapped open. This situation felt oddly familiar. She didn't know how or why, but somehow, she knew that she had found herself in the exact same position, in the exact same place, not such a long time ago. And she didn't like that feeling.
Catty was staring down at her watch, she could feel the world around her fading. She was trying to concentrate on getting to the right time. It felt weird using a watch that wasn't her own, but she knew she shouldn't let that affect her. She knew her class had started at two. She clearly remembered that the clock above Mr. Jones's shoulder had read ten past two when she had looked at it right before she had asked him if she could go to see the nurse. So she concentrated on stopping the hands of the watch at two o' five. She stopped them a little early at two o'three.
"Perfect," she thought. "I came here too late to warn myself. The only thing I can do is stop myself from traveling in time in the first place. I'll just waylay (A/N: Isn't this word so cool?! My computer says it's a synonym for "ambush") myself then."
Catty smiled at her plan as she fell hard on the ground in the boys' bathroom of the third floor. She giggled when she realized where she was, but soon got up to identify the floor she was on. When she did, she stepped into one of the janitors' closets she knew she was going to pass sometime during the next five to ten minutes. Her plan was to reach out and grab the arm of her other self, drag her in the janitors' closet and explain to her what the situation was. It seemed like a very good plan, but somehow, she wasn't sure it was going to work.
(A/N: Just so you don't get confused, this is Catty's "other self.") Catty had just broken into a run, trying to get away from Jimena. She really didn't want to hurt her feelings, but she couldn't afford to have Jimena seeing her while she was time traveling. The only thing she could do was get away, FAST. Then all she'd have to do would be to come back from her time traveling, meet Jimena in the hallway and say that she really had to run to bathroom to throw up or something. It sounded like it would work. Of course, then, she really wouldn't get to miss much of her biology class, unless she really went to the nurse's office. She shook her head fiercely in order to stop arguing with herself and to be able to concentrate more on her running.
Catty was still standing in the janitor's closet. Her body was completely stiff. She hadn't moved a muscle in about ten minutes. She was straining to hear every little noise coming from the hallway. She was also trying to keep an eye out without anyone who might walk by seeing her. She just hoped that no school janitor would choose that precise moment to come in and get some supplies. All of a sudden, she heard steps coming from the outside, she could also hear someone panting. She realized that the person was her. She opened the door a little bit wider, and started to stick her hand out. But all of a sudden, someone slammed the door on her wrist.
There you go! Here's the end of chapter 12 (if I kept count correctly).