A couple months had passes since Cyd and Shelby's last trip to the future lab where they had gone all out to try and escape the lab. That plan had failed and brought them into a depressed state about the future lab. They had hardly done any thinking about the future lab since. They weren't trying to figure out how to escape it or anything along those lines.

They really just wanted to avoid it happening altogether, and that was the next course of action they decided to go with.

It was a quiet Saturday evening. Bret and Chet were sleeping over at a friend's house and Shelby's parents had gone to visit a family member for the weekend, leaving the two girls with free reign of the house. Despite that, the two girls still sat in their room. They had set up Shelby's laptop to watch a movie off of Netflix. The credits were now playing and Netflix was asking them to rate the movie. Shelby gave it four stars and closed her laptop.

"I thought we were going to watch another movie," Cyd said, turning to Shelby.

"We are, but there's something we need to talk about and I don't want my computer open while we do," Shelby began, sounding grave.

"What is it?" Cyd asked, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"It's something neither of us really wants to talk about and we haven't for a couple months."

"You mean?" Cyd began, catching on.

"Yeah."

"Oh. What about it?"

"Well, we know we're going to do something in the future that lands us in the future lab."

"Yeah."

"So like with that alternate time-line, Janet probably sees us on camera or somehow gets something like that to prove that we are time travelers and to get her to start thinking that we are. So what if we just make sure she can never get any proof of us being time travelers, never let her see anything, only time travel when nobody else is around. Make sure it's just us, Barry, and Naldo who hear or see anything about it."

"That's genius!" Cyd exclaimed. "If there's nothing left for Janet to see, she'll never be able to do anything to us or know that it's us."

Shelby smiled. "So that's our plan?" she asked, her voice full of a new hope of not getting captured and taken to the future lab.

Cyd nodded. "Now, on to the next movie." She opened Shelby's laptop back up and typed in the password. Shelby laughed at the fact that Cyd knew her password without ever telling her.

That weekend, they were the most relaxed they had been in a long time. They had a plan, so it was a long-term plan and the effects of it wouldn't be known until May 10, 2019 came around, but it was a start, it was something, and it was reassuring as heck to have something to go on and live by.

CHCHCH

"We need to go back and fix this," Cyd said. She and Shelby stood in the middle of the hallway of their high school. It was nearing the end of their Freshman year and Barry had finally gained the nerve to ask Marci to the dance. He was going to do it, until they came in and messed it up, accidently of course.

"Bump it," Shelby said.

Cyd was halfway through the motion before she realized what she was doing. "Not here," she whispered to Shelby.

"Right," Shelby said. She and Cyd headed over to the bathroom, went into one of the stalls, and locked it before going back to that morning just before they had gotten to school. When Barry was asking Marci to the dance, they made sure not to get in the way. Everything worked out well for the happy couple.

Cyd and Shelby had also avoided being caught on camera suspiciously disappearing. Time travel still had some kinks in it.

CHCHCH

"Okay, let's figure out how to avoid that," Shelby said. Some klutzy freshman boys had been carrying around expired milk for some reason, allegedly taking care of it for the lunch ladies.

"You think," Cyd said sarcastically, only because she was mad at the boys. The angry look on her face had them running away as quickly as they could. "Let's go," Cyd reached her hand that wasn't covered in curdled milk out to Shelby.

"Not here. Let's just go to the bathroom and get you cleaned up," Shelby said.

"What—?" Cyd began to ask, before realizing that Shelby was keeping them from being able to be seen on camera. Once in the bathroom and ensuring that nobody else was in there, the two high fived and were back to a few minutes before the curdled milk accident. They were able to avoid the situation by avoiding the hallway where it had occurred completely.

CHCHCH

Over the course of the years leading up to their senior year, Cyd and Shelby had many moments like that. They'd need to fix something and realize that before they did that, they needed to get somewhere private. They also made sure that whenever they talked about it with Barry and Naldo, it was while they were in the RV or the room the girls shared in Shelby's house, just like they had planned.

A/N: In this chapter and the next one there's a little back and forth time wise and I hope that everything still makes sense despite that. I had elements from this part and the next that I wanted to include without making a huge long chapter so they get a little out of order.

I hope that you are still able to enjoy it and follow and if you don't understand when something was taking place in relation to other things, just PM me or leave a review stating where I wasn't clear enough and I will try my best to make it make sense.

So let me know what you think, constructive criticism is always welcome and I'd love to hear (read, technically) what you though. Thanks for reading,

-CrazyHayniac