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Changing the Future

The next few days were more light hearted, less tense. Rae and I couldn't act on the new information with guards because we had absolutely no clue where to find O'Neil's club. 'The Supernatural World' the guards had called it, but we searched for the club on the internet and the phone books and no information came up. No address, no number, no nothing. So we're kind of at a loss at the moment. And to top it all off I still don't trust Rae. I don't know what her intensions are but there not good. I want to trust her, I really do. The thought makes me laugh because the future Tori would scoff at me and say "You're too trusting Chloe". And I would just ignore her or roll my eyes at her, like we always do... I miss her.

Anyway, the guards that were tied up in the basement unfortunately did not just disappear. We had to do something with them. Andrew called in some more favours, much to his annoyance, and managed to get the guards sent away to a location far away from their present selves. Andrew even managed to get them new ID's. Where their 'new location' is I have no idea, but to be honest it could be at the bottom of a pit for all I care.

Some of the days I even recognize . And one of those days I remember all too clearly. This is the day that the Young Me goes on the date with Simon. This is the day I try and tell myself I don't like Derek, but we all know that's a lie.

I'm sitting in my room thinking over all of this on my own until Rae comes into the room, uninvited. She smiles at me and bounds over to my bed and plops herself down in front of me. She cocks her head to one side like a bird and, still smiling, said, "So today's the day that will change your life—for the better I'm guessing."

"What are you talking about?" I said, even though I know exactly what she's talking about.

"Don't play dumb," she teased. "I remember you telling me about your date with Simon and how it all turned out. So what are you going to do? Because the young you, young Simon and the young Derek will all want to know how things turn out. You could avoid them for a few days and let things unravel on their own, that might work."

"Thanks for the advice," I say with a sarcastic smile. "I'm sure it will help me through this awkward moment in time."

She chuckled. "This is gonna be a fun day. C'mon, Andrew made hash browns," She said pulling me off the bed with her.

"So?"

"'So'? When was the last time we both had hash brown?"

"From what I remember of you, they're not exactly your favourite food."

"When you haven't had something in a long time you realise just how much you missed it when it's right in front of you." She said with a wistful look on her face, I don't think she was talking about the hash browns anymore. "Anyway," she snapped out of her daydream. "Breakfast."

We walked out of the room and down the stairs to the kitchen where the smell of eggs, bacon, hash browns and beans was too strong to ignore. When we sat down at the table Simon was trying to convince Andrew to let himself and my young self to go get some ice-cream.

"C'mon Andrew—we'll be fine. We'll be careful. Please." Simon pleaded.

Andrew sighed. "Fine, fine, okay, but there are rules. Stay in the woods, not the road and Chloe can't go in the store, okay?"

"Yeah, that's great," Simon beamed. I ducked my head and started to cut up my bacon into little pieces so I wouldn't have to look at his smile. It makes me feel bad. I know Simon's okay with Derek and I in the end, but who knew at this point in time?
It was currently just Andrew, Simon, Rae and I in the kitchen but Derek, Tori and, Myself soon walked in for breakfast.

For the rest of the day Rae and I 'borrowed' Andrew's laptop to look for more information on where O'Neil might be and to our disappointment he didn't have much information on him, just his background story, which could've beeen a tragic soap opera story on TV.
Apparently Jasper O'Neil had his powerful half demon powers ever since he was a little boy of about seven and his family never knew where he got his powers from. They were afraid of him and even brought in multiple priests to 'cleanse' him of the 'demonic influence corrupting him'. O'Neil couldn't control his powers properly and there was apparently an accident with his little brother. His brother Zachery O'Neil, aged five when Jasper was eleven, was said to have ruined Jaspers artwork (O'Neil was a really good artist and was even rumoured to bring his artwork to life) and Jasper got so mad that a fire started in his house. His brother didn't survive the fire and his father was so grieve stricken that he killed himself by a bullet through the head. His mother was heartbroken and said she never wanted to look at or be near her son again. O'Neil lived on the streets for many years, using his powers for no good. The Edison group then found him, they didn't experiment on him but gave him a small job, that small job became a medium job, the medium job became a big job and the big job in the future will become a huge job. A job that will destroy many people's lives.
There was also an address for his mother in O'Neil's file.

"Maybe his mother will know where his club is?" Rae suggested after we were done reading.

"Didn't you see the part where it said that his mother never wanted to see him again?"

"You never know, it could be worth a shot?" I gave her a doubtful look. "Well it's the only shot we have, I say we take it."

"I suppose... Let me think about it."

"Fine," she sighed. "We've been up here for hours," she said getting off the bed and stretching. "Dinner should be soon."

"Now you mention it, I'm starving." I shutdown the laptop and got off the bed too. Rae went down stairs and I snuck the laptop back in the library. When I went to the dining room everybody was already there. When I sat down Simon gave me a smile and I gave him a small smile back. Dinner was pasta and sauce and we all sat down with different versions of small talk.

"We'll be gone for a while after dinner" Simon said. I remember this conversation

"Oh. Yeah. That's right." Derek looked to the young me and then back to Simon. "So, uh, Andrew's good with that?" I could have sworn that he gave me a look but his gaze went back to Simon

"Yep. You lose that bet, bro. Sure he gave me a whole bunch of warnings—gotta walk through the woods, not on the road, Chloe can't go in the store, blah-blah. But we can go."

"Huh," Derek looked over to Andrew, then to me, nodded and said, "Okay, then."

Rae, who was sitting beside me, put her hand over her mouth and coughed, "Awkward."

I glared at her and mouthed the words 'grow up'. She smiled at me and carried on eating. Before I looked back to my food I saw Derek give us a confused frown.

Sigh Yes I know, it's a cliffy for all you Chlerek fans! I know it's short but that was the point, I hope you enjoyed anyway. Please, please, please REVIEW!
Miss WolfGirl...xx