Heya lovely peeps ! So here goes the next bit :D It has time jumps and timelines overlaping, so I hope I made not that confusing. Hopefully you get it and LIKE it ^.^ Enjoy reading, as much as I enjoyed writing it ;)

Disclaimer: Unfortunately I do not own any right to these amazing characters.

Spoilers: Well, last episode I've seen was Episode 13 Season 1. But as it comes out, I might add some info from the series.

Chapter 3 - Was It A Mistake?

'WHAT?!' Shelby's head worked furiously hard, trying to come up with an explanation for what she had just been asked. 'Cyd... What did you see? What was so bad you want to forget?'

'I thought you said you trust me...' she sounded defeated, hopeless.

'And I do! I do trust you Cyd. But that doesn't mean I'm not going to ask question about it. It's called being concerned and slightly curious.' and for the first time since that morning, Cyd didn't pull back when her friend reached for her. 'What's going on? Let me help.'

'I can't explain Shelbs. You just have to trust me. Please. No questions asked.'

'But how will we know it's safe? Do you understand what you're asking?'

'No, listen. We'll still know. We'll go back and leave a note for when we wake up in the morning. We'll explain what happened, tell ourselves it's safe, because there's a future after the lab, and that we don't need to go and see.'

Shelby listened carefully and then took some more time to think about it, leaving her friend nervously expectant. She didn't like any of it. Not because it wasn't a good plan or because she didn't trust Cyd. It was due to the fact that it felt like she was floating on complete and utter darkness, clueless to what was happening, only to jump into unforeseeable oblivion. It was a gigantic leap of faith. But it was for and with Cyd, there was nothing Shelby wouldn't do for her.

'Okay.'

'Okay?'

'Yeah, okay.'

'Just like that?' Cyd definitely didn't expect for it to be that easy.

'I told you I trust you. I just hope you know what you're doing.' And just like that, Cyd's face lit up.

'I do.' But did she really? What if the only reason they ever dated was precisely because she had seen into that future? What if by never seeing it, they never get to realise how they feel about each other? It was too late now, Cyd had risen her hand and Shelby had made them fly through time with a simple swing of her own arm.

'We made it. We're here!'

'Alright, find a piece of paper or something like that.'

'Here.' Shelby crossed the room in two wide steps after pulling a notebook out of her backpack and tearing a page out. 'What are you going to write?'

'I don't know yet. Wait.' She sat down on the floor, leaning into her own bed. 'I'm going to want to go into the future anyways...' Cyd was mostly thinking out loud.

'Yeah. There's not much you can write that will change that.' Shelby got on her knees, lowering herself to her friend's eye contact level.

'I know...' and just like that Cyd almost gave up. She threw the paper and pen to her side and pushed her knees to her chest, resting her forehead on them.

'Here.' Shelby collected the writing material from the floor and sat down by her conquered friend's side. 'Let me try.'

She could have used that opportunity to leave all that madness behind and forget it ever happened. Go back and try to understand what was going on inside her best friend's mind, helper through it. Help her without such drastic measures. Somehow, she knew that was the way to help Cyd. And so, she was going to give it her very best shot. Her face was crooked in concentration while she wrote. The pen would feverishly scribble along the slip and then come to an abrupt stop, only to scratch something and start again. After a few minutes, through which Cyd inquisitively observed her friend, the note was ready.

'What did you write?' she wondered what would possibility make her back down from a trip into the future and Shelby handed her the letter with a half-smile. Her eyes followed her friend's handwriting through the messy lines, widening with surprise along the way. 'I guess that would do it. Thank you Shelbs.'

'What are friends for?' she turned to the note with brightest smile she could manage. 'Hold on to that paper. Once we go back, "Past You" will notice it.' Cyd nodded and Shelby held out her hand. 'Ready?' and even though she wasn't sure she was ready, Cyd held out her hand as well.

'Thank you…'

'Let's go.' With theirs fingers intertwined, they jumped back to the moment when Shelby had come home from school to find her friend in bed. As soon as she realized they had returned, Cyd sat up straight and Shelby took three fast steps towards her, ending up only half a meter away. 'Alright. The time line will change at any second now!'

Meanwhile, in the past, a very confused Cyd stopped talking mid-sentence to look at her hand.

'So are we just going to do nothing and let it happen? You know my ideal death is…'

'Where did that come from?'

'I don't know.' Cyd was holding the paper as far from herself as she could, like it was a bomb about to explode or an awful virus.

'Well, don't just stand there and look at it. Open it! What does it say?'

Even contradicted and scared, Cyd did exactly as her friend asked her. She sat down heavily on her bed as soon as she finished reading. She looked up to find Shelby's eager eyes probing her.

'We don't have to worry. We eventually get out of that lab.'

'Let me read it.' Shelby didn't really wait for permission, she took the piece of paper and sat down as well, peering deeply into the message.

Cyb, the lab and the scary lasers, are not the end. We get out of it. I don't know how, but we do. I'm writing from the future to assure you, everything is going to be okay. Trust me. Love, Shelby.

Ps. Don't come snooping into the future. Believe me when I tell you no one will like it if you do. You can stop being afraid now. I'll see you, eventually.

'Future Me wrote this?' Cyd didn't answer, it was quite obvious. 'It doesn't make sense. Why would I say that everything is going to be okay and then tell you not to look? How far off in the future did I write this? We should go check… Cyd. Are you listening to what I'm saying?'

'Shelbs, the note says that everything's okay. Does it really matter how?'

'It does! What if I didn't write that? What if someone was trying to catch us off guard by making us relax?'

'Shelby, it's your handwriting. And besides, there's no one who can time travel besides us.'

'How are you taking this so easily?' as an answer, Cyd pointed to one of the words in the letter.

'Because I trust you. And I'm done being scared. If you, future you, past you, or any you, tells me that I can stop being scared, then I know I can.'

Shelby considered the note for a while, taking in everything that Cyd had just told her. She couldn't help the smile that crossed her lips. Her friend was right. And from that smile of acceptance, an enormous, turbulent but invisible bubble erupted. It expanded slowly at first, like it was gathering enough strength for a jump capable of swallowing time itself. But then its velocity increased exponentially. It begun, not only gulping the hours ahead, but changing them.

In the time where school was over, and the girls had just returned from delivering a note to the past, Cyd stared intensely into her best friend's eyes. She could almost feel the new timeline recoiling on their memories, swiping them entirely. The back of her neck bristled in warning, as she felt the vibrations of that undetectable bubble tumbling down towards them. Her heart exploded inside her chest, beating at a rate that would most certainly lead her to black out. She didn't let go of Shelby's eyes. Suddenly, everything felt wrong. She was scared! She didn't want to live without that feeling, without knowing about that immense love pumping powerfully through her veins. Cyd didn't want to let go. What if she erased the only possibility she ever had of feeling like that? With love, fear and desperation overflowing all her senses, Cyb got to her feet. Eyes locked, heart pounding in her throat, she reached for the love of her life and pulled her in close.

When their lips found each other, everything stopped.

Cyd's heart returned to her chest and purred serenely, while her brain, which was once spinning at the speed of light, dozed off into a nocturnal sky, gazing in slow-motion at the bright, beautiful stars. And the bubble, which was almost throwing them into a new reality, collided violently aginst another bubble. A bubble that suddenly rose around Cyd and Shelby, the moment their lips met, like a physical manifestation of their own hearts and minds. They wanted time to stop, and so it did.

Alrighty my beautiful readers, that's it for now :) They can stop time! Imagine the possibilities :p Did they even realise it though? Will the timeline change or not? Leave or thoughts, don't be shy xD You can leave request as well, I'll promise I'll read tgem and consider them all. Happy readings KISS KISS