My eyes flickered open, my head on Twilight Kim's pillow. Another weirdo day in this weirdo world.

By the time I got home last night Anna's light was out. It was eating me up inside if she discovered anything in her research at the library. Anything that would get me out of Twilight land.

I slid out of bed and over to her room to find my Twilight sister sprawled out and still asleep. I looked her over her, trying to Will her awake so I could pepper her with questions. Staring at her wasn't working, though.

"Anna," I said softly a few times. No dices. I rubber her shoulder, then her cheek. I gently tugged her hair a bit. Nothing, and my patience was thin.

"ANNA! Get up!"

She sprung up like a cartoon character and I had to cover my mouth in laughter.

She caught her breath, registering that I just woke her up and then scrunched back in her bed and stared at me.

"Jesus Christ. Go fuck off to your other universe." She slunk back down, rolled over and gave me the finger.

I laughed and sat on her bed, gently rubbing her back.

"That's exactly what I'm trying to do sissy. Any clues, info? We gotta get you, your Kim back."

She turned over and looked at me.

"Sissy?"

"Yeah… you know, like sister. Sometimes I call you…Anna, my Anna, that."

Her hair was a mess all over her pillow. She just looked at me, eyes glassy, like she was searching for something.

"You.. or I mean my Kim, ...never used that before. Something so familial like that." Her eyes looked everywhere but at me. We actually… well, we aren't that close, not like you and she seemed to be. Not like the past few days have been with you and me…"

I smiled at her. It was so fascinating how different Twilight Kim and I were in various ways. Everyone seemed to think she was timid but she was more adventurous than me with her secret Paul relationship. I was too addicted to tik tok and my phone to be really living like her, but through all of her galavanting she seemed less connected to Anna. A buoy, keeping me from drowning in Twilight land.

"Well, you're sissy to me." I smiled at her and placed my hands on my lap. "And I'm dying here, Sissy. What did you find out at the library? Is there a way to get me back?"

She huffed out a deep breath. "I'm still trying to figure it out. The ducking imprint thing may actually have legs... but there wasn't too much about animal behavior and biochemistry. I definitely think there is some sort of parallel universe stuff happening here. Mixed with time travel. There are theories, very hypothetical ones, but still theories about phenomena like this. The fact that this world is a book in your world is a big thread… a clue. In string theory all the universes are connected. I need access to more research, but I think you somehow slipped through from yours to this one. Why is a big question. I'm going to go to the research library at the community college in P of A after school and see what else I can drum up."

"I don't care about why, I just want to go back."

"Kim, if I figure out why, I can figure out how to get you back."

I gulped and nodded my head.

At least she was trying. I'd just have to bide my time a little longer. She ran her fingers through her hair.

"So what's up with you and Jared? I get the whole imprint, trust thing, but what was that weird nuzzling?"

I blushed. "I'm not sure, I think it's that magical instant love, or whatever. This sounds so weird but it's his smell that draws me in like that. He smells incredible. It's like I'm love drunk when l get really close to him sometimes… I was trying to fight it on the beach after we dropped you off…"

"Trying to fight it?"

"This isn't my world. I don't belong here. I mean I am going to leave…"

"But he didn't have the imprint love with Kim. I mean my Kim, the other… you know…"

Hmm.

"I know you said with ducklings, imprinting isn't always instant, it more about trust. But why did he trust me then? In school yesterday?

She sat up pensively.

"Well, what was the variable? What changed?" Anna. Ever so sciency. I chewed on my lip and wring my hands together. I tried to recall all our interactions prior to the imprint.

"Well, I was confused the first time we locked eyes in the hospital and then I was just angry at Paul. Kinda brooding about it. When Jared was here I was intrigued by him, I guess, but then I don't know… overwhelmed and doubting myself. Yesterday, at school, I was just so fed up with Paul. So sick of his manic/anger back and forth, the way he speaks to Kim, me… I just let him have it. And that's when it happened."

Her eyes widened at that.

"Whoa."

"Whoa?" She took a moment, trying to choose her words carefully.

"Well you… I mean Kim, my Kim, never stood up to Paul. Or anyone, really. Very non-confrontational. She's just one of those people where life happens to her ya know…? And she just goes with it. But, the fact that he never imprinted on her and the reaction between you two didn't ignite until you showed a shift in yourself…"

She sprung up in the bed, like a Jack in the box.

"Kim! This may be the why!! It's almost like an experiment. Maybe the universe… this universe was trying you out. Maybe Kim, my Kim wasn't the right one. This world needed another one, another Kim for some reason. One that would grow and thrive in the given conditions. And it was seeing if you were the right one for this world."

"If I'm the right one?"

"I mean it's not unheard of. Non-indigenous species are introduced to novel environments in nature all the time. Exotic seeds are dropped and sometimes they take and sometimes they don't, depending on the conditions, depending on the seeds."

"I'm not a plant, Anna."

"No, but you are a version, a variable of Kim. Man, I need to brush up on biophysics and biochemistry."

She hopped out of bed like an eager puppy, running around to get dressed. I shook my head trying to organize all of this.

"So your theory is that the catalyst for Jared imprinting on me is…"

She snapped her head back to look at me in the eye.

"When you proved yourself. When you told Paul to fuck off and stood up for yourself, you proved something. To Jared, to this world. Like a seed that could withstand the conditions and grow. The other Kim couldn't, didn't do… but you did."

I gulped, trying to let that shit sink in.

"You may just be the right one."

A/N: Are some of the mysteries falling into place for you? More reveals to come. Jared / Kim chapter coming next with appearances from other pack members as requested by Sparkle15! And thank you Sparkle15 for your readership and consistent reviews! They make my day.

Next chapter should be uploaded soon-ish.