If I See You Again Tomorrow by Robbie Couch

Author:Robbie Couch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2023-04-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE last opportunity I had to learn more from Beau, and it couldn’t have been more of a disaster. He wasn’t even slightly more open to having a conversation with me, which I guess shouldn’t have been a surprise, knowing how adamantly he said goodbye in the high school parking lot. But still, I’m gutted.

I don’t know anything more about the soul-mate theory he believes to be true, if The Wrinkles show could have had anything to do with it, or how we both got stuck. But even worse than that?

Beau supposedly thinks Day 310 was a fluke; that our connection wasn’t real; that I’ve been conflating true feelings for him with simply being comforted by his presence in the time loop alongside me. It sounds like a bunch of BS.

But… could he have a point?

I mean, we only did spend a matter of hours together. And I definitely am comforted by knowing I’m not stuck in today by myself. I admit that, regardless if it was Beau or not, I’d probably want to see the other stuck person quite a bit, as they’d be the only one whose sense of time aligns with my own.

But… no. He’s wrong.

I was drawn to Beau like a magnet during Day 310—before I even realized he was stuck in today, too. I know our connection was real and not a fluke. I know that I like Beau—and that I’m not just comforted by him being in here with me.

But my knowing won’t change his mind.

I jinxed myself in Day 326, apparently, having allowed myself to feel excited to relive my today. Because Day 327? It’s a rough one. I still skip school but I stay curled up on the sofa rewatching my comfort shows (although they hardly work in providing any comfort). By the late afternoon, I resort to scrolling through the “newly added series” section before remembering that I’ve already watched all of those, too. In a time loop, it’s only a matter of time before the new releases become your personal classics.

Day 328 isn’t much better, but I do manage to numb my emotions with a full day of baking. By the time Mom and Blair are home, the apartment looks like my own dessert catering business gone wild, as hundreds of mediocre snickerdoodle cookies line sheet pans covering every surface of the apartment.

“Um, are you… okay?” Blair asks, staring at me. The fact that she’s even ignoring her phone to gawk at the chaos surrounding her underscores just how over-the-top I went. “Thanks, I guess? But this feels like a lot for one birthday party, bro. I’m only expecting—”

“Fifteen,” I mumble, disappearing into my room. “Yeah, I know.”

I can feel my world contracting again, just like it had been prior to Day 310. And with Beau abandoning me—again—my loneliness is worsening, too. But I refuse to keep regressing, now that I’ve gotten a taste of what my today could be like, now that, deep down, I have a reason to feel a little hope.

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