So You Think You Can Turn Back Time? by A.A. Albright

Author:A.A. Albright [Albright, A.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

The goats and cows stumbled along, the goats busy chomping on the leaves I’d stuffed into their nose bags, paying no attention to their surroundings. Both Essie and I had tried calling Teesy a few times since we set out for her house, but she still wasn’t picking up. I really hoped everything was okay.

‘So,’ said Essie. ‘Seb stayed at Pendulay again last night. He seemed a little off, though. Do you have any idea what could be wrong with him?’

‘Me?’ I concentrated on the animals, afraid to meet her eyes. ‘How would I know? I guess he was still upset about Vince.’

In a while, when I’d dealt with the goats and the wedding breakfast and the many other things, I would take a moment to think about what happened last night, and what it meant, if anything. Right before I went to sleep, it had all seemed so simple, but now … now, I just didn’t know.

She shrugged. ‘Yeah, maybe. I guess it took a lot of self-control for him not to hit Vince back.’

I hadn’t thought of that, but she was right. Seb was a physically strong guy, but he’d stayed so calm last night instead of retaliating.

‘But … look, Bell, did anything happen because of that potion you took?’ she went on. ‘Seb explained what happened, he said it just made you relaxed and sleepy, but … I dunno. I feel like he was leaving something out.’

‘No,’ I said, possibly too quickly. ‘Nothing. Nothing at all. He noticed almost as soon as he found me that I wasn’t myself, and he marched me straight to Lauren to find out why.’

‘Mm hm.’ She sounded unconvinced. ‘Well, can I ask you something?’

‘Sure.’ My voice came out a little strained, as I was running at the time, trying to catch Merry who’d strayed off the path. As I finally got hold of her and turned her in the right direction, I said, ‘You know you can ask me anything.’ Inwardly, I prayed that she was finished with questions about last night.

‘If … well, if you could change things, would you? I know we’ve chatted about this before, but I’m being serious right now. If you could do what I do, go back in time, and make it so that certain things never happened and Vince wasn’t kidnapped, would you do it?’

I looked curiously at my sister. ‘Why are you asking me something you already know the answer to? I’ve told you before – of course I would, if there were no consequences. But there would be, wouldn’t there? So the question is pretty pointless.’

‘Well, it’s just–’ She broke off, her face turning deathly pale. With her hand over her mouth, she said, ‘Um, Bell … I think I’ve just bumped into a body.’

I walked over to her, my legs feeling weak as I saw him. Essie had stepped back, and she looked like she might vomit. I felt a little nauseous myself. There he was, in the middle of the

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