Though they started the kiss as two desperately afraid seventeen year olds in a harsh, bright lab; that very desperation once again shattered time and space around them. And they ended the kiss as two desperately in love fourteen year olds on a cliff on a warm summer night.

Both of them startled out of the kiss, Sky laying on top of Star on the ground in front of that tree, at that party, his hips eagerly pressing against hers. They broke off the kiss and looked around them with widened eyes. Sky then looked down at where she lay beneath him now, just as shocked as he was then.

“Ok, I definitely think we should stop or something right now.” Neither of them could help laughing at the statement as he moved to push himself up off of her, both leaning back against the log behind them once more.

“Are we seriously fourteen again though?” Star stated as she looked down at herself and then him.

“Looks like” Sky shook his head.

“We just literally time traveled?” Star stated with further disbelief.

“Looks like” he repeated again, as he too looked around them on the cliff that night.

“Without even having sex?” Star had to add.

Sky let out another laugh of disbelief, “apparently not, considering where and when we are, and we just stopped doing what we were about to do; We’re apparently friggin virgins again. Fourteen year old virgins, with the memories of seventeen year old whores” he had to make light of the situation.

“Shut up; we never charged” Star smacked him lightly. She then shook her head again, “so now I have to let you take my virginity a third time?” she rolled her eyes with a half-hearted groan.

“Could be the charm” he smirked.

“But it won’t be charming tonight” she reminded as they glanced toward the incline behind them.

“Yeah, definitely think tonight would be a bad time to do that deed; just a hunch” he teased, both of them just laughing in disbelief again.

“Well we wanted our missing memories back, didn’t we?” Star sighed.

“I think I’ll also want my car back” Sky stated wistfully.

“Don’t worry, you’ll only have to wait another two years on that one” she smirked over at him.

“What so ever shall we do in the meantime?” he teased as he gently kissed her cheek again, only to look back when they heard footsteps approaching behind them. “Hi Cassie” Sky bit his lip as she neared them.

“Oh, you found her” Cassie stated as she took a slightly drunken step toward them, “everything ok then?”

“Yeah, but you’re a tad drunk. You may not wanna be hanging out on a cliff right now” Sky warned as Star and he gave each other knowing looks.

“Please, what’s the worst that could happen?” she giggled.

“Trust me, you don’t wanna know” Sky warned her. He then moved to push himself up from the ground, reaching out to help Star to her feet then as well. He then turned back to Cassie, “come on, I think we need to get you back down to ground level” he told the older girl as he gave Star a furtive look and he moved to escort the drunken fifteen year old away from that cliff’s edge for once and for all.

“You know,” Cassie began, slurring her words slightly as Sky led her back down to the party, Star following closely behind them, “my sister is only eleven, and she’s already starting to dress like the two of you... but with more glitter” she added, “bet she’d fall madly in love with you, probably both of you, or at least with your closets” she added with another giggle.

“You don’t say?” Sky replied as he and Star both couldn’t help looking at each other with another small laugh of their own.

When the two of them arrived home that night, they got out of the cab and made their way to the front door with their amazed smiles still in place. Though, before Star could open the door, Sky pulled her back by her wrist. About to say something, he instead took pause and turned both their wrists upward.

Following his eyes, Star smiled again, “no scars?”

“Not yet” he smiled again as he moved in to give her another brief kiss before she pointedly glanced at the house. He then moved back from her and sighed, “yeah, we gotta not fuck this up, this time” he added wryly.

“Not looking forward to a fourth reset just yet?” Star smirked up at him.

“I’m not sure what the limit is on how many lifetimes someone can fit into their head before it explodes” he shook his head, then moved back to what he had originally planned to say when he first reached for her wrist, “so, are we gonna tell them?”

“Tell them?” Star asked with a bit of tension.

“This is the night: The kiss that started kiss-gate” he had to laugh at that one again.

“I’m pretty sure we kissed before tonight” she told him knowingly.

“One kiss at a time” he teased, “so, do we tell them or no?”

“They eventually accepted it, mostly” Star stated warily.

“Yeah, but will it not be for another three years?”

“I have no idea” Star sighed, “but we haven’t made any of those horrible mistakes we made in every other life; not yet anyway. So, this would be the one time we probably could tell them the truth about what we feel and what we’ve done, so far” she had to add, “without it making us look like we’re complete wrecks. Cause we’re not, yet anyway.”

“Well, we are” Sky smirked, “just not in this life, yet” he added wryly.

Star allowed another worried smile, “I don’t know, alternate realities, time travel, being seventeen year olds trapped in our own fourteen year old bodies? My head might explode anyway” she only half-joked.

“So much for yolo” he smirked again.

“Told you that definitely didn’t apply to us” Star teased.

After another long moment to steel themselves to head into that house once more and face their parents once more, Sky spoke again, “so, we actually doin this shit?”

“I guess so” Star agreed with more than a bit of tension before they headed into the house at last to make their now third attempt at having a life that might just be a happy one, at last.

“Have fun at the party?” Brie greeted them as they entered the house to find she and Connor browsing their phones while the TV played in the background.

The two took another moment to gather their courage before Star spoke up first, “there’s something we need to talk to you guys about” she began in a small voice. But it did do well to cause both of their parents to look up from their phones and worriedly back at the two fourteen year olds standing closely together in front of them.

“Did something happen at the party?” Brie asked with worry that any mother of a teenager would have after said teenager had just spent the evening with a large group of other drunken teens.

Star and Sky gave each other a gentle smile before Sky continued, “well, yes. But it’s been happening for a few months now” he dared.

That was when Connor spoke up, his own unease obvious, “what are we talking about exactly?”

Star swallowed a lump in her throat before continuing, “ever since we... got older” she decided on, “Sky and I have, felt stuff, for each other. We’ve actually even kissed a few times” she offered in a small whisper as both Brie and Connor paled slightly.

But before either parent could respond, Sky spoke again, “before you flip out though, just take a minute. If Star had been adopted by another couple, would you tell me I wasn’t allowed to like her, like that?” he said in the same soft tone, repeating their parents’ very argument from that other life; or rather, that future life.

Both Connor and Brie took a few deep breaths to try and find a proper response to this particular confession. It was Connor who spoke first, though he seemed to change his mind about what he wanted to say originally before giving Sky a skeptical look, and choosing another statement, “so, you do like girls then?”

“Connor” Brie scolded him as Sky and Star just blushed.

Then Sky replied, “I like Star” was his only answer, that time.

More deep breaths from the parents before Connor responded, “have you tried liking other girls?”

“Dad” Star was the one who scolded him then.

Connor let out another sigh, “and I suppose you like him back just as much?” he asked his daughter then, mainly to buy more time to try and figure out the proper reaction he and his wife should be having at all.

Star closed her eyes a moment before smiling back at Sky, then turning back to their parents, “I feel like he’s the only guy I could ever really like, like that” she admitted.

“And I feel the same way about her” Sky put in.

Brie spoke then, “you’re only fourteen. I’m sure you’ll both meet plenty more people you like in the future.”

The two just shook their heads at that slight understatement, considering how many lovers the two of them did now have memories of. Sky did give them a rueful look though before responding, “is that you telling us to pretend we don’t like each other until we find someone else to like?” he asked warily.

Brie looked back at her husband, who only shrugged back. She then spoke to them again, “I’m not sure that’s how liking someone works, as much as we would like it to.”

Connor then added, “and we can probably guess at what your response would be if we told you you couldn’t be interested in each other. That whole teenage thing where you both want nothing more than what your parents tell you not to want.”

Brie spoke up again then, “but you two have to understand our feelings here too. You’re basically telling us that from now on, it’s gonna be like the two of you having a permanent slumber party with the boy or girl you each like. Imagine our stress level right now, if you will” she added with a bit of a scolding tone.

Sky sighed softly, “we can guess how hard it’ll be, but it’s not like we can just pretend those feelings aren’t there either.”

Another sigh before Brie spoke, “we can try to get through this. But you two have to be in the permanent mindset of how you would act if you were bringing a boyfriend or girlfriend home to meet us. Best behavior, at all times. Don’t want mom and dad to catch you doing anything unseemly, right?” she coaxed.

“Unseemly?” Sky had to chuckle at that one.

“You know exactly what I mean, Sky. A little kiss here or there, maybe we can get used to that, or you two holding hands, stuff like that. But we really don’t wanna find you two doing anything any more adult than that. Got it?”

“What about after we turn eighteen? Then can we make out on the kitchen table?” he teased.

“Don’t push it” Brie scolded again. “Now, both of you get to bed. Separate beds” she added pointedly, “your father and I need to get a drink, or five.”