That Friday afternoon, Sky and Star took the cab to the clinic and got her her pills so he could finally fulfill that one desire that he hadn’t managed to fulfill in their last two strange lives, somehow. They then spent another week fighting their desires to not only make sure the pill would be fully effective by the time it was needed, but to also still try to answer the question of where the event itself would take place.

The eighth day after Star had started taking the pills again was the Saturday after their second week of ninth grade. As it was a Saturday, their parents were once again going to be heading off to run errands, while hoping that the unknown factor of their return home would be enough to keep their two rather smitten children from any ‘adult’ activities.

The two teens smiled sweetly from their seats on the couch as their parents forced themselves to leave the house, both looking more than a bit anxious about the idea; but they figured they couldn’t spend their lives never leaving the house or forcing their children to come with them every time they did. Once the car pulled away, Sky moved across the couch and covered Star’s mouth in a long kiss.

When they finally ended the kiss, Sky was breathing a little heavily, “eager today, are you?” she teased him.

“It’s been a week, over a week. We officially could do it right here right now” he told her breathlessly, still holding her close to him.

“Now, now; they might have forgotten a phone or a wallet or a fucking coupon. Remember our timing kryptonite?” Star warned him with a slightly breathless laugh of her own.

“Could we really get that unlucky a third time?” Sky asked with a mock whine as he forced himself to move away from her, adjusting his zipper covered trousers in frustration as he did.

“Are we the same people who did manage to go months without having sex before?”

“Well, we were having sex for those four months at the apartment; just not with each other” he added with a sigh.

“And the two years we were locked in the glass house?” Star reminded.

“I think we found a couple closets without cameras in them, a few times” Sky chuckled at the memory.

“That we did” Star chuckled back. “So why is it so hard for us this time?”

“Well, given, we just had a completely consensual five hour sex marathon a few weeks ago. I think we’ve ruined any chance of celibacy after that.”

Star let out another giggle as well as a slight blush, “actually, that wasn’t a few weeks ago; that was three years from now” she smirked.

Sky just shook his head at her technically true statement, “what strange lives we live. All of them” he added. He then looked back at her, as if something had suddenly occurred to him.

“Uh oh that looks like an idea” she narrowed her dark eyes over at him.

“We’re forgetting that the rules of this world don’t necessarily apply to us” Sky stated thoughtfully.

“Really now?” Star continued centering that skeptical look on his pretty face.

“In this world, we’re always gonna have to worry about the wrong person catching us doing the wrong thing at the wrong time. But, for something as important as this, maybe we should think about using our abilities to their fullest potential” he told her with a mischievous smile.

“You’re gonna have to explain that one.”

“What I mean is, I know exactly where we can have our third first time” he stated, shaking his head at his own words.

“I’ve gotta hear this” Star replied, continuing to watch him with intrigue for whatever idea he had suddenly come up with.

“There’s one place we could go where no other human being could ever catch us” he told her as he smiled and licked some of his dark lipstick away.

“What?” Star asked, looking slightly perplexed, though still quite intrigued.

“Home” was his simple answer.

“What?” Star nearly choked on the word, “you mean the science lab where they made us?” she asked warily.

Sky just laughed, “not hardly. I mean the home the soul that made us came from” he whispered as he leaned toward her with another smile.

“The silver room?”

“We probably really should’ve figured out the name of that place” Sky smirked again, “but yes.”

“Um, we had to have sex to even get there” Star reminded him warily.

“That was back when we had to have sex to do anything. But hell, now we can time travel just by kissing, remember?”

Star bit her lip warily, pondering his suggestion, “but won’t our parents notice we’re missing?”

“Not if we come back to the exact same time as when we left, again. It’ll be like we’re not gone at all.”

“I’m wanting to agree, but last time we were there; the only time we were there, we may have come back to the same time, but we came back to an entirely different reality” she warned.

“Yeah, cause we wanted to escape the old one for good. This time, we only wanna escape long enough to...” he just smiled as he moved his eyes over her.

“My turn to say, you have a lot more faith in our abilities than I do.”

“We fucking time traveled. I think we got this shit down at this point” he smirked again.

“But, what if...”

“Time traveled” he repeated as he kissed her again.

“God I hope you’re right about this” she whispered, finally giving in. He then kissed her again. And then they were there, back in that weird silver chamber, still holding each other close.

They both looked around in awe at seeing that place again and smiled back at each other. Sky then smiled back at her, “ready for that charming third time?”

It felt like hours to them; having their first time, again, but now in that strange chamber in that other world where no humans could ever intrude upon them. And finally, Sky could feel what it was like to experience being inside Star, for the first time ever, without any barrier of any kind. And that made their already intense physical connection even more so for him. Even though they had shared this first experience together before, somehow, this time it felt like it was right; the way it should have always been that first first time.

When they finished, they smiled through ragged breaths as they finally forced their bodies apart and dressed once more. After a few more gentle, then more passionate kisses of afterglow, they once again opened their eyes. And, instead of that chamber where they had spent so long making love to each other that morning, they were once again, on their couch, in their empty house, smiling over at each other.

Star took a shaky breath, “is it the right world this time?”

Sky smiled back at her, checked the date and time on his phone and then gave her a wider grin, “when mom and dad left it said ten am, September fifteenth.”

“And now?” Star asked as she moved to reach for her own phone.

Sky allowed a little laugh, “10:05 am, September fifteenth” he offered her the answer.

“We went after mom and dad left. And I think we were there a lot longer than five minutes” Star replied, but a smile was turning the corner of her full lips just the same.

“Apparently not” he chuckled as he leaned over to kiss her once more.

Star grinned again as the kiss ended, “did we really just discover a way that we can make love any time, anywhere we ever want to, ever?” she asked in astonishment.

“I guess our soul found a way” he smiled back as he gave her another long kiss.

When their parents did arrive home again, slightly before noon, Star and Sky had now made their way to the kitchen. There, Sky was making some attempt at chopping up fresh vegetables in order to put together a home-made salad for their lunch, as he and Star both were watching their girlish figures, apparently. Star was standing behind him through his task, her arms around his waist, a hand in each of the front pockets of Sky’s rather snug black zipper pants, while the two talked and laughed quietly.

When Brie and Connor arrived in the dining room with that day’s purchases and cast a glance over to where their children stood behind the counter island, they both couldn’t help noticing the oddly self-satisfied smiles both children wore. Narrowing their eyes slightly at each other and then the clock, as if to say, ‘we weren’t even gone two hours,’ the two silently began putting groceries away around their ‘children.’

The two finished putting the grocery items away in silence, casting continuous glances at Star and Sky, who simply remained there, smiling as Sky worked at their lunch. Once the adults finished with the stowing of the last item, Connor gave Brie another wary look before heading back out of the dining area with a slightly heavy sigh.

Brie just shook her head after him before turning her attention back to Sky and Star, “we’re home, in case you two hadn’t noticed yet” she greeted them with a slight sarcasm.

“Hi mom” they both said in unison with a slight smirk, though neither moved apart or looked up at her through that half-hearted greeting.

Brie let out another sigh as she looked each of the teens over from head to toe. In her mind they were a couple of fourteen year old kids; but she tried, as hard as she could to remember her own self at fourteen, and how much of an adult she thought she was then. Another sigh and a shake of her head before Brie turned her next sentence to Star, “your hands cold or something?” she asked as she gestured to where Star still had her hands in Sky’s pockets.

“No” Star said innocently, obviously still too distracted by the earlier events of that morning to quite catch her mother’s sarcasm.

Brie sighed again, “Star, honey, Sky has a knife. You might not want to distract him right now. He may lose a finger, or something” she added more pointedly.

Sky and Star both allowed a slight snicker as Star finally removed her hands and stepped back. She looked back at Brie’s slightly accusing look and offered a nervous smile in return, “god, mom, I wasn’t touching... anything” she decided on.

Brie closed her eyes a moment to gain some composure at just hearing one child mention the other’s obvious anatomical differences, “when you two act that familiar with each other, can you blame my stress levels for being through the roof?”

“We’re just making lunch mom” Sky chuckled back as he shook his head and continued with his preparation.

“Just do my blood pressure a favor, and just try making any future meals with your hands in sight, and preferably above one another’s waists” she stated with a shake of her own head as she turned back to the living room with another sigh of frustration.

The two just gave each other a guilty smile once she left. Then Sky whispered through a small laugh, “they were right; it is gonna be a long four years.”