~Three Years Later~

Over the next three years, Sky and Star continued to rebuild all those memories they had been missing in the last life. They also continued to use their uncanny awareness of that dark future to dodge every bullet they could see coming, while they still could, anyway. They even finally got to experience all of ninth, tenth, and eleventh grade, for the first time in three lives. The only real conflict, and it was minor compared to others they’d endured in other past and future lives; was the way their parents couldn’t stop eyeing them with obvious suspicion every second they were in their presence.

However, the two managed to keep nearly every one of their passionate trysts confined to their special place in that other world, in that silvery room of theirs. Most nights the two would bid their parents goodnight, head upstairs, and give each other a long kiss before bedtime. Though, each time that kiss ended, their breaths were short, their skin flushed and covered in a tiny layer of sweat, their bodies trembling from the pleasure that they had just given each other in that other world, somewhere in the sky and stars above.

Then once they returned to that very same night, to that very same hall between their bedrooms; they’d then give each other one more tiny kiss before making themselves go and spend the rest of their night in their own beds, separately, just as requested.

The weekend before their second attempt at their senior year was now upon the two who were finally seventeen again. Though at this point, they had technically lived twenty years, but seventeen was still an easier adjustment than any earlier ages had been, obviously. Though now they only had one more month before their window into the future ended. And now, they were nearing a future that was unknown to them, at last. Plus, this last month of the time they had already lived once before was definitely causing them more than a bit of worry. After all, when they had lived this month before, it was the month that resulted in them having no choice for a future but to escape to the past.

That evening, the two were in their favorite earthly spot, by the pool. Star lay next to Sky in a tiny black bikini, while he wore short black swimming trunks. Their long raven colored manes, Sky’s once again streaked with locks of white, were still wet from their post-dinner swim. Star’s head was upon his chest as her fingertips softly moved over his stomach between the soft kisses she delivered to his chest during their quiet conversation.

Brie and Connor were inside loading the dishwasher and casting wary looks out at the two teens laying there under the soon to be setting sun. Brie sighed as they finished with the dishes and moved to the patio doors, shaking her head at the two now seventeen year olds wrapped up in each other’s attention outside.

“Driving yourself nuts again, I take it?” Connor asked as he moved to join her there inside the glass doors.

“Look at them and tell me they’re not sleeping together” Brie mumbled.

“I think I’ll plead the fifth” Connor sighed, though his own discomfort over their closeness was just as real. He was just better at bearing it in silence than Brie was.

“And they’ve been like this for years. They’ve probably been sleeping together, for years!” Brie repeated.

“But somehow, we’ve never actually caught them in the act, so...” he just shrugged and sighed back toward the patio.

“You can’t tell me that you actually don’t think they’re sleeping together” Brie continued in the same stressed tone.

“I try not to think about our kids sleeping together at all” Connor stated with a shake of his head.

“That wasn’t what I asked. I mean just look how cozy they are with each other; how familiarly they touch each other. And it’s all the time. And it’s been that way for three years now!” she complained further.

“Well, they have known each other all their lives” Connor stated, though seeing that Brie was unmoved, he continued, “still thought they’d eventually get crushes on someone else, did you?” Connor offered, trying to keep a blank expression in opposition to Brie’s nervous one.

“Well what teenagers don’t have a new crush every week?” Brie argued weakly.

“Apparently ours” Connor allowed the tiniest smirk.

Brie just huffed as she looked back at him, “these two have been this frigging in love for longer than half the marriages in this country have lasted!”

“Would you rather they be heartbroken every other week?” Connor had to ask pointedly.

“No, but...” Brie just shook her head again.

“Or worse, yes worse; would you rather live with two teens who are ex boyfriend and girlfriend? I can imagine the unpleasantness of those daily screaming matches and slammed doors and angry outbursts” he stated pointedly, as Brie only sighed again. He then added, “at least our kids never fight. See, aren’t we lucky?” he asked, causing Brie to simply scoff and finally turn away from the doors to head off toward the living room in further exasperation.

Outside, Star gave Sky’s chest another gentle kiss before softly sighing. He looked down at her, squeezing her slightly from where his arms were wrapped around her as she lay next to him, “yes?” he asked her in response to that sigh.

“Senior year” Star let out a worried breath.

“Isn’t that normally considered something to look forward to?” he replied, though there was worry in his tone as well.

“Yeah, but I’ve already seen the first month of ours. Not really looking to repeat any of that” Star returned with another sad look marring the face that had actually spent most of the last three years smiling, oddly enough; especially considering what horror the two were most surely still haunted by in each of their quieter moments.

“Well, there were a couple parts that were pretty nice” he smirked.

Star just shook her head with a slight laugh, “speaking of, it’s gonna be really strange when we ‘meet’ Crista again.”

Sky smirked back, “to say the least.”

Then Star allowed another small sigh, “and we still have the wonderful Curt running around free; just in time to go on our senior trip with us in a few weeks” she shuddered.

“Speaking of that, we should remember to stay out of supply shacks that day” Sky stated thoughtfully.

Star scoffed, “aren’t you worried that it’ll still happen?”

“Well I’m always worried about any of the bad stuff still happening. But if we don’t need to go hide in a supply shack to have sex anymore, then there’ll be no one there to scare Alana out of any hiding places, assuming she even is on Curt’s radar anymore.”

“Every girl or boy in dark clothes and makeup is on his radar; his desire to fuck us all and our mutual hatred of his complete dickishness; that does kind of make us a bit target-y” she stated sadly.

“I guess we can just keep Alana close during the trip. We know he almost never has the balls to do anything but deliver threats when we’re not alone” Sky offered.

Star was quiet another long moment, “I got really used to always knowing what to expect. And now that we won’t know much longer; it’s a bit terrifying.”

“Especially for a control freak” Sky had to tease.

“Do shut up” she retorted, though did manage another small smile at least at yet another inside joke from yet another time in their strange, shared lives.

During that three years of finally getting a chance to live their lives, Sky and Star did also learn about even more of their own abilities. After all, if they were spending a lot less time having sex, in that dimension, anyway; they had a lot more time to test and study their abilities. But it was always when they were alone, in some place like their own rooms, where they could not be seen, or filmed. It was basically during all the times they used to find to have sex. Though now that they could literally stop time to make love to each other, they did seem to have a lot more of that time freed up.

But it wasn’t until their return to school for senior year that they were finally brave enough to use one of their more trivial abilities while they were out in the world. It came into play when the two, much to their dismay, found out that all their classes in this new version of their senior year were different than what they had been the last time they had tried this portion of their lives. Apparently, not being suicidal and overly promiscuous wrecks did improve their grades throughout their first three years of high school; therefore giving them a whole new class schedule for senior year.

Included in that new schedule was actually a free period where they got assigned to study hall instead of an actual class for that hour. Though that at first appeared to be a blessing, when they saw one of the other students assigned to their study period, they longed to be barely passing their classes once more.

The two were sitting close together, whispering to one another as study hall began, and both looked up with matching expressions of dread when Curt entered the classroom. Star grabbed Sky’s hand tightly, muttering under her breath “are we actually going to have to be in the same room as him for an hour every day?”

Sky sighed heavily as Curt got his seating assignment and glared over at them as he took a seat rather close, considering Spencer and Vargas weren’t exactly far apart in the alphabet. Sky returned the glare before turning back to Star, “we’re in a room surrounded by other people, including a teacher. We should be fine, right?”

Though as soon as he said it, the teacher cleared his throat and addressed the class, “it’s study hall. Study. I’m gonna go get a coffee” and with that he left the room.

The two then took another deep breath as he left. Then Star muttered, “timing kryptonite” to which Sky could only shake his head.

“Well, there’s still the other students at least” he attempted.

“The other students, who worship the quarterback and hate the eyeliner twins? I’m sure this’ll go great” Star returned sarcastically as Sky only sighed again.

Sky and Star tried to keep their concentration on their books or phones for the next several minutes. Though, as the teacher still hadn’t returned, the rest of the class began socializing rather than studying, including Curt. He apparently had called up some video on his phone and invited several of the other boys in the room over to snicker at the loud moans coming from the phone, as the video was obviously some sort of pornographic entertainment.

Sky and Star just rolled their eyes but remained in their seats as the other students gathered around to watch Curt’s chosen entertainment for the day. But Curt, being Curt, could never go very long without starting some sort of conflict.

Speaking to his new friends loudly enough for Sky and Star to hear, “yeah this one looks kinda like Star there, but we’d probably have better luck if we did a search for ‘goth twincest’ or something. Bet then we’d find tons of vids of her and Sky both” he smirked as the two subjects of his verbal abuse each bit at their darkly stained lips, but refused to look back to acknowledge the statement.

Then one of the dimmer boys replied, “Twincest?”

Curt just scoffed before responding, “it means twins that like to fuck each other.”

“Like on that show” one of the other boys put in.

Then the first boy replied, “but I thought Sky and Star weren’t really twins?”

That almost caused Sky and Star to smirk, but not quite. Curt then just looked back at the boy who just spoke, and retorted with, “fuck you” before turning his attention back to his phone. After they continued watching the ‘film’ for a few more minutes, Curt spoke again, “hey Sky, let’s be friends. Come over here and show us where to find the videos of you fucking your sister, would you?”

Sky shook his head again, though his confidence from three rather stress free years caused him to finally stand, which did cause Star to startle a bit. He then moved over to where the other boys were still crowded around the phone and gestured for Curt to hand it to him. All those present looked more than a bit shocked, though Star, mostly, as Sky took his phone.

A moment later, Sky feigned innocence, “oops, I think I hit your history tab” he told Curt as he handed it back where an entire bevy of gay porn sites were listed on it suddenly now, for all the other boys to see “nope, don’t think you’ll find me and Star on any of those. She seems to lack one of the parts you’re more interested in” and with that, he smirked and returned to his seat, ignoring the glare from Curt as he scrambled to close the list of sites as the other boys gave him more than accusing looks.

When Sky returned to his seat next to Star she smiled over at him and whispered, “did he really have a bunch of gay porn on his phone?”

“He did after I touched it” Sky whispered back with his own smirk.

“And how on earth did you find that many gay porn sites in under a second?” Star asked.

“Magic” Sky smirked once more before turning his attention back to his own phone, ignoring the way that Curt’s cheeks and eyes were burning angrily over at him just then.