Second Chance, Second Choice.

Chapter 16 - What do I do?

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Second Chance, Second Choice

Chapter 16 – What do I do?

Tori's POV.

As soon as I nodded, Jade impatiently pointed to her car. "Show me, now!"

"Let me grab my purse." I said before dashing up to my room.

I returned in a moment, got in the car and gave her some quick directions. As soon as I finished, Jade started it up and we were off.

The car ride was quiet, uneasily quiet. Jade looked impatient and bothered. I was just as guilt-ridden, depressed and ashamed as I had been. I should have been hopeful that she was taking an interest where we lived, but I just couldn't get myself to feel very hopeful about it.

I just can't get over the fact that I hurt the woman I loved, so badly. Yet in the end not only did she still love me, but forgave me as well. Part of me is afraid, that all these events will just repeat themselves.

In some respects, I want her to not be with me and be successful. I've been working hard in the last day or so to try an identify auditions where I know the projects will be successful. Personally, I don't care what happens to me anymore. I just want Jade to be happy.

Soon we pulled onto the street and I pointed to the closed hotdog stand.

"Right there."

Jade quietly nodded and pulled up to the curb. I got out and watched Jade carefully as she surveyed her surroundings. First, she looked over the now closed hotdog stand, with the picnic tables still in place. Then she looked to the adjoining lot, where an old lifeguard station was in in the process of being torn down.

On the other side was just an empty stretch of beach.

Quietly Jade stepped forward, walking near one of the picnic tables, where she looked at the sun as it grew closer to the horizon.

"Where am I standing?"

"About where the kitchen will be. If you look on the billboard, you'll see 2 houses, the one on the left, is what ours will look like."

Jade glanced to the billboard and then sat down, returning her attention to the sea.

I stood several feet away, unsure of what to do or say next. I had messed up so much and no I was so full of self-doubt that I was paralyzed.

After a minute I finally thought of something. "I spoke to Sikowitz today. I withdrew from the musical Bye Bye Birdie. I told him I wasn't right for the part and asked him to give you a second audition. He seemed a bit miffed, but I think He'll do it."

"You didn't have to do that." Said Jade, not taking her eye off the ocean.

"Yes I did."

"Sit down Vega. I have some questions."

I sat down at the picnic table, opposite her, but found myself unable to look her in the face.

"Ok, shoot."

"How did you get here? Cross this ocean of time."

"Not sure exactly. I had moved the last of my stuff out, we had a fight and to calm myself down I took a drive. I was in a state park a little north of here. It was raining pretty hard. I came around a corner and saw this deer in the road. I swerved to avoid hitting it, hit a puddle and went over the embankment. The next thing I know, I'm waking up in my bed, in my 17-year-old body. From what Jade told me when she came back, my body is in a hospital. I'm in a coma."