17 Again (Double Trouble)*Under Construction*

Transformation

Cameras! Uncontrollable crowds! Oh, Help Me! Every family member, friends, and guests all showed their great support for both defence and offence teams. The school's cheerleaders we're in the middle of the court performing to the song 'Fergalicious'. All four of us were standing aside the stands watching their awesome performance. I looked over to Alex and I nudged him playfully in the ribs, "What?", I winked at the notice of his attention he kept on Nicole. He ignored my non-verbal comment, slightly blushing at the thought.

    As soon as our cheerleaders completed their performance we heard,  “Gold's, Carter you’re in.” Coach Murphy ordered us three leaving Alex patiently waiting on the bench for his turn. We jogged over to our positions on the court. With a quick blow of the whistle the game commenced with jump-ball.

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Mike intercepted the ball and began dribbling until mid-court before a player from the opposite team trying to catch the ball while Mike was lost in thoughts while defending the ball. “Wake up!” I cry trying to catch my brothers attention from across the court as I defended one of our opponents. “O'Donnell, what are you doing?” Coach Murphy's voice boomed through the whole gymnasium, but my brother’s eyes kept wondering back and forth, from me then to coach and lastly to Scarlett who stood in the sidelines in shock before she paced towards the exit. At that very moment Mike instantly stopped dribbling and ran/travelled with the ball in his hands towards the bench handing over the ball to his son. "It's your turn now." he says before he ran off to catch up with Scarlett. "Travelling? the ref implied. "Green ball!" "O'Donnell, get in there!" Coach Murphy pushed my tongue-tied nephew into to the game. From a distance, I spotted the scout sitting in the crowd scribbling a few notes frustratingly, leaving both he and the coach disappointed. 

The ref blew his whistle and the game continued everyone of my teamates were faced with tough players. I shoved my way past the players, recieving the ball, passing it to my son who was standing on the otherside of the court. He took a chance and threw the ball making it land straight into the basket. SCORE!!! We only needed one more point to win this championship game. This meant that I had to start playing rough, stealing the ball from the opposite team and dribbled it over to mid-court. I defended the ball, dribbling it at arms length away from my opponent, but still in control of it while I try to think. I saw that Alex was left undefended all out in the open. "Alex!" call catching his attention, quickly passing the ball to him. He caught it and dribbled it down reaching the key and as if by instinct he took a big risk and followed up, throwing the ball into the air facing the net and beat the buzzer to it.

"WE WON!" I scream running into my son tightly hugging him. "Woah, your stonger than you look." he joked making me chuckle." He scanned the crowd, "Hey look my father." I look over seeing him go nuts and celebrating with the guys next to him. "Wow" I scan the crowd and spotted Ned and Principal Masterson and Mister Molina who stood infront of the exit. Wait, did I see that correctly?... Mr. Molina? There he was smiling at my success, before he left. "Hey Carter are you okay?" Ant asked me. I don't know, but I have some buisness to be dealt with. Give me a few minutes please?" "Sure, I gotta check up on my dad." "Kay, thanks I'll check up with you later." I say before I run towards the exit trying to catch up to him.

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"Mr. Molina!" "Mr. Molina?" my voice echoed as I ran through the tight hallway. The air began to feel heavy, I kept running but it was as if I was walking underwater and I finally broke free from a big bubble. I came to a stop in the middle of the hallway and I began to lightly pant in order to catch my breath. My eyes caught a glance of a shiny piece of paper. 

I bent down to pick it up and it was a photo of when I graduated Hayden High. In the photo I was smiling widely as I wore my oversized graduation gown and hat. My arms were wrapped around Mr Molina's neck like an uncoming tight bear hug and in my right hand I proudly held my diploma. My eyes started to become teary, I looked around knowing that I was all alone. I flipped over the image noticing that a message has been written on the backside. 

I will always cherish this moment forever in my heart. you'll always be see as another daughter to me.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            I wish you luck for the future. I hope you do reach your goals. Don't  cry, because 'll always be around,whenever you need me. Just call :)

- Yours truly Mr. Molina 

I stood I stored the photo in my pant pocket and began to run towards the window, to only stare at my reflection of my thirty-seven year old self. I gasped in happiness. "Oh my God!! I'm back. I'm me again-" "Char?! Charlotte?! Where are you?" I heard David call looking for me. "I'm over here!" I yell hinting my location. 

Soon enough here came my husband with my son right behind him. "Charlotte?" "Mom?" "Hey" I nervously waved at the bot of them. I they both stood at the door way in shock. " "Hello?, Guy's-" the two of ran into me like a ton of bricks, almost causing me to stumble over. "We'd thought we'd never see you again, because it was taking so long." My husband cried holding onto me for dear life. "So that was you all along....my own mother?" "Yeah you surprised?" I asked raising a brow. "Uh.. a little it just took me a while to realize that I'm so lucky to have the coolest parents in in the universe!" "Awww, Come here you." I say opening my arms waiting for him to join into our tight family group hug. I was a perfect moment together as a family before my son broke the silence. "Uh mom? You know we have to go back to the gym for our winning group photo?" "Why do I need to go?  I got my two trophies here with me already." I say. "Well you do, but this is my first and I'm not going to miss it." he explained before heading back to the gym, leaving me alone with my husband in our most cherished spot. 

I smile as I gazed into his deep brown eyes. "You know, I've noticed that in the last few hours everything seemed like it was repeating itself." "So, can you remind me of how this slash our little moment was twenty years ago." he asked flasing a cheeky smile making me grin. "I think I can." I tease. "Then what are you waiting for?" he asked before I planted a big one. Smack right in the kisser! 

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And there you have it! How was it????!!!

Charlotte has finally returned to her original self. Yay!!

***Don't worry there are few chapters left and the flashbacks will continue!! this story is not over yet!! So get ready!! :)*****

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- Dany Man