Don't Mess With Time

Chapter Five

Milly saw her mothers a few yards away and grinned-that is until she saw who they were sitting next to.

Millicent.

As in the woman she'd been named after.

The woman who had died.

She was already starting her transformation into a deer.

She wanted nothing more than to run over and tell her to run.

To never come back and maybe she'd live.

But if Millicent didn't die... Reena and Beatrix would.

And then Milly would never be born and could never warn her.

"Stay away from paradoxes," Serenity whispered as if she had known what Milly was thinking.

She sighed and looked away from the trio on the bench.

Theresa put a hand on her shoulder comfortingly.

Theresa was always good at comforting people.

Milly sniffled and looked away.

Theresa sighed and pulled Milly into a hug.

Serenity was about to help, but that's when she saw her.

Her mother was across the moat at the School for Evil and being thrown out of rooms.

She remembered hearing about this from her.

She laughed as she was thrown right into the pond beside them.

Nicola pulled herself out of the water, soaking wet, and let out a huff and shook like a dog.

Serenity kept laughing and Nicola glared at her vehemently.

Serenity rolled her eyes and pulled a towel out of her small purse.

Axel stared at his cousin in open shock.

"HOW DID YOU FIT A TOWEL IN THERE?!"

Serenity sniffed.

"My mother taught me."

Axel was about to go off about how impossible that was, but Serenity clearly didn't care as she walked over to give her mom a towel.

"Thanks..." she said skeptically.

Serenity shrugged.

"It's what Evers do."

Nicola stared at her.

"A very wise woman once told me that," she said.

It had been her mom.

Nicola nodded and dried off.

"I don't think I'm a Never," she said dryly as she stared at the castle on the other side of the bridge.

Serenity laughed.

"Yeah, it rejected me too."

Nicola handed back the now soaking towel and Serenity somehow folded it and put it back in, Axel crying out how impossible it was all the way.

"Shut up!" she hissed at her cousin before straightening.

"I'm Nicola."

Serenity stared at her and took her hand, shaking it.

"I'm Serenity."

"That's a really nice name. I've never heard it before."

Serenity internally screamed.