The Replay ✓

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When class finally ended, Finn went straight home, not waiting for his mom to pick him up. She would be annoyed at him for having to come to school for nothing, but that was something he'd have to handle later.

On the way home, he pinched himself strongly. It was a stupid trick that probably wouldn't work, but he still had to try it. In the end, it didn't work.

As he walked in, the front door slammed behind him with a bang. "Mom, are you here?" he shouted, expecting no response.

Everything seemed too much. he couldn't be back at the beginning of the year which made him question his sanity on multiple occasions and made him question whether the world was real.

Even more, than he did at that precise moment.

He heard the front door open again from the comfort of his bedroom and he knew that his mom was home.

"Finneas, are you here?" She shouted from below.

He answered but stayed in his room. She stayed downstairs at that moment Finn couldn't help but be happy that they already established personal boundaries at the beginning of senior tear.

I need a plan, he said to himself. There's no way that I can help it through this year again if I do everything the same way or even worse. I need to make this year good for me. And if I'm here, it must be for a reason. I can keep things from happening. Like keeping Brett from cheating on me and keeping Charlie from sitting into that car on the 14th of April.

Finn Davis pulled out the diary he kept when he was still in high school. He now knew that if he kept it in the same place, his mom would find it later in the year and he'd be outed to her.

She would be accepting of him, but that wasn't the point. It was supposed to be his choice to choose the time and place to come out. Not his mom snooping through his bedroom while he was at school because she thought he was on drugs.

Finn opened the book where he last wrote in before the beginning of senior year. He made sure to go back and rip out some pages that could be incriminating if his mom ever found the book and then went back to the opened page.

"Plans for senior year 2.0," he said to himself. 

He scribbled down some of the basics that he wanted to do if he had to live throughout the entire year again. He decided that he would save Charlie and his girlfriend. That was the one thing he absolutely needed to do. Because even if he'd walk off to college with a broken heart, Charlie would be alive.

Keeping Brett from cheating was almost as important, and that was also one of his top goals for the year.

And last off, coming out wherever and whenever he wanted to. Nothing could take that away from him this time...

Now that he thought about it, going through the senior year again wouldn't necessarily be so bad...