Black to the Past

Chapter 49

After Michael's parents retired to their rooms, the kids coupled off in the family room. Halle laid on one of the softly cushioned couches with her feet resting on Wilson. Michael and Brooke took up residence opposite them, while Jalen and Meredith had their backs against a love seat that held the sectional together.

"Somehow this all feels right," Meredith said as she rested her shoulder against Jalen without a hint of shyness.

"But how," Jalen wanted to know. He was in the throes of two separate memories. Some were fading as new ones took over. But he wondered where his brother and his father was and decided to make notes before his memories completely escaped him.

"Guys, we need to take some time to write down what we remember," Jalen said as he pulled out the smartphone the professor had assigned to him.

Opening the Notes section he saw that there were names, dates, addresses, and phone numbers listed. There was information with asterisks listed next to them that simply said remember. Nothing made sense.

"Look at this," Jalen showed his notes to Meredith who was starting to doze off. "Meredith! Don't fall asleep. Halle wake up!"

"What's wrong with you," Halle snapped at him. "I'm exhausted. I just want a nap until the pizza gets here."

"You guys I think if we fall asleep we'll be trapped here and the whole cycle will start over. From the notes I have it says - REMEMBER. What if this isn't the first time we've time traveled. What if Professor Harold has contacted us before and we just ended up in that world and now we're ending up in this world."

"That's impossible," Wilson said as he shook his mind clear. He had also started to fizzle.

"No. I don't think it is. Look," Jalen tossed Wilson the phone.

Wilson scrolled through the notes and saw dates, times, places that they had all been together. It was almost unbelievable. "Mike, check your phone. Everybody, check your phone notes."

They all sat up and checked the notes of their phones. The only one who had nothing to check was Brooke. She didn't have anything documenting that she had time traveled. Maybe each time she'd been the look out person. Halle's head started to spin as she read some of her notes.

"Look at this, Wil," she whispered.

The note read simply - Mom is alive. Find her!