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behind his “just friends” comment, but I didn’t have a reason to keep him away any longer. I wasn’t still pining over him. In fact, I had moved on completely. While he would always make my stomach flutter a little, he was my first love after all, I didn’t feel the need to be with him. When I fell asleep at night, I dreamed of being in Seth’s arms now. When I woke in the morning, I thought of Seth. I was completely in love with Seth.
    “Sure,” I replied with a shrug.
    Logan smiled and looked back to the city. I didn’t know why that would make him happy. I was going back to school in a day or two, and would be miles away, but I wasn’t about to ask. Something in his eyes told me there was more behind his question than I wanted to know. One thing had not changed in all the time that had passed, Logan Jones was still planning something.
     

     
    Chapter 3
    Time Travel Try
     
    “ Welcome home, roomie ,” Sim greeted me while I pushed the door open with my foot because my hands were full of stuff I was bringing back. I was surprised to see Sim. She had actually made it back before me.
    My first semester in college had been great because Sim was my roommate. It was nice to get back and see a friendly face. She wasn’t going to tease me about being at Morton or in Minnesota. She was genuinely happy to see me. I welcomed the change from being home and seeing my old friends. They would always be my friends, but Sim would be the one that understood the me that I became at college.
    The drive had been long and gave me way too much time to think. All I could do was wonder about Seth. Why didn’t he make it back? Was he safe? Could I go back to that exact moment and save him? So many of my questions were still unanswered, I needed to find a way to control the time travel and make it to him, but I didn’t want to just run off as I had before. I was naïve to think I could just go to the past and walk away from it with him. I knew better now. I had learned my lesson. The past isn’t something you mess with lightly. I needed a plan, and for that I needed Ty. He would help me. Maybe he even knew what went wrong.
    I stumbled across the room to my bed and dropped everything. It was nice to be home. After living in the dorms for months, the little room we shared felt more and more like where I belonged than Chicago, and Amy just solidified the feeling by dragging me off to a party. My room back in Chicago would always be home, but this is where I lived my own way. It had been hard to say goodbye to my grandfather, but he reassured me that he would be fine. He was a tough old man, and he was right, but he missed my mother as much as I did. I had to get her back for his sake, if not mine.
    “Did you have a good break?” Sim asked hesitantly. “You know, the first one without your mom,” she added quietly.
    I nodded. I forgot for a moment that everyone thought my mother died this summer. It was nice that the goddess didn’t erase her completely like she’d done with Seth. I must have told Sim that same story in the alternative universe that happened when she left. I had been slowly regaining memories for the past few days. I remembered how the past happened with Seth in it, and then some memories were starting to show the same situations without him in it. I hated having two memories of most events in my life. It was confusing and annoying at the same time. Most of my memories were identical to my previous memories, but with little details that were different because Seth supposedly didn’t exist. Also, anything relating to my mother was different. It would take time to sort through everything, the fake and the real memories.
    “We survived. How was your break?” I asked back. Obviously she didn’t want to upset me with talk about my mother. And yes, it was upsetting me. I didn’t just lose her over the summer; I had lost her only a week ago. The feelings were still too raw.
    “Typical Singh family Thanksgiving.