Rewind (Vanish Book Three) by Sonny Daise Page A

he laughed.
    “ Well, I have no idea what
you want to do, so when you know, get back to me.”
    We sat there, staring into
the fire; occasionally looking up to the sky. The stars twinkled
above our heads.
    “ I know,” he
blurted.
    “ Okay, let’s hear
it.”
    He shook his head and grabbed my hand,
and the familiar green and blue swirls surrounded us. When I opened
my eyes, we were standing on the highest rock on a lake, we were
about thirty or more feet above the water.
    “ What, do you expect me to
jump?”
    “ No. I used to come up here
all the time; I’ve never brought anyone up here though. It’s just a
nice place to think… or talk, if you’re not alone.”
    “ So what do you want to talk
about?” I wondered.
    “ Us,” he mumbled. “I know
you don’t want me to worry about tomorrow, but I do. I don’t want
anything to happen without you knowing that I care.”
    I hugged him. “I care, too,”
I said.
    “ I’ve had so many dreams,
and you were the main thing about these dreams that made them,
well, amazing. When you weren’t with me in my dreams, the sky
seemed like it was always grey, but when you were…. I could feel
the slightest breeze; the sky was always blue. Even if it was only
a dream, even if it was at night, they were the best days I’ve
had.”
    “ They weren’t only dreams;
they were memories that a different part of you has lived through.
That part is a part of you now, I believe that. I’m just happy that
I—we have another chance,” I smiled up at him; he didn’t smile
back.
    “ When Cooper’s grandpa said
that some of us will die… he was looking at me. It seemed almost
like he was warning me, like he was talking just to me,” he
admitted.
    “ I’m sorry, but I can’t
believe that,” I whispered.
    “ No, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t
be talking about things like that. I’m sure I was imagining it.” He
said it to make me feel better, but I could tell by his tone of
voice, that he didn’t believe a word he said.
    “ Everything is going to be
fine. We are going to be the ones to take down the Alliance and
then after that, we’re going back to being normal teenagers,” I
reassured him.
    “ That sounds great, being a
normal teenager. Awkward conversations, even a feeling or memory
that can come rushing back by something as small as a familiar
smell. I know it hasn’t been long, but nothing has felt normal
these past few days.” He closed his eyes. A gust of wind blew in
our direction.
    “ You used to wear that
cologne every day,” I sighed at the memory it brought back, and he
put his hand over mine.
    “ That was a good dream; I
never got to finish it though.”
    “ What are you talking
about?” I asked.
    “ For some reason, I just
thought about the night… you said something about my
cologne.”
    Why didn’t I think of it before? “So
you never saw what happened, not later that night or in the
morning?”
    “ No, it was blurry; things
got clear when we were standing on the edge of the cliff,” he said
as he stared out into the lake. Then suddenly, he got
up.
    “ Where are you
going?”
    “ I was thinking about it,
and I kind of do want to jump. There aren’t any rocks down there;
we just have to jump far enough out.”
    “ Dante,” I
whined.
    “ Come on,” he held his hand
out. “We’ll do it together; I promise you won’t get
hurt.”
    I stepped to the edge of the
rock. A memory came rushing back. It wasn’t the one where I was
standing on the edge of the cliff with the Alliance staring me
down, though this felt vaguely similar. It wasn’t because of the
cliff. It was because of what surrounded me.
     
     

Chapter 10: Life or
Death
    They stood around us, bloody
and beaten. I’d seen them before, and they almost killed me. Dante
stared ahead into the lake. It stretched out so far, you couldn’t
see what was on the other side, all there was, was the moon and its
reflection.
    He squeezed my hand tighter,
urging me to jump. I pulled his hand