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hand over my heart, my eyes grew round as something just occurred to me all of a sudden.
    “When you what?” she demanded. “Tell me, don’t shutdown on me now!”
    “I remembered something Jay had said to me a long time ago and then I woke up naked in his arms.”
    Did I cause all of this to happen then? Did I will myself here somehow?
    “I see… It sounds to me like Jayden is the key to why you’re here. That was simple... mystery solved girlfriend,” Maya said, answering my unasked questions.
    “How can he be though… he’s not even alive anym… Oh my God. I’m sixteen today. Today’s June 14, 1990. NO!” I stammered, trying to standup with no success as buried past events suddenly came flooding back to the forefront of my mind.
    How could I be SO STUPID?
    I had been so blinded that I wasn’t thinking straight, so I failed to acknowledge the significance of today’s date. Today was going to be one of the worst days of my young life, the day that set my downward spiral in motion. Today was the day that I would lose a huge chunk of myself forever.
    “What’s wrong?” she said, shaking me so hard, I felt my teeth shift.
    I could feel my eyes glaze over, as I recalled tonight’s life-shattering event. This cannot be happening. I can’t be here. I can’t go thru this again. I just can’t. With hot tears streaming down my face, I whispered, “Jay dies today.”
    “WHAT! What do you mean he dies? How? Jazz, you were just with him. Tell me right now what’s supposed to happen today!” She wailed with horror written all over her face.
    “It was all my fault… he was rushing because I wanted him to take me to the movies tonight, but he had to stop and pick up my birthday present first before the jewelry store closed. A car came out of nowhere and plowed right into him. It was so dark outside that the driver never saw him crossing the street.
    He never showed to pick me up that night. I didn’t even find out until the next day, I called over there a billion times to see what was keeping him. I called all night, but no one answered.
    I was mad at first… for being stood up, but then the worry began to set in. It wasn’t until the following afternoon that someone finally answered the phone and told me what had happened to him.”
    Minutes in silence passed before she squared her jaw and said, “Do you want to know what I think? Hear me out on this before you say anything. I think you’re here, right now for a reason, today of all days. I think you came back to save him. To stop the accident from ever happening. You just left him, right. It’s only a little after 4:00 pm so you still have a couple of hours before it remotely gets dark. Maybe this is something that you’re supposed to correct. What if he wasn’t supposed to die today? And you’re here right now to prevent it.”
    Wonder spread across my face at the possibility of it. I knew by her voice that she was dead serious.
    Could what she was saying really be true?
    This wasn’t a dream after all. This is real… very, very real.
    I made up my mind up quickly, consequences be damned and snapped to attention, confident in what I was about to do next. “That’s it girl. You’re a freakin’ genius! I knew there was a reason that you were my best bud all these years. I could kiss you… I have to save him. Me. Oh man, Maya, we have to go. I have to find him now… right now. Before it’s too late.”

 
    CHAPTER TWO
    T EN MINUTES LATER, M AYA WAS delivered safely to her home in Pacoima. Doubling back, I headed straight for Jay’s apartment only a few short blocks away.
    Please be here; oh, please be here, I kept repeating to myself as I knocked on his front door. Only seconds ticked by, but it felt as if hours had passed by the time the door finally cracked opened.
    “Just couldn’t stay away, huh?” Jay teased about my sudden unexpected appearance.
    Deliriously happy to see that he was in fact still breathing, I literally leapt into