Rewind (Vanish Book Three)
I had to do, but I knew I couldn’t do it alone.
Another thing that I wondered, would Dante always be like this ? I needed the Dante
that I knew and loved; if the situation were reversed, I was almost
certain he wouldn’t be able to stand the person that I was in this
alternate universe. I looked back over at him. He still stared
ahead, lost deep inside his thoughts. I shook him.
    “ What—” he said,
startled.
    “ I need your help,” I
started to explain.
    “ Can we go for a walk? I
think I need some fresh air,” he broke in before I could finish.
His face looked tired; it was as if he’d aged five years in the
time that we sat on this couch.
    “ Sure,” I smiled.
    “ There’s one problem,” he
looked at me in a way I would have only expected from my Dante. “My
mom never saw us come in, and if they’re not up there my brothers
will be.”
    “ What time is it?” I asked.
It seemed like we had been down here for quite a long time, but
lately I wasn’t very good at measuring time.
    “ Almost nine,” he
replied.
    I really should have gone home, I knew
that Rose would worry, and Ann would probably be mad.
    “ Where do you want to be?” I
asked. “Just think about the place you wish you were and before you
know it, we’ll be there.” I grabbed his hand.
    “ I have a better idea,” he
muttered as he walked over to the tiny window near the
ceiling.
    “ You’re joking,” I
laughed.
    “ Come here,” he said under
his breath.
    I needed to show him that
his powers were nothing to fear. I needed to teach him, just as
he’d done for me not too long ago. But for a moment, I thought
about running away from them, too, and everything that came with
them.
    He laced his hands together and looked
up at the window. Instead of going out the window, I grabbed his
shoulders.
    “ I know it’s not easy. I’ve
thought about ignoring it too—”
    “ Come on, let’s
go.”
    He gave me a boost, and just
as I went to crawl out the window, a giant spider crawled in. I
fell back and he caught me by the waist, we both fell to the floor.
He fell on top of me, and I couldn’t say anything, I had the wind
knocked out of me. He stared into my eyes and then looked over at
something. He tried to get up, but before he could, someone started
coming down the stairs.
    I didn’t know why he decided
to use his power—because someone was coming, or did it have
something to do with whatever he was looking at? He started to glow
before I heard footsteps.
    Once we reached our destination, I
stood there without a word. We were standing right behind Allison
Floyd; I didn’t know her, but I’d seen her around.
    He held my hand as he stared
at her longingly. She had her back turned to us and didn’t seem to
notice our arrival. I became invisible; I couldn’t help it. This
was heart breaking. He was in love with someone else. Dante would
never be who he was before, and I couldn’t save the Dante that I
knew.
    When I looked over to him,
he was nothing but an outline. I gasped. He had seen ghosts when I
held his hand before, but I never had anyone become invisible with
me. After a few moments, he looked like a ghost, I could see him,
but I could also see right through him.
    His eyes were fixed on her.
They never left her face as she stared into her light-brown eyes in
the mirror. He looked into the mirror, and saw that he couldn’t see
himself. I was afraid that he would freak out, but as he stared at
her, he seemed calm, like nothing else mattered. He ran his fingers
over her wavy blonde hair, being careful not to touch her. I
thought about leaving, but I couldn’t.
    She sighed as she looked
over at a picture of him hanging on her wall. Then she flipped open
a sketch pad and started scribbling—or so it seemed until I got
closer. It was a picture of us, me and Dante, holding hands and
walking into… a lake?
    She flipped through the
pages, and page after page was Dante and me. They were all
different, sometimes we were in the
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