Chapter 43 - 43

Brandon laid down on his bed drowning in the pain of his choices. He had a lot of what-ifs running through his mind. His tears flowed down his cheeks, not being remembered by Reiner was too painful for him to bear.

Jack laid there right next to him helpless on what to do. He tried to use his thread to return them all to the future but his thread refused to work. He couldn't travel to the future. This was something that had never happened to him before. He tried to get his sister to help him but he was unable to contact her.

Stuck in a time and life that was not his was not planned and it made him restless. He too couldn't understand why this is all happening. He only said those things to Brandon before to look like he was in control but that wasn't true. The truth is that the past was not supposed to change at all, everything was supposed to happen exactly as it did before but for some reason, everything changed completely..

He knew that there was a reason the plot changed. Something must have been added to Brandon and Reiner's love story. Whatever it was must be very important to their love that it missing the first time might be the reason the two strayed away from each other. He wrecked his mind to figure out what missing piece of the puzzle was added and how. It was him who brought them back to the past. He wrote the moment they would return to but he couldn't figure out what was happening.

He thought that with Brandon not being Nobody that Zane might have accidentally been erased from the story but he is still around. The only difference is that he is Reiner's friend and not Brandon. He was not the reason the story changed because he in both cases has been there to support their love.

"What could it be?" he asked himself but Brandon heard him. He came out of his thoughts and looked at Jack. He might not have said anything but he had noticed the worried look on Jack's face for a while now. His curiosity got the better of him and he decides to ask what the problem was.

"What are you thinking about?" he asked.

"Just trying to find the plot hole. What has changed in your love story," Jack replied subconsciously. "What do you mean by that?"

"Can't you tell that things have changed? I am stuck here powerless as my powers have stopped working and things are happening in contrast to the first time. Something else needs to happen this time, one that directly affects you and Reiner but what?" He said. He was so lost in his thoughts that words just poured out of his mouth.

Brandon listened carefully to what Jack was saying. He didn't understand most of it but he did get what he was trying to say. This change caught them both off guard and he was trying to figure out how to get it back on track. He too thought about the changes that have happened but couldn't figure it out. For one he had no clue what to look for so whether he found the answer or not he couldn't tell.

He sat up on the bed and snapped Jack out of his thoughts and asked to sit up. "Things have changed and now we are both stuck here. Staying in bed and mopping over spilled milk is not going to help anyone. I think that we just have to fix everything ourselves." he said to Jack.

"But how?"

"Simple, I have to make Reiner fall for me and you are going to help me. And while we do that maybe we will figure out what else has been added to the story but that is only possible if there is a story. So first thing first is to get me and Reiner back together."

"That is one way to go about it but mind you if we can't solve the new puzzle to the story then the whole story might come apart," Jack warned.

"Then we just have to be on the lookout for clues. And by we, I mean you because I have no idea how to do that."

"You are right. The most important thing here is you and Reiner, as your love story plays out I might figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. So let's do it," he said determinedly.

The two of them spent the rest of the day thinking of ways that they could make Reinet fall for Brandon. They all wrote ideas down on their notepads with the thought of trying them all out to see which one would work.

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"You should call him," Zane said to me when I was done with my piano practice.

"Call who?" I asked him feigning ignorance. I know exactly who he wants me to call. He and his boyfriend have left no stone unturned to tease me about Brandon and they do it every single chance they get.

"Brandon who else. Call him, you know you want to."

"I am not interested in talking to him," I said hoping to end the conversation.

"And yet you can't stop thinking about him," he said making me glare at him.

"I have not been thinking about anyone. And what reason do I have to think about him anyway?"

"I know that you are thinking of him because you have all the signs. I am speaking from experience. Remember when Kye confessed his feelings for me, I too thought it was weird and I couldn't accept that a boy was in love with me. But I was curious about the idea that I kept thinking about it all the time until I decided to give it a try just for the sake of it. But look at me now, I am floating on the wings of love," he said. I didn't know what to say about how to refute his accusations. The truth is that I have been thinking about Brandon since yesterday.

His thoughts are the only ones that have occupied my mind. I even had a dream about him.

"I am not you and nothing of the sort has happened to me."

"You missed a note today while you played and I have noticed you have been thinking a lot today. What the matter then if you aren't thinking about the cute heir of the Avery family?"

"I was just thinking about life," I told. It is a lie but it is better than feeding the God of teasing with more reasons to make my life hard with his teases.

"Then why did you write his name repeatedly on your homework assignment?" he asked. I know he is teasing me so I am not going to react and give him the satisfaction he seeks. There is no way I did that, he just wants to find out if I have been thinking about Brandon.

"I have done no such thing," I say confidently.

"How about we make it interesting. If in case it turns out that you did write his name as the answer to all the questions then you have to give him a call and ask him out. And if not then Kye and I won't tease you about him ever again," he proposed.

"Deal," I said not giving him a chance to go back on this one-in-a-lifetime pass. A chance to get them to stop teasing me is a chance that I can't pass on.

He reached for my math book and opened it to the homework assignment we did earlier. He grinned and showed me the page. My eyes went wide with shock when I saw Brandon's name everywhere on the paper.

"I think you have a boy to ask out for a date. Should I dial for you?" he asked but I was too surprised by what I did to reply to him.