Don't Mess With Time

Chapter Twenty-Six

Beatrix glanced down at the invitation in her hand.

She was used to not knowing who her date would be until the day of the Circus of Talents, but now she had a date.

Her face felt hot and she glanced at her best friend/roommate/crush/girl she thought was her soulmate.

Reena was reading, but she glanced up and waved at Beatrix with one of her beautiful, genuine smiles that made Beatrix go weak in the knees.

Beatrix has never been lovesick.

Not even with Tedros.

She was honestly just in love with his kingdom and money (yes she was shallow, yes she was still a bit shallow, but she thought she had gotten better).

And with Chaddick it had been puppy love, not even more than a crush.

But now with Reena...

She had everything she heard about in the stories.

She had the butterflies and the blushing and the weird need to be close to her.

Yes, she had the whole nine yards.

She was quite certain that she was in love with the other girl and it was frightening for a multitude of reasons.

One of those was that Reena was her best friend.

Another was that Reena was a girl and she'd never heard of two girls falling in love.

And another was that Reena clearly still had a thing for Chaddick.

She'd seen the two of them taking earlier today and it had made her whole body feel as if it was on fire with anger and jealousy.

She sighed and forced herself to go back to reading.

She didn't see that Milly was watching the two of them with a smirk and was thinking that she would be back home quite soon.

And by home she meant back in the right time.

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Reena didn't even know if her tactics had been working on Beatrix.

She'd been talking to Chaddick earlier today and wondering how he'd gotten Beatrix to go to the Snow Ball with him in their first year.

Well, they hadn't actually gotten to go, but he'd gotten her to agree.

Chaddick and Beatrix had drifted apart since, but Chaddick told her everything he knew to do.

It had come with a lot of making fun of her and pretending that "his little baby Reena was finally growing up," but she'd gotten what she needed.

And she had gotten Beatrix to accept her invitation to the Snow Ball.

Even if she'd had to say it was all platonic.

And the way Reena wanted to kiss Beatrix until she couldn't see straight (well okay she clearly could see straight, but you get the point) was definitely not platonic in any sense of the word.

Milly was watching her mothers and wondering if shoving their faces together and screaming "KISS!" would make this whole process work any faster.

She decided that it probably wouldn't work and would most likely end in them just asking why she cared so much about the two of them getting together.

And that might end up in her never getting born, which was absolutely no pressure at all.

Of course not.