Star Crossed In Time

After a while, I'm finally able to untangle myself from Bai Lei but he doesn't let me go far. The others all sit on the floor in an attempt to make Bai Lei feel better. I feel like we're trying to calm a mighty lion...

"Why did you grab me?" I ask looking into his dark eyes. He slightly frowns as he says "I was worried..." I sigh at him and say "You came back to my world... in this world, you can't pull swords out at people." I lift my hand out to him and wait.

His dark eyes look to me with uncertainty before looking over to the guys. The guys all eagerly nod their heads in agreement as Bai Lei turns back to me with a frown. He places the sword in my hand but the second he lets go, I nearly drop it!

Why's it so heavy!? I place it on the floor and push it behind me as I say "Thank you. We'll send you back to your world okay?" Bai Lei tenses as Chase clears his throat. "Well... it will take a few days before we can send him back... we can't just do it whenever we want. It takes about four days before we can do it again."

I frown but nod my head as I ask "Was I inside the game or has something else happened?" Nick's eyes light up as he says "The game somehow created an opening in a parallel world! You somehow slipped into that world and we didn't know until several days later."

"It took us a while longer to find a way back so we wouldn't get stuck as well. We came as soon as we could Nova... we're sorry." Nick says with a sad smile. I wave him off and say "Don't worry about it... no one knew that could even happen! I'm still surprised but I'm completely fine, see?" I smile at them and lift my arms.

They all give me strained smiles as they look me over and stop at my hair. My heart skips a beat as I look down at my silver hair. "Oh, no freaking way... why and how has this carried over!?" The others nervously laugh while saying "We've noticed that things that happen here and over there always carry over."

Out of curiosity, I try to turn my hair back and watch in amazement when it works. "Holy Cheese nips!! How'd you do that!?" Nick asks standing up in excitement. Bai Lei looks over to the others with a frown. He doesn't understand a lot of what's being said at the moment.

Bai Lei looks around the strange house with weird flashing lights and strange noises. Things were not looking good...

I feel worry sink in as my hair slowly fades back to its silver color. "So... who else knows about this?" I ask with worry. They all shake their heads while saying "Are you crazy!? We haven't told anyone! We can't tell anyone..." I nod in agreement and look over to Bai Lei.

Bai Lei continues looking around the room with his dark eyes as I sigh "What are we going to do about him?" I ask looking back to the others. The others quickly shake their heads and say "Uh no... this one's all on you. He only listens to you anyway."

I groan and look back over to see him watching me with cold eyes. "I guess you're coming home with me for a while... at least until we can get you back to your world." Bai Lei clenches his jaw but he doesn't say anything as we all begin standing.

I look down at my white gown with a frown and say "No one touched my locker right?" Ted chuckles and says "None of us have a death wish." I nod in happiness and go to change but Bai Lei instantly follows me.

I stop and turn around to say "You stay here for a minute. I need to go change." Bai Lei doesn't look happy about it but he slowly nods his head and watches me walk away. I quickly change out of my long gown and slip into my black leggings and my grey hoodie. I slam my locker shut and walk out to find the guys all awkwardly staring at each other. When Bai Lei looks over to see my new look his handsome face scrunches up in confusion.

I look to Bai Lei and the way he's dressed with a frown... I look over to the other three and stop on Nick. "Nick, do you have any extra clothes Bai Lei can wear? You're the closest in size." Nick looks back to Bai Lei before nodding and saying "Follow me, my dude."

Bai Lei frowns at Nick before giving me a questioning look. I give him a small smile and shoo him after Nick. I turn to Ted and Chase with a look of panic. "Four days!? It can't happen sooner?" I ask in a low whisper. Chase shakes his head and says "We've tried over and over. It only works every four days. You'll just have to keep him out of sight and out of trouble for four days. It shouldn't be that bad."

I look at him with large eyes before sighing and saying "Forget it... do we know how the game did this?" Ted shakes his head and says "We're currently working on that. We have a few theories but we'll know more once we're able to run all the tests. It just takes time."

I nod my head and smile at them while saying "Thanks for coming to save me... and thanks for coming back. I was afraid you weren't coming back." Ted laughs and lightly punches me in the arm as he says "We're a team. We don't leave our teammates behind, no matter what."

I give him a grateful smile and return the punch as Nick walks out with Bai Lei. "Look how fly my dude looks!!" Nick says with a laugh. We all turn to look at him and instantly freeze. He looked like a hot runway model but in relaxed jeans and a white long sleeve shirt. Nick had pulled his jet black hair back in a man bun, completing the look. Hot damn...