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you?”
    “You’re going to figure it out. Anyway, it’s
against the rules.”
    “What rules? What are you talking about?”
    “I can’t tell you. I’ve already said too
much.”
    We returned to the park in Macon and played
for a couple of hours before the girl left. She said she had to
take care of something important, and disappeared right before my
eyes.
    The next day, I went to the park, waiting for
her to return. She showed up, as I was about to leave.
    “Sorry I’m late,” she said.
    “I didn’t think you were real.”
    “Oh, I’m real. You might be too,” she
said.
    I didn’t ask for an explanation, knowing it
was pointless. “Maybe we can go somewhere else today,” I said.
    “Not today. I just stopped by to say hi.”
    “Couldn’t you have just gone back in time to
when I first came here?”
    “I can only come to you in your relative
present, not your past, Kev. You explained it to me once, but I
have to admit, I didn’t understand a word you said.”
    “But, you said this is the past.”
    “It is my past, not yours. Well, it is your
past, but not the way you might think.”
    “Not helpful.”
    “I know, but I don’t really get it.”
    “How much time do you have?”
    “Only enough time for this,” she said, giving
me a kiss and then disappearing.
    I returned to Uncle Joe’s and we spent the
rest of the day on the airstrip he had built on one of his fields,
flying remote controlled airplanes.
    “Uncle Joe, can we go to a jewelry store
today?”
    “Why?”
    “I want to get a ring for the girl.”
    “What girl?”
    “The girl in the park,” I said. I hadn’t told
Uncle Joe about the girl.
    “Okay. We can do that. What’s her name?”
    “I don’t know. She won’t tell me.”
    Uncle Joe laughed, “Girls are difficult
creatures.”
    “I know.”

 
    On my last day in Macon, the girl appeared at
the park. She apologized for going missing, claiming she had
trouble finding me, which struck me as odd although I didn’t
question it.
    “I didn’t think you were coming back,” I
said. I had spent every day at the park waiting for her, only
leaving when Uncle Joe came to get me.
    “Don’t worry, Kev. Even if you’re lost, I’ll
find you, although you can be hard to find sometimes.”
    “I have something for you,” I said, reaching
inside my pocket and pulling out a silver ring with a single, small
amethyst. I knelt down and put it on her finger, seeing tears come
to her eyes. She dropped down to her knees and kissed me.
    “I love you, Kev. Some day you will truly
understand that. I hope it’s soon, dummy,” she said, punching me on
the shoulder. “You’re it.” She jumped up and sped off into the
park.
    We spent the day chasing each other in the
park, laughing and screaming. I remember everything now, but I
remember that day more clearly than any other. At the time, I knew
few things, but I knew I loved her more than anything else.
    Finally, we stopped to catch our breath. I
knew it was time to leave, but didn’t know how to end things.
    “You could visit me in Connecticut, you
know,” I said.
    She paused before saying, “We’ll see. You’ll
probably forget me anyway.”
    “I’ll never forget you,” I said.
    “Kev, you’ve forgotten me countless times.
You will forget me.”
    I swore I wouldn’t forget her, but had
already forgotten her by the time I reached my aunt’s house in
Connecticut.
    While I had been away, Aunt Helen arranged
for me to get into Baker, the private school Clive would be
attending in the fall, the school I had begged to attend. Before
Baker would accept me I had to go through a series of tests, so my
aunt drove me to the school where I spent several hours being
interviewed and tested. The next day, the school accepted me,
noting that I had scored higher on my tests than any other student
in their history. In fact, I had perfect scores.
    I moved into my dormitory a week later.
    For whatever reason, I remembered Clive, and
counted myself