Bella laughed, and spun with him as she asked "Tell me about it, please do?"

"Most people go through the same routine every single day. They live in their little comfort zone and act badly when something outside of their comfort zone shows up. The same day in day out existence the constant monotony. That's pretty much what Normal is, and to me, that's hella boring, and if there's one thing I hate more than anything else, its being bored."

  Bella grinned, and said "That's true.  Being bored is not fun.  But I don't get bored often, being the child of two paras makes that hard.  If it isn't trouble, I'm CAUSING a ruckus!!"

"I'll be sure to stick close then. Sounds like an exciting time." He gave a roguish grin. "And I've been known to cause a ruckus from time to time myself."

  Bella laughed, and said "When you consider I'm only fifteen, and I have had para powers all my life?  It helps, a lot, that I have some oddball ones that neither Dad has."

"I suppose it must....So you've always had powers? Nothing...turned them on? Were you flying before you could walk?"

  Bella said "Yeah.  And driving both Dads and Aunt Megs nuts.  She'd have to put an EM lock on the house to keep me in at times."

"Talk about being an adventurous child. 'Honey where's the baby? Check the ceiling'" He said with a chuckle. "Though it sounds like a better childhood than some despite the lack of normality."

  Bella grinned, and admitted softly "I was blessed with two Dads who love me dearly, and Aunt Megs, who is the closest thing to a Mother I will ever have.  Even the Aunt Megs here is the same, she still loves me like a daughter."

"SO are your dads the present incarnations of themselves? How old are they now?"

 Bella said "Well . . . they;re older, but the incarnations I remember, will never exist now.  Something happened . . . and the time-line I am from, stopped existing.  So I can't go 'home', and I will never see any of the people there again."

"Wow, just, wow. Now THAT is heavy. So what happened to your timeline? How come it went poof?"

  Bella said softly "I don't know, exactly, but I know something happened in the NOW, when we are, right now, sometime, that made mine cease to exist.  And I found out, and I tried to . . . jump far enough to stop it.  See, Dads can't do it . . .but I can timejump.  And I made it here, although it was hard.  But not in time to save them.  They're all gone.  I failed them all."  Her voice had grown very soft, at the last, and she'd stopped, eyes closed, and head bowed.

Moving his hands from her waist he wrapped both arms around her in a hug. Holding he close he swayed a little in time to the music, but saying nothing.

  She leaned into that hug, eyes still closed, and said "I haven't really talked about it to anyone.  Until now.  How do you tell your Dads that you know that . . . you failed . . .and it cost them, and every other living being  . . . their lives?"

"Just cuz you couldn't do anything doesn't make it your fault. Sometimes things just go bad and there's nothin anyone can do about it. Blaming yourself is pointless, believe me, I've been there."

  She said quietly "Someone did it.  Someone CAUSED the timeline to be destroyed.  Not just the world, but the whole timeline.  I found out, I felt it . .. but I couldn't find them back here, in this when, in time to stop it.  So all I can do . . . is try and live here, in this time.  I can't go home to a when that doesn't exist anymore.  But it's really hard to fit in here.  My Dads are only about a year older than I am, here . . . "  She hugged him, but carefully, she didn't want to break him.

He held her for a moment before pulling away slightly. Reaching into his pocket he produced a pen and slip of paper and quickly wrote a phone number on it. "Thats my cell, its always on, next time your feelin like that give me a call."

  Bella smiled, and said "I will.  Umm, I don't have my own cell yet, but I'm going to have to get one.  I haven't wanted to bug Aunt Megs, or Dads about it."  She looked down, and said "I miss Diantha always helping me out with the communications."

"No rush, give me a buzz when you can." He looked down at the dancefloor at two teachers talking one of which was pointing in their direction. "Uhoh, looks like we've been spotted."

  Bella looked over the railing, and grinned, and asked him playfully "Want to freak em out and dance on the ceiling?  My skirt's tight enough it won't flip on me."

"Why the hell not? Worst that can happen is I get suspended, again. Right?"

  Bella grinned, and took his hands, and kept a firm grip, as she danced them to the wall, then 'hopped' and oriented them.  Now they were dancing up the wall, and she grinned as she said "Ceiling's next.  Make sure all your stuff is secure, unless you want me to REALLY freak em out catching everything you drop."

Aaron made sure his pockets were secure as they began dancing up the walls and eventually the ceiling. As they danced the crowd began looking up the dancefloor grinding to a halt as they watched the upsidedown pair.

  Bella looked 'down' and grinned, then asked Aaron "Having fun at this, Aaron?  I know I am.  And this is harmless!!  We're not hurting a fly!"