When Sky and Star passed by that supply shack on this night, three years later, but now in a third life, things went a bit differently. For one, they weren’t alone. For two, neither was Alana. Star and Alana walked together quietly chatting, while Sky and Kole trailed behind them having their own conversation. Finally as they passed by the supply shack, Sky and Star cast one another a furtive glance. They then glanced at Alana as well, and took a vigilant look around the park.

They were hoping that since there had been no confrontation between Alana and Curt that morning, that there would be none that night either. But they were still wary, to put it mildly. As Sky stopped there to die out his cigarette, Star and Alana stopped as Star gave her an awkward smile to hide the nervousness she and Sky were feeling right then, which most likely wouldn’t have made much sense to either of their companions.

When Kole also moved to die out his cigarette in the nearby ashtray, he and Sky’s hands touched slightly. They then both looked up into each other’s eyes at the same moment upon feeling their hands brush one another’s. Taking a deep breath, Kole smiled at the two girls then back at Sky, then at the supply shack behind them.

“Arrangements to uphold” he smiled as he took Sky’s wrist and began leading him toward the supply shack.

Star looked after them with a bit of worry as she began to wonder if the universe really was trying to make history repeat itself in only slightly different little ways. She then smiled nervously back at Alana and gestured to the bench nearest the shack the two boys had now disappeared into.

“Now him and Kole?” Alana couldn’t help asking as she and Star sat.

“Me and Sky sort of have this... understanding” Star attempted with an awkward smile, as trying to explain her and Sky was difficult enough when she wasn’t on high alert waiting on a rapist to appear.

“You can sleep with whoever you want as long as you share?” Alana offered with another blush.

“So you have noticed that about us?” Star asked with another guilty smile.

“One of the most noticeable things about you two, actually” Alana agreed, though she did bite back a tiny smile as she did.

Inside the shack, Kole was already undoing Sky’s pants as Sky braced himself on that workbench he somehow knew was there, despite how dark the shack was. “So, how exactly does this work?” Kole asked as he ever so gently ran his fingers over where Sky was already hardening at his touch.

“I’m pretty sure you obviously know how that works” Sky couldn’t help the smirk.

Kole chuckled as he continued the gentle caress, “I mean, with this arrangement you two have. Is it strictly a kiss for a kiss, a hand job for a hand job, etcetera?” Kole asked, his voice hoarse with his own growing arousal.

“So that’s what she did to you at lunch?” Sky smirked over at the boy who was barely three inches shorter than his own height of just over 6′3”.

“It was for educational purposes though” Kole smirked again, “so? The arrangement?”

“It’s not quite as literal as what you said: There’s kisses, which are pretty inconsequential to people like us, so we rarely enforce that one” he smirked, “then I guess the next category is anything between kissing and intercourse; which is apparently the step you’re on with Star, and now me” he added as he looked down as Kole continued to deliver those feather light caresses to his now complete erection.

“So right now, I’m at ‘anything better than a kiss but not quite intercourse?’ With both of you then?”

“That’s the way it works” Sky whispered back through his own increasing desire. “Then if you give in and actually have sex with me or Star, well then you gotta pay up and do the deed with the other one too” he allowed another small chuckle as Kole moved to deliver a few kisses to his neck.

Kole allowed another chuckle of his own at how interesting his two new friends were already making his life here. It was almost enough to make him forget the one glaringly horrible fact of his new life at the school Sammi used to go to. But he quickly pushed that thought away, for now.

“I suppose I can abide by that” he agreed with another smile before moving to his knees and taking Sky into his mouth to ‘pay up’ for that encounter he had had with Star earlier that very same day.

It was only a few minutes later when Sky was pushed to that climax, and pouring himself into Kole’s mouth when the door to the shack opened quickly, causing he and Kole to startle more than a bit.

“Sorry, very sorry” Star apologized hurriedly, pulling Alana into the shack behind her and moving just as quickly to push the door closed behind them, her back against it just for good measure.

To cover his own awkwardness, Kole made his way back to his feet, wiping the evidence of Sky’s desire from his now smudged lips. He then looked back at the two new arrivals a little breathlessly. “Wow, Alana, I didn’t picture you as the foursome type.”

“What?” she choked with more than a little embarrassment at the entire situation as well as Kole’s greeting.

“Unfortunately that’s not why we’re here” Star whispered as she continued to hold the door shut.

“Do tell then” Kole responded, his hand moving to try and push down his own obvious state in those snug pants.

Star let out a soft sigh, “just saw Curt heading this way. Really didn’t wanna deal with him” she added, she and Sky giving each other a knowing look as he finished awkwardly pushing himself back into his pants and refastening them.

Then Kole let out a more than angry sigh of his own, “would anyone really object if I go kill this fucker right now?” he asked his three companions, none of whom had an ounce of love for Curt, themselves.

“Trust me” Sky began, “we all want him dead, some of us more than others” he added more quietly, “but killing him and going to jail the rest of our lives for it; not ideal.”

“It’d be fucking worth it” Kole growled as he glared at the door behind Star, as though seriously considering the idea.

They all looked over at Kole with a bit of worry that that hatred, that he still had yet to fully explain, was going to end up getting him into that jail cell sooner or later, and not just for possible future felonies with blue haired freshmen.

Sky looked over at Kole with a sad breath, then looked at the two girls, then back to Kole, “I suppose now’s not a good time for you to explain why you hate him too? Other than the obvious reasons” he had to add.

Kole took a long breath as he looked between his three companions. It was true that Alana wasn’t nearly as cozy with any of the three of them as they all were with each other already; but it was also doubtful that she’d go spreading the tale herself, considering.

Another breath as Kole bit his lip painfully. “He raped Sammi, my girlfriend at the time” he whispered. Alana looked back in shock, and Sky and Star were much less shocked, but just as heartbroken at him confirming their fears about what had caused the girl to take her life two years earlier. “So yeah, believe me. I fucking wanna kill him” he added in an even quieter, more broken whisper.

“He’s raped other people too” Sky told him with a tremor in his own voice.

“Did he rape someone you were in love with though?” Kole asked, trying to force back his own emotions then.

That was when Star’s breath caught as she looked over at Sky, a question in her eyes. Sky sniffled as well, took a breath, and silently nodded to her. She finally looked back at Kole, “Yeah, he did” she answered as her own tears rushed to her eyes as Alana and Kole gave her and Sky an even more shocked look then.

Alana was tearing up and couldn’t even look back, seeing as she had no idea what to even say to that confession. Kole then bit back more tears of his own as he looked between Sky and Star. He finally spoke again, “how is this prick still allowed to be breathing?” he whispered.

Sky cleared his throat, trying to compose himself now that they all knew instead of just he and Star. He then spoke again, “because, if any of us take his life, as much as he fucking does deserve it, then we’re giving up the entire rest of our own lives too, for the sake of him. Then, he really will have destroyed our lives, even from the grave. And I for one do not want to give him that power” he then took another brave breath, “and I didn’t know her that well, but I doubt Sammi would want you destroying your life for Curt either. She already lost her own because of him, and I don’t think she’d want to see that happen to the boy she loved too” he told Kole as he moved to wrap him in his arms.

Finally after another long moment, Sky finally relinquished his hold on the slightly older boy. Kole then took another breath to fight back more emotions, “so we’re supposed to just let him get away with everything he’s done?”

“He will pay” Sky promised, “I know he will. But we don’t have to pay with him. We just have to hold on til he does meet whatever hell is waiting for him.”

“And how many more people will he destroy before that?” Kole sniffled again, causing Sky and Star to sigh sadly, as that question had been on their minds for more than one life now already.

When Sky and Star got back home again late that night, he headed upstairs to get his shower before bed. Moments after he had started undressing, he heard the bathroom door open behind him and smiled slightly as he turned back to her, “what is with you and bathrooms today?” he attempted lightness despite the emotional confession earlier that evening.

Star managed her own smirk as she moved forward to help him undress, “we did it though.”

“You might have to be more specific” Sky returned as his eyes watched her undoing his pants just as Kole had done prior to that tearful conversation.

“We saved Alana from having that happen to her tonight” Star smiled as she began inching his pants down his legs.

“I guess that we did” Sky breathed as she finished undressing him and he stepped out of the crumpled pile she left his pants in on the floor, naked before her once again.

Just as Sky reached to begin undressing her as well, Star had to speak again, “are you going to be ok though?”

“Are we really back to that question, considering?” he asked as he gestured to his own nude body.

“No, I mean with him, them, knowing?”

Sky sighed softly as he began unlacing her top, “you must admit that what Curt did to me was really the only terrible thing we’ve had to endure this time round. Even mom and dad finding out what we were, that even went way better than we ever thought it would; so far, anyway” he had to add.

“That doesn’t answer my question though” Star whispered as he finished unlacing her shirt and pushed it away from her breasts.

“What I mean is, maybe , just maybe, there was a bigger reason why I had to endure what I had to endure in that locker room” he whispered with a bit of emotion as he dropped her shirt to the floor.

“You’re gonna have to explain that one” Star returned in her own throaty whisper as he moved to begin unlacing her high boots then as well.

“I mean, what if the reason that happened to me, and the reason it had to play out the way it did; what if that was all so I could stand there tonight letting Kole know that he wasn’t the only one suffering? Maybe it had to happen to me, so I could use it to stop him from throwing his life away going after that prick” he suggested with slightly breaking voice as he finished removing her boots and moved his hands to her skirt.

“Are you saying you think there’s a bigger reason that we were able to go back in time and re-live this life all over again, than just to escape that lab?” Star scoffed, though she couldn’t help thinking on the possibility.

“Well, resetting the world last time didn’t save us. But maybe going back this time like we did; maybe that can save someone else. Like Alana? Or Kole? It’s possible isn’t it?” Sky offered as he finished undressing her then as well.

“And if we can save them...” Star whispered.

“Then maybe there’s hope for us this time around too?” he whispered, covering her lips with a kiss, before pulling her into that shower with him, ready to make yet another memory play out better this time around, too.