I tossed and turned for most of the night. Finding out about Bill seemed to make things worse. Two years he had been stuck in the past. I hadn't considered that I would have to relive my life. Could I live with my mom until I graduated and went off to college? I didn't think so—not unless I could get her to believe that I wasn't her sixteen-year-old daughter but a woman who was even older than she was now.

Saturday was bright and sunny and I got dressed in shorts a T-shirt ...