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00:00:001996, Texas
00:00:02I suddenly jerk up from the sink, gasping for air
00:00:04Water drips from my thick blonde hair
00:00:06I stare at the mirror in shock
00:00:07The face staring back at me is vibrant, beautiful, full of life
00:00:10Vintage smoky eye makeup framing a chalky teenage face
00:00:1318, you young, healthy, cancer-free
00:00:15I've been thrown back into the dead-end Texas high school years
00:00:19My mom spent her entire life clawing her way out of
00:00:22Suddenly, the bathroom door swings open
00:00:24A familiar grapefruit perfume hits me instantly
00:00:27It's Valerie, my 18-year-old mother
00:00:29Her hair is pulled into a high-tony tail
00:00:31High-waisted jeans hugging her hips
00:00:33A white tamtop straight out of a 90s teen magazine
00:00:35Come on, the pep lolly's about to start
00:00:37She yanks me forward hard enough to make me stumble
00:00:39But instead of following her, I freeze
00:00:42Stare at the young face in front of me
00:00:43Untouched by wealth
00:00:45Untouched by surgery
00:00:46Untouched by the years that twisted her into a monster
00:00:48Valerie, we're... friends?
00:00:51Uh, duh, we're best friends
00:00:53Why are you being so weird today? Come on!
00:00:55She turns and keeps pulling me towards the door
00:00:57Half a step behind her, I stare at her back
00:00:59The confusion in my eyes vanishes instantly
00:01:01Replaced by something cold, something vicious
00:01:03The school's public address system drones on from the loudspeakers overhead
00:01:07Buzzing with the daily lunch menu
00:01:09Pizza slices, tater tots, and chocolate milk
00:01:12Valerie pulls me through the crowded hallway
00:01:14Her hand warm and dry in mine
00:01:16And then it hits me again
00:01:18That sharp grapefruit perfume
00:01:20The scent wraps around me so suddenly my breath catches
00:01:23It was the smell I knew best as a child
00:01:26Before I turned five, she used to hold me in her arms
00:01:29Humming old country songs and asking if I loved her
00:01:32But after she ditched me to chase her high school sweetheart to the big city
00:01:36That scent only ever showed up in my nightmares
00:01:39Scarlet, you've been acting weird all day
00:01:41Scarlet?
00:01:42God, even this body's name sucks
00:01:44Carefully, I slip my hand out of hers
00:01:46My eyes swamp across the hallway
00:01:48The dented locker numbers
00:01:50The faded football team pictures
00:01:51The bulletin board plastered with fall semester 1996
00:01:55Cheerleaders rush past us
00:01:57Ponytails flying
00:01:58While some varsity asshole has a scrawny kid pinned against a logger
00:02:01Shaking him down for lunch money
00:02:02This isn't a dream
00:02:04I'm really back in the 90s
00:02:06That's when a tall, lanky guy with glasses started walking toward us
00:02:10Hector
00:02:10My mother's first love
00:02:12The man who ruined all our lives
00:02:13Hey, this is my Scarlet
00:02:15She just transferred it in
00:02:16Scarlet, meet Hector
00:02:17Straight A student
00:02:18Total teacher's pet
00:02:19Basically tutoring half the school
00:02:21Hey, I'm Hector
00:02:22Welcome to East Ridge
00:02:24The second I hear his name
00:02:26My stomach turns
00:02:27I ignore his hand completely
00:02:29And scan the noisy hallway
00:02:31For the one person who should have been here
00:02:33Where's my dad?
00:02:35Austin should be at this school too
00:02:36Wait!
00:02:38Austin's not in your class?
00:02:39Austin?
00:02:40There's no Austin in this entire school
00:02:44Austin Walker
00:02:45My dad
00:02:45He's not- he's not here?
00:02:49Your dad?
00:02:50Just as I'm scrambling for an excuse
00:02:52A roar erupts from the end of the hallway
00:02:54And saves me
00:02:55The pep rally's starting
00:02:57You coming or what?
00:02:58Sunlight spills across her shoulders
00:03:00For a second she looks nothing like the woman
00:03:02Who would one day watch me die without blinking
00:03:04The gym is loud, humilded
00:03:07Packed wall to wall
00:03:08Football players in red jerseys
00:03:10Charge onto the court
00:03:11While cheerleaders shake palm balls
00:03:13Under the flashing lights
00:03:14The bleachers thunder
00:03:15With stomping feet
00:03:16And screaming students
00:03:17This Friday
00:03:18Let's show East Ridge
00:03:20Who really runs this town
00:03:22The crowd explodes
00:03:24She's radiant up there
00:03:25Beside me
00:03:26Hector adjusts his glasses
00:03:27Eyes fixed on her
00:03:29She's gonna get out of this town someday
00:03:31He says it like he already knows the future
00:03:33I don't answer
00:03:34I just stare at Valerie beneath the spotlight
00:03:37After the rally
00:03:38Students pour out of the gym
00:03:40The halls fill
00:03:42With slamming lockers
00:03:43And overlapping conversations again
00:03:45People argue about Friday's game
00:03:47Girls debate who's gonna win prom queen
00:03:50Last period is study hall
00:03:51Valerie sits one row ahead of me by the window
00:03:54Her notes neat enough to look typed
00:03:56As she flips a page
00:03:58Something slips out from between her books
00:04:00A pale green application packet
00:04:03Harvard University
00:04:04My breathing catches
00:04:05She actually got an application
00:04:08But later in life
00:04:09She always says Harvard was never an option
00:04:11For someone like her
00:04:11So that was a lie too
00:04:13Valerie
00:04:13Your future turns out cheap
00:04:15And pathetic anyway
00:04:15So why are you out here
00:04:17Pretend to be some gifted golden girl right now
00:04:18It makes me sick
00:04:19I rise from my seat
00:04:21Then
00:04:21With one sharp shove of my elbow
00:04:23I knock over the black coffee on her desk
00:04:25The dark liquid spills perfectly across the application packet
00:04:29Soaking through the giant Harvard crest
00:04:31Until the ink begins to bleed
00:04:32I stare at her coldly
00:04:34Waiting for her to snap
00:04:35Waiting for the mask to fall off
00:04:37Waiting to finally see the real Valerie
00:04:39Underneath all that fake sweetness
00:04:41But her reaction throws me completely off
00:04:46Oh god, Scarlett, are you okay?
00:04:48She grabs a stack of napkins
00:04:50And immediately starts swiping coffee off my hand
00:04:52There's real concern in her eyes
00:04:53No anger
00:04:54No blame
00:04:54Not even irritation
00:04:55It's wrong
00:04:56She's too nice
00:04:58So nice it scares me
00:05:00Nice enough to make me wonder
00:05:01If the woman I remember
00:05:02Was ever the real Valerie at all
00:05:04Just then
00:05:05The classroom door swings open
00:05:07A Latino teacher steps inside
00:05:09And walks over to Valerie's desk
00:05:10Hey Valerie
00:05:12Something came up with Scarlett's family
00:05:14Kind of an emergency
00:05:15Your parents called
00:05:16And asked if you could bring her home
00:05:17With you after school
00:05:18An emergency?
00:05:20What the hell happened?
00:05:21By the time school lets out
00:05:23The Texas sunset looks like the whole sky's on fire
00:05:25Stadium lights flicker on one by one around the football field
00:05:29The cheer squad is still practicing
00:05:30While snippets of 90s pop songs crack through the loudspears
00:05:33Valerie walks a few steps ahead of me
00:05:35Her ponytail swaying softly behind her
00:05:37She suddenly stops and turns to me gently
00:05:39I heard about your parents
00:05:40Scarlett, don't be scared, okay?
00:05:42You've still got me
00:05:43We're best friends
00:05:43Then she pulls me into a hug
00:05:45I'm sorry for what happened
00:05:46If you need a shoulder to cry on
00:05:47I'll always be here
00:05:48That faint grapefruit scent wraps around me again
00:05:51And just like that
00:05:52I break
00:05:52In my last life
00:05:53There were countless nights
00:05:54When I would have given anything
00:05:56For this exact embrace
00:05:57As I sob into her shoulder
00:05:58I deliberately smears and snot
00:06:00All over her pretty shirt
00:06:01Petty revenge
00:06:02Pathetic
00:06:03Tiny revenge
00:06:03But her arms are warm
00:06:05Exactly the way I remember from childhood
00:06:07So how the hell did someone like this
00:06:09Become the woman who wouldn't even save my life?
00:06:12A bicycle bell rings behind us
00:06:13Hector catches up
00:06:14Pushing an old bike with a paper box of cupcakes
00:06:16Sitting in the basket
00:06:17He adjusts his glasses awkwardly
00:06:19Sugar helps
00:06:21A little, anyway
00:06:22I watch the two of them walking side by side
00:06:24Beneath the football field lights
00:06:25And something bitter twists in my chest
00:06:27What, Hector?
00:06:28You gonna pick her up like this every day?
00:06:30Keep her stuck in this town
00:06:31And make her your wife someday?
00:06:32Hector stops walking
00:06:33But when he looks at me
00:06:34His expression is completely open and sincere
00:06:37Valerie's meant for bigger things than this place
00:06:39She's too talented to spend her life
00:06:41Shrinking herself for some guy
00:06:44That'd be
00:06:45Wrong
00:06:46I freeze
00:06:47Because I never imagined Hector would say something like that
00:06:52I'm not getting stuck married with kids at 18
00:06:55I want to see what's out there first
00:06:57But you did have me at 18
00:06:58You ended up trapped in a rotting trailer park
00:07:00Full of violence and screaming and broken walls
00:07:02Valerie
00:07:03Did your dreams betray you?
00:07:05The whole walk there
00:07:06Something about this timeline feels off in a way
00:07:09I can't explain
00:07:11And then Valerie opens the front door
00:07:14The smell of home-cooked food hits me instantly
00:07:18So you're Scarlet, huh?
00:07:20Hi, Mr. Wyatt
00:07:21Thanks for letting me stay over
00:07:25He bursts out laughing and pulls me inside
00:07:27Before I can even finish
00:07:29The house is warm
00:07:30Spotless
00:07:31Lived in
00:07:32There's a brand new pair of slippers waiting for me by the entryway
00:07:35Along with folded pajamas set out
00:07:36They've been expecting me for days
00:07:37The living room walls are lined with plaques, commendations
00:07:40And framed Federal Service Award
00:07:41On the TV
00:07:42A local news station is covering a major drug trafficking case
00:07:45Near the Texas border
00:07:46A photo flashes on screen of two fallen narcotics agents
00:07:49Your parents were good people, kiddo
00:07:51Best partners I ever had
00:07:53Real heroes
00:07:54And from now on, this house is yours, too
00:07:56You hear me?
00:07:57That's when it finally hits me
00:07:58The parents belonging to this body are already dead
00:08:02Dinner is loud and warm and painfully alive
00:08:04Grandpa keeps piling food onto plates
00:08:06Grandma laughs at everything
00:08:08A dog nudges against my legs beneath the table
00:08:10The kitchen light glows so warmly it almost hurts to look at
00:08:13And across from me sits Valerie
00:08:14Laughing freely while her parents dole on her
00:08:16Like she's the center of their universe
00:08:17My chest tightens so hard it feels unbearable
00:08:20This is insane
00:08:22Like some cruel cosmic joke
00:08:24She grew up surrounded by this much love
00:08:26So how the hell did she become someone who could watch me die
00:08:29Without a single shred of kindness?
00:08:31Late that night, Valerie and I lay side by side in the dark
00:08:35There's been this huge cartel case near the border lately
00:08:38I keep having nightmares something's gonna happen to my parents
00:08:41At 18, she looks so young
00:08:44So fragile
00:08:45Before sunrise, I wake to the sound of movement in the living room
00:08:48Grandpa is sitting by the door pulling on his police boots
00:08:51I run out barefoot and grab onto his sleeve before he can leave
00:08:54Mr. Wyatt, please be careful out there
00:08:56He smiles and ruffles my hair
00:08:58I will, kiddo
00:08:59Promise I'll come home safe
00:09:00Then he and grandma disappear together into the pale border fog of early morning
00:09:05And the dread in my chest only grows heavier
00:09:10Valerie stumbles out of bed half asleep the next morning
00:09:13And stands in front of the mirror
00:09:15Completely lost trying to fix her ponytail
00:09:17God, she's hopeless
00:09:18I walk over and quietly redo her hair for her
00:09:22It's the first time in both my lives that I've ever been this close to her
00:09:26Scarlett, how are you so good at this?
00:09:27And suddenly I remember how, when I was little
00:09:30She always hacked my hair off into awful tomboy cuts
00:09:33Maybe it wasn't coldness after all
00:09:34Maybe 18-year-old Valerie just barely knew how to take care of herself
00:09:38A bicycle bell rings outside the yard
00:09:40Hector, right on schedule
00:09:41He hands me an ice-cold soda
00:09:43Then stares at my face for a little too long
00:09:47Scarlett, is it just me or are you starting to look more and more like Valerie?
00:09:50A chill shoots straight through me
00:09:52Right before I died in my last life, I was barely recognizable
00:09:55Skin and bones from the cancer
00:09:56But the last time I looked in a mirror, I realized something horrifying
00:09:59I hadn't taken over someone else's body
00:10:01I came back wearing my own 18-year-old face
00:10:04Pretty girls always kind of look alike, right?
00:10:06Surrounded by all this warmth, I start wavering
00:10:09It gets harder and harder to connect this version of Valini to the woman from my last life
00:10:13This girl is kind, bright, alive
00:10:16I finally begin to understand why my dad, Austin, spent his whole life loving her
00:10:20Even when she never truly loved him back
00:10:22Part of me even starts thinking that when I finally meet him in this timeline
00:10:25Maybe I should tell him to fall for somebody else
00:10:27But I never imagined that just as I started letting my guard down
00:10:31Hell was already opening its doors
00:10:32School lets out early that day
00:10:35Hector and I stop by a taco truck on the corner
00:10:38Valerie says she's tired and asks us to grab her a baked potato
00:10:41Before heading home ahead of us
00:10:43We're almost at her house when an old pickup truck with no plates
00:10:47Suddenly comes flying backward out of the driveway
00:10:50Several tattooed men in masks jump into the bed of the truck
00:10:54Then a scream tears through the air
00:10:57It's Valerie
00:11:01Hector and I sprint toward the house so fast
00:11:03My lungs feel like they're tearing apart
00:11:06The front door hangs crooked on its hinges
00:11:08Creaking heavily as it swings loosely against the broken frame
00:11:12The second we step inside the smell hits me
00:11:14Blood, sweat, whiskey
00:11:15The living room looks like a battlefield
00:11:17Furniture overturned
00:11:18Glass shattered everywhere
00:11:19Family photos ripped from the walls
00:11:21Blood smeared across the wooden floorboards in long streaps like someone had been dragged
00:11:24Grandpa and Grandma lie motionless on the ground
00:11:27And in the middle of the room
00:11:29Valerie
00:11:29Covered in blood
00:11:31Curled up on the floor
00:11:32A tattooed man stands nearby
00:11:34Calmly fixing his belt like nothing happened
00:11:37Hector roars and charges at him
00:11:39Only to get kicked hard across the room
00:11:41The stranger turns toward me slowly
00:11:43Then he grabs my collar and jerks me forward so violently my feet leave the ground
00:11:48Hector!
00:11:50The stench of blood and cigarettes
00:11:51Floods my nose so hard I nearly gag
00:11:54Well, damn
00:11:55If it isn't Officer Miller's kid
00:11:57Lucky day for you, sweetheart
00:12:00Boss already told us to pull out
00:12:01Otherwise you'd have been a lot of fun too
00:12:03He spits onto the floor beside me and turns to leave
00:12:08Behind him, Valerie curls tighter into herself
00:12:11Desperately clutching the ripped fabric over her chest
00:12:13A broken sound escapes her throat
00:12:16Something inside me snaps
00:12:17I throw myself forward and grab the man's pant leg with both hands
00:12:21Moonlight spills through the shattered window
00:12:23Sliding across the side of his face
00:12:24That jawline
00:12:26That scar near his mouth
00:12:27That voice
00:12:28My entire body freezes
00:12:30The world goes completely silent around me
00:12:32Because he isn't some random cartel thug
00:12:35He's Austin
00:12:36My father
00:12:41Hector scrambles to the wall and grabs the landline
00:12:44But the phone cord has already been cut
00:12:49You brought this on yourself, you little bitch!
00:12:52He lunges at me and starts ripping at my clothes
00:12:55Yanking violently at my collar
00:12:56Trying to save me
00:12:58Hector throws himself at Austin again
00:13:00Without a second thought
00:13:01In the chaos
00:13:02I catch a flash of murder in Austin's eyes
00:13:05He suddenly pulls a hunting knife from the back of his waist hand
00:13:08And in that instant
00:13:09I completely lose it
00:13:10Without thinking
00:13:11I grab the blade with my bare hand
00:13:14My dad?
00:13:15How could this be my dad?
00:13:16Tears crash into the growing pool of blood beneath me
00:13:19The man I loved most growing up
00:13:21The father who raised me in that trailer park with nothing
00:13:24How could it be you?
00:13:26You're a rapist now
00:13:27A murderer
00:13:28I can't take it
00:13:29I feel like I'm losing my mind
00:13:31But the sharp pain slicing through my palm
00:13:33And Vallier's desperate sobbing
00:13:35Remind me this is real
00:13:36I clamp down on the knife with everything I have
00:13:40And scream hysterically at Hector
00:13:42Hector run!
00:13:43Go get help!
00:13:45Go!
00:13:45Now!
00:13:46Blood streams down Hector's face
00:13:48As he staggers toward the door
00:13:50And bolts outside
00:13:51And the second he's gone
00:13:53Austin completely snaps
00:13:55With a vicious twist of his wrist
00:13:57He jerks the knife free
00:13:59And points the blade straight at my throat
00:14:03But just then
00:14:04My grandmother
00:14:05Who had been lying motionless in a pool of blood
00:14:08Somehow forces herself back up
00:14:10With the last bit of strength she has left
00:14:13Austin turns
00:14:14Ready to stab the next
00:14:18No!
00:14:19I slam into him with everything I have
00:14:21The blade plunges straight into my stomach
00:14:23Warmth explodes through my body
00:14:25Then comes the pain
00:14:27Endless
00:14:27Crushing pain
00:14:28I press both hands against the wound
00:14:30Holding onto the knife with everything I've got
00:14:33So Austin can't pull it back out
00:14:35You can't kill them
00:14:37You
00:14:39Can't
00:14:39I'm crying
00:14:40Choking as blood pours from my mouth in heavy bursts
00:14:43But Austin just twists the knife cruelly inside me
00:14:48The agony sends me collapsing to my knees in the blood
00:14:51That's when Grandma suddenly wraps both arms around Austin's neck from behind
00:14:55And drags him to the floor with every ounce of strength she has left
00:14:58My grandfather already covered in blood
00:15:01Grabs onto Austin's leg and refuses to let go
00:15:03Realizing he's about to get caught
00:15:06Austin curses violently
00:15:07Kicks himself free from them
00:15:08And climbs out the window
00:15:10Disappearing into the darkness near the border
00:15:12Scarlet!
00:15:14Scarlet, stay with me!
00:15:15Please don't close your eyes!
00:15:18Through my fading vision
00:15:19I feel Valerie pulling me into her arms
00:15:22My consciousness is already slipping away
00:15:25Sobbing controllably
00:15:26With tears and blood all over my face
00:15:28I still try to take off my jacket and cover her with it
00:15:30But I'm too weak
00:15:32My arm barely lifts halfway before it drops limply into the blood
00:15:35In the distance
00:15:36Sirens scream through the night
00:15:38I hear Hector crying as he rushes back inside with the police
00:15:41Then everything goes dark
00:15:42Somewhere far away
00:15:44Voices echo around me as I'm lifted onto a stretcher
00:15:48She's flatlining
00:15:48Move!
00:15:49Get the defibrillator now!
00:15:53When I finally open my eyes again
00:15:54All I see is the pale white ceiling of a hospital room
00:15:57Sitting beside my bed is Hector
00:15:58When he ran for help
00:15:59Austin's men caught him and beat him half to death
00:16:01The second he sees me awake
00:16:02Arrogant genius completely falls apart
00:16:04He wipes his eyes while gripping to entail
00:16:06So tenly
00:16:06You were the last one to wake up
00:16:08Do you have any idea how close you came to dying?
00:16:10You scared the hell out of us!
00:16:12He's crying so hard it's a complete mess
00:16:14Tears, snot, everything
00:16:15At one point he even spits on my face while talking
00:16:17I let out a weak laugh
00:16:18The anesthesia still hasn't fully worn over
00:16:20I can't really feel pain yet
00:16:21Just heavy numbness all over my body
00:16:22I look at him anxiously
00:16:23Valerie's parents
00:16:24And Valerie, are they okay?
00:16:27Her folks made it to the hospital just in time
00:16:29If that knife had hit either of them any worse
00:16:33I struggle to sit up
00:16:34Desperate to see her
00:16:35But before I can move
00:16:36The hospital room door slowly opens
00:16:37Valerie is standing there
00:16:39Her eyes look hollow
00:16:40And when she looks at me
00:16:41There's something shattered in them
00:16:43I can't even begin to explain
00:16:44I say her name softly
00:16:45She nods faintly and walks over
00:16:47Her cold fingers are justly on my shoulder
00:16:49Does it hurt?
00:16:50I shake my head
00:16:51Looking at her red-rimmed eyes
00:16:53I force a small smile
00:16:55Have you been crying?
00:16:56She doesn't answer
00:16:57She just holds my hand tighter
00:16:59And gently squeezes my cheek
00:17:00Like she's afraid I'll disappear
00:17:01And suddenly she lowers her head
00:17:03And tears drip onto the back of my hand
00:17:04Thank you, Scarlet
00:17:06If it weren't for you
00:17:07I would have lost my parents
00:17:10I look at the 18-year-old version of my mother
00:17:12Standing in front of me
00:17:13Her fate already completely changed because of me
00:17:15I sniff hard
00:17:16Holding back tears
00:17:17I don't say a single word
00:17:19I just let her tears soak into my skin
00:17:21Before slowly lifting my free hand
00:17:22And placing it softly over the trembling hand
00:17:24Resting on my shoulder
00:17:28Valerie looks down at my hand covering hers
00:17:30As if she understands the comfort in my eyes
00:17:34She takes a deep breath
00:17:37Tears still cling to her lashes
00:17:38But for the first time in forever
00:17:40Her voice carries a little relief
00:17:42I've got good news
00:17:44The case is over
00:17:45The cartel operation finally got busted
00:17:47Every single person involved in the attack
00:17:50Was caught near the border
00:17:50My parents can finally rest for a while
00:17:53The moment I hear Austin and the traffickers
00:17:55Were all arrested
00:17:56My entire mind goes blank
00:17:58Relief crashes over me so hard
00:17:59I almost shoot upright in the hospital bed
00:18:01Wait, seriously?
00:18:02They caught all of them?
00:18:05Yes, seriously
00:18:06Now stop moving before you rip your stitches open
00:18:09The crushing weight that haunted me through both lifetimes
00:18:11Finally disappears at that moment
00:18:13Meanwhile, Hector
00:18:14Who has been sitting nearby this entire time
00:18:16Calmly peels a banana like nothing's happening
00:18:18Doctor said you should eat this
00:18:20You've already woken up a few times these past couple days
00:18:22You've managed to pass gas
00:18:23So now they're just waiting to see if you can finally have a bowel movement
00:18:26Coming from someone usually this serious
00:18:28It's so absurd I completely lose it
00:18:30Unfortunately, the second I laugh
00:18:32Pain rips through the stitches in my abdomen
00:18:33I immediately hiss in pain, clutching my stomach
00:18:35Valerie starts laughing too
00:18:37But after a few seconds, her laughter fades
00:18:38Tears suddenly begin falling again without warning
00:18:41She tries to cry quietly
00:18:43She doesn't want either of us to notice
00:18:44Hector's smile slowly disappears too
00:18:47I wrap both arms tightly around this 18-year-old girl
00:18:50At that moment, through my chest
00:18:52Is no longer the hatred I carried in my previous life
00:18:54Mom, if I had known my biologed father
00:18:57Was the monster who destroyed your entire family
00:18:59How could I ever have hated you?
00:19:01I would have only hated myself for ever being born
00:19:04Since fate gave me another chance
00:19:06Then this time, I'll set you free
00:19:11After surviving the nightmare
00:19:12The little Texas town slowly comes back to life
00:19:15Once I'm discharged from the hospital
00:19:16My grandparents take me home
00:19:17Grandpa proudly hands me a limited edition Barbie doll
00:19:20He brought back from New York
00:19:21In my previous life, it was the only toy my mother had ever given me
00:19:24But this time, somehow, it heals me first
00:19:26Then Grandma completely hijacks what was supposed to be an emotional family dinner
00:19:29With giant sizzling Texas steaks
00:19:31Oversized cowboy hats and boots that look straight out of a Hollywood audition
00:19:34And enough chaos to turn the whole night upside down
00:19:37Even Hector, who normally acts way too composed for his age
00:19:40Finally laughs without holding back
00:19:43But beneath the warm yellow glow of the dinner lights
00:19:45The conversation eventually turns to goodbye
00:19:47Hector's mother lifts her wine glass
00:19:49Eyes red and swollen
00:19:50And quietly announces that they're moving back to Boston before Thanksgiving
00:19:53She can't handle the danger near the border anymore
00:19:56And in that moment, a misunderstanding from both my lifetimes finally unravels
00:20:00In my previous life, Hector never left because he looked down on my mother's reputation
00:20:04His mother had simply watched her son nearly die
00:20:07Any parent would have wanted to run from this place after that
00:20:10As an old country song crackles through the radio in the background
00:20:13We start talking about the future
00:20:16Valerie asks where I want to go to school someday
00:20:18I look at her
00:20:19The girl whose entire future was crushed fate in my previous life
00:20:23An answer without hesitation
00:20:24Harvard
00:20:25Under the endless Texas night sky
00:20:27With the Milky Way stretched above her like a dream
00:20:29I finally understand the suffocating pain she carried in her previous life
00:20:32I turn my head slightly and whisper so softly that only I can hear it
00:20:35Mom, this time go live your life
00:20:36Chase your dreams
00:20:37Be yourself again
00:20:38As for me, I'll stay behind in the darkness of this timeline
00:20:41The day Hector leaves
00:20:42The boy who has always been calm and restrained
00:20:44Completely breaks down the moment he steps onto the bus
00:20:47Clinging to the window, he cries so hard he can barely breathe
00:20:50And then the bus slowly pulls away kicking up clouds of Texas dust
00:20:53Before disappearing at the end of the highway
00:20:55Watching the bus vanish into the distance
00:20:57I think life might finally return to normal
00:20:59But fate still isn't done with me yet
00:21:01Something happened to Valerie
00:21:05After seeing Hector off, we head home through the bitter Texas winter wind
00:21:08I cling tightly to Valerie's arm
00:21:10Trying my best to keep the mood light while talking excitedly about Christmas dinner plans
00:21:13Mr. Wyatt's risk it has to be there
00:21:14And Mr. Wyatt's smoked pulled pork too
00:21:16No argument
00:21:16This year we are eating like royalty
00:21:18I'm still rambling happily when Valerie's expression suddenly changes
00:21:20Without warning, she jerks her arm out of my grasp
00:21:23Like a frightened deer, she stumbles towards a trash can on the side of the road
00:21:27Bends over
00:21:27And starts violently throwing up
00:21:29She vomits so hard there's eventually nothing left except bitter dry humps
00:21:33By the end, she can barely stay standing
00:21:35She grips a freezing telephone pole for support
00:21:38Her whole body trembling violently
00:21:39Her face drained completely white
00:21:42My mind goes blank
00:21:43The smile freezes on my face
00:21:45Watching her clutch her stomach and reek in pain
00:21:49A terrifying cold realization crawls slowly up my spine like ice water
00:21:55Those symptoms
00:21:57No, no way
00:22:04You, you're pregnant?
00:22:08Valerie instinctively places a hand over her stomach
00:22:11Her eyes are filled with the kind of panic and confusion
00:22:14No 18-year-old girl should ever have to carry
00:22:17What happened that night may have been stopped halfway through
00:22:20But some nightmares had already rerouted themselves deep in the dark
00:22:25She looks at me helplessly, tears trembling in her eyes
00:22:29I don't know, Scarlett
00:22:31I thought maybe it was just stress lately
00:22:35I haven't had much appetite
00:22:37And I kept feeling nauseous
00:22:39Come on, we're going to the clinic
00:22:41Now
00:22:41I don't even let her finish speaking
00:22:43I grab her hand and practically drag her down the street toward the town's small community clinic
00:22:50The doctor on duty is an elderly Cuban-American woman with silver hair
00:22:54Dr. Ramirez
00:22:55She isn't just the only general practitioner in town
00:22:58She's also one of Grandma Wyatt's oldest friends
00:23:01And her child's alongside her years ago
00:23:03The second Dr. Romero sees Valerie's face
00:23:05And the sheer panic in my eyes
00:23:07Her sharp, battle-worned gaze immediately narrows
00:23:10Wasting another second
00:23:11She starts ushering every remaining patient out of the clinic
00:23:14The entire room falls into suffocating silence
00:23:20Tell me what's going on
00:23:21My scalp precles with dread as I quickly explain Valerie's nausea and vomiting
00:23:25The old doctor says nothing after hearing me out
00:23:29But a deep, piercing sorrow flashes through her eyes
00:23:31She quietly takes Valerie into the examination room in the back
00:23:36The moment the door closes, all the strength drains out of me
00:23:39I collapse into the cold metal chair outside the office
00:23:42Shoving both hands deep into my hair
00:23:44More than anyone else, I know exactly where I came from
00:23:47And because of that, a horrifying truth finally pieces itself together in my mind
00:23:50In my previous life, Austin, the man who raised me after destroying Valerie's life
00:23:54Was actually released from prison early
00:23:56After committing crimes like that, he still got out in less than 20 years
00:23:59Back then, when the case went to court
00:24:01Valerie must have stayed silent
00:24:03Maybe to hide the shame of being pregnant as a teenager
00:24:05Maybe to protect the Wyatt family's reputation
00:24:07Whatever the reason, her silence helped set a monster free
00:24:10The guilt of my own existence tears through me like a dull blade
00:24:13This nightmare destroyed a brilliant girl who was supposed to go to Harvard
00:24:16And the one thing it gave back to the world was a demon
00:24:21Half an hour later, the exam room door slowly creaks open
00:24:24Dr. Ramirez steps outside, looking exhausted
00:24:27She gently pats my shoulder
00:24:31Scarlet, go get Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt for me
00:24:36The moment the truth comes out, the house, which had barely survived one nightmare already
00:24:41Falls into dead silence all over again
00:24:53Grandpa sits heavily on the couch
00:24:56This massive, hard-nosed cop who once stared down cartel gunfires now looks hollowed out
00:25:02Like a man aging ten years in a single night
00:25:07He buries his rough, caliphate hands over his face and says nothing
00:25:14Meanwhile, Grandma holds 18-year-old Valerie tightly in her arms
00:25:18Sobbing so hard she can barely breathe
00:25:22We're packing tonight
00:25:25We'll go straight to Boston and stay with Hector and his mother
00:25:30I won't let that monster's family lay a finger on you ever again
00:25:36Valerie stays curled up in the corner of the bed the entire time
00:25:39Silent as a porcelain doll
00:25:41She doesn't say a word
00:25:43She just keeps staring at me with those shattered, empty eyes
00:25:46But somewhere inside them is still this helpless instinct begging for someone to save her
00:25:51The sight tears me apart inside
00:25:55I lower my head immediately
00:25:58Too ashamed to even look my own mother in the eye
00:26:00And then things somehow get even worse
00:26:04Austin's trashy parents
00:26:06The grandparents I had in my previous life
00:26:08Somehow hear about Valerie's pregnancy
00:26:10Right after the attack
00:26:12Those two cowards vanished completely to avoid being dragged into the police investigation
00:26:15But the second they hear Valerie is carrying Austin's child
00:26:18They swoop in like vultures smelling blood
00:26:20To them, this pregnancy is leverage
00:26:22The perfect weapon to destroy the Wyatt family
00:26:25We've barely made it back home
00:26:27Before the two of them show up outside the house
00:26:29With some sleazy lawyer they hired
00:26:33The smell of cheap cigarettes and stale alcohol
00:26:36Hits before they even step into the yard
00:26:41My former grandfather, Silas Walker
00:26:43Doesn't show even a trace of shame
00:26:46No guilt
00:26:47No apology
00:26:50Just this disgusting smug arrogance
00:26:56Standing in the yard
00:26:57He bellows toward the house like he owns the place
00:26:59Officer Wyatt
00:27:01Don't hide in there
00:27:02My son Austin may be in prison
00:27:04But he still has parental rights
00:27:06That maybe is part of our family
00:27:08And you're not taking our grandchild anywhere
00:27:11The sleazy lawyer beside him adjusts his glasses and smirks coldly
00:27:18If Miss Yight refuses to drop the charges
00:27:20We're fully prepared to drag this through family court for years
00:27:23And trust me
00:27:24Once the media gets involved
00:27:26Everybody in Texas is going to know exactly what happened to your daughter
00:27:32Then Mayabelle Walker, my former grandmother
00:27:35Blows out a stream of cigarette smoke and starts screeching in the house
00:27:40You go testify in federal court
00:27:42And we'll swear Valerie wanted it
00:27:45We'll tell everyone you cops framed our son
00:27:50We'll make damn sure every police department in Texas
00:27:54Knows what kind of girl your daughter really is
00:27:57You think those badges are going to survive this?
00:28:01We'll ruin your whole family!
00:28:07The police had kept the details of that night sealed tightly
00:28:10Nobody in town knew what Valerie had actually suffered in the dark
00:28:14But now, these two shameless monsters are ripping open her deepest traumata in public
00:28:19Just to save their worthless son from federal prison
00:28:21They stand outside with a damn megaphone
00:28:24Turning a survivor's private nightmare into some sick public spectacle
00:28:27About protecting the family bloodline
00:28:29Before long, the whole town knows
00:28:31But they don't actually want the baby
00:28:33That's never been the point
00:28:34What they want is pressure
00:28:38They want to weaponize this conservative little town
00:28:41The gossip, the judgment, the victim blaming
00:28:43Until the Wyatts have nowhere left to run
00:28:46And their terms are crystal clear
00:28:48They want Valerie to change her testimony in federal court
00:28:52They want her to claim Austin was just the driver
00:28:54And knew nothing about the attack
00:28:56In exchange, the walkers will stop harassing the family
00:28:59And leave them alone
00:29:01Hearing the whispers rising outside the fence
00:29:04Seeing neighbors stare with that fake sympathy
00:29:07Hiding disgust underneath
00:29:11Everything suddenly clicks into place inside my head
00:29:15Now I understand exactly how Austin got that early release in my previous life
00:29:20There had been a deal
00:29:22And Valerie had been crushed into accepting it
00:29:24Looking at those two smug bastards standing outside our home acting righteous
00:29:28Every ounce of humiliation from my previous life
00:29:30And every drop of rage from this one finally explodes inside me
00:29:33To hell with staying calm
00:29:35I grab Grandpa's Louisville slugger from behind the front door
00:29:38And storm outside
00:29:38Gripping the bat so hard my knuckles go white
00:29:40By then all I can see is red
00:29:58Right in front of everyone
00:29:59I swing the bat
00:30:00Crack, crack
00:30:01The heavy end of the Louisville slugger smashes straight into Silas and Abian's faces without a shred of hesitation
00:30:06The sound of teeth breaking mixes with their screams as both of them stumble backward
00:30:10Clutching their bloody mouths before collapsing into the dirt
00:30:13Your son is a convicted rapist
00:30:15I point the bat directly at the two of them
00:30:17Shaking with rage
00:30:19Where the hell was all talk about the La La when your psycho son was pointing a gun at federal
00:30:23officers
00:30:24And now you want to come here and black rail cops?
00:30:28Gripping the bat with both hands
00:30:29I swing as hard as I can into the lawyer's sedan parked by the curb
00:30:33The windshield explodes instantly into a spider web of shattered glass
00:30:36Then I whip around towards the neighbors gathering outside the fence
00:30:39All of them whispering and staring
00:30:41What are you all looking at?
00:30:43Anybody else wants to stand here screaming at a victim with these two pieces of trash?
00:30:47I raise the broken bat
00:30:49Splintered wood jouting from the barrel
00:30:51I swear to god the next swing straight goes through your skull
00:30:54Get the hell away from the Wyatt house
00:30:56All of you, move!
00:30:58The hot border wind tears through the street
00:31:00One look at the shattered bat in my hands is enough
00:31:03The neighbors pale instantly and start backing away in fear
00:31:06And then suddenly
00:31:07Silas runges at me with a rusty switchblade in his hand
00:31:10Drop the charges or I'll kill every last one of you!
00:31:16The gunshot detonates through the street like thunder
00:31:18The bullet slices past Silas' ear and blasts apart one of the wooden fence posts behind him
00:31:23Everyone freezes
00:31:24Grandpa Rick stands there gripping a cold knife on the revolver
00:31:28The barrel pressed directly against Silas' forehead
00:31:30His voice is low and deadly
00:31:32Officer Miller's daughter took a knife from my family
00:31:35You touch her again and see what happens
00:31:38The ringing echo from the gunshot leaves everyone stunned
00:31:42Silas drops the knife immediately
00:31:43It clatters onto the dirt beside him as he collapses in terror
00:31:50He's gonna kill us!
00:31:51The cops are trying to murder us!
00:31:54But before she can say another word
00:31:55Another figure comes flying down the porch steps
00:31:58Grandma
00:31:59She moves like lightning
00:32:01Grabbing a fistful of Maybella's brittle yellow hair
00:32:04She yanks her sideways so hard the old woman nearly falls
00:32:07Slap!
00:32:08Grandma backhands her across the face hard enough to send her crashing into the dirt
00:32:12Then plants a boot against her chest
00:32:14Her eyes are pure steel
00:32:16You think you can threaten my daughter's name?
00:32:19I'll go to prison smiling before I let your family destroy her life
00:32:22Now get the hell off my property
00:32:24Before I bury all of you out in the desert myself
00:32:27Rick cocks the revolver once
00:32:29Never taking his eyes off Silas
00:32:31You assaulted my family
00:32:32As a police officer I have every right to arrest you right now
00:32:36Next time you won't walk away this lucky
00:32:38Now get out
00:32:40The sheer violence radiating off the two retired narcotics officers
00:32:44terrifies everyone into Silas
00:32:46The gossiping neighbors scatter immediately
00:32:48Silas and Maybella scramble to their feet
00:32:50and flee down the road like stray dogs
00:32:52But then suddenly
00:32:54Grandpa Rick doubles over coughing violently
00:32:57Fresh blood begins soaking through the white bandages
00:33:00wrapped around his torso
00:33:06Grandpa's stitches tear open again
00:33:08So Grandma rushes him back to the hospital
00:33:09I stay behind to take care of Valerie
00:33:11Standing outside her bedroom door
00:33:12I force myself to breathe through the panic crushing my chest
00:33:14I wipe the tears and blood off my face
00:33:16over and over with my sleeve until my skin burns raw
00:33:18I can't let Valerie see me falling apart
00:33:19Right now I have to be strong for her
00:33:22I shove the bedroom door open and lock it tightly behind me
00:33:24shutting out the chaos outside
00:33:26Then I walk straight towards her bed
00:33:28The second I see her sitting there
00:33:30Pale, hollow, motionless
00:33:33Something inside me finally breaks completely
00:33:37Valerie
00:33:39Let's leave
00:33:40We can start over somewhere else
00:33:42New York, California, anywhere
00:33:44Please
00:33:45Just pack a bag and come with me, okay?
00:33:48I almost sound desperate
00:33:49I grab her shoulders gently
00:33:51Trying to pull strength from the girl
00:33:53Who, in another lifetime
00:33:54Would become my mother 19 years later
00:33:57But Valerie never says a word
00:33:59She just stays curled in the corner of the bed
00:34:02The fading sunset filters through the blinds
00:34:05Strip by strip
00:34:06Dying slowly across her face
00:34:08Then she finally lifts her head
00:34:10And once again she looks at me
00:34:12With those same shattered eyes
00:34:13Empty
00:34:14Helpless
00:34:15But still quietly begging someone to save me
00:34:18Sight crushes my chest
00:34:19For my entire previous life
00:34:21I thought I had been born unwanted
00:34:22But now I finally understand the truth
00:34:24My birth was never love
00:34:25It was a chain
00:34:26A weapon crafted by a monster
00:34:28To trap my mother and destroy her family forever
00:34:30I have never hated myself more than I do right now
00:34:35Valerie
00:34:36Listen to me
00:34:37This baby
00:34:38Before I can finish
00:34:40Valerie suddenly covers my mouth with her hand
00:34:44I look up at her
00:34:46And suddenly the dam inside me
00:34:49Completely breaks
00:34:50Tears pour down my face
00:34:52As I collapse to my knees beside the bed
00:34:54I pull her hand away from my mouth
00:34:56And finally scream out the truth
00:34:59That destroyed me for an entire lifetime
00:35:01This baby
00:35:03Is a stain that monster left on your life
00:35:06You'll hate it forever
00:35:09Every time you look at it
00:35:11You'll remember him
00:35:12You'll wish
00:35:14It had never been born
00:35:16My voice cracks apart completely
00:35:19It's better to end this now
00:35:20Than let that child grow up trapped
00:35:22In pain and misery
00:35:25I can barely breathe through the sobbing
00:35:27No one can calmly beg their own mother
00:35:29To erase them from existence
00:35:31But at that exact moment
00:35:33Valerie
00:35:33Who has been sitting there lifeless and hollow
00:35:35This whole
00:35:36Whole time
00:35:37Suddenly trembles violently
00:35:39It's like something inside her
00:35:40Finally snaps awake
00:35:42She bolts upright from the bed
00:35:44And throws her arms around me
00:35:45Without warning
00:35:46Crushing me against her chest
00:35:47She holds me so tightly
00:35:49Her fingers dig painfully into my back
00:35:51Hot tears spill onto my neck
00:35:53Burning against my skin
00:35:55And then she completely breaks down
00:35:57I never wanted you dead
00:35:59Nora
00:36:02Her voice is raw and shattered from crying
00:36:06Not once
00:36:07Not for a single second
00:36:09Did I ever wish you were dead
00:36:15That single sentence crashes through the room
00:36:18With the weight of two lifetimes behind it
00:36:20Every ounce of pain
00:36:22Resentment
00:36:23Anger
00:36:24And loneliness
00:36:24I carried inside me
00:36:25Shatters instantly into dust
00:36:28Because she called me Nora
00:36:30Not Scarlet
00:36:31Nora
00:36:32In this timeline
00:36:34Nobody knows that name
00:36:36Nobody except my mother
00:36:38From my previous life
00:36:39I freeze in her arms
00:36:40My mind going completely blank
00:36:43She isn't just the 18-year-old Valerie
00:36:45Who knows nothing about the future
00:36:47She remembers too
00:36:49In this broken
00:36:51Twisted timeline
00:36:52And near my find
00:36:54My mother was reborn alongside me
00:36:58I know
00:37:00My entire body shakes
00:37:01As I cling to her shoulder
00:37:03Her shoulder
00:37:04Like a lost child
00:37:07I know
00:37:08I was never supposed to be born
00:37:10You had every reason to hate me
00:37:13Because of that monster
00:37:14Valerie suddenly grabs my face
00:37:16With both hands
00:37:17And forces me to look at her
00:37:18Through her tears
00:37:19How could a mother
00:37:20Ever hate her child
00:37:22After two lifetimes
00:37:23Inside this old Texas house
00:37:25In 1996
00:37:26She finally tears open the truth
00:37:28She buried for decades
00:37:29And through uncontrollable sobbing
00:37:31My mother finally tells me
00:37:33Why she stood beside my hospital bed
00:37:35And watched me die
00:37:36In my previous life
00:37:39The reason I couldn't donate bone marrow
00:37:42Was because I had terminal cancer too
00:37:45I wasn't eligible to donate
00:37:48I wasn't abandoning you, Nora
00:37:50How could I ever abandon my own daughter
00:37:54Outside
00:37:55The winter wind screams
00:37:57Across the Texas borderlands
00:37:59But inside this cold little room
00:38:01A mother and daughter
00:38:02Separated by two lifetimes
00:38:04Finally find each other again
00:38:06In the ruins of everything they lost
00:38:08Valerie clutches me so tightly
00:38:11She's shaking
00:38:12I never gave on you, Nora
00:38:14I begged everyone I could for help
00:38:16I borrowed money from anybody
00:38:18Willing to listen
00:38:19Because I wanted to save you
00:38:20Every word tears out of her throat
00:38:22Like it physically hurts to say it
00:38:24Your bastard father
00:38:25Wouldn't pay a single dime
00:38:27The ICU bills kept piling up
00:38:28Every single day
00:38:29The hospital kept mailing notices
00:38:31Until my bowel box was overflowing
00:38:32In the end I sold every apartment
00:38:34And every piece of property
00:38:36I owned in Boston
00:38:36Just to barely cover your medical bills
00:38:38Then her breathing
00:38:39Completely falls apart
00:38:41And Austin
00:38:42That monster wanted to pull
00:38:43Your ventilator out himself
00:38:44Back at the trailer park
00:38:45He lied to you
00:38:47He actually convinced you
00:38:48That I was the one
00:38:49Who abandoned you
00:38:50She cries so hard
00:38:51She can barely breathe anymore
00:38:52Decades of humiliation
00:38:53And buried motherhood
00:38:54Finally exploding out
00:38:55All at once
00:38:56Back then
00:38:57I left with Hector's mother
00:38:58To work in the city
00:38:58Because I needed money
00:38:59I was trying to build
00:39:00Enough of a life
00:39:01To come back
00:39:02And take you away
00:39:02From that rotting border town
00:39:04But the second I left
00:39:06Austin cut off
00:39:06Every possible way
00:39:07For me to contact you
00:39:08He guarded the trailer park
00:39:09With a gun
00:39:10And wouldn't even let me
00:39:11Get near you
00:39:12The only thing I could do
00:39:16Her voice breaks completely
00:39:19We'll stand outside your school
00:39:20At the beginning of every semester
00:39:22And watch you from across the street
00:39:27I bite down so hard
00:39:29On my lip
00:39:30I taste blood
00:39:31My vision is completely blurred
00:39:34By tears
00:39:34And finally
00:39:37I understand everything
00:39:39Back then
00:39:40She was only 18
00:39:42A girl who had survived
00:39:43Something horrific
00:39:44Whose mind was already
00:39:45Hanging by a thread
00:39:46There was no way
00:39:48She could go back
00:39:48To that monster
00:39:49For her
00:39:50Every step towards
00:39:52That trailer park
00:39:52Was like walking back
00:39:53Into hell itself
00:39:54But fate has always been cruel
00:39:56By the time mom
00:39:57Finally saved enough money
00:39:59And came back
00:39:59To fight for custody of me
00:40:01Austin had already
00:40:02Sensed something was coming
00:40:03He grabbed me
00:40:04In the middle of the night
00:40:05And disappeared
00:40:05And in the 1990s
00:40:07Before cell phones
00:40:08Databases
00:40:09And internet tracking
00:40:11Connected the world
00:40:12We vanished
00:40:12Into countless
00:40:13Forgotten trailer parks
00:40:14Scattered across America
00:40:16She never found us again
00:40:19Valerie cups my face
00:40:20With trembling hands
00:40:25When you turned 18
00:40:26You finally tracked down
00:40:28My private number
00:40:29Her voice cracks apart
00:40:31But by then
00:40:34I'd already been diagnosed
00:40:35With terminal cancer
00:40:38I didn't have much time left
00:40:40Nora
00:40:43Her tears mix with mine
00:40:45As they stream down
00:40:45Our faces together
00:40:46My body was falling apart
00:40:48Day by day
00:40:49I didn't want to drag you
00:40:50Into that
00:40:51I couldn't bear the thought
00:40:52Of you watching me die
00:40:53In a hospital bed
00:40:54Or inheriting all my debt
00:40:56After I was gone
00:40:57That's why I acted cold
00:40:59On the phone
00:40:59That's why I pretended
00:41:01I didn't know you
00:41:02Everything inside my head
00:41:03Goes completely blank
00:41:07The mother I spent
00:41:08My whole life hating
00:41:09Never abandoned me
00:41:11Not once
00:41:12With a body and soul
00:41:14Shattered by a monster
00:41:15She still fought
00:41:16Through the filled
00:41:17And hopelessness
00:41:18Of the 1990s
00:41:19With everything she had left
00:41:20Just to keep loving me
00:41:22We cling to each other
00:41:23In that dark little room
00:41:24And cry until there are
00:41:25No tears left
00:41:27Finally
00:41:27I wipe my face hard
00:41:29And force myself
00:41:30To look straight into her eyes
00:41:32Mom
00:41:33If we've really both
00:41:34Been given another chance
00:41:36Then don't let me
00:41:37Become your chains
00:41:38All over again
00:41:39We can still fix this
00:41:41We'll go to the hospital
00:41:42Without me
00:41:43You can finally live your own life
00:41:44Valerie instantly shakes her head
00:41:46And panic
00:41:47Stop
00:41:47Don't say that
00:41:48I can't do it
00:41:50Nora
00:41:50You are part of me
00:41:52I will never let you go
00:41:55She covers her face
00:41:56Crying uncontrollably
00:41:57And seeing the pain
00:41:59And determination in her eyes
00:42:00I can't force her anymore
00:42:02The sunset over the Texas border
00:42:04Paints the entire sky
00:42:05Blood red
00:42:06Hot wind rolls through the yard
00:42:08Carrying dust and dry heat
00:42:10That makes my chest tighten
00:42:11With unease
00:42:11Grandpa fires up the smoker
00:42:13In the backyard
00:42:14Using a stash of oak wood
00:42:15He's been saving for years
00:42:17Before long
00:42:18The air fills with the smell
00:42:19Of smoked brisket and ribs
00:42:20Grandma and I spend
00:42:21The entire afternoon
00:42:22Preparing dinner
00:42:22Wanting to give mom
00:42:23The girl who suffered so much
00:42:25In this timeline
00:42:25The happiest 18th birthday possible
00:42:27But just as grandma
00:42:28Wipes her hands clean
00:42:29And starts heading inside
00:42:30To call Valerie at a dinner
00:42:39Officer Wyatt
00:42:40We've got a problem
00:42:42Austin escaped
00:42:43During transport
00:42:43To federal prison
00:42:44He killed two federal marshals
00:42:46And stole a shotgun
00:42:47Dispatch intercepted
00:42:48A report ten minutes ago
00:42:49He's heading straight for town
00:42:50In a stolen pickup truck
00:42:51The second I hear Austin's name
00:42:53Rage destinates inside my body
00:42:55Every ounce of blood
00:42:57In my veins
00:42:57Feels like it catches fire
00:42:58He's coming here for revenge
00:43:06That monster ruined my mother
00:43:08Once already
00:43:09Why the hell
00:43:10Should he get another chance
00:43:11To destroy her life
00:43:18While grandpa and grandma
00:43:20Rush back inside in scotch
00:43:21To grab their Remingston shoe dunes
00:43:24I move first
00:43:31Without hesitation
00:43:32I snatch up the heavy cleaver
00:43:34Sitting beside the cutting board
00:43:36In the kitchen
00:43:46I don't even look back
00:43:47At the house
00:43:48Eyes burning red with hatred
00:43:50I run straight into the blood-colored
00:43:52Texas dusk
00:43:53Austin
00:43:54Even if this drags my soul
00:43:55Straight into hell
00:43:56This time
00:43:58I'm going to kill you myself
00:44:03Night falls fast near the border
00:44:06Freezing wind filled with sand
00:44:08Cuts across my face like blades
00:44:12I crouch silently in the shadows
00:44:14Near the edge of the neighborhood
00:44:15My palms slick with sweat
00:44:17Around the handle of the clemver
00:44:20But no matter how long I wait
00:44:23Austin never appears
00:44:24Then around midnight
00:44:25A horrible instinct
00:44:26Suddenly clenches around my heart
00:44:29Valerie should have returned
00:44:30From the clinic hours ago
00:44:32But she still isn't home
00:44:33Headlights suddenly tear
00:44:35Through the darkness
00:44:36Grandpa's old wake-up truck
00:44:37Skids to a stop beside me
00:44:39Scarlet, get in!
00:44:46Grandma and Grandpa both look pale with fear
00:44:48Gripping loaded Remington shoot guns tightly in their hands
00:44:52We immediately start tracking tire marks
00:44:54And crushed brush along the bide side
00:44:59Following every sign we can find
00:45:01The search leads us all the way to the edge of town
00:45:03Then the pickup engine dies
00:45:05Silence
00:45:06Nothing but cold desert wind and darkness
00:45:09In front of us sits an abandoned trailer park that's been empty for years
00:45:12We split up to search for Valerie
00:45:14Let go of me! You're insane! Let me go!
00:45:19Let go of me! You're insane! Let me go!
00:45:23My mind goes blank
00:45:26I know instantly there's no time to turn back for Grandpa
00:45:30So I run toward Valerie's screams alone
00:45:35But somewhere during those few desperate seconds
00:45:38Hearing my mother crying inside that trailer
00:45:42Something strange happens
00:45:45The panic inside my head suddenly disappears
00:45:48Something strange happens
00:45:50The panic inside my head suddenly disappears
00:45:52Completely
00:45:54As I sprint through the freezing dark
00:45:55I grip the heavy meat clever hidden beneath my coat so tightly my hand aches
00:45:59My palm is slipped with sweat
00:46:01But my eyes hold no fear anymore
00:46:03Only calm
00:46:05And certainty
00:46:07In that moment I finally understand why I came back to this world
00:46:10I wasn't reborn to keep living as that monster's unwanted child
00:46:13I crossed 28 years of time for one reason only
00:46:17To set my mother free
00:46:18Even if it cost the life I was never supposed to have in the first place
00:46:23I stare at the battered trailer door glowing faintly under the moonlight
00:46:27And I never slow down for even a second
00:46:30You sick bastard!
00:46:37Without hesitation, I slam my foot into the flimsy aluminum trailer door
00:46:42Using the momentum, I throw myself straight at Austin from behind
00:46:46Under the pale moonlight, I raise the heavy cleaver high over my head
00:46:51And bring it down with every ounce of hatred from both lifetimes behind it
00:46:56Austin lets out an animalistic scream
00:46:59But I underestimated what kind of monster he really is
00:47:06A man who survived years of cartel violence along the border doesn't go down easily
00:47:13The pain only drives me insane
00:47:15But before I can swing again, agony shoots through my arm like the bone is about to snap
00:47:21I'm gonna kill you!
00:47:24The clever is ripped out of my hands instantly
00:47:26Clang!
00:47:28The weapon crashes to the floor as Austin slams me hard against the ground inside the trailer
00:47:35Under the dim moonlight leaking through the broken trailer walls
00:47:39Austin finally sees my face clearly
00:47:44You little bitch again
00:47:47You just keep ruining everything!
00:47:50He roars hysterically and raises the clember over his head
00:47:53Then it comes down
00:47:54Again
00:47:55And again
00:47:57The blade flashes silver through the cramped trailer
00:48:00Each strike tears violently into my stomach and chest without mercy
00:48:09Warm blood immediately floods from my mouth, soaking my clothes
00:48:15But strangely
00:48:18I keep feeling pain anymore
00:48:23My mind is terrifyingly clear
00:48:25Only one thought keeps screaming inside my head
00:48:28Don't let him go
00:48:29Don't let him get to Valerie
00:48:31No!
00:48:32Please!
00:48:33Stop!
00:48:34Let her go!
00:48:38Don't!
00:48:40Please stop!
00:48:49And the second I see him turning toward my mother again
00:48:52Something inside me snaps
00:48:54Using every last ounce of strength from both my lives
00:48:58I throw myself onto him from behind
00:49:00And lock my arms around his body like a steel trap
00:49:12No matter how violently he punches me
00:49:16No matter how many times the blade carves into my flesh
00:49:19I grit my teeth so hard I taste blood and hold on anyway
00:49:24Even as blood pours from my mouth
00:49:26I use my dying body weight to keep him pinned in place
00:49:31You want to hurt her?
00:49:33Then you'll have to cut me into pieces first
00:49:36Then you'll have to cut me into pieces first
00:49:37Then you'll have to cut me into pieces first
00:49:41A deafening shotgun blast erupts through the trailer
00:49:44Austin!
00:49:46Blinding police spotlights flood the darkness as Grandpa storms inside roaring
00:49:51The blast tears straight through Austin's skull
00:49:54The impact stops the monster cold
00:49:56His body jerks violently before collapsing to the floor like dead weight
00:50:02Finally, the demon falls silent
00:50:05And with the last bit of life draining from my body
00:50:07I collapse into the blood beside him
00:50:14Scarlet! Scarlet!
00:50:19Scarlet!
00:50:20Scarlet!
00:50:20Scarlet, wake up
00:50:21Please
00:50:23Mom's begging you, please wake up
00:50:26My mother screams, tear through the freezing Texas night
00:50:31Raw, desperate, sharp enough to rip the sky apart
00:50:34I want to lift my hand
00:50:37Wipe the blood off her face
00:50:38Like I always do
00:50:39Pull her into my arms one last time
00:50:42But my arm feels filled with concrete
00:50:43My body is getting colder by the second
00:50:45And the voices around me sound farther and farther away
00:50:48Like they're trapped beneath deep water
00:50:50The whole world is slowly drifting out of reach
00:50:52I lie there helplessly in the cold, moldy blood pooling across the floor of the abandoned trailer
00:50:56I see Grandpa and Grandma rushing toward me
00:51:00Grandpa's hands
00:51:02The same steady hands that held a gun his entire life without trembling once
00:51:06He presses so hard his knuckles turn white
00:51:09But the blood still keeps pouring through his fingers
00:51:13Grandma collapses beside me
00:51:14Covering her mouth as sobs wreck her body
00:51:19The whole world is slowly drifting out of reach
00:51:23I know then
00:51:24I'm never gonna wake up again
00:51:29That monster who haunts both of my lives
00:51:32Like a curse carved into my bones
00:51:36Austin Walker is finally killed that night by Grandpa's shotgun
00:51:39The blast tears straight through his head
00:51:42His blood, his violence, his evil
00:51:45All of it splatter across the rusted trailer walls
00:51:48And sinks into the mud of the Texas borderlands
00:51:51Justice comes late
00:51:52The law never even gets the chance to put him on death row
00:51:55Fate beats it to the punch
00:51:56Brutal, bloody, and absolute
00:51:59After two lifetimes of suffering
00:52:00The debt is finally paid
00:52:03But the devil's death doesn't bring life back to our family
00:52:06A few days later, an unusual storm rolls across the border
00:52:09Cold rain mixes with sand and dirt
00:52:11Turning the whole town gray, muddy, and bitterly cold
00:52:13As if the sky itself is mourning everything we've lost
00:52:16The Wyatt house falls silent
00:52:17The kitchen that once smells of barbecue and fresh coffee never lights up again
00:52:21Valerie becomes a ghost
00:52:23She barely speaks
00:52:24Barely moves
00:52:26Like someone winds her up once and then forgets to do it again
00:52:29Late one night, after the rain finally stops
00:52:33She stumbles into my room alone
00:52:35Dust has already settled across everything I leave behind
00:52:38With trembling hands, she folds my faded jeans
00:52:41Picks up my unfinished notebooks
00:52:43Smooths out the wrinkles in the blanket on my bed
00:52:46And the moment her fingers touch those cold sheets
00:52:48The ones that will never hold my warmth again
00:52:50Something inside her finally breaks
00:52:52Tears hit the hardwood floor one after another
00:52:55Soft
00:52:56Heavy
00:52:58Nora?
00:52:59Can Mom come find you in heaven?
00:53:04Valerie drops to her knees beside the bed
00:53:06She buries her pale face deep into my old pillow
00:53:10The one I never get around to washing
00:53:13There's still the faint smell of cheap shampoo lingering in the fabric
00:53:16The last trace of her daughter left in this world
00:53:19She clutches the sheets so tightly her fingers cramp
00:53:22Crying like a child who loses everything in the middle of the desert
00:53:28The news of the border shooting reaches Boston overnight
00:53:32Hector and his mother immediately cancel everything
00:53:36And drive back to Texas
00:53:38Neither of them asks questions
00:53:41They simply stay beside my grandparents
00:53:44And help them hold themselves together
00:53:45Long enough to bury me
00:53:49The funeral is held in the little cemetery outside town
00:53:53For once, there is no sandstorm
00:53:56White roses cover my grave
00:53:59Hector stands at the very back of the crowd
00:54:01The boy who once looked so calm and untouchable
00:54:05Now has eyes darkened with grief and rage
00:54:09He stares at the photo on my headstone
00:54:11My 18-year-old smile frozen forever in time
00:54:15And clenches his fists so hard his knuckles turn pale
00:54:21After the funeral
00:54:22The atmosphere inside the Wyatt house feels suffocating
00:54:26Grandpa and Grandma sit silently at the dinner table
00:54:30Exhaustion and grief etched into every line on their faces
00:54:33Hector sits alone on the old bench near the living room window
00:54:37Staring out at the empty Texas highway
00:54:39He struggles with himself for a long time
00:54:41Before finally standing and walking over to Valerie
00:54:43He crouches down in front of her carefully
00:54:46Like he's afraid she might shitter if he moves too fast
00:54:53Valerie, come with us
00:54:55Leave this place behind
00:54:57We can start over somewhere else
00:55:00Okay?
00:55:01His voice is barely above a whisper
00:55:03He doesn't even dare touch her
00:55:05He just looks at her with quiet heartbreak in his eyes
00:55:08Valerie doesn't answer
00:55:09She sits there in the shadows
00:55:11Clutching my faded denim jacket against her chest
00:55:14Like it's the last oxygen left in the world
00:55:18That night
00:55:19After everyone finally falls asleep from sheer exhaustion
00:55:22The old house sinks into silence
00:55:31And Valerie wanders back into my room again
00:55:49She doesn't turn on the lights
00:55:51In a room without me
00:55:52Even the light feels like a mockery
00:56:00She kneels alone on the cold floor
00:56:02Organizing my belongings one piece at a time
00:56:04Under the pale moonlight coming through the window
00:56:15My textbooks full of notes
00:56:20My eraser's worn down to almost nothing
00:56:22Then finally
00:56:25My old backpack
00:56:26The cheap one with frayed edges and fading fabric
00:56:29She pulls it into her arms and buries her face against it
00:56:33Breathing in what little remains of my scent
00:56:40Then her hand brushes against something hidden deep
00:56:43Inside the torn inner lining
00:56:53Paper
00:56:54A folded envelope slips loose and falls softly into her lap
00:56:58On the front is only one word
00:57:02Those are the words I want to say across two lifetimes
00:57:06The words I never managed to say out loud before I die
00:57:17Valerie freezes
00:57:18Her whole body stiffens as her trembling fingers slowly tear the envelope open
00:57:24She's shaking so badly
00:57:26Her fingernail slices the edge of the paper
00:57:28And draws blood
00:57:30But she doesn't even notice
00:57:32Then she sees the first line
00:57:35And the moment she reads the name buried deepest inside her heart
00:57:43Her breathing stops
00:57:51Mom
00:57:53If you're reading this
00:57:55I'm probably already gone
00:58:02Don't cry for me
00:58:06From the first day I came back to this timeline
00:58:10I already make up my mind
00:58:12I'm going to trade my life for your freedom
00:58:18Under the moonlight
00:58:20Valerie's eyes instantly turn red
00:58:22She covers her mouth tightly
00:58:24To stop herself from sobbing out loud
00:58:27And keeps reading
00:58:31During those 28 filthy years in my first life
00:58:35I hated you so much sometimes
00:58:38Living in that moldy trailer park
00:58:40I wonder every day why everyone else has a loving mom except me
00:58:44Why you left me alone in hell
00:58:46But in this life I finally learned the truth
00:58:48My mother loves me more than anyone ever could
00:58:52You burn your whole life away trying to protect me
00:58:55And honestly mom
00:58:56Being loved by you like that is already enough
00:58:59You're brilliant
00:59:01Beautiful
00:59:03Grandpa and grandma love you so much
00:59:06Hector's mom once says you're meant to soar high above the clouds
00:59:09Not rot away in border town dirt because some rapist destroys your life
00:59:14Please let me go mom
00:59:15Don't give birth to me again
00:59:17As long as the name Nora exists
00:59:19Austin Walker's shadow will always haunt you
00:59:21This time don't look back
00:59:23Promise me
00:59:24Go somewhere cleaner
00:59:25Higher
00:59:26Better
00:59:27Go live the life you're supposed to have
00:59:29Be free
00:59:31By the end of the letter
00:59:32Valerie has completely collapsed onto the floor
00:59:34She presses those pages against her chest
00:59:37Like they're the last pieces of my heartbeat left in the world
00:59:39And cries so hard she can barely breathe
00:59:42Curled up beside the bed in the darkness
00:59:44She breaks apart completely
00:59:46And in that winter night of 1996
00:59:50In a world without her daughter
00:59:52My mother lets out the most shattered, guilt-radened, heartbroken sobs of both our lifetimes
01:00:02That night, the Texas winter wind howls so hard it nearly tears the old wooden house apart
01:00:09Valerie clutches my letter against her chest
01:00:12And cries until her voice gives up
01:00:17In that letter, I beg her to let me go
01:00:19Beg her not to look back
01:00:21Beg her to chase her dreams
01:00:23And finally become the free person she deserves to be
01:00:27But staring into my empty room
01:00:29Something reignites in her hollow, lifeless eyes
01:00:35A fire
01:00:37A stubbornness stronger than grief itself
01:00:41Valerie whispers hoskily into the darkness
01:00:45You silly girl
01:00:48How could a mother ever stop loving her child?
01:00:51She can't do what I ask
01:00:55Because she had already told me once before
01:00:59I will never let you go
01:01:03You are part of my body
01:01:05Part of my life
01:01:09A few days later
01:01:11Hector and his mother help my exhausted grandparents
01:01:15Finish arranging everything
01:01:25Then carrying unbearable grief with them
01:01:28The entire family leaves Texas for Boston
01:01:38The day the bus pulls away
01:01:40Kicking up yellow dust behind it
01:01:44Valerie stands by the window
01:01:46And takes a deep breath of cold New England air
01:01:52This time
01:01:53She isn't running as a victim buried under shame
01:01:57This time
01:01:58She's a mother determined to rewrite fate itself
01:02:01And bring her daughter back into the world
01:02:04With every ounce of love
01:02:06She has
01:02:09Time moves quickly beneath Boston's blue skies
01:02:14Valerie throws every ounce of grief and pain into studying
01:02:21Fueled by the determination of two lifetimes
01:02:24She works through endless nights
01:02:26Until she's accepted into Harvard
01:02:29With near perfect scores
01:02:32And Hector
01:02:33The boy who once cries for me at that Texas bus station
01:02:38Finally achieved his own dream too
01:02:42Earning a place at one of the country's top medical schools
01:02:47Textbooks become Valerie's shelter
01:02:49And the child growing inside her
01:02:52The child once used by monsters as blackmail
01:02:55Is finally being nurtured in warmth and love
01:02:59The following autumn
01:03:01Beneath golden maple leaves
01:03:03And the bright lights of a Boston maternity room
01:03:06A baby girl enters the world with a loud, healthy cry
01:03:11Valerie lies exhausted against the hospital bed
01:03:14Tears blurring her vision as she smiles wider than she ever has before
01:03:18With trembling arms
01:03:20She holds the tiny newborn against her chest
01:03:22And kisses her forehead gently
01:03:24Noma
01:03:27Welcome to the world, baby
01:03:28This time
01:03:30There's no moldy trailer park
01:03:31No violence
01:03:32No shadow left behind by monsters
01:03:35Sunlight pours through the hospital windows
01:03:37Onto a warm nursery crib
01:03:39Grandpa and Grandma show up crying
01:03:41And carrying brand new Barbie dolls
01:03:43Hector adjusts his glasses
01:03:45And smiles softly beside her
01:03:47And this version of Nora
01:03:49Is finally born into love
01:03:53After that, life slowly finds its way onto the right path
01:03:57Without the suffering and burdens of the first timeline
01:04:00Valerie and Hector both reach the futures
01:04:03They are always meant to have
01:04:05Hector becomes one of the country's leading surgeons
01:04:08Saving countless lives
01:04:10Valorair becomes a legendary attorney
01:04:13Known across America
01:04:15Dedicating her career to protecting women and children
01:04:18Through civil rights law
01:04:19And the new Nora
01:04:21Grows up in Harvard's golden autumn trees
01:04:24Surrounded by love instead of fear
01:04:26She is bright
01:04:28Confident
01:04:30Happy
01:04:32The cancer that once destroys my body
01:04:36Never appears in herpes
01:04:41As little Nora grows up
01:04:43She watches Valerie and Hector eventually fall in love
01:04:47And build a quiet, beautiful family together
01:04:50Their life isn't glamorous
01:04:52But the love they give her overflows far beyond
01:04:55What most families could ever offer
01:04:57And somewhere inside the golden evening light
01:05:00The version of me that crosses time itself
01:05:03The wandering soul
01:05:05Carried away by the wind
01:05:07Finally smiles
01:05:08At the end of her autobiography
01:05:10My mother writes one final dedication
01:05:14Every achievement and honor in my life
01:05:16Belongs to a girl named Nora
01:05:18My daughter once tears open the darkness with her own life
01:05:22And I spend the rest of mine bringing her back into the light
01:05:25I lean quietly against my mother's knee in that final memory
01:05:29And whisper softly in my heart
01:05:32Mom
01:05:33This time
01:05:35You get everything right
01:05:36And at last
01:05:37Those two wounded souls walk hand in hand
01:05:40Towards the endless stars waiting beyond the clouds
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