Prologue

PROLOGUE

GEMMA

There are an infinite number of choices we can make, paths we can follow. Each choice leads us down a path, and each one comes with consequences; some good, some bad. I know this for a fact. I’ve seen paths of futures—went through them—and those paths created massively bad consequences. My dad tried to warn me countless times that if I kept messing around with visions, I’d cause problems. And now, here I am, at the end of it, the world collapsing around me.

And I’m left with a choice: reset time and try to start over with the hope that it’ll be better, or let everything crumble around me.

The thing is, there’s no real choice. This world I’m in is falling apart. However, I know resetting time will catch up with all of us wherever we land. But I have to do it—I know I do. I just hope that, in the end, everything will be okay. That Aislin, Laylen, Alex, and Evan—everyone I know—will be okay.

It’s the hardest choice I’ve ever had to make, and I worry that wherever we’re heading, we might not be the same, that that will be the consequence. I also worry that the choice will catch up with me in some way.

It’s inevitable, really.

But again, it’s either die in this life or throw us all into a new one and hope for the best.

So, I do it. I reset time.

And as everything begins to fade away, I can feel myself going with it. I try to latch onto every memory that I can, every feeling that I have, every good moment. In the end, though, all I see are a few pieces of stars floating in the darkness, whispering to me that nothing in this new life will be the same, except for the stars continuing to haunt me.