Normal POV

Tracy walks in the juice bar and sees Enrique sitting at the bar. He turns to his left and waves. She waves back, goes over to him and sits down next to him. They sit in silence for a few minutes. Tracy's long sigh breaks the awkwardness of the situation.

"Will you go out with me, or not?" Enrique asks.

"I'm sorry Enrique, but we can't be a couple," Tracy answers.

"Why can't we be a couple?" Enrique asks.

"Because I'm not going to be here very long. I hate saying goodbye to good friends. I don't want to hurt you. I hope that we still could be friends." Tracy says.

Enrique thinks about it for a minute. He nods and picks up his guitar.

"Why did you bring your guitar?" Tracy asks.

"I was thinking that I can get a sneak peek of your song for Spanish class." He answers.

"I guess I can play it. Promise that you'll keep it a secret from the other kids." Tracy says.

Enrique nods. Tracy smiles as he hands her the guitar. She puts it over her shoulder, tunes it, turns around and starts to strum the first few chords of 'Small but Strong'. She starts singing the Spanish lyrics a few seconds later.

Aw man changing the lyrics affected it more than I thought. Tracy thinks.

She stops singing the first chorus.

"You have a beautiful angelic voice," Enrique says.

"Thanks," She sighs sadly.

"What's wrong?" Enrique asks.

"It took me two days to write the song the first time. I'm never going to have it ready to sing in class on Wednesday." Tracy answers.

Enrique offers to help her rewrite the song. Tracy knows that she needs help with it so she takes him up on his offer.

"We should head to my place," He says.

"Why should we go there anyway?" Tracy asks.

"It's a lot quieter than here so we'll be able to focus better. My mom makes a mean milkshake too." Enrique answers.

They leave after Tracy's hands Enrique back his guitar. Meanwhile at the local library, Mike walks inside and goes over to the section where all the books are that he needs to help him with the project. He walks over to an empty table, sets the small stack of books down, he sits down, takes a notebook out of his backpack and gets to work. Twenty minutes later Olive sneaks up and taps him on the shoulder. He turns around to see her standing behind him.

"Hey Mike, how is your research coming?" Olive asks.

"Good, what about you?" Mike answers.

"Not good. I keep finding the same information that we found in school today." Olive says slowly.

Mike can tell by how long it took Olive to answer his question that she is lying. "I'm not going to give you any of the information that I just found."

Olive starts flirting with him in the hopes that it will get him to tell her what she wanted to know. She walks her fingers up his arm. Mike moves his arm away quickly.

Man, when will she get it I don't like her that way. Mike thinks.

On the other side of the city, Tracy and Enrique walk up the steps to Enrique's house and he open the door for her. Tracy walks in first and he closes the door behind him. They walk to the kitchen.

Enrique's POV

"Hi Enrique, how was school today?" Mom asks.

"Fine, mom, this is Tracy."I answer.

Mom introduces herself to Tracy. I know that Tracy is incredibly nervous when she starts speaking Spanish to my mom.

"Well, we need to get to work on the song she has to sing for Spanish class. We'll be in the living room." I say.

Mom nods. We leave, walk to the living room and sit down on the couch.

"What happened back there? I'm sure that Mr. Quintero would be impressed by how well you pronounced and spoke those words correctly." I say.

"Sorry about putting you in that awkward situation. I've never been over to a friend's house from school before." She answers.

"Really," I exclaim.

"Yeah, all my friends from my old school never invited me to hang out after school or anything along that line. They were able to make the softball team or were on student council. " She continues.

"They missed out on getting to know a really amazing person." I tell her.

"Thanks, do you think that your mom likes me?" She asks.

"I know she does. How about we get to work?" I answer.

Tracy nods. She takes the song and a blank piece of sheet music out of her bag. She spreads everything out on the coffee table so both of us can see it. We get started and I notice the song starts out with an "A" cord and has a typical country song tempo to it. I write a new introduction to the song and it goes B Ab C# F B E.

"I guess that could work." Tracy says.

Reefside 2004

Normal POV

The team is in the lab. Hayley is typing frantically at the computer. Conner walks up a few minutes later. She can feel him breathing down her neck. This was starting to annoy her a lot.

"Conner, you know I'll get this down much faster is you stop doing that." Hayley says.

"Sorry, Hayley, but have you found anything yet?" Conner asks.

"Nothing yet, I promise that I'll tell everyone once I do find something. Please go back and wait with that others so I can work." Hayley says politely.

Conner walks back over to the others.

"I'm amazed that Tracy and Mike's parents haven't called the police by now, considering that they've been gone at least 24 hours." Trent says.

"Their parents are probably using this situation as a test to see how well they can handle being on their own considering that they're going to go away to college soon." Dr. Oliver says

"Why is Mesogog so obsessed with Tracy's gem? I mean it's like our gems aren't important anymore." Conner says.

"We're all confused by that dude." Trent reminds him.

"Tracy's gem must be really special in some way otherwise he wouldn't be so obsessed about getting it back." Ethan adds.

"We'll figure out why Mesogog is so obsessed about Tracy's gem after we bring Tracy and Mike back home." Dr. Oliver says.

They sit down in their chairs and wait for Hayley to finish her work. Another twenty minutes pass, she turns away from the computer screen.

"I have good news, guys. I figured out how Mesogog made that machine." Hayley says.

"Great work Hayley," Dr. Oliver says.

"Does that mean you can make another one just like the one Elsa used?" Trent asks.

"Yes, there is no telling if it can open up a portal to where Mesogog's portal took Tracy and Mike to." Hayley answers.

"That's a risk we're just going to take to bring them back." Dr. Oliver says.

"It may take some time to make though, so I'll get right to work." Hayley says

Angel Grove 1994

Tracy and Enrique finished the song in three hours. Tracy thanks him for all his help as she puts everything back inside her book bag. She puts her bag on her 's mom walks in a few seconds later.

"Enrique, I'm about to start making dinner. Tracy you're welcome to stay." Enrique's mom says.

"We're having Mango-Chicken Quesadillas." Enrique Says.

"That sound nice, but I don't want to intrude. Thanks for the offer Mrs. Cruz." Tracy says.

Tracy leaves Enrique's house and heads to the juice bar. Mike walks inside a few minutes later and sees Tracy sitting by herself. He goes over to her.

""Hey angel, you know a pretty girl like you shouldn't be sitting alone." Mike says.

"Thanks sweetie, so how was the rest of your day?" Tracy asks.

"How about I tell you while we take a short walk down the beach and maybe watch the sun set." Mike answers.

Tracy nods. Ten minutes later they head to the beach . Mike fills Tracy in on his library troubles. Tracy ignores the Olive flirting bits. She is happy that they finally got some alone time. After they finish their walk they sit down on the beach and watch the sun set.

"Mike, I really hope that Alpha can figure out how to send us back. I really hope that Mesogog hasn't destroyed Reefside while we're gone." Tracy says.

"Remember, our friends and Dr. Oliver will fight as hard as they can to protect the city till we get back." Mike says.

Mike kisses her on the cheek. A few seconds later the sun slips below the horizon .