Cindy Cowles

If I Could Turn Back Time Cindy Cowles

We all make mistakes, do things we regret. But sometimes, the mistake is so big that the regret chips away at you on a daily basis. What ifs and if onlys circle through your head like a broken record, driving you crazy. You feel as if there's nothing you wouldn't do for just one chance to go back and do things different. What if you did get the opportunity? Would you take it? Hi, my name is Sara. I'm in my fourth year of college and it's midterms week - the week before Winter Break...and two weeks before the fourth anniversary of my big screwup. It's Monday, my Sociology instructor isn't here, and taking his place is a middle aged sub who introduces herself as Beatrice Bomgarten. She's a little odd, but she isn't giving us a test, so it's cool. Instead, she turns on CNN, and a breaking news story - and that's where shit gets weird. Next thing I know, I'm waking up in my old bedroom, back in my senior year of high school...two weeks before I made the choice that impacted the rest of my life. Only, in my head, I'm still a twenty-two year old college student with all my memories intact. I don't know how it happened, but I'm being given a chance for a do-over, an opportunity to turn back time and change the past. God, I hope I don't screw it up.