IT WAS CHRISTMAS DAY IN 1961 WHEN A BLUE, PULSING PORTAL OPENED UP OVER THE ALLEY OF COMMERCE AND KNOX.

The portal spat out twelve-year-old Elliana Bennett Hargreeves into the alleyway. She took a tumble and landed on a large trash bin before falling straight on her face onto the concrete.

"Ow!" she flipped onto her back and sat up, holding her probably now bruised head. "Gosh, that hurt!" she looked at her surroundings and noticed she wasn't in the auditorium anymore. "Guys. Where are we?" she turned her head behind her to not see anyone.

Her attention was then taking when she heard a loud noise and looked up to see a blue anomaly in the sky. It looked familiar, like the one Five came out of eight days prior. "Five!" Elli waved her hands about her head. "Diego! Klaus!"

The portal closed with a loud zapping sound and she was all alone. She turned around to the alley way entrance and poked her head out, looking side to side. As she began to walk out, she noticed many differences.

Why did people dress this way? What type of car is that? Everything is so different?

"This is so weird. Isn't it, Mace?" Elli asked him. It took a few seconds to notice that she never got an answer. "Mace?" she looked behind her and didn't see Mace tagging along. "Mace, this isn't funny! I could really use your help right now," she spoke aloud to the air as people looked at her weird.

Shaking her head, she moved towards a convenience store. Pulling the door open, she walked up to the cash register. "Excuse me," she spoke to the bald headed man. "Do you know where I am right n—"

"Your kind isn't allowed in here," he spoke with anger as he began to sit up straight.

Elli scrunched her eyebrows. "What are you talking about? Am I too young to be here?"

The man at the cash register chuckled. Elli looked at his name tag and read 'Joe' with a small smiley face sticker near it. "Your kind isn't allowed in here. Can you not hear? Or read?" he pointed to the sign that was above the door.

Whites Only

Elli scoffed as she turned around to Joe. "That's barbaric. How dare you," she hissed. Joe got up from his seat and did a quick wolf whistle. Footsteps came out of the back room and went towards the calling voice.

"Alan. Mason. Show this young lady out. And make sure she doesn't ever come back," Joe smirked and the two boys started to move towards Elli.

Elli began to back up, then sprinted out the door. The boys chased after her quickly. Calling out names and rude callings as she turned corner to corner. She would've turned invisible, but if she did that they would've seen.

She ran along long streets and side walks, looking back frequently to see where the two boys were. Only one was in her point of view which was the one in the brown-ish waved hair. It looked as if he had a mullet and was wearing very country clothes.

She turned a corner and looked to the right to see a store sign that read Bonnie's Flower Shop.

"Come here!" she hears the boy yell as he neared the corner. Elli ran towards the door and swung it open, running to the first person she saw there.

"Help me! Help me, please!" Elli begged the white haired lady that stood before her.

The woman grabbed her cheeks and looked down at her about to say something but the door slammed open. The woman pulled Elli behind her and grabbed a garden tool that sat near the stand of flowers that she owned.

"Stop hiding, little girl," one teased as Elli pushed her face into the woman's back. "We just wanna have a little fun!"

"Get out of my store! Now!" the woman yelled.

"Oh hush, lady. Give us the girl," the one with blond hair started to step towards the lady, pulling on Elli's arm.

This alerted someone in the back who came out with a bat in hand. "Do we have a problem here?" the other woman asked as she stepped up to the two boys.

The boys eyes widened as they shook their heads and the blondie stepped back. "No, Ms. Preston. No problems here," the boys squeaked.

"Good. Best be on your way then, am I right? And that's Mrs. Preston to you." the boys nodded and began to exit the flower shop. Right as the door closed, Mrs. Preston went up and locked the door, dropped her bat to the side.

"Oh, lord," she breathed out. "Are you alright, sweetheart?" she moved to Elli who hid behind the white haired woman's back, but then Elli backed up against a flower pot as Mrs. Preston moved closer to her.

"No, no, no, it's okay. We're not going to hurt you. I'm Marilyn. This is my wife, Bonnie," she motioned to the snow haired woman who gave a small wave.

"Hey there, sweet cakes," Bonnie spoke. She had a very heavy New Jersey accent while Marilyn had a heavy country accent.

"Wife?" Elli confusion. "You guys are married?" They both nodded. "Aw. That's so adorable!"

The two women gave confused looks. "You don't think it's wrong?"

Elli shook her head. "No. Why would I? I thought all gay people were accepted."

"Honey, not in the sixties," Bonnie shook her head

"The sixties? What are you talking about?"

Marilyn gave her a look. "Baby, the date is December twenty-fifth of nineteen sixty-one. Yes, it's the sixties. Did you hit your head?"

"What?!" Elli shouted causing Marilyn to jump into Bonnie. "What the—"