With groan, Natalie reached over to her bedside table to grab her phone. Maddy, sitting on her bed across the room, looked over at her twin.
"Is that her?" She said, frustration straining her voice.
"No," Natalie shook her head, "Just looks like some app finished updating or something..." She trailed off as she found the gray icon on her homepage.
The twins were both in their senior year of High School and were in the beginning stages of applying for colleges. Natalie was debating going after a Marketing or Public Relations degree whereas Maddy was thinking of following her mother and trying to become an English professor or something in the Humanities. Natalie had several band and movie posters covering her walls, a lot of hunky looking guys and some more intense rock bands. Maddy's opposite walls had a lot of Doctor Who and literature posters decorating her space in a much more minimal fashion. Their floor was positively covered with discarded clothes and bags with some shoes strewn between.
They were both very tall and blonde, like their father, but also skinny as rails. A frustration they had often vented to each other about was their lack of breasts and being unable to find a boy they could go to the Prom with in heels. A facet of their lives had been that Natalie was born ten minutes before Maddy and therefore was the oldest. As a result, she had always felt that she was in charge, a leader of sorts, and would be somewhat domineering in conversation, especially with her siblings. In recent years this had become somewhat more difficult for Natalie on a psychological level as, despite them being identical twins, Maddy was now about half an inch taller than Natalie.
Natalie lay on her bed in a tight white tank top and a loose pair of exercise shorts. She examined the gray box on her home screen before pressing it experimentally.
"I just hate when she gets like this. Like holy shit, I'm not going to let you leave before Mom gets home. Text her yourself, Jesus..." Maddy trailed off as she saw Natalie staring intently at her screen. Maddy shook her head and went back to reading her book.
The gray screen shone blankly on Natalie's face, the lone words "Enter Your Command" and a blinking cursor seeming to beckon her to write something onto the page.
Natalie looked briefly at Maddy, debating on asking for her advice, before turning back to the page.
What sort of command does it want? She wondered as the cursor continued to blink.
Deciding to try with a question, she typed out What sort of commands could I write?
Her phone froze for a moment. The screen winked in and out twice before, with a small vibration, her phone received a message from an unknown number.
“Greetings! If you're reading this then you’ve received my COMMAND App! It’s a simple program, designed to run on any phone in existence. I’ve sent it randomly to someone to test out it’s capabilities, so congratulations! With this program you may enter any command you wish and it will come true. As simple as that. Please do try to keep in mind, the program will utilize the fabric of the universe to enable changes, so unless you want all of history to change too, make sure you state your intentions clearly. Anyway, you can probably figure out the rest yourself. Happy commanding!
-W”
Natalie blinked. This was a joke right. There's no way a stupid text box on her phone could change reality. Nope.
Going back to the app, she decided to type in something stupid to prove it to herself that it was wrong.
School is canceled tomorrow because someone decided to clog a toilet on the third floor and now the whole building is flooded.
Her phone buzzed as if in confirmation and Natalie giggled at the pretend authenticity of this 'Reality-Bending App'.
"Holy shit sis." Maddy sat up with a start.
"Whats up?" Natalie asked, turning her head to look at her sister. Maddy's eyes were glued to her phone.
"Someone clogged a toilet in the Math wing and flooded the whole building! They just had to cancel class tomorrow, oh my god," she leapt from her bed and ran out the door. "MOM! MOM! SCHOOL'S CANCELED!"
Natalie sat up slowly, her head still at an angle in disbelief. She pulled up her phone and googled her school's name and, sure enough, the local news had taken pictures of the school. Water streaming out of the doors and onto the street from the amount of water pouring out. Natalie mouthed a silent 'No way' as she heard Heidi run out of her room to see what the commotion was about and Maddy loudly proclaiming the news to their mother downstairs.
Natalie popped open the gray app again. Staring at the cursor and the command that had become true before it, she began to let her mind wander with what else she could do with this power...
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