You live in a world of sleepy warmth. It is a good place, a happy place. But you know that your little world is doomed. Every morning, at about this time-
"Time to wake up!"
The light in your room turns on. You groan. Your idiot brother yells, runs over to your bed and yanks off your covers. He waits about 3 seconds for you to get up, then (just like every morning) leaps up into the air with his right elbow lowered. Every day from up till now he has landed elbow first right in the middle of your stomach (or back, if you slept chest-down). Today, things turned out a little differently. You wait for the familiar impact. You wait some more. Finally, you open your eyes to see what went wrong.
Your little brother is floating above you! You quickly roll out of bed, and examine this strange situation further. There he is, just hanging in mid-air. He has his elbow lowered, and his legs back - perfect elbow-drop form. The only problem is that he is falling very slowly. VERY slowly. You look around, confused. You wave your hand above him, feeling for strings or something. Nothing.
You walk into the kitchen to get your mom's opinion on this. What?! Your mom is standing at the stove, holding her spatula up. A pancake is suspended about 3 feet above the spatula. As you watch, it slowly spins and descends back towards the stove.
You walk back into your room to think about this. You see that your brother is now about half a foot above your bed, and is still slowly descending towards it. You concentrate, and suddenly he falls to the bed at normal speed.
KER-WUMP!
Your brother lands on the bed. He lays there for a moment, then sits up and looks at you with a confused look on his face.
"How did you move so fast?"
"Didn't you know, twerp? I've been training to be a ninja!" you smile and reply.
He looks at you for a second, then shakes his head and walks into the kitchen. You follow him.
You eat breakfast and get ready for school. On the way, you decide to experiment a little. You find out how to control your new power. You can slow down time a little, or you can slow it down a lot. You try to speed time up, but it doesn't work.
You get to school plenty early (by slowing down time, you turned a 15 minute walk into a 2 minute one). You are still thinking about all this when you bump into someone in the hallway. Oops. Guess you should have paid more attention where you were going.
"Hey, dweeb! You trying to start something?!"
Groan. It's Bruno. He's a bully and a jerk. About once a week, he finds some reason to beat you up. You just gave him one for this week.
You try to apologize, but Bruno's not listening. He pulls back his fist to hit you.
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