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Chapter Two: Brian's Invention

I had just slammed the door on that creepy FBI guy when I had realized that I had agreed to meet Brian at his house to check out his new "invention". I trotted over to his house and rang the doorbell. The door opened with a creak. "Hello?", Brian said.

"Hey", I said. "What's up?"

"Uh, invention! C'mon, I'll show you the 'Hover Jacuzzi'!"

"Um…didn't that blow up last time?"

"Yes, but I've perfected it this time!", he said, turning around and heading towards his room. I followed him into his overcrowded room filled with inventions, pieces of paper, and was that a slice of pizza? I surveyed the room for his "Hover Jacuzzi", but found nothing.

"Hey, um, where's the Jacuzzi?"

"The Jacuzzi is right in front of you!", Brian said with a confident smile on his face. I look down. Right in front of me was a small, reddish square about the size of my fist. Brian saw that I had found it and picked it up.

"It's a square", I said, a little disappointed.

"Yeah, but wait until you see it when it hits water!"

He started heading for the bathroom, so I decided to follow him. He placed the reddish square in the sink and turn the water. Instantly, the reddish square started to grow in size. Now it was almost as big as my head! I stepped back in astonishment.

"Brian!", I said with a little quiver in my voice. "What the heck's going on?"

He turned to me and smiled. "Sean, I give you the 'Hover Jacuzzi'!" The reddish block had now turned into a Jacuzzi and took up half the bathroom.

"Brian!", I yelled. "I works!"

"Yeah!", he called back. "I-BOOM!

Brian and I were launched back into the bathtub. The sink exploded, and the explosion had made the water rocket up to make a hole in the ceiling. Suddenly, there was a fire. It instantly made a ring around the bathtub. What luck we were having. BOOM!

Another explosion. This time I heard fire trucks in the distance. BOOM! I hit my head on the bathtub and blacked out.

***

The next thing I knew, I was in a hospital sitting in a bed across from Brian, who apparently didn't get hurt.

"Hey", Brian said, walking over to my bed. "You OK?"

I smiled. After all that, he still had the guts to talk to me? Typical Brian. "Yeah", I said.

"OK", Brian said. "I won't ask you to come over anymore to see inventions until I'm sure they're explosion-free."

"That sounds good", I said with a little laugh.

"Fell better", he said, and then walked out of the room. Right after he had left the room, a man with a shiny badge came up to me. An FBI agent.

"It's time for another interview", he said, and then left the room.

All I said was: groan