Chapter 1
*Barry's POV*
"Ronaldo, can you please hand me that Potassium Iodide?" I asked.
"What is it you're doing, Barry?" he asked, in reply, handing me the chemical.
"I'm experimenting to figure out what chemicals were used when Shelby and Cyd gained the power to time travel," I explained. "I'm trying to create a compound that has an identical atomic structure to the taceon particles left behind after Cyd and Shelby time leap."
"Have you figured anything out yet?" he asked.
"Not other than the fact that the taceon particles are soluble in a component of our atmosphere, that's how they disappear after Cyd and Shelby leap,"I explained.
"Have you figured out what the component is yet?" Ronaldo asked.
"Not, yet," I told him. "That's why I need to figure out what the taceon particles are made of. I need to be able to artificially create more of them to experiment on. If I experiment on the ones I have, they will dissolve and I won't be able to figure out what they are dissolving into."
"Oh," Ronaldo replied, although I know he didn't understand a word I just said.
*Cyd's POV*
This morning, I actually woke up before Shelby! That was a complete role-reversal! I got up, looking at the clock, 11:30. It was Saturday, so school wasn't an issue. I decided to wake up Shelby to get revenge for all the times she's violently woken me up.
I sat on her bed, looking at her while she slept. I watched her for a while before waking her up, I realized she looked really beautiful sleeping. Her lips were perfect, it made me want to kiss her. That's when I realized I liked Shelby. That one moment when I was watching her sleep. It didn't surprise me much, though. It was like one of those things you seem like you've known your whole life but don't really realize it until that one moment in time.
"Oh, Shelby, why do you have to be so perfect?" I said to myself, aloud. My voice woke Shelby up, but only barely.
"What did you say, Cyd?" she asked, still half asleep. I knew she actually had no idea what I said.
"I said, wake up!" I exclaimed, jumping up and down on her bed, trying to swallow the feelings that I'd just discovered.
*Shelby's POV*
I see what Cyd did there. She woke me up because of all the times I've woken her up for school. Good move, Cyd, good move.
After we got dressed and got breakfast, Cyd and I went out to the backyard, where Barry and Naldo already were, in Barry's 'lab'.
"Hey, guys," I said.
"Hi!" Naldo replied, enthusiastically, waving.
"Hello, girls," Barry said, obviously very focused on whatever he was doing.
"What're you guys doing?" Cyd asked.
"Trying to figure out the atomic structure of a taceon particle," Barry said, bringing some chemicals over to the table where he does his experiments. Cyd threw her head back, eyes closed and pretended to snore. I elbowed her in the arm. She stopped, lifting her head back up and opening her eyes.
"It's so he can figure out how you guys time travel!" Naldo exclaimed.
"Cool," I said, going over to the table.
"What if you mix these!" Cyd exclaimed, pouring one of Barry's chemicals into another.
"No, Cyd! Don't! Those are highly-" Barry shouted. But it was too late, there was a cloud of gas and I heard glass breaking. "Reactive," Barry finished. "Don't worry, it's not toxic to humans." He said that right before I felt liquid from one of the broken beakers leak into my shoe, through my sock and touched my foot. It felt like it was pentrating my skin, but it didn't hurt, then I fell, and blacked out. But right before I did, I heard Barry say, "She's going into some sort of trance!"
