May 4, 1984
Jonah Weinstein, wearing his sweater vest, white shirt, and slacks continues his lecture, telling his junior high students to turn the pages on their textbooks. Among the students in the class is Sam Beckett, appearing as 13-year-old Joey Schultz, and Al Calavicci, who can only be seen by Sam.
Sam is focused. Even grief over Gooshie's recent death is buried.
He knows that in about ten minutes, Jimmy will stab him- Joey- to death, over the manipulations of a sexually predatory teacher.
The leaper does his best to appear that he is paying attention to Mr. Weinstein. He has to be in that hallway so that Jimmy can confront him.
The observer is also worried. He had just lost Gooshie; he does not want to lose Sam as well.
The bell rings.
"We will see you Sunday," says Weinstein. "Remember to take time to go over our material over the weekend."
Most of the students are going through the door to get to their next class. Sam glances at Al.
He walks outside to the hallway, the hallway where Al had told him Joey Schultz would be stabbed.
"It should be about this time," says the observer.
The leaper glances and in the distance he recognizes Jimmy La Palma.
"Sam, look out!" yells Al.
Sam looks and sees Jimmy's fist approaching him. He makes a quick sidestep. The 13-year-old boy takes another swing at the leaper, who once again dodges and Jimmy;'s momentum causes him to make contact with the locker.
About a dozen boys and girls already gather around Sam and Jimmy.
Sam notices that Jimmy's hands are empty.
"Are you going to kill me?" asks Sam, loudly.
"What?" asks the boy.
"Are you going to kill me? Because if you intend to kill me, say so in front of everyone. Right here, right now."
The boys and girls in the hallway all look at Jimmy and the leaper who appears to them as a 13-year-old boy.
"Sam," says Al.
Jimmy takes a deep breath.
"No," he says.
"This is about Miss Brown, isn't it? You can tell me. I'm your friend. I stayed over at your place after your mom died."
"Yes."
"What she has been doing to us is wrong," says the leaper. "We're only thirteen. We're vulnerable, and our teacher, Katie Brown, exploited us."
"She told me you are her man. She told me she doesn't need me anymore. She said she was with you."
"It's not a real relationship. We're only thirteen. She's an abuser." He looks around at the junior high students who have gathered. "I, Joey Schultz, have had sex with the teacher, Katie Brown," continues Sam.
Jimmy looks around. He had been mad at Joey, madder than he had ever been, ever since Miss Brown told him it was over. Now he is confronted by these words.
"Me too," he says.
"Excuse me," says a female voice.
Sam, Al, and Jimmy notices Miss Brown walking in the hallway, wearing a skirt and blouse and coat.
"We can go to the principal's office," says the teacher. "I'll intercede for you, make sure you can continue to go to school here even with these lies you've told."
"I have pictures," says Jimmy. "She gave me naked pictures of herself."
"This is a criminal matter," says Mr. Weinstein. "I will notify the police."
"How could you do this?" asks Miss Brown. "I did you boys a favor. You wanted your first time to be with some flat-chested girl with braces? We all know you're popular with the boys for being with me. I made you into men!"
"That's enough, Brown," says a female voice. "You're fired."
Sam, Al, and Jimmy notice a five-foot tall, black haired woman wearing a gray coat, gray skirt, and white blouse.
"I can explain," says Miss Brown.
"All I want is for you to clean out your classroom, pick up your check, and get out of my school," says the woman. "And I advise saving the money from your final check, as you will need it for an attorney."
The observer presses buttons on the handlink "It's done, Sam," he says. "Katie Brown spends seven years in federal prison for transporting minors across state lines for immoral purposes. In my time, her last know address was a tiny bungalow in Silver Springs in '98. Jonah Weinstein never goes to prison; he's still a teacher here in my time. Jimmy never goes to prison either. As a matter of fact, his dad remarries and Jimmy has a stepsister, and a nephew and a niece in my time. And he is married and has kids of his own."
"And Joey?"
"Joey is..in jail?" Al presses buttons on the handlink. "Well, he did serve three months in the Douglas County Jail in 1990, but he hasn't been in trouble with the law since and is making an honest, comfortable living in my time. The important thing is that his future is his, now."
Mr. Weinstein looks at Sam and Jimmy.
"You boys okay?" asks the teacher.
"We will be," answers Jimmy, softly.
"So she is not a teacher?" asks a girl with blond hair tied in braids.
"That is right," replies the black-haired woman.
"Hey!" the girl yells at Katie Brown, "you're a creepy filthy pervert and I hope you lick carpet in jail!"
All the students in the hallway laugh, including Sam, as the latter is surrounded by a blue glow and he leaps out of Joey Schultz's life.
