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A/N: Okay…there goes the whole "I'll update in a week plan". lol. I've been extremely busy.

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Another Tale of Time City

Chapter 4

Clumsy Sleepyheads and Slowpokes

Now back to Vivian

(Same day Alannari left just in the morning)

            Vivian yawned and sat up, throwing off her covers and bouncing out of bed. As she slipped into a new pajama suit (A/N: What are these things really called?) the events of last night suddenly came back to her. Falling back onto her bed, Vivian sighed. How awful for that poor girl who had to go into history. Vivian herself couldn't stand history. The open spaces and endless sky frightened her as well as most of the people in Time City. Slowly her bedroom door opened a crack and her brother, Elio's head peeked in.

            "Vivian, are you ready yet? It's almost time to go to D. Rednalliw's lesson!" Elio said, "Oh good, you're up! Come on! Do you want to be late again?"

            "Oh no!" Vivian cried, "Is it that late already? But I haven't had a chance to memorize that paper yet!"

            "Yes it is you sleepyhead!" Elio told her, for an 11 year old he certainly was a know-it-all, "And you had better read that paper on the way! Why didn't you do it last night?"

            "I was busy!" Vivian answered.

            Elio's head disappeared from the doorway and Vivian made a frantic search for the paper that she had so foolishly neglected to read. As soon as she had found it she tore out of her room, downstairs, and right into her mother.

            "Oh no! Sorry mother!" Vivian said, staring down at her mother who had fallen over.

            "Vivian, your lunch!" Her mother groaned, handing Vivian a paper sack.

            "Thanks mother!" Vivian said and ran out the door. She was already out of breath by the time she had caught up with Elio.

            "Sleepyheads are Slowpokes too!" Elio teased.

            "Oh shut up Elio!" Vivian retorted.

            As she walked with Elio, Vivian tried desperately to learn the paper. She was so lost in reading it that she didn't notice the rather large crack in Faber John's stone until she tripped over it.

            "Looks like Sleepyheads are not only Slowpokes but really clumsy too!" Elio said laughing.

            Vivian glared at her brother. Little brothers could be so annoying. As she gathered up her books and the paper that had distracted her she noticed the crack.

            "Elio!" she exclaimed, "Faber John's stone has a crack in it!"

            "So? It and all the other rocks around here, sis!"

            "Elio!" Vivian said, annoyed, "Can't you be serious for even a minute?"

            "But I am being…"

            "Elio!" Vivian cried, glaring at him.

            "Oh all right sis, what is it?"

            "Don't you realize that the last time Faber John's stone had a crack in it was when Time City was on the verge of collapsing?"

            Elio rolled his eyes, "And your point is?"

            "This could be a sign…a sign that…"

            "That you've been reading way too many adventure novels!"

            "No!" Vivian said, "That something…something bad could happen. And soon!"

            "Yeah, sure, whatever."

            "Elio, I'm serious!"

            "And so am I!" Elio said and ran off.

            "ELIO!" Vivian yelled after him, exasperated. Couldn't he see that this could be very important? And yet, a little voice in the back of her head told Vivian that Elio very well could be right. Perhaps she had just wanted a little bit of adventure to happen right here in Time City.