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Back at the house I thought about what to do with the pod. I couldn't activate it, of course, it could be something that would end the world for all I know. And I couldn't just walk up to Lilo's house and say "Excuse me, I believe this belongs to you." Yeah, that would be just a little freaky for Lilo, I think.
After thinking some more I decided to just take it to school and set it on her desk in the morning. She would see it and take it home with all the other inactivated experiments. More importantly, she wouldn't know it was me who found it. My mind made up, I took the pod up to my room. I set it down on my dresser so I wouldn't forget it in the morning. Unknown to me, the sister of Doom was still awake (more commonly known as Em. And as I put my pajamas on she came into the room. I swear, little siblings are genetically programmed to annoy the heck out of you. Hmmm… I'll have to make sure she's not one of Jumba's experiments…
As she came in she saw the pod on my dresser. "Oooo, what's this?" She picked it up and started tossing it up in the air.
"Emily! Put that down now!" I shouted. The last thing I needed was for her to go and lose it somewhere, or worse, activate it by accident.
"Why? What do you want with it?" she asked in that annoyingly snobby voice only little sisters have. "I'm gonna take a bath now and I don't have anything to play with. Besides, it'll only be for a while."
Oh, great. She just had to have it in the bath with her. "Emily, you can't take that in the bath with you. It's my, um… school project. So give it back."
"You gotta catch me first!" She ran down the hallway laughing maniacally.
"Come back here, you little brat!" I followed her into the bathroom. Why did she have to go in the bathroom? Why the one room in the house with a bathtub full of water? I saw her next to the bath tub still holding the pod.
"Emily, don't you dare drop that in the water. I swear, you will be in so much trouble if you do." I started advancing on her. She was grinning slyly.
"What if my hand just… slipped…," she faked to drop the pod in the water, "for a moment?"
That was the last straw. I ran forward and tried to grab it out of her hands by grabbing her arm. "Meghan! Stop it! I was only kidding!" I didn't stop, though. "Ok, fine! Take it!" She released her grip on the pod and walked out of the bathroom, rubbing her now-sore arm.
I sighed in relief, glad to have gotten the pod back. I started walking out of the bathroom. However, being the klutz that I am, I tripped on the rug beside the bath tub. As I started to fall I threw the pod from my hands on accident. As I watched it fall into the bath it seemed like time had stopped. I reached out to grab it. I wasn't quick enough, though, and watched helplessly as it sank into the water with a "plop".
Ok, this chapter's kind of dragged out. But if I didn't do that it would only be about two sentences long. Aw, well. Maybe next chapter will be better.