1 "Amy, go get the door!" Virgil yelled without taking his eyes off the video game he was playing.
"Fine, I'm going! Hopefully it's not one of your dumb friends, like usual!"
Virgil smiled a little bit. Even though Amy pretended she didn't, she had become pretty fond of both Zeke and Charlie. Honestly, Virgil couldn't think of who might be at the door, but he didn't really care too much.
"Oh, hi there!" Amy's voice drifted to Virgil from the doorway, and she sounded more friendly than usual, but Virgil just shrugged and kept playing his game.
"Hi Amy!" Stephanie said with a smile. Virgil's little sister was so cute.
"Why are you here, Stephanie?"
"Well-" Stephanie was about to say that she had wanted to talk to Virgil, but then she got an idea. "Can I talk to you for a few seconds, Amy?"
Amy looked surprised, but happy. "Of course!"
Stephanie bent down to Amy's level and lowered her voice a little bit so Virgil wouldn't hear her if he was close by. "I just want you to tell me one thing."
Amy smiled and nodded.
"How often does Virgil lie?"
Amy's smile faded and she crossed her arms. "If you would have asked me anything else I could have told you all sorts of embarrassing stuff about him. But lying?" She shook her head. "Virgil never lies. He's only told a couple lies that I can remember, but who hasn't? And he never lies about anything big or important."
Stephanie nodded and smiled a little bit, knowing what she had to do. "Thanks, Amy. Can I talk to Virgil now?"
Amy shrugged and rolled her eyes. "Sure, he's in the living room."
Virgil didn't even look up when Stephanie walked in the room, he just kept playing video games with his back to her.
"Who was it, Amy?" he asked.
Stephanie smiled a little. "No one too important."
Virgil turned around when he heard her voice. "Woah, hey Steph!"
"Hey Virgil."
"Uh, what are you doing here?"
She smiled a little bit. "Do I need a reason to visit my friend?"
Virgil smiled back, answering her like he had once before. "Good point."
"Well, actually, Virgil, like usual, I did come for a reason today."
"Ok. What's up?"
Stephanie sighed as she sat down on the couch. She wanted to look down at the floor and play nervously with the ring she was wearing, but she forced herself to keep her hands still and to slowly look up into Virgil's eyes.
"I believe you."
Her words were barely a whisper, but they seemed to echo over and over again in the silence that followed them. Virgil just stared at her for a few minutes. Finally he shook his head a little bit and laughed softly.
"It's like I want to say something but I don't know what," he said quietly, but he was smiling. "Do you really believe me, Steph?"
She smiled back and nodded her head. "Yeah. I believe that you wouldn't lie to me, so I'll believe you when you tell me something. Even if it sounds crazy," she added with a laugh.
Virgil smiled, then suddenly got a weird look on his face.
"What's wrong?"
"It might not sound so crazy after all."
"Uh, it's time travel, Virgil, of course it does."
Virgil didn't look like he had heard. "Wait right here, Steph." Without another word he took off up the stairs to his bedroom.