I hope you guys enjoyed chapter one of The New Dimension. Well, I've got chapter two! I hope you enjoy.

A day had passed since the dog incident, and Mr. Peabody let me stay home from school today. I was quite upset that I already had bully problems on day one of school.

However, when I wandered outside my room to ask what we were going to have for dinner, Mr. Peabody was already cooking a gigantic meal.

"Um, Mr. Peabody?" I mumbled.

"Yes, Sherman?" Mr. Peabody replied.

"Why are you cooking such a big meal?"

"Good question!" Mr. Peabody declared. "We've got people coming over for dinner."

"Who?" I questioned. "Are they your friends?"

"No."

"Your grandparents?"

Mr. Peabody chuckled. "No!"

"So who's coming over for dinner, Mr. Peabody?"

"You'll see," said Mr. Peabody.

All of a sudden, there was a loud thumping on the door.

"They're here!" Mr. Peabody exclaimed, running to the door.

All I could do at that moment was stare at the soon-to-be-opened door to find out who was coming over for dinner. I could feel the thoughts whirling around my head.

Unfortunately, the door swung open, and before I knew it, I was standing in front of her.

The one who picked on me yesterday.

The one who called me a dog.

The one.

Her.

I felt nausea sweeping over me. Out of all of the people in this world, it had to be her. Anywhere but here seemed like a good place to be.

"The Petersons!" Mr. Peabody greeted. "Welcome to our humble abode!"

The dad scoffed. "So he's literally a dog."

"I prefer the term 'literate' dog," Mr. Peabody replied calmly.

I stared at Penny, who was giving me the coldest look in the history of mankind. This was going to be a very long night.

I grumbled impatiently. Penny and I had only been in my bedroom for two minutes, and nothing was working. All I wanted more than anything in the world at that very moment was for Mr. Peabody to walk through that door and end this misery.

Luckily, Mr. Peabody opened the door, granting my wish.

"How's it going?" Mr. Peabody questioned.

"Why did you invite her over?" I hissed.

"I wanted you two to get along," he replied.

"How do you expect us to do that? She hates me!" I yelled.

"Share your interests! Tell her an interesting story you heard some day!"

Then the door swung closed, and I was left in the room. Then the door opened again and Mr. Peabody whispered, "Make it work!" Then one more closing and opening before he spoke the obvious line, "But don't tell her about the WABAC."

The door closed for the last time.

Now, I had two options. I could either sit there and do nothing while Penny played on her iPod, or I could go over and at least try to make friends with her.

"Penny?" I mumbled.

There was no reply.

"Penny?" I repeated.

Still nothing.

"Penny? Penny? Penny? Penny!"

"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" Penny snapped.

Penny certainly didn't seem friendly but it was too late to back out of the plan now. "I once heard that if you don't like a person, it's because they remind you of something you don't like about yourself."

"What do you know about that?" Penny scoffed.

"More than you think," I stated.

Penny finally spun around in her chair to face me again. "Sure. Just like you know all that stuff about George Washington 'not really cutting down a cherry tree'."

I froze.

"Ugh! What a creep!" she mocked, standing up.

"But it's true!" I rebutted.

"How do you know?" Penny asked.

"I just know!" I yelled.

"Did you read it in a book?"

"No!"

"Did you see it in a museum?"

"No!"

"Did your dad tell you?"

"No!"

"So how do you know, Sherman?" Penny starting backing up into my face, pushing me against the wall. "How do you know?"

"He told me!"

"Who told you?" Penny scoffed.

"George Washington!"

Suddenly, I realized what had just slipped out of my big mouth, and I covered my mouth with my hand. Unfortunately, it was too late.

"George Washington?" said Penny.

"Yeah!" Then, I placed my hand back over my mouth. My big, fat mouth just HAD to keep talking.

"Liar!" Penny scoffed.

Sweat began to bead down from my forehead as Penny's cold stare began to make me sick.

"Don't tell her about the WABAC... don't tell her about the WABAC..."

The words echoed in my mind. I had already slipped up, it was too late to prevent a disaster. I may as well just show her.

"And this is Mr. Peabody's laboratory!" I announced.

"Wow..." Penny said stunned, as she stared at the many cool objects that Mr. Peabody built in his spare time.

"Don't tell her about the WABAC..."

Mr. Peabody's words continued to echo louder and louder through my head. They seemed to get louder the closer I got to the WABAC room.

Then, a light bulb lit up. Mr. Peabody may have said that I couldn't tell Penny about the WABAC, but he didn't say that I couldn't show her any of Mr. Peabody's other inventions.

"I need to show you something!" I declared.

"What?" Penny said.

"Ta-da!" I yelled, pointing at one of Mr. Peabody's inventions. However, Penny's excited soon began to fade.

"Sherman..." she started.

"What?" I replied.

"That's a phone booth."

Sure, Penny was right. It looked like a phone booth, with 'TELEPHONE' written clearly on the top.

"Oh, but it's not just a phone booth!" I announced.

Penny snickered. "Is it a time machine by any chance?"

"What? No... it's not-"

However, I was cut off by Penny jumping into the "phone booth" and playing with the numbers.

"Penny!" I yelled. "If I were you, I wouldn't be playing with the buttons!"

"Hello!" Penny said, picking up the phone. "9-1-1? I've got a major emergency! I need to get away from this annoying brat!"

"Penny..." I groaned.

"Get here as soon as you can!" Penny squealed into the phone, which wasn't really on.

I stepped into the "phone booth". "Honestly, Penny! What are you thinking?" I snapped.

"Oh come on! Out of all the things in the world, Mr. Peabody disguised his machine as a phone booth? That's pathetic!" Penny replied.

I sighed.

"Ooh, what's this button?" said Penny, pointing at a big green button.

"What?" I yelled, becoming a lot more aware of my surroundings, and of what Penny was about to do. "Penny, no! Don't press the button!"

Too late. Penny pressed the button, and the device roared to life. Lights began to flash, and the outside got more and more blurry...

Ooh, cliffhanger! Sorry if I am annoying you guys with the cliffhanger, but no need to worry. I'll post chapter 3 really soon before I move on to my other stories for a bit.

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