I dug around in my bag I thought to myself, "he was right, even though he pulls lame shenanigans that are not even difficult to get out of, I would defiantly never get tired of them." Then I found it! The button that would solve this little predicament I was in. I pressed it and the power went off everywhere. The button turned off all power in the city for just about five minutes, I invented it myself. My dad was so proud. Then I stepped out of his little trap, he didn't really look shocked. Bummer.

"That one only took you a couple of minutes tops! You beat your last record of 3 minutes and 43 seconds." Marvin said while he rolled his eyes. We don't really keep track, but he gets annoyed when I beat his trick so fast. I think it's pretty funny!

"Victory!" I scream while he gives me sarcastic applause. Then the clock reached 3:29 I forgot to stop time from stopping! I quickly pull out my old cracked sonic screw driver, I received it as a birthday present when I was 5 from my dad, and soniced it over Big Ben. It took a couple of seconds to kick in, I really need a new one, then the clock reached 3:30 and time never stopped.

"That was a close one this time." I say slightly confused on why I forgot to stop time from being stopped.

"I know you find me distracting." he says with a wink.

"Not in the least," I answer smugly, throwing my bag over my shoulder. "I should get going, my dad will be up any minute."

"Want me to walk you home?" He asks. I give him a look as I type in the coordinates.

"Same time next time?"

"Sounds good." Marvin says as he waves to me. I get home and crawl in bed, not even bothering to change back to my pajamas. The next morning I wake up to the smell of pancakes. Dad must be cooking, because they don't smell burnt. I walk into the kitchen and sit next to my mum, she's fiddling with one of her gadgets.

"Sleep well, sweetness?" Se asks, glancing up.

"Sorta. Not really, no." I answer, yawning.

"We'll good thing I made pancakes!" Dad smiles cheerfully. "Blueberry for you, River. And chocolate for you," he says trailing off. I look up, confused at his sudden change of cheerfulness.

"What?" I ask. He grabs my head and puts his nose to my hair.

"You smell like 1902..."

"What?" I say, shrugging him off of me. "Why would I smell like that?" I ask letting out nervous laughter.

"Why are you wearing your mothers vortex manipulator?" He questions, tapping it with the spatula.

"He has a point dear, you never wear it in the morning because it always falls off during the night." My mum points out from across the table. All I could think about was how much trouble I'd be in if I told the truth.

So I quickly said, "Iv never been to 1902 before, I heard they had very comfortable mattresses! I couldn't sleep so I wanted to try one of them out." I let another nervous laugh escape. They know I'm lying, my parents looked at each other then at me, then they looked away. They have done this before, I know they are planning something. Why can't my parents just be normal and not question my lies? I should talk to Marvin about this. I think they are on to us. I open my vortex manipulator and type in "Need to talk to you now. Lets meet on The Big Ben again. 1902."

"Mum! Where are you?" I scream.

"Still in the Kitchen sweetness." Says my mum, she always has such a calming voice.

"I'm going for a walk."

"You didn't eat your wonderful pancakes" my dad chimed in. I grabbed a pancake and shoved it in my mouth

"I'll Finnish them later!" I murmured with a mouthful of pancake, I don't even think he heard me.