Completely Still

Chapter 6~

During Saturday, Owen didn't text me and no one called, so I had quite the boring day. On Sunday, however, I woke up and saw a text on my IPad. 'Meet me at Glendale Park @ 2, if you want help on going back in time' Owen had texted. I quickly texted back 'sure' and asked my mom if I could meet a friend at Glendale at 2. "Of course Zoey. But just in case, bring your phone. You never know if you will get a headache." My mom responded. She didn't know that never again I will get those killer headaches. I ate breakfast and finished my boringly easy math homework. After the outrageous 15 questions I had to do, it was 1:50. I quickly grabbed my phone and headed out onto my bike, going to the park.

Once I got there, I parked my bike and noticed Owen already waiting, which was weird because it wasn't even 2 yet, according to my phone. I walked over. "Sup" he said plainly. "Great way to start a conversation. So what's this with me going back in time?" I asked. "First of all, don't judge me, second, I'm not completely sure you can go back in time. I just think. For example, I can go forward in time." He responded. "Oh reeeally? Show me please. I still don't believe you very much, if you don't see already" I said with a slight bit of annoyance. It was true that I didn't believe him. Why should I? "Sigh, ok. Look at your phones clock. Now,", grabbing my wrist "Watch." He said. At first nothing changed on the clock, but Owen looked very concentrated. Then all at once everything blurred and it felt as if my legs were made out of jell-o. I few seconds later and it all cleared at once. I glanced at my clock. Before it had said 2:04. Now it said 2:20. "Whoa... I mean," I said, realizing that I shouldn't give in very easily. "So, can you show me how to go back in time then that's what I came here for, by the way." I muttered. "Ok fine, just concentrate on, lets say, 10 minutes ago. Keep on thinking about it, how you can and will go back to that time. Then it probably should happen". he said, clearly annoyed. I did what he told me to, and at first nothing happened. So I concentrated a bit more. Then everything just froze, blurred, and moved in reverse extremely quickly. All of it happened in what had seemed to be a millisecond. I glanced down at my phone. 2:00. I decided to go with 2 because that way more time would be saved. "Oh wow, you actually did it. Well, good job." Owen said, but he didn't seem that impressed anyway.

"Is that all you came to show me? Can I leave now?" I asked impatiently. Wasn't my fault, I was done what I came there for. "Sure, but do you believe me now?" he asked me. "Uh, still not really with the whole friend thing. Wouldn't other people who had the same power as you remember it as well? Like me, for example?" I responded. I still didn't believe his whole 'my best friend died' thing. If Claire died, then I would be extremely depressed. Clearly not what Owen is. "I can't prove that to you, however, YOU can. Go back on time to see it yourself." he responded quite plainly. "WHAT?! Me?! How should I go back so many years?" I said shocked, I had only gone back in time once, back 20 minutes. "Who said Andrew died a year ago? He died this summer. About a month ago. You can certainly do that. I'll go back to today at this time once you see what happened" Owen replied, once again, very plainly, even though if Claire died a month ago I would be bawling by then. "Okaaay? Tell me the day and time. Once we get there, I'll freeze time." I responded. "It was 3:47PM, on Tuesday July the 16th." Owen said. "Ok," I said, grabbing Owen by the wrist "Let's try to do this!" I kept on thinking about the date Owen told me, and following the same steps I took to go back in time the first time.

Once I concentrated hard enough, everything froze and blurred, like before, and everything just zoomed past me, and I saw how the days changed and the temperature changed. It only took 3 seconds though, and everything stopped being blurry and time returned to normal. "Ok, let's freeze time and get to school." Owen said, already taking off running. So I had to freeze time. I barely concentrated and time quickly froze. It was getting easier and easier. I had to catch up to Owen, so I immediately started to run after him. I lost him, must've token a shortcut. So I started to take the regular way to school. However, I could've sworn I saw someone or something running down the road behind me. i had no time to check it out, so I kept going. I was almost at school, but I kept wondering why or how that thing was able to run while time was frozen. At school, Owen was already waiting. "Zoey, what took you so long?! Let's go!" he said, starting to run to the schoolyard.

I dragged after him, not having the chance to respond. I was shocked to see when I got there past Owen with a person I now remembered, probably because I had seen him. There were a bunch of men in black suits grabbing and pulling Andrew away, and blood seemed to be coming out of his forehead. "You see?! You see what I had to hide?! What feelings I had inside? The horror of seeing your best friend being beat up and taken away, with no one to remember! I felt all this pain and sadness, but there was nothing I could've done about it, so I blamed myself for this. It was sort of my fault. I was so sad, so depressed, so angry, but no one ever knew. That was my pain. That is the truth. So do not freeze time for leisure purposes. You don't want to go through what I went through." Owen said with anger, mostly at himself though. I was too shocked to say anything. This was a side of him I've never seen before. He's hidden such a large loss like that like it was nothing. How did I doubt him? I was starting to feel angry on how I acted before. "Well, just... I'm sorry of how I acted before. I should've believed you. Never had I thought that you've hidden this all along. Sigh. Sorry." I was able to mutter. "Sure" he responded, then everything blurred. Next thing I knew, I was back a month later.