Portia checked all around herself then looked at a mirror and saw that she was okay.
She ran to Skylar's room and saw he wasn't there.
Before she could scream, he hugged her from behind and kissed her all-over.
She looked into his eyes then cried in his arms as he told her everything will be okay, that nightmare had felt so realistic, and Skylar had had it too.
She looked into his eyes and saw his grey wings behind him, then got a vision...it was all true.
"It was all real!"She yelled.
"Portia, calm down."Skylar said.
"It was all real! Your father kidnapped us and changed us and...I killed him..."
"What?"
"I killed Allen!"
"Who is Allen?"
"My former roommate! I don't know how it happened, I just touched him then...eeek!"
"What? Aaah!"
They jumped back at the sight of the boy sleeping on the floor.
Portia slowly approached him and called him,"Allen?"
He woke up slowly then began to yell at them then Portia told him to calm down.
"What am I doing here?!"He yelled,"And who is that?!"
"D- don't worry Allen, everything is going to be okay, he's a friend, my boyfriend."
"I know him, we go to the same school, I mean who is that?!"
She turned to see Aeric standing behind them.
She took a deep breath then said,"He's another friend, Aeric."
Allen was still confused, but not as much as Portia, what happened?
Did she send him forward in time?
But if so, why?
And why to that exact moment?
After Allen had been taken home they realized everyone who had been controlled was back home and almost no one remembered anything that happened, those who did, on the other hand, thought it only as a dream.
Portia still wondered what happened to Allen and why he acted like nothing had happened, then she remembered the toad...
"Could it be?"She asked.
"What?"Skylar asked.
"Maybe the gem swallowed him."
"What?"
"Y- you know li- li- like when the Bottomless Toad swallowed us, it took us into a never ending space where time didn't move."She stuttered.
"But, how?"
"My gem is a crystalline black hole, black holes can theoretically stop time due to the effects of their massive gravitational pull and they can pull in matter with no limit, the more they pull, the more mass they get and the stronger they get."
"So you're saying it kind of...stored him?"
"Yes and I wanted it to, well, sort of, I thought I killed him and wished he wouldn't be there anymore, in my grasp."
Skylar looked up then said,"We have a lot to figure out about that gem..."
***
School resumed as normal and everything seemed like nothing had happened, till the gates flew open and an entourage accompanied a young woman walking through, in her thirties on normal ageing years, perhaps.
She had long, black, bouncy and curly hair, flowing to the centre of her back like a stream, she didn't walk, she glided through the compound, catching everyone's eyes.
She had the features of an Indian, but the colour of an African and her dark skin glimmered in the sunlight as she walked.
She had a silver necklace with the shape of a half moon on her neck as she modelled through the mooning students, then she winked at Portia, Kofi and Skylar...one of them, both Lloyd and Kofi fought over whom she winked at, Jack just rolled his eyes, keeping his cold temperament.
In her first class, it was announced that the open spot for the Physics teacher of Portia's class was open and that woman, by name Ms Terratikka James Brown, or TT for short, was taking it, but Portia felt something off about her.
She had two hours of Physics after the first break, so she had to wait to get to know that woman better.
During the first break time, Portia spent her mid-day practicing her spacial manipulation and atom rearrangement.
She wondered what else she could do with those skills like, if there was a state of matter higher than gas, could there be one lower than solids? Or more?
She tried to take it one step at a time, mostly because she had no idea what she was doing.
She sat down, with every single second ticking away in her mind, she had this ability to perfectly keep track of time and the positions of objects, no matter how careless she was with them and attributed it to the gem, what else could it be since before she got it she was the clumsiest clutz in the orphanage?
Three seconds before the siren was set to go off, she stood up from the spot where she had made dozens of different origami animals with just those two skills, then walked towards her next class.
The woman walked into the class at the exact moment the bell went off, but everyone came early and greeted her with amazing name recalling skills and politeness.
Ms TT gave a giggle which even to Portia was...cute, then said,"Oh, thank you students, I'm flattered."
"Marry me!!"A die hard student yelled.
She frowned this time, then said again,"I'm flattered."
Why is she repeating her previous statement?
Did I go back in time or something?
Portia shook off the feeling as she stated the strict rules she required all of them to follow, and they all listened, with absolute obedience...that was odd.
Either she was bewitching them with her beauty or bossing them with her buffness, but it worked and Portia had to learn how to do that.
She began teaching, which was ironically a topic well out of their syllabus and Portia knew since she had literally scrolled through all her textbooks seventy times each while time was frozen of her own doing.
She was teaching about states of matter, and not your easy plasma and crowd and stuff, but quark gluon plasma, neutronium, Bose Einstein condensate, superfluid, super conductors and more, Portia was confused, why was she teaching this?
Portia knew this was an opportunity for her to learn new skills but...what about the others?
So she tried taking the whole class to another universe where Ms TT would teach something ' useful ' to them, but there was none, at all, in fact, there was one where Ms Terra actually told Portia to give up because that was what she was teaching, whether she liked it or not and Portia almost had a heart attack, who the heck was this lady?!
Portia just took everyone back and began scribbling away on her notebook to take her mind off the message that the NPC said to her till Ms Terra placed her hand on the table and took a look at Portia's notes, all that was written were scribbles which even tore the thick paper at some pages, then Ms Terratikka said,"Meet me after class."
Portia began to hyperventilate, then cooled down, Don't worry Porsche, you can just travel back in time and do this again, let's do this...
Ms Terra looked at her from the corner of her eyes, then grinned.
Portia reappeared a second after she brought the class back, the first time, then began writing what Ms CJ was teaching and while she was speaking, she said mid sentence,"Oh and Porsche, please meet me after class."
No one understood what that meant but Portia almost screamed when this woman called her what only Skylar called her...