Kyle Bernard: time stopper

My name is Kyle Bernard, and today is my eighteenth birthday. This morning I discovered a unique ability. Well, I believe it's unique. If anyone else possesses this power, it's not known to me.

What is my power?

I can stop time.

No doubt you've seen "The Girl, The Goldwatch, and Everything," or "Clockstoppers," or the latest time stop movie, "Click," or perhaps you've seen the Twilight Zone Episode where the main character gets a time stopping watch. Well, I can do that without any fancy gizmo.

On my 18th birthday, I awoke with a hangover, having spent the night with my two only friends Gary and Tina and a bottle of Jack Gary got his uncle to buy him. The three of us were just a month away from graduating from South Attenborough High School, or "Suburban Automaton High" as we called it. It was a Sunday, and my mom wanted me to get up so I could come downstairs where my grandparents had over for my birthday. I was an only child, and my mom was their only child, so yes, they spoiled me.

Anyway, mom kept nagging me to get up, but my head was pounding, so I silently sreamed "STOP!" in my head. Just then everything did stop. There was no sound. I mean none, no computer softly humming, no wind blowing, no birds, no cars outside on the street, nothing. Looking around I saw particles of dust suspended in air and outside the window no clouds or leaves were moving. I went to throw the sheet off of me, but when it left my hand, it froze in mid furl. I walked around and looked in shock at the still world. I lifted a pencil and let go, and it hung in midair. I pulled a 10lb dumbell from the closet, and almost smacked myself in the face, because apparently with time stopped, gravity doesn't have as much effect.

I wondered how to start time again. I yelled "Start!" in my head. The pencil fell, and the dumbell, which I had stupidly left three feet off of the ground lounded with a loud thud.

I stopped and started time a few more times just to be sure I wasn't hallucinating. It was the real deal!