Too Much and Not Enough

The first thing you did was look for a way to end the time stop. The answer was shockingly complicated; the option 'end time stop' was greyed out and choosing it did nothing. Below that was a store of sorts, offering things in exchange for decreasing the amount of time you had left. The things on offer ranged from 'soft drink -1min' to 'increase muscle mass -20min' and so, so much weirder that you don't want to think about. Food doesn't count unless eaten and you don't think an app that can alter reality will be fooled by you pouring 200 sodas down the drain, so you toss that idea. In the hygiene section you did find a way to take an hour off by choosing 'just out of the shower', 'washed hair separately' and 'skin care routine'.

With your hair now damp and your body covered in lavender scented stuff, the time left of 2:53:49 didn't seem nearly as daunting. Swiping back to the thesaurus the time remaining shrinks to a tiny line at the bottom, taking up less space than your phone's status bar. You are unsurprised and a little pissed to find the previous banner had been covering up the thesaurus' many many fliter and option buttons. Everything you had been complaining about was there the entire time and more. You're not sure which you're more upset by, being set up to stop time 'accidentally' or how easily you fell for it.

Ether way now you could finally look at the entry for Quad, only to be disappointed by how lacking it was.

Quad: (colloquialism)changed whose form requires significant accommodation.

Synonyms: Jelly, Unarmed, Special Pet

Related: Prime, Auxiliary, Connie, Clade (colloquialism)

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The thesaurus still sucks, you either can filter it and get just a thesaurus or scroll in blind and it becomes a combination dictionary/history book/thesaurus/personal hell. The only thing that surprised you about the scream of frustration you let out was how little it echoed. Tossing your phone on the tea table you tried getting dressed.

Your clothes felt odd, almost heavy, but the more you moved them the more that word felt wrong. Halfway though your sixth attempt on putting on your panties you realized laggy was more appropriate. It helped a bit, though you did take two more tries to get your panties on. Afterwards everything else mostly fell into place in a few tries. Even your bra, which you expected to take the longest, only took three tries. Redressed and throughly done with your phone you pondered what to do now.

You figured the next thing would be to find out what else you could move, so you went around pushing everything you could. The answer was just about everything, so long as you could deal with the weird laggy feeling. The most interesting thing was the water, you had expected it to be like the light switches were you could move it but nothing happened. Instead water did come out, and quite a bit too before it stopped. Trying not to think about how that worked, you continued finding more to push.

Eventually that led to Michelle and Oliver and it didn't go well. The moment you touched Michelle you got thrown back onto your ass. It didn't seem to matter where you tried or which one you tried it on, touching either Michelle or Oliver was out of the question and rewarded with a sore butt on the floor. This led to the uncomfortable conclusion that you're stuck in the locker room for the duration of the stop.

Running out of things to do and desperately trying to avoid your phone, you instead rummaged though the lockers. This took you all of five minutes; just clothes, a little bit of Midol and bags. The bags had nothing interesting to you in them, and the Midol was interesting only because it was a name you recognized. You quickly put it away, aware more than ever you're going to have periods now.

After putting everything back you pick up your phone, only to be stunned that you've only used up a little more than half an hour. With still over two hours left you open up the browser, hoping against all logic that the internet still works.

It doesn't. All of the games you have require log ins, which all fail. No downloaded podcasts, videos, or ebooks. After less than an hour you're down to your only entertainment being World Tome.

Frustrated and defeated you open the app back up, navigating to your relationships. Annie, the girl you are going to be picking up isn't on it yet so just tap one of the others randomly. Than you find the most curious thing of all: something you can change!