Yes, and Stephen gets Sara

Claire Davis was very concerned when Vivian didn’t text her back last night. This was not like the girl at all. Sure things had been difficult after her mom died, but Vivian had been handling it well. Then when she didn’t show up to school today, the black girl knew something was wrong. It had to be.

Hurriedly, she sent Vivian another text message: “Grl, where r you. Please txt back.”

Claire sent the message, and saw it remained unread, like the others she sent. Something was wrong, it had be. This was not like Vivian at all.

“Wendy,” Claire called out, “Have you heard at all from Vivian since yesterday?” She was referring to Wendy Anderson, her and Vivian’s best friend since kindergarten. The blue eyed brunette had a confused look on her face.

“No, I mean haven’t tried. Why is something wrong?”

“I’ve been trying to text her since last night. She hasn’t read a single message and didn’t show up to school today.”

“Maybe she’s sick?” Wendy suggested.

“Well…I guess that’s possible. Still I’m worried about her, ever since her mom…”

“I know, I know. Look at car is currently busted, so I’m ridding with my mom. Come with me, and I’ll ask her to swing by Vivian’s place this afternoon. O.K?”

Claire took a deep breath. “O.K, let’s do that. You always know what to say.”

“Sure do”, Wendy said with a cheeky smile. With that, the two friends went off to class.

***

Stephen sighed heavily. He was feeling awfully like a third wheel, even more so after he learned Mark and Katie were now dating. Granted it was obvious, and he saw it coming a mile away, but still.

To be introduced to a whole new world of opportunity and have nothing done with it, it was just annoying. He wanted to freeze and keep some women damn it. Alas, it wasn’t his powers, and he had to be content with Audrey and Patricia.

He watched several girls pass by when suddenly they stopped in place. Turning around, he finds Mark just standing there.

“Hey man”, he said.

“Hey, it’s been a while”, Stephen said.

“Yeah, sorry about that. I wanted to make it up to you.”

“How?” Stephen asked, raising an eyebrow.

“By freezing Sara for you.”

“Really,” Stephen asked, suddenly perking up.

“Yes really,” Mark said, slightly exasperated.

“Why?” Stephen asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Really your asking this now?”

“Just curious.”

Mark sighed loudly. “Fine, Katie and I made some acquisitions on our own.”

“How many more?”

“Five”, Mark said, not counting Isabella.

“Five”, Stephen exclaimed. “And I didn’t get any of them?”

“You still aren’t. Four are mine, and one is Katie’s. I figured I owe you four frozen people, her three, does over a period of time. Does that sound good.”

Stephen wanted to protest, but decided against it. “That sounds….good.”

“Great, let’s go get Sara.”

With that, the two friends left to look for the mix-raced girl that had been the object of Stephen’s desires for months. As they wadded through the sea of students, Stephen couldn’t help but imagine many of the girls standing frozen and naked in his room. Eventually they found Sara by her locker, alone, dressed in a pair of jeans, tennis shoes, a black v-neck and a red jacket.

“Wow,” Stephen’s aid, his breath having taken away by his crushes beauty.

“Yeah, she is pretty. Sara stop.” With that, Sara Wayland the living human being was gone, replaced by Sara Wayland, doll and inanimate object.

“Finally,” Stephen said, grabbing the girl’s breast through her shirt. Sara simply stared back through her glasses, not a care in the world.

“Why don’t we get her to your Van. You’ll have plenty of time to do this more with her later”, Make stated, somewhat impatient.

“Errr, right”, Stephen said glumly before picking Sara up in a bear hug. He made sure to grab her glasses, as he thought that completed her look and didn’t want to lose them.

Soon they made their way to Stephen’s van and placed the frozen girl in the backseat. Sind exit was the beginning of the day, Stephen covered her in a blanket so as to hide her from any looky-loos.

“Hey man, after-school could you drive me to Haley Bailey’s house.”

“Why, you going to ask her on a date?”

“Nah, I froze her and her sister Vivian yesterday, and wanted to grab some of their clothes as accessories.”

“Oh,” a disappointed Stephen said as he crossed their names off his mental situation if potential targets. “Why do you want clothes for them. Wouldn’t they be naked most of the time?” Stephen said, thinking of his own dolls.

“Yeah, but in case I do want to dress them up, I might as well use clothes they picked out themselves.”

Not seeing a flaw in that logic, Stephen agreed to bring Mark by the (now former) Bailey residence that afternoon.

With Sara put away for now, the two friends headed back inside to restart time and slog through their classes for the rest of the school day.