“I’m telling you, Veva, everything froze last night! It did!” I said to her as we walked through the corridors of the school.

“And I’m telling you this as your best friend, you should see someone about that.”Veva said, I scoffed at her remark.

“Just saying you shouldn’t believe everything you think you see, it could’ve been all a dream anyways.”Veva shrugged as we continued walking. We continued to walk until we got to the front of the school.

“Well, see you at the party?” Veva asked.

“Yeah…” I looked around nervously. I didn’t want to go, I wanted to see if time would freeze again.

“You’re going to be there.” Veva said crossing her arms and giving me a stern look.

“Fine.” I scoffed.

I got home and threw my bag on the ground. I went to the kitchen right away and grabbed a bag of chips. I ran to my room on the way I passed my mom.

“Hi, mom.” I said quickly before going into my room and closing the door. I laid down on my bed and tossed the bag of chips onto the bed. I took a deep breath and just stared at my ceiling. I took out my phone and sat up, leaning against the headboard of my bed. I scrolled through my photos album after getting so many alerts about my storage. I came across a photo of Veva and smiled before remembering my promise to her. I let out a sigh and looked up from my phone.

“Fine.

As I got ready for party, I looked around my room and noticed a note attached to the mirror. I grab the note and read it out loud.

“Wear this dress tonight and I might reveal myself, it matches your eyes better. You were right about the time stuff. Xoxo come find out.”I stood in my room dead in my tracks. The handwriting! I recognized it but I didn’t want to believe it… I looked at the note again.

“Wear this dress tonight? What dress?” I then saw a box near my window with a card.

“A lovely lady like you deserves a dress that matches.” The card read.

“I would rather die than wear another dress.” I said but I decided to take the dress out and it wasn’t even a dress. A note attached to the outfit. I took the note into my hand and read it out loud.

“Don’t worry I had a feeling dresses aren’t your thing.” I spoke with confusion laced in my voice. The outfit was a top and bottom pieces part of the business casual style.

“I can’t believe, Veva, actually managed to get me to go to this stupid party.” I mumbled to myself as the music soared across the room.

Slowly I hear the music grow quieter and I think its just changing songs but it doesn’t change songs it just stops. Along with everyone else expect one person.

“Ow.” A voice after the music stopped. I looked around trying to find where the voice was coming from.

“It couldn’t have paused when I was dancing! Jesus.” The person said standing up and dusting themself off. I stood behind a frozen person peaking my head out quickly once unable to see their face.

“Um.. hello?” I said stepping out from behind the people. I walked over to the person who was unfrozen.

“Hey.” The person said. They looked up at me and I saw their face.

“Veva.” I looked shocked.

“You’re the one who’s been stopping time! And gave me this dress?” I looked at Veva even more confused.

“No and no. I did stop time once since then other people like me have been stopping time… and I _definitely_ didn’t give you that dress.” Veva said looking around.

“So if you didn’t…..” I looked just confused.

“There are others like me. I’m a time warlock… and not the only one. So it _could’ve_ been any of my friends.” Veva said looking up at the ceiling.

“Oh. So you didn’t leave the notes?” I looked at Veva like I looked at my past crushes.. No! she’s my friend! I don’t. I can’t!

“Notes! what notes!?” Veva looked around the room.

“So I’m guessing the only reason you came here was so you could keep the dress?” Veva asked a smirk on her face and her arms crossed.

“Yeah!” I smiled and looked around.

“I picked good then…” Veva muttered under her breath.

“What did you say, Veva?” I looked at her.

“I said that specific warlock picked good then…” Veva said looking at me.

“So can we dance? I mean we are at a party.” I smiled and twirled my dress.

“It would be a waste not to.” Veva watched me move around the room.

“I don’t think anyone has asked you this yet so…. Veva may I have this dance?” I smiled and held out my hand.

“You know I can’t dance.” Veva said looking away.

“Who said I cared about the dance.” Grabbing Veva’s hand I pulled her close and wrapped one arm around her waist.

“Just let me lead us.” I smiled and held Veva’s hand tight and started to dance around the room.

We ended the dance after a few minutes and I now held my arms around Veva’s shoulders.

“You know people usually ended that specific dance with a kiss….?” I looked into Veva’s eyes, our faces inches apart.

“So is that how we’ll end this one?” Veva asked her voice quieter than before and her face visibly red even under the dim light.

“If you’ll let me…. Princess of Time….” I leaned in closed the gap between ourselves. Slowly the environment around us unpaused as we kissed. The music started to flow the room again. Our lips parted and I looked into her eyes once more.

“Thanks for the dress, my princess.” I said smiling as I kissed her lips quickly. Our lives from then on became forever tangled and intertwined with each other’s lives.

Totally, totally not what might happen in my life soon