“Ugh, not again…!”

I secretly cuss under my breath, annoyed to experience this once again. It’s once too many.

I look around the room. I’m at a party and everybody appeared to be having a good time till I noticed time had frozen around me once again. Everyone else in the room froze with me, interestingly the others don’t seem bothered by this. No doubt, once the “time freeze” is over, they will “defrost” and all will go back to go about their merry way.

Now I have absolutely no idea who is controlling this. I am now anxious because I think I am the one causing these “freezes”. That somehow I had developed this special ability to freeze time and jump-start it again at will.

Till one night I am at another party and time stops again. Everybody is frozen, except this one guy at the other end of the room…

“What? You’re not freezing in time this time?”

The guy across the room gives me a cheeky grin.”

“Nah, I thought I’d take a look at what’s happening while everyone else is frozen in time…”