‚Not again!‘, I thought annoyed. I was just at the brink of cheering with Angela and Mike, when time stopped again. My glass loudly clinked with theirs, but while I moved my hand with the champagne flute back to myself, they just stopped moving. Their arms stretched out. Their eyes looking straight at each other. The creepiest thing was their open eyes. Not blinking. It still freaked me out every time. I sighed deeply and emptied my glass in one go. This could take a while.

I still didn‘t understand how I did it and what made it stop again. But I was used to track time now, even though after the time-stop-thingy was done again, my watch mysteriously jumped back to the normal time - as I called it by now. For now it took between one and four hours and as for the frequency of occurences, I was completely clueless. Last week it happened four times!! This was only the second time this week and it was already Saturday.

I keep testing on what the others experience. My plan for this time was to make sure that I won‘t be with Angela and Mike. Most probably they will not miss me, once time starts again. At least that was has happened on my last test.

I put the empty glass down and made my way over to the snack bar. I tried not to push anyone. My test would include me moving someone though. I was curious about that one. I took a few nuts from one of the bowls and let my gaze wonder over the party guests. And when I saw his eyes focussed on me, blinking, his mouth open in surprise and him clearly breathing and moving, all I could do is drop the nuts in my hands.