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way up there on a dinky scooter! I’m going to kill him!”
    “It’s too late for that, Mom. He’s already
dead.”
    “ What? ” she yelled, doubling in
volume. “John, what on Earth is going on?”
    “I don’t know.” A quiet beep played in John’s
ear over the conversation. He looked down at the phone’s screen and
saw that Molly was calling on the other line. “Mom, can I put you
on hold for a second?”
    “Absolutely not!”
    “Just a second,” he said, switching to
Molly.
    “Hey, Molly, listen,” he began.
    “Johnny!” she exclaimed. “I’m so excited
about tonight. I decided to call my aunt over to do my hair and
nails. She’s over here now.”
    “Your aunt?”
    “Yeah, but she was wondering, how are we
going out tonight? Are you borrowing your mom’s car?”
    “Molly, listen--”
    “I was going to say that I could borrow my
dad’s, but I think that you should drive, right? Boys are supposed
to drive the girls.”
    “Molly--”
    “I guess I can borrow my dad’s car, then you
can drive it. Does that still count like you picked me up?”
    “Molly, I can’t go out with you tonight.” The
statement was followed by silence, then a quiet response.
    “What did you say?”
    “I’m in Tallahassee.”
    “What are you doing in Tallahassee? Are you
standing me up?”
    “It’s not actually standing you up if I tell
you about it.”
    “Don’t talk to me about the rules of dating,
John Popielarski!” she yelled.
    “Can you hold for a second?”
    “No!”
    John clicked back over to his mother.
    “Mom?”
    “John, damn it, don’t put me on hold when
we’re having an important conversation. Who was that, Virgil?”
    “No, Mom, Virgil’s dead.”
    “ What? And what are you doing in
Tallahassee? You need to start making sense!”
    “That’s asking way too much of me at the
moment. Can you hold on a second?”
    “John, I swear, if you put me on hold again,
I’ll--”
    “Mom, it’s Molly.”
    “That’s who you put me on hold for? Damn it
John, don’t you put me on--”
    “Just a second,” he interrupted, clicking the
call back to his girlfriend.
    “Molly?”
    “Did you just put me on hold?”
    “Yes, listen, I’m really sorry that I can’t
go out tonight.”
    “I can’t believe you put me on hold.”
    “There’s this watch, and--”
    “What? You have to watch something? That’s
what’s so important?”
    “No, I found this watch and now I’m in
Tallahassee or something. I don’t actually know what’s going
on.”
    “Are you drunk?”
    “No!”
    “I can’t believe you’re doing this to me. You
have no idea what I’ve gone through today for you and this dumb
date of yours!”
    “Well, we can go tomorrow,” John tried. The
quiet noise of his call waiting started beeping between his words.
He looked down at the screen. It was his mother calling back.
“Molly, someone’s on the other line. I have to take this.”
    “No, you don’t,” she replied defiantly.
    “No, really, I do,” he answered quickly,
looking at his phone flashing “Mamasama” across its screen.
    “John, if you take that call ... ” she
started. There was moment of silence before she continued. “You
know what, John? Take it.” She hung up.
    “Molly? Molly?” John clicked quickly over to
his mother.
    “This isn’t acceptable behavior, Jonathon,”
she said in a chilling voice.
    “Mom, I’m sorry. I should have thought about
how to explain this a bit more before calling you. I’m really
weirded out and I just need your help right now.”
    “Okay,” his mother replied, calming. “Explain
to me what’s going on.”
    “If you knew what was going on, then you’d
know why you wouldn’t know what was going on even if I tried to
tell you what was going on,” he answered.
    “What?”
    “Okay, short version: You know that watch I
found? It won’t come off. Virgil tried to take it off. That’s when
it electrocuted him. Then I passed out and woke up in Tallahassee
where