The Magic Watch by Wendy Xu

We lived in Paris for our whole life. Just you and me, our mother died when you were born. After mom has died our dad has been drunk almost every day.  So I got everything we needed to go on airlines to somewhere we would have a better life. I woke you up near midnight. We didn’t live to far from the airport, so we ran to the airport.

Now were at Mongolia, while we ordered a Taxi you were sleeping on my shoulder. When we arrived to our new home. You ran room to room, up to down, and bathroom to bathroom. I asked you if you want to go shopping. You just nodded and gave a sign asking where’s Papa. I ignored it, than you started crying since you were scared. I knelt down and whispered to you something that you could only know. Afterward we headed to a store. I wanted a watch for my birthday. Something caught my eye and I picked it up. It was the perfect watch. I bought for 70 gems. After we got the watch I got some bubble tea for you.

When we got back home you turned on the TV while I was cooking rice and beans. But something interrupted your cartoon, it was the news. The news said that an airplane crash while it was heading toward Mongolia and the plane was one of the United airlines. Then I realized that Layla was on that plane that crashed. You were pale like you saw 100 ghosts floating around the house. I dashed up the stairs and slammed the door. But a button on my watch turned right, and I teleport the past and watched Layla’s death. Cold icy tears runs down my cheek, then realized that I was in the future, at Layla’s funeral,and it was snowing. After that I teleport back to the present, and ran down the stairs. I gave you the biggest hug I ever gave anyone, and I told you that tomorrow was the first day of school.

Chirp! Chirp! I went down stairs and made breakfast. You asked me if you could be in the same class as me.

I shook my head and whispered “ Sorry,” you felt lonely afterward.

I looked out the window and saw 2 fifth grade bullies, they were harming you. So I clicked the button on my watch, I stopped time and dragged them out of your sight. I put them in the principal’s office and wrote: Bully Alert. I ran back to my classroom, and resumed.

After class we're going back home, when we were crossing the road, I tried to stop time, but it was too late. You were knocked out by a car. I quickly dragged your body out in case you weren’t fully dead. So I planned to sacrifice myself, so you can live longer. I turned the button right than left than right again, I teleport right before you got hit. I wrapped my arms around you, and pushed you off the road. Than i got hit.

Drip, drop, drip. 

“Wasn’t that five years ago, I’m 11 now,” Nina murmured, cold tears went down her cheek.
She grabbed the watch and it was cracked, she wrapped it around her wrist and thought about her sister’s promise.

“Don’t worry about a thing I promise that I will protect you,” Nina’s older sister, Marinara, whispered.

Knock. Knock.

“I’ll get it!” shouted Nina, she opened the door and saw her drunk father.

“Come back, you two, I want you two back home with me,” he said, with a drunk accent.
“No you can’t, Mariana is gone, she’s gone,” whimpered Nina.

“I'm sorry can you at least come home, I promise I will treat you better,”he whimpered.
But then Nina felt Mariana telling her to not trust a guy like him, she felt her in her heart.
“No! ,” she shouted.

Nina slammed the door and found a flier.

“ I always wanted to play piano,”she said.

Now she is a piano teacher to all students younger than eleven.