I was covering for Lucy... again. She was running late and if she didn't run, she wouldn't be back on time. The leader of our orphanage would be back any minute now. If Lucia didn't get back before then, she would get in trouble and I would have to finish her chores as well as mine.

I heard someone enter the room that Lucy and I share and I turned around to see Mr. Young standing with his arms crossed at the door. "M-Mr. Young. Hello sir," I said.

"Miss Kyle." Was all he said to me, "Where is Miss Howells?"

"I-I think she went to the bathroom sir." I stuttered.

"Thank you, but if I find out you lied, you will be with Lucy doing everyone's chores." And with that he walked out of the room and I breathed out a sigh of relief.

I went over to my bed, reached under the pillow, and pulled out the phone that my parents gave me for my 10th birthday (I am 12 now). It was an iPhone 6SE with a Hamilton phone case on it. It was the only thing I have left of them.

I quickly texted Lucy.

       Becca: Mr. Young is looking for you. Hurry up. I closed the bathroom door and left the window open for you.

       Lucy: Thank you so much Becca!!!

      Becca: You so owe me.

      Lucy: I know I do.

I quickly put my phone back under my pillow as I hear footsteps coming down the hallway. I sat on my bed and watched as Payton McKenzie walked past me (and yes, she is just as popular and mean as she sounds).

I watched her quickly give me a scowl before walking away. I sighed in relief and went to go check on Lucy and Mr. Young. Down the long hallway, I saw that Mr. Young had just reached the closed bathroom door and started to knock on it. I felt my heart racing but I saw the door open and seen a girl with blonde hair walk out and I heaved a sigh of relief; She got there on time.

The only problem was that I could see her bright white phone in her back pocket. It didn't have a case on it because her parents didn't get to get her one before they died. My heart started to pick up pace again as I seen her walking over to me. I motioned for her to turn around before Mr. Young seen her phone but she couldn't understand what I was trying to tell her before it was too late.

Her mouth was the indicator that she understood what I was trying to tell her and she tried to turn around but came face to face with Mr. Young.

"Miss Lucia Howells. What is that in your back pocket?" He asked.

"Um, it's a..." She paused.

He turned her around and grabbed the phone from her pocket. "Why do you have this?!"

"M-My mother and f-father gave it t-to me before they..." She stuttered and cut off again.

"You know that this is against the rules of this orphanage!" Mr. Young yelled, "You and your roommate have to clean every bathroom in this building for this."

I darted back into my room grabbed my phone and hid it under my bed, which literally nothing can fit under and sat back down on my bed before Mr. Young and Lucia walked in the room.

"Miss Kyle. I don't know if you heard but you and Miss Howells will be cleaning every bathroom in this building."

"Yes sir." I responded.

"Then get to it!"

Lucy and I ran down the hall, grabbed the supplies, and went into the first bathroom. I looked at Lucy and seen that she was crying.

"Hey. What's wrong?" I asked.

She moved her blue orbs and connected them with my hazel ones. "I-I just don't know if I'll ever get my phone back. That had all the best pictures of my family before... you know and knowing Mr. Young, I won't ever get to see those again."

I thought about this for a little bit before almost having a heart attack, Mr. Young still had Lucy's phone, which meant that he could see everything she had in her phone, including contacts. My heart raced, if Mr. Young saw my contact in her phone, he would know I had broken a rule as well.

I stood up and paced without paying attention to where I was walking and I tripped over something. I pulled myself back up and stared at the thing I tripped over, it was a smallish wooden box with no color and no designs on it. I looked over to Lucy and she was cleaning the floor on the opposite side of the room so I opened the box and inside was only a piece of paper.

I unfolded it and seen that there was writing on the paper. It was kind of hard to see it but I thought the title said "To Go Back in Time" so if I went back in time I could fix all of this and make sure neither me nor Lucy got in trouble. I tried to read the words as best and to my surprise it was easier to read it out loud.

"Here these words, hear the rhyme, heed the hope within my mind. Send me back to where I'll find. What I wish in place and Time." Nothing happened so I put the paper back in the box and picket it up.

I walked over to Lucy, "Hey Lucy. Look at this."

"What is it?" she asked after looking at the box.

"It's a box. Duh. But its what's inside the box that's cool."

I opened the box and had her look at the note. "A spell to send you back in time?" she asked sounding a little sarcastic.

"Yeah, I guess."

"And you believe that?"

"I mean I read it out loud and nothing happened. So, I guess not."

She took the box from me and put the paper back but I started feeling weird and there was a bright light.

I closed my eyes and when I opened them, the scene was different.

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          Hey guys, me again! So this is the first chapter; let me know if you see anything that doesn't make sense and when you finish reading the next chapter, let me know what you want the story to be called. Thanks for reading and I'll see you in the next chapter!

                    -writercats