Time passed slowly for Sarah. It always had. She would often laugh to herself when she heard someone say that the day was "flying by" because toher, it felt like it was dragging on forever. Now on some days, this was a good thing, most specifically the days she spend with her friend Nathaniel. He was probably her "best" friend, but neither of them would ever say it for fear of it turning into something else.

She had met Nathaniel through a high school college fair. He was in the science division, doing some wierd project that she couldn't even pretend to understand, and she was in the writing division, creative and fiction were her specialties. That was really the only reason she was there. Her recent short story had been published in some of the nations top writing journals and so she was there on behalf of her whole division, trying to get "new and brilliant minds" to join their school. She hadn't been doing very well that day and after they closed the stalls, she decided to go to the local bar for a few drinks with her professor.

Nathaniel hadn't done well either. His machine, which he brought along to interest "new and brilliant minds", had been a flop. No one believed it could actually do what he said it could do; he had only gotten a few guaranteed sign ups before they closed the stalls for the day. He didn't feel like going back to his hotel room and facing his professor, so he decided to go to the local bar for a few drinks. As fate would have it, the writer and the science geek met at the bar, ordering the same thing, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Now here they were, three years later, fast friends. Currently she was on her way to his house. He had a new machine to show her. Little did she know that it would change both their lives forever...