Set a Purpose

Find out what happens when Angela travels to the future.

There was no time to be lost. Rushing out of Peter’s garage, I ran over to our house and entered through the back door.

Mother was in the kitchen. When she saw me, she stared. “Angela! I thought you were upstairs taking a shower!”

“Sorry!” I panted. “No time to talk!”

I dashed up to my room. Then I suddenly had a strange idea. What if I met myself in my room?

Argh! It was a spooky thought.

There was nobody in my room. Where was I? I mean, where was the I of three weeks later?

Wait. Mother had just said she thought I was taking a shower. Down the hall, I could hear the water running in the bathroom.

Okay. That meant I wouldn’t run into me for a while.

I went to the shelf above my desk and frantically pawed through the junk piled there. I found it! I found the latest issue of the school magazine, the one with the winning stories printed in it.

How much time had passed? Better hurry.

The shower had stopped running. This meant the other me was out of the bathroom. Have to get out of here!

Too late. Just as I started down the stairs, I heard Mother talking again. “Angela! A minute ago you were all dressed! Now you’re in your robe again and your hair’s all wet! I don’t understand.”