"Um... I've had this camera-thing with me. I-I mean, I think it's mine. But, I–yeah, I guess if you say it's yours..." I nervously began to hand over my polaroid to the strange man.
"No, Riley!" Mr. Wick shouted as he grabbed the polaroid from my hand. He quickly shot a photograph of the man and threw it into a large metal bin beside his desk. The bin closed and made a loud "THUMP." The man disappeared.
"That was a Time Bug. Don't EVER give this to one of them." He handed me back my camera.
"Excuse me... A time bug? Where am I?"
Mr. Wick looked around the room and then back in my direction. He went back to his desk at the front of the classroom and sat down.
I looked down at the photograph of the butterfly in my hand. Then I looked around the classroom and realized the Students and Watchers were frozen. I stood in stupor and looked back at the photograph...
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