[ WP ] You 're in school , the class is noisy as always . Then all of the side everything stops . Confused , you look up to find everyone frozen like a statue .

I looked around. No one moved. 
 
 I waved my hands in front of the boy next to me. No one responded. 
 
 I looked up. I could see the dust motes, lit by the sunlight through the window, suspended in the air. 
 
 On a hunch, I looked out the window to the field below. 
 
 I nodded to myself. It had to happen eventually. 
 
 I got up, headed out the door and down to the school field. 
 
 The boy looked frantic. The relief of having his tormentors freeze in the middle of delivering the next blow had been replaced by panic at time stopping around him, I supposed. He'd extricated himself from the bigger boy's grip on his collar in the time I took to get to the field, but now he was just standing there, staring at the inadvertent tableau. At least he was n't in punching range anymore. 
 
 `` This your first time?'' 
 
 He jumped, turning around. His eyes widened. `` You're not frozen?'' 
 
 `` No, I'm not.'' I nodded at the two bigger boys. Freshmen too, probably: they looked a couple of years younger than me. They looked pathetic now, but I could see how they might be terrifying to a younger student. `` So they've been giving you trouble?'' 
 
 He looked away. `` Yeah.'' 
 
 I'd guessed he was a freshman, but in that moment he looked much younger. 
 
 `` And you wanted it to stop, did n't you?'' 
 
 He nodded, then looked up sharply. `` Wait, are you saying-'' 
 
 `` Yeah. But if you stopped time, you can start it again. Powers are nice like that.'' 
 
 `` How do you know?'' 
 
 I waved a hand. `` How do you think I'm not frozen? I have powers too.'' 
 
 He nodded slowly. `` So I should... what? Will time to start running again?'' 
 
 `` You can try.'' I shrugged. `` Or maybe just relax and accept things? You stopped time because you did n't want something to happen, after all. Though that does n't mean you have to stand there and take it from them,'' I added quickly. 
 
 The boy looked uncertain, but took a deep breath. `` Alright. I'll try.'' 
 
 I nodded and tried my best to give him an encouraging smile. `` Hey, no pressure. You have all the time in the world-'' He shot me a look, and I held up my hands. `` Hah, sorry, could n't resist. Seriously though, if you have any more trouble with them, come find me. We're not the only ones with powers in this school.'' 
 
 He nodded and started walking away. I headed back inside, up the stairs and back into my classroom. 
 
 Almost as soon as I sat down, the class returned to life like someone had pressed'play' on the world. I smiled. 
 
 It was always confusing when someone first got their powers. At least the boy was taking the first steps in learning how to control his. I hoped I had helped him, even a little. 
 
 Though I was kind of sad that he never asked me my name. I'd always wanted to use that line. It was that kind of thinking that had resulted in the power I got, after all. 
 
 Perhaps next time I'd get to respond to *'' Who are you? `` * with *'' Oh, nothing and nobody. `` * 

