"My nickname is God." Said the glowing figure. "And as a little gift from me to you, take this helpful tool."
Elohim reached his hand out with a watch in the palm. Isaac accepted the watch gratefully, countless feelings building up inside.
"This is all I can do for you now. The watch will help you in time." He winked as he said the word. He then glimmered away as the light diminished, leaving Isaac alone beside the building. Isaac left the building and went back to the moving truck.
"Isaac, where were you? We were starting to get worried about you." "I'm okay, Mom. I just went to go check out a noise. I helped feed a homeless man. He left shortly afterword." "Well, as long as you stay as kind as sweet as you are now, you can feed all the homeless people you want."
Isaac's parents both kissed him and then they set off again. After about 5 minutes in the car, Isaac started to mess with the watch, somehow knowing that it wasn't an ordinary watch. He saw the memories of it, how it had once been moved, and repeated these actions. He found that the watch seemed to shimmer and vibrate as he pushed buttons and rotated the nozzles. Once he pushed in the final button of the sequence, he was in Shorelove. 4 hours went by in a span of 6 minutes. Astounded, Isaac stepped out of the car and looked around the new house, the scenery, and even the truck in which he had traveled for 8 hours real time, but only 4 hours and 6 seconds in his time.
"Mom!?!" He shouted. "What just happened!?!"
"What do you mean, hon? You were sitting perfectly still for 4 hours straight. I was wondering if you were alright." She planted a kiss on his forehead. "You must have just passed out with your eyes open." She smiled at him and giggled to herself. "Now go check out your new bedroom."
Isaac went inside with a box and found the room he would now call his home. He unpacked most of his things before he found a small disk, just the same size as the watch's face. He put the disk on top of the watch, its familiarity still confusing. He could feel a growing companionship with the watch, though he had only seen it once and had it for about 10 minutes. As he set the disk on top, a hologram came out of the watch. It was the figure of a man, only appearing 7 inches tall as a hologram. The man was dressed in a long, brown trenchcoat that had obviously seen many battles. He looked pretty messy like he hadn't shaved or showered in a couple days, so he had a layer of stubble covering his chin.
He spoke to Isaac in a voice so familiar it shocked him because he had never heard it. It was soothing while also giving off an intimidating boom. "If you are listening, you must be Isaac Woods. Stop watching now if you are not Isaac Woods." He paused for a moment before continuing again. "Isaac, you must be very confused, just as I was. Just know that you have a choice now. Either push the blue button or the red button on the watch when this message ends.
Push the blue button to continue your life as normal. You'll give up your gift of time and lose all memory of anything to do with it. You'll live a perfectly normal life.
Or... you can push the big red button to stop your life as it is and give up on ever being normal. You'll become something way more powerful and free. However, you will still have many burdens, such as... well, maybe her."
He moves the recording device to focus on a woman quite a bit shorter than the man. She smiles timidly and waves, trying to cover herself slightly. "Don't be so shy, Psych. Say 'hey' at least." She turns away and quickly walks into the next room, out of sight of the hologram.
"Isn't she just a doll? I wish I could explain more, but if you choose the blue, that info could make your head explode, literally, when you try to forget it. So, message complete. Your decision."
The hologram shuts off. Isaac immediately pushed the big red button on the side of the watch. It was all he ever wanted. Power, freedom, love, and control over his life for once. He was always under the control of others and their decisions. He was sick and tired of being someone else's puppet. He was fed up with being the stuffed animal with his arms and legs ripped off.
The watch starts beeping. Isaac looks around, suspicious of the silence outside the room. He walks outside to the living room to see his parents still unloading boxes, but completely still. He looked at the clock in the kitchen. The second hand wasn't moving. Nothing was moving. He went back outside the house and saw a butterfly, a hummingbird, and a bee, all of them still as stone. Everything was frozen in time like the most high resolution 3D picture ever.
It was then that he thought of the possibilities and causes of this frozen world. "What was the purpose of my unpacking if I won't need any of it anymore?" He grabbed his bike and tried to pick it up, but it moved far too slow for him to be able to use it. He walked down the beach, surprised to feel the sand as solid as steel, but as bumpy as sandpaper. It didn't mold at all, being completely time frozen. He saw a boat out on the ocean and saw movement on it, being quite obviously the place he was destined to go. He tried to jump into the ocean through a wave, only to hit his head on the curve of the wave. He then remembered the frozen world and the way it worked, somehow able to remember it, though he never saw it before.
