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I take a deep breath and start talking—
quickly, so as not to go over the five minutes. “The
first thing that happened was a tingling sensation
shooting through my whole body, like the feeling
of your foot being asleep, except this was all over.
I got shrunk down as small as Oliver-David.”
“Harrumph,” Oliver-David says. I ignore
him and keep going.
“I was sucked into the bottle, and it felt
like being on a roller coaster. Not that I’ve ever
been on one of those. If you ever read the roller
coaster accident statistics, I’m sure you’ll stop
riding them, too. Eventually I was spit back out
of a whole other bottle, and I had to figure out
where I was and who my genie assignment was.”
“Excuse me,” Athena says, “but isn’t it
obvious who the genie assignment is?”
“There were three kids in the room,” I told
her. “Two of them were beating up the smallest
one. He turned out to be my assignment. I
followed them outside to a Dumpster, where