Carlos spun where he stood his heart thumping wildly. He gave a slight sigh of relief as he saw the school janitor coming toward him.
“What are you doing here? School doesn’t start for another month.” Janitor asked and looking accusingly at his face.
“It doesn’t?” Carlos asked back, looking confused with a blank expression.
“Still the summer break and you shouldn’t be here yet.” Janitor said taking Carlos’s arm and dragging him toward the door.
“Sorry, I didn’t know.” Carlos muttered out and quickened his pace to kept up with the janitor’s pace.
“It’s alright. Just check with your friends or parent when school starts next time. I never have seen a student so eager to start high school that he mistakes the month.” Janitor said as he open the unlock door to the school.
Before Carlos could respond the door shut with a snap and the janitor locked it.
`Summer break?’ Carlos thought with a strange happiness. `The candy bar had work. Somehow he was transported straight to summer break or back to the last summer break.’ He thought as he walked back home.
If a little bit made him have a month of no school he wondered what if a bigger part would do. Opening the front pocket of the backpack then taking the candy bar out, he broke the rest of blue candy bar off and tossed it in his mouth.
Feeling of warm chocolate made him wish he had a glass of water to wash it down with. Opening his bag to see if he had any spare change he noticed the old math book again.
Everything seemed normal and nothing looked changed. Carlos decided he’d better get home were he felt safe. He made a dash for his house.
Everything was normal when he got home. Everything was the same as before. His mother and father looked the same. This confused Carlos, why no one else appeared to be getting younger or why anyone had noticed he was not in school.
Carlos went to his room to think some more. Tossing his school things in a bottom drawer of his desk Carlos laid on the bed thinking.
He was happily thinking how free he was. He vaguely wondered if eating the rest of the half blue candy bar took him back to very beginning of the summer break. He be a 14-year old boy again and get a chance to prevent some mistakes he made the first time around.
`This is great.’ Carlos thought getting up and looking out the window.