"RRINNNGG. RRINNNNNGG."

"Hello?"

"Yees. Mzz . Nastasi?"

"Yes?"

" Thizz izz the Morgue."

"Oh. Um, Do we owe some kind of life insurance bill or something?"

" Neeeeew. Bot I dew havve some bod newzzz For you."

" Oh. Has some one in the family passed away?"

" Yezzzz. You're great Uncle Theobald Millller III"

" Oh dear that's terrible."

" Yezzzzz. Bot I dew havvve some good news for youuu."

" What's that?"

" YOU'VE JUST INHERITED 1000,000,000 DOLLARS AND YOUR OWN PERSONAL ISLAND IN THE CARRIBEAN!!!!!! Ma'am."

" Really??!!! Oh my gosh that's great !!!! I'll be right over!"

"CLICK"

" Holy cow. I've got to tell Brittany about this."

If you're wondering whats going on I'll tell you. I'm Jessica Nastasi and I just inherited one million bucks!

I got my purse, grabbed the keys, and hopped into the Camero as soon as I could and drove over to Brittany's.

" Brittany! Brittany!! You won't belive who just called!"

" Um, the president?"

" No"

" Jonathan Taylor Thomas asking you out on a date?"

" Better. The Morgue!!"

" That's better than JTT?"

" No, no you don't understand. I just inherited a million bucks and an island in the Carribean! Plus probably a mansion, a Rolls Royce , and who knows what else."

" WOW!! Who did you inherit it from.?"

" Some great Uncle Theobald. I have absolutly no idea who it is."

"You know, some kid might be playing a trick on you."

" Well, maybe, but let's go over to the morgue and find out any way!"

We drove over to the morgue as fast as we could without getting a ticket. But when we got there,

"This place gives me the creeps."

" Why wouldn't it there's dead people inside."

We opened up the big wooden doors.

" Helllooo. Can I help you two girls. Would you like to make an arrangment for-"

" No thankyou. Uh, I'm Jess Nastasi. You called me about a half an hour ago about my great Uncle Theobald."

"Oh yes , You're the yooooung lady who inherited the island corect? "

" Yeah."

"Well, walk this way....."

One Week Later,

"Ahhhhhh, This is the life huh Brittany?"

" You said it Jess"

"Right on" Jasmine added.

My Friend Jasmine Armlin had joined us on "Mystic Island" .

"You know Jess, This place is great. I mean, having your own private island, where nobody can bother you. A beautiful yacht, I mean How can it get any better than this."

"And you made one half of the island a wild life preserve."

" I know . There's alot you can do with your own island and a million dollars."

" Yeah Maybe you can make the beach sort of a non-pollution vacation area"

" Good idea Jazz. With no cars or trucks or aresol cans or factories. It really would be the greatest place on earth."

" Maybe we should like build b a beach house an vacation here every summer"

"We could make a whole bunch of beach houses and people could honey-moon here or take their kids to a pollution free Vacation spot."

"Do you think the million dollars will cover It? And remember we've still got to think about college."

"Well , Iguess you're right. Maybe we should just leave it as a wild life preserve an d let scientist come a study it. I mean it probably would be better if we just gave the whole island to the animals."

"Jess."

"Yeah Britt?"

" I think that's one of the best ideas you've ever had."

"You're right Brittany."

"C' mon you two quit all the mushy stuff! Let's go swimming before we have to go back!"

"All right. Come on Britt!"

T.V. Trouble!

It was Saturday and Jasmine had been invited over to my house for a little while.

"Devon will you please turn that dumb cartoon off so Jasmine and I can watch something?" I asked my brother for the third time.

"No!! I want to watch 'Centurions' !!" my brother Devon said in his usual whiny voice.

"C'mon Jasmine, we'll just have to watch The special on tigers in my room." I said to Jazz

"Hey where did my TV go?!!"

Bum, bum, bum, bum!!!

"And the TV in the living room is gone too!!!"

Bum, bum, bum, bum!!

"Hey Jess, where's that music coming from?"

"Oh, Jasmine! Come on we have to call Brittany and see if her TV's are gone too!"

We dialled Brittany's number.

"Hello?? Yeah Brittany, check and see if your TV is gone. It is? And the one in the living room too?!!"

Bum, bum, bum, bum!!

"What? And your brother's too? Oh no this is terrible!"

Bum, bum, bum, bum!!

"Will you people cut that out!!!"

"Sorry, wrong story."

We called everyone else we knew. But all of their TV's were gone too!

That night on the news, (the radio news.)

"Good evening America, It's seven o 'clock, do you know were your TV is? A terrible happening has hit the nation. TV's everywhere have dissapeared. Why has it happened, Nobody knows."

"Can we turn this off?" I said

"Go ahead." My dad answered. He looked as depressed as I was.

I went to my room and thought of all the shows I was missing. But then I thought again. TV's are a pretty new invention. People had found ways to entertain them selves for hundreds of years before Tv's were around.

So I made a list of all the things you could do that weren't watching TV.

1. Draw

2. Read

3. listen to music

4. go outside

5. ride my bike

6. practice on my pogo stick

7. Play with my brother (yawn)

8. practice playing my recorder

9. invite Britt over and play "Jack Bandit"

10. probably alot more!

I piked the things I wanted to do and could do at the time, ate supper and then did the dishes.

But that night, I had a terrible dream! Hundreds, no thousands of Giant TV's were chasing me!

I ran and ran, but I couldn't get away! I could run, but I couldn't hide. They just kept chasing. It was all over!! And then....

I woke up.

"My TV!! It's back!! YES!"

"Your TV is back? Was it ever gone?" My mom said as she walked in my room.

"But, but, but?"

I guess it was just all a dream.

Brittany and I couldn't figure out why we had been called to the lab.

Oh, I guess I'm getting a little ahead of myself. I'm Jessica Nastasi and my friend's name is Brittany Rowlison.

We had each gotten a phone call to come to a place called "Newton Labs" on Friday at 3:00 pm. Well we were there now and we were waiting outside a door marked "Dr. Newton"

Suddenly a red light over the door started to flash and the the big steel door marked "Dr. Newton" slowly opened.

A rather short man stepped out. He had whispy greyish-brown hair and had glasses on. He was wearing a long, white lab coat, a green and orange polka-dotted tie, tan pants that looked like they were a little too big for him, and had several ball point pens in the pocket the lab coat. He looked just like a scientist out of an old science-fiction movie.

"I am Doctor Herbert Newton," he said with a slight German accent. "You two girls must be Jessica and Brittany."

"Yes we are actually," I answered. "Why did you ask us to come here?"

"Oh yes. Well, I have selected you two young ladies to be the first of the general public try my time machine."

For a second I thought he was a mad scientist.

"Did you say time machine?" I asked in a puzzled voice.

" Yes time machine. I've already tried it myself. It works perfectly and is absolutely harmless, but I don't think that my colleagues belive that it works."

"I wonder why." Brittany whispered to me. I elbowed her in the side.

"Well, if you say it's absolutly safe then I guess we'll try it" I said, not sounding to sure of myself.

"Oh, thank you. Now I will be able to prove my true genius!" Boy this guy was weird. True Genius? Whoa.

"A, when do you think would be a good time?"

" Do you mean a time in the future or sometime like this week?' Brittany said.

"Oh that is very funny Brittany! Haa Haa Haa Haa Haa!! Oh, yes, um, a, the second one."

"How about now?" I said to Britt.

" I guess so," Brittany said.

"We think that today would be allright," I said to Dr. Newton.

"All right then, Let us get started."

Brittany and I stepped onto a large circular platform. The Doctor pushed some buttons and turned a few knobs. He pushed a big lever onto a setting called forward. Then he turned on something that looked like an automatic video camera.

"I'm sending you to the year 2100. Here is some futuristic currency. You will need it to buy clothes, food, pay rent, and buy any household appliences you need. I'll keep you there for three minutes but for you it will be three days."

"Three days?!" I said "why do we have to stay for so long?"

"To see exactly what it is like there. Here. Write in this book every night. Tell about what you saw and what you did.

"Ready?"

"We guess so," we said.

"Okaaaaaaaaay............."

The next thing we knew we were standing in a big white room. All of the sudden we heard a loud voice.

"It is time to prepare for your first lesson!!!!!!!! It is time to prepare for your first lesson!!!!!!!"

"Where is that coming from?!" I yelled over all the noise.

"Over there Jess!" Brittany yelled back.

It was something that looked kind of like a computer but it had numbers on it like a clock.

"It must be a futuristic alarm clock." Brittany said

"It said 'Time to get ready for your first lesson'. We must have to get ready for school!"

"But Jess, We don't know where school is! We might have to walk or ride a bus, or anything."

"Maybe we should go in there."

"Where?"

"In that room labeled: "Lessons""

"Oh"

We went into the room and saw all sorts of machines. There was one that was like a huge computer screen with a desk and a keyboard in front of it. There was another one that looked like a calculator. It was on a Big metal table with a bunch of other little devices and gadgets.

Then a little robot bumped into us.

"Prepare for your first lesson." It said

"What is our first lesson?" I asked it.

"Your first lesson is Mathematics."

"What do we do after that?'' Brittany asked

"You continue by having Art lessons, Language lessons, geography lessons, History lessons, have a two hour recess from lessons, continue with history, have a science lesson and then are dismissed."

"Are you our teacher?"

"I will assist you with your lessons but you will be taught mostly by the computer."

"Wow." Brittany said. "These schools are pretty complex"

"Not really," I said.

"What do you mean?"

"We have most of the same classes as at home. The only differences are that we stay at home and are taught by a computer."

"Well," Brittany said. "Complex or not, This is going to be an exciting three days!"