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"Now, uh, Donovon Parker has made contact with Theorium Industries to find out what the cause of this event is. We finally have closure, we just need to continue documenting all the events." The Officer Angmallen stepped away from the podium, and you could hear the news team in the background, talking amongst themselves. We were sitting at Ted's house, watching the news while we waited for his parents to finish making dinner.

"Um, hello, Amberstone City. Uh, so, it turns out that Theorium Industries had a bit of a malfunction in their particle accelerator that caused malfunctions in other devices around the laboratories. Quite frankly, we can't explain what all happened because we don't know what all devices went off. So, yeah. Sorry for the inconveniences, they have agreed to donate a total of three million dollars to repair anything we can, and, uhh... Well, yeah. Have a good evening." He turned and started to walk off the podium when people in the background started ranting and shouting. The cop stopped him and made him go back and answer some of their questions.

"... Uh, yes, you, the husky in the purple jacket."

"How can a particle accelerator cause a house to bleed?!"

"The accelerator's malfunction didn't even effect Japan, which is a whole lot closer than here. It's the devices that were screwed up because of the malfunction that effected us. ... Uh, lizard in the suit."

"What's a particle accelerator?!"

"Look it up at home, or someone else's home, or at the library. Not wasting my time. ... You, hyena in the fedora."

"What devices could cause a house to bleed? I get that it's not the particle accelerator, but..."

"I don't know, it's been a few months since I was there and honestly I haven't attended a lot of the revealings of new inventions. For all I know there's a device that could replace cellulose with blood. ... You, the cyan fox."

"How can you attribute a blatant act of god to the machinations of man!?!" The voice sounds so angry and pissed off compared to the others who were more confused.

"I don't know, how can you attribute the acts of science and physics to something that doesn't exist? ... Fedora guy, go ahead."

"Is it possible to resynchronize gravitational fluctuation?"

"... I guess, I mean, if it's possible to desynchronize them, than it's probably possible to resynchronize them. Wait a minute- even Theorium doesn't mess with gravity, who are you working for?!" Daniel's dad bolted from the podium and off the screen that cut back to the news team.

"So, my question is, why did he go chasing after that guy? I mean, what was he even talking about?"

Ted turned off the TV and slammed his hand to his forehead hard enough for it to make a sound.

"Dude, what's up?" [Seth]

"Gravity can't be synchronized! Everybody knows that."

"Yeah, but gravity's an iffy subject at Theorium Industries." [Daniel]

"Like, how iffy?" [Me]

"Like trying to mess with gravity is gonna get your project banned. They don't touch gravity, it's not something that can be manipulated and contorted, it's just a thing to avoid playing with. Although, honestly, if they could safely control gravity they would."

"Well, duh, who wouldn't?" [Seth]

"Anyone other than the population of Theorium Industries."

"I'm sure North Korea would make a weapon or two with it." [Ted]

"I'm sure everyone would make a weapon or two with it. And then destroy themselves in the process." [Seth]

"Well, more like destroy the planet, but yeah." [Daniel]

"Manipulating gravity can't destroy the planet." [Ted]

"Ted, the moon's orbit around the Earth messes with the gravity, in fact, that's the what the tides are." [Me]

"Well, yeah, but that's the moon. I mean like if you created a point of gravity-... Oh. Yeah, that'd rip apart the Earth."

"Yeah." [Seth]

There was a short pause in conversation, and Ted's dad came around the corner after some time and had us come eat dinner. Afterwards, me and Seth headed back to my house, which turned out to be a strange occurrence.

So, the events going on were all sensible and fair, but our house wasn't touched. You know, until I opened my bedroom door to find my room no longer had gravity. Not inverted gravity, no gravity. Crap was all cluttered up against a corner of my room, and when I set foot in it, I felt the world ripped away from me and I quickly grabbed onto the door frame to pull myself back to normality.

"Woah. That's weird. So, gravity's pointed towards that corner now or something?" [Seth]

"No, I think there's no gravity."

"But, then wouldn't stuff be floating in the room?"

"Well, the earth spins. It also orbits a star. Which orbits other stars and systems. Which orbit other systems that orbit a massive point of gravity at the heart of the galaxy. If something suddenly stopped being constrained by gravity, it'd go flying off as if it had negative gravity or something."

"Hm. True. So, the Earth's coming from that direction?" He pointed at the mass of crap on my wall.

"Yeah, guess so. It makes sense, that's west, so the Earth's turning away from that direction."

"Hm. Weird."

"Yeah, I should probably tell my dad or something." I turned around and walked downstairs to where my parents were eagerly watching the news.

"Hey, so there's no gravity in my room. Just thought you should know." [Me]

"Crap. I'll call the cops." Dad got up and head to the phone, which was one of those older phones with the curled cable and mounted to the wall. I went back upstairs and stopped at my doorway to find Seth stuck floating in the middle of the room, slowly drifting down at an off-down angle.

"How did you do that?" [Me]

"Well, I pushed off the back wall, so... I guess my momentum stayed, and now I'm stuck."

I smiled at the silliness and stepped in, grabbing his hand as I fell away from the world towards the west wall. Once I landed against it, he kept moving and crashed into me, our bodies pushed lightly together. I kissed him on the nose, and he wrapped his arms around me, slowly drifing closer to me. We just stayed like that, comforted by each other's grasp, and after a minute or two I heard dad clear his throat at the doorway.

"You two just decided to dive in?" [Dad]

"By all means, it's just a lack of gravity. It's nothing too drastic." [Seth]

"Well, be careful. The cops are on their way." Dad turned around and headed back downstairs. I reached my hand down and pulled Seth's butt closer to me, pushing our crotches together, and felt him pull my body closer to his, pressing our chests against each other. He moved his foot against something, pushing us off from the wall, and drifting in the air, holding ourselves together. By the time we reached the floor, I heard two sets of feet walking up the stairs. We were pulled back against the wall as soon as we touched the floor, and I caught a glimpse of the same white bunny as before standing in the door way.

"Are you like the only cop working on this?" [Me]

"No, I took this area, I'm the head of the department. So, are you guys okay, or is this one of the more dangerous events?"

"We're fine." [Seth]

"Zero Gs is fun." [Me]

"Right, well you're kids so I'll let it pass. I take it you don't mind having your room like this."

"Of course not." [Me]

"Okay, then we won't break the window. We found the gravity issues are like a seal on the room, and if you break the seal it fixes gravity. Okay, enjoy trying to figure out how to sleep like that."

"What, that's it?!" [Dad]

"Yeah. We can't explain it, your kid doesn't mind, and quite frankly I have more pressing matters to attend to, like moving sentient objects into the house of relics."

"The house of relics?" [Seth]

"Yeah, some guy's walls warped and became living fur, so we decided that anything that was made sentient and semi living can be left there for people to deal with as they see fit. The only rule, don't kill things. Already got a few threats to burn down the house."

"Woah, so like, it's a museum?" [Me]

"I'm not gonna complain when someone starts a fire in that." [Dad]

"Yes, it's a museum, and we're trying to protect it. Some of those things are actually intelligent, not just giggling books. As an example, there's a guy who's toaster became sentient, and started talking in Latin after we asked it how things were happening... Yeah it's creepy."