Building Bridges/Cuentos Y Puentes

that’s closed but shines blue light out
of it. When Ella opens it, it creates a
portal. She jumps into the blue hole and
teleports to appear right in front of the
creature!
The creature stops. “How’d you do
that?” they ask, curious and astonished.
“Do what?”
“That,” they say. “How’d you just go in
front of me?”
“Come into my friend Skylar’s house and
I’ll explain,” Ella says.
They and the other kids go back into
Skylar’s house. Some of the kids are
scared of the creature and call their
parents to pick them up. Others don’t
care and start the party (again).
Ella and the creature go upstairs and
walk into Skylar’s room where they see
people making out. “Nope definitely not
that room,” they both say.
Ella and the creature are in the guest
bedroom. Ella explains everything. She
tells them that she got her superpowers
when she was 8. She and her dad were
riding bikes, and she found a watch on
the road. She picked it up and opened it.
She saw a blue portal appear.
“Dad, look at that!” she said excitedly.
“Look at what, honey?” her dad said.
“That blue thing!”
Her dad didn’t see it. “I need a drink,”
he said. He took a drink of water and Ella
walked into the portal. When he turned
around again she was gone!
After that Ella used her new power a
lot—for silly things, like getting first in
line in the cafeteria. But one day she
was walking to school and she saw an
old woman walking across the road. Ella
thought she was about to get hit by a
car, so Ella went back in time to when
the woman was walking out the door of
her house, and she walked in front of
her. The woman said, “Hey, girl, move!”
and called her dog Whisky to scare Ella
away. Ella ran away, and the woman was
shaking her head in confusion and anger
and didn’t see the car coming. She died,
and Ella realizes that if she hadn’t gone
back in time, she might have lived. After
that Ella didn’t use her powers much
anymore because she realised that it
could do more harm than good.
After Ella finishes explaining all of this,
the creature introduces themselves to
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