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Danny should have known better. He had asked many silly favors of Clockwork and the old ghost had never accepted. Danny should have known something was up when Clockwork said yes to Danny’s request for more time to study for his test.
But alas, here he was going on day 4 of repeating the same day over and over and over again. He hadn’t even realized what had happened at first! He had gone to school where he’d asked Sam and Tuck if they were ready for the test, and they had simply said that the test was tomorrow. Then Danny had seen the date on his phone and cursed at Clockwork under his breath. His friends had only made fun of him.
Danny was reminded of the movies he had seen where a character repeated the day and did all sorts of shenanigans since there would be no consequences. And while the idea was tempting, it would be just like Clockwork to stop the loop at an inconvenient time so that Danny would have to deal with the consequences of any shenanigans he got up to.
Still, Danny had skipped school the second time the day had repeated, and he had even gotten Sam and Tuck to skip with him after explaining (again) that they were in a time loop. It would be a lot more convenient if they were stuck in the loop too, but at least they didn’t doubt Danny just made fun of him (again). This was probably Clockwork’s punishment, that his friends would make fun of him every day for his choices.
At least there were no ghost attacks this day. The fourth day, Danny decided to skip school again and just play video games. The sixth day he flew up to space and had fun stargazing and making the astronauts think the International Space Station was haunted. If this continued, Danny might even try to photobomb the Hubble Space Telescope. That would be funny.
By the tenth day, Danny was so done with Clockwork! He had spent the whole day searching the Zone, but Clockwork still refused to let himself be found.
Danny was so going to get the old ghost back for this! And he had plenty of time to plan a way to get back at the ghost. He’d just have to be subtle so the old ghost didn’t see him coming on one of his many time screens.
Danny would find a way to get him back. He would.
Finally, after twenty days in the loop, Danny woke up and noticed the date had finally changed.
Hoorah! He was free! Why had he even asked for more time anyway? What had even been the point? Danny glanced at his calendar where he’d written something in big red letters on today’s date.
Oh right.
He had a test today.
Well, shoot.