Once upon a time in a small town off the coast of South Carolina lived a family of a grandfather and his nine grandsons. The grandfather was an old frail man who was a traveling sales man when possible. He would leave for months at a time only to return with little and not stay for long. The rundown town that the boys grew up in had no education system so the schooling that anyone had was what they learned from either their grandfather or others who lived near by. The youngest grandson, Bumpes, had a slight problem seeing. He was cross-eyed. Now for most people who are cross-eyed they have one eye slightly off compared to the other but not for Bumpes. His eyes were FUCKED UP! Bumpes not only had a problem seeing but that through off his perception of balance and direction. When Bumpes would walk to the store two blocks away he wouldn’t return until the next day. If his path would be mapped out it would be nothing but zigzags and figure eight’s around the blocks until he finally reach the store. His 5’5 tubby body would lean to one side when he would walk and even sit down. Now he wasn’t dumb by any means but everything he would try and do and say defiantly would make you think a dead squirrel had more brain power than he did. All of his brothers would try to ignore him and act as if he wasn’t part of the family.

In late fall one year when the grandfather returned home he became very ill and died. After a few days passed a lushes, tall, big breasted, nice ass lawyer showed up at the house and requested that all the grandchildren meet with her at her office to go over their grandfathers will. As she left the house the brothers filled the windows to watch such a great piece of ass walk away. Now only one brother was not present when the lawyer was at the house, Bumpes. He of course was in the backyard playing with what he thought was the family cat. So of course the brothers decide to leave Bumpes out of the meeting and leave him behind. The next day they send Bumpes to the store and head off to meet with the eye candy lawyer.

The brothers sit down in the office they are handed an envelop with their grandfathers name on it. Inside they find a short note. "Gotcha good Fuckers", grandpa. The lawyer looking at as ever and unable to make eye contact with the brothers do to the staring at her chest told them she was instructed to give that actual will to them next. After having everything read to the brothers they find out their grandfather was actually a rich prick. He owned a house and cars in sunny California and never was a traveling salesman. The traveling that the grandfather did was to Cali to live the highlife. The brothers take one long long look at the very sexy lawyer and head home.

On the way back they come up with a plan to tell Bumpes that they are going to the city for a day to look for jobs and would return that night. When in actuality the had bought plane tickets to California to live life as their grandfather had. Bumpes of course believed his brothers feeling they would never do him wrong or anything to hurt him and stayed behind. After a few days had passed Bumpes decided to go to the city and look for is brothers in fear something had happen.

He headed out the front door and a month later made it to the city 15 miles away. After wondering around the city scaring the shit out of people walking passed Bumpes found his way into an ally as it started to pour rain. After crawling around for awhile Bumpes got into a box and began to cry. Of course while Bumpes lay there on the streets in the rain his brothers were laying on the beaches of California hitting on anything that didn’t have anything hanging between its legs. After awhile Bumpes could make out what seemed to be a homeless man in front of him. The man asked, "Boy why do you cry?" Bumpes looked up as the man jumped back and yelled "God damn! Never mind I think I know why?" Bumpes goes on to tell the homeless man how his brothers were gone and he ended up lost in the city. After the story the homeless man told Bumpes his name was Garth and that if Bumpes would like he could correct his eyes. Bumpes of course jumped up and yelled, "Yes of course" . Garth told Bumpes to close his eyes and to stand still. Out of no where Crack! Bumpes got a hard right hook to the head from Garth knocking him into the side of the building and unconscious. A few minutes later Bumpes woke up to seeing rain drops fall and an old, tall, battered clothed man standing in front of him. He became over filled with joy and thanked Garth for everything he had done and was forever grateful. Garth then said he had two gifts for Bumpes to use at his disposal for the hardships he had lived thus far. Out of his pocket he pulled an iPod and cloak for Bumpes. "Now this iPod doesn’t play music but will stop, fast forward and rewind time as you please. As for this cloak when you put it on you and the cloak become invisible." said Garth. Straight and big eyed Bumpes took the gifts and went on his way through the city.

Once in a while as he was walking through the streets Bumpes would pause time just to feel the power he held in his hands. In time he grew hungry so without any money to spend threw on the cloak walked into a store and grabbed food so not to starve. Bumpes then realized he no longer had to work or needed money. He could stay where he wanted without being seeing and could pause time to get money. However Bumpes knew he could not do anything to drastic, for it could change history. So he decided to stick with not moving time no more than a few days and only taking what he needed when not being seen.

Bumpess lived the dream traveling to France, Italy, Miami, and even Hiawatha, Iowa. Using the iPod and cloak to get large amounts of money telling himself it was ok because of the way he looked for so long. He stayed in the nicest hotels and wore the best clothing eating at only the finest restaurants. As the years passed he would do what he could, with pausing time, being invisible and helping others when he felt it didn’t interfere with the world to much. Mean while the rain came to sunny California and in the heart of the storms were the brothers luxuries home. Bumpes started to wonder whatever did become of his brothers and decided to start searching for them. The rain continued causing mudslides and flooding all over La Conchita, California, just northwest of Los Angeles. Houses started coming down the hill slide being swept away by the mud and the eight brothers wasted in their house got taken away and killed. After looking all over the east coast with no luck Bumpes decided to look for death certificates of his brothers. Finding all eight of them and learning they died from the mudslides Bumpes decided to do what he vowed he never would. Go back and change the outcome of his brothers lives. He headed straight for California to what was left of destroyed hillside. Bumpes drops to his knees to feel the dried mud in his hands. With the ipod in hand Bumpes starts to rewind time stopping every so often to see what the brothers were doing the last days of their live and when would be the best time to interfere and changing the outcome of their untimely deaths. After awhile Bumpes starts to realize the only thing his brothers were doing were never leaving the house, being drunks, and whoring around with any available woman. He than pauses and thinks to himself what he would actually be saving, the lives of those who have left him. "Fuck that!" Bumpes cries out. "I’m not going to do shit for them, they never did shit for me." Bumpes brought time back to the present and leaves California for good.

From than on Bumpes lived any life he felt like by the mood he was in. Traveling anywhere, spending what he wanted but not to much to draw much attention to himself. After years of happens Bumpes returns to the same alley that he once met Garth. Low and behold there in a cardboard box in the rain there he was. Bumpes hands Garth the cloak and iPod crawls into a cardboard box and takes his last breath.