"No thanks, I'm good," Pierce says to the man, a little creeped out at the weird man who popped into his room.
"Well, that's too bad. Are you sure you won't just take a potion, complements of me?" The man holds up a small bottle of a clear liquid. "It really will change your life!"
"Ok, sure," Pierce says, just wanting to get rid of the little man. Pierce takes the bottle and puts it into his pocket, planning on using it as a drink later.
The man walled back into the door and it dissappeared. Then Pierce put the bottle onto the rail, where he leaves it until he wanted to walk downstairs.
Pierce went into his room and noticed that his clock was ticking again. He figured that it must have started again when the man left.
An hour later, Pierce finished his algebra and walked to his room and noticed that the bottle wasn't on the rails. He figured that his mom took it and put it downstairs.
He walked downstairs to the kitchen and found the bottle on the counter, where Pierce decided it could stay.
The next morning, Pierce's mom was hurriedly packing Pierce's and his little sister's lunches and needed a water bottle. Seeing the vial, she decided that it would work as a water bottle and picked it up and threw it into one of the lunches, where it leaked over all of the food.