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    The homeroom teacher was sitting on her desk, waiting for everyone to arrive to the classroom. When everyone was sitting, the teacher stood up and without saying good morning she began to talk about Claire.

-"Claire Thompson was a devoted friend to many of you. A smart girl, one of the bests of every single class. We all have to wonder why would someone do this to Claire. Our only guess is that she was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Please, I beg all of you to stay in well lit areas, in crowded places, especially at night so we can avoid this in the..."

-"Sorry I'm late..." - said Christie as she entered the classroom and took her sit.  -"What's going on?" - she asked Diana, who sat in front of her.

-"The teach is talking about Claire...shhh!" - she answered fast.

 -"As I was saying, please be careful of where you go and with whom you go...Try to stay in places where you know you will be safe. Please, try to do as I say...You are the future, and I couldn't bare if anything else happened to any of you..." - said the teacher in tears.

Some students stood up and went towards the teacher and hugged her.

-"What happened?" - asked Christie.

-"You don't know? There was another murder last night! It was Claire Thompson!"

-"What?! Claire?! But, how?" 

-"Nobody knows...they think it was the same person that got to that Turner girl..."

-"Damn!" 

 -"Yeah."

     At lunch, the four friends sat on the same table as always. Jake, Johnny, Christie and Diana, put their food trays on the table. When Johnny was about to say something, Diana interrupted him:

-"Whatever you are about to say, I hope it's not about Claire...I'm already scared more than I had ever been in my life, and I really don't need to keep hearing about it."

-"Actually, I wasn't going to mention Claire...I was gonna ask you guys if any of you did the math homework."

-"Oh. I didn't." - said Diana.

-"I don't think it matters though. I heard some teachers talking, the school is going to close for a week." - said Jake.

-"A week off? Damn! I say we go to the beach!" - said Christie.

    Everyone stared at her.

-"Bad joke. Sorry!"

    After their last class the principal sent a notice confirming that they would have a week off to grieve. After the last bell rang, Jake met Diana at her classroom.

-"Hey, I was thinking....maybe, we could go to the movies tonight. You know, to get IT out of our heads..."

-"Sure, sounds good..."

-"Pick you up at eight?"

    Diana nodded and gave him a kiss. That night at 8:00 pm, Jake arrived at Diana's house.  He honked his car horn and waited for her. She came out and asked him to roll his window. He did so and asked her what was going on, why wasn't she dressed.

-"My parents don't want me to go out, with what happened to Claire."

    Jake said Oh. And she smiled at him.

-"Meet me at the curve in ten minutes. I'll get out through my window." - said Diana and she ran back to her house. 

    Jake smiled and obeyed. In ten minutes, he saw his girlfriend climbing out of her bedroom window. She was sitting in his car a second later. A couple of hours later they were leaving the movie theater commenting the movie.

-"Common, that was lame!"

-"Are you kidding? When he took the machine gun and started shooting all over..."

-"Baby, you are rambling again....typical male..." - said laughing Diana.

    Suddenly they realized that at the end of the street a lot of people were looking at something. Jake stopped a passing by man and asked him what was going on.

-"Another person was attacked! A man this time...but it wasn't like last night's girl. This one is completely eaten! The police aren't letting anyone pass through there..." - said the man and kept walking.

-"Another attack?" - said Diana.

-"Looks like there's a psycho on the loose. I'll take you home." -said Jake.

-"Yeah, please." -said Diana holding Jake's hand tighter.

    Jake took her home and waited for her to be inside before he left. Instead of taking the usual route, passing through Johnny's house, he went directly to his own.  When he entered he saw his 10 year old sister sitting in the living room.

-"Mom's been asking where were you...There was another attack." - said Stephanie.

-"Yeah, I know. It was close to the movie theater..."

-"Yeah, I know. Mom tried calling you to your cellphone, but you left it here."

-"I'll go tell her I'm home."

-"Go do that. I'll be here, watching TV."

-"Actually, you will be getting ready for bed. It's almost 11."

-"Spoken like a true older brother..." - said Stephanie as she turned off the TV.