I was waiting in front of the gas station for 10 minutes now, shaking. Not just because it was cold... But also because of that text... was it really a wrong number and they were just confused? Was it all just a prank? Or worst of all... was that text really meant for me...? My thought were flowing in my head, when suddenly I felt the feeling that someone, somewhere, was watching me. I just hoped it was imagination. I shook the feeling off as I saw Alice walking down the street. I slapped a smile on my face and ran towards her, happy that I was no longer alone ( but was I alone in the first place...? o.o)

   As usual, she was late. She makes these crazy excuses, saying she does tons of homework the night before, and that she was really tired, although I've never seen her do ANY work in class. And this other one where she told me that she glued her eye shut thinking it was contact solution!!! For one, she hates wearing contacts. And for two, when I did meet up with her, her eye looked completely fine, it wasn't even swollen! I didn't know how she told me that with a straight face. 

   As I ran towards her, my clumsy self tripped and fell next to a couple of perfectly manicured bushes, just as one of our school buses were passing by. I felt intense stares of my "classmates" as they were laughing their butts off, but as my eyes glazed over the moving yellow vehicle, I saw Caleb and his group of jocks laughing at me, and out of nowhere, water bottles sprayed at me from behind their back.

"GRRRRRRR"

Startled, I screamed, afraid of the sound that came from the shrubs that I clumsily fell next to. But I worked up the courage to slowly pace myself to the now growling bushes, dripping and glistening in the sun with the water that was rudely sprayed at me. I looked around, searching for a weapon, and found an unusually large stick lying on the sidewalk. As I picked it up shakily  with my sweaty palms, I heard my breathing get heavier, and my heart beating so loud I thought it was going to pop out of my chest.  I slowly approached the shrubbery, when suddenly I was spun around by somebody. 

   Without thinking I gripped my weapon and swung with all the force I could muster. I then heard a familiar female voice shrieking in pain, which sounded nothing like the growling I had heard earlier. I turned around, to see my best friend Alice on the pavement, wailing with agony...