"Hello? Earth to Brooke! Anybody there?"

My eyes suddenly became focused enough to determine my whereabouts. I was in my best friend's

house. I could tell immediately because of the completely 80's wallpaper that was pasted all over

the living room walls.

"Hey. Did you finally decide to come back?"

I looked over towards the voice and realized that my best friend was sitting beside me with either

a sarcastic, curious, or angry look in her eyes. I seriously hoped it was just anger.

"Well? Why did you zone out like that? What were you thinking about?"

I stifled a laugh. Definitely curious.

"Sorry Stace. It won't happen again." I tried to start up a different conversation when I finally

remembered what I was here for.

"So, we were studying right? Okay, I think I'm definitely going to fail Mathematics. How 'bout you?"

She didn't answer. Stacie was adamant in her refusal to change the subject.

"Not joking, Brooke."

I sighed. I knew Stacie was just trying to be helpful by having me express my thoughts to someone

to lighten the load but she didn't know that this time, I wasn't going to give in.

"I'm fine Stace. Don't worry about me. I can handle things myself." I said this to her with as much

boredom as I could muster to make sure she didn't press the subject further. I only hoped that

what I said was true. I could handle this, right? I wasn't so sure.

She bought it and I immediately felt a huge weight being dropped off of my shoulders.I didn't have to

worry anyone when there wasn't anything for them to worry about. At least, I didn't think it was that

serious. I knew that as soon as I told her what I saw, she would have been freaking out and possibly

trying to send me to a shrink.

We started studying and decided to call it quits when I thought that my mind would collapse from

the weight of all the math problems that filled in every gap in my brain.

"I'll text you later, Brooke. See you tomorrow in-",there was a slight pause when Stacie did a fake

shiver,"Ms.Collen's class."

We both broke out into a fit of giggles which abruptly changed into laughter when she pretended

to be Ms.Collen's by scrunching up her nose and speaking in a high pitch. Stacie had her moments

when she could make you laugh about anything. She knew she could brighten my mood and she

succeeded.

I walked home with my head full of Stacie's laughter echoing in my ears which caused my mood

to be extremely happy. I was absentmindfully humming a song as I made my way down the mud

stricken sidewalk to my home with five more blocks to go.I never minded the long walk because

it gave me time to be alone and to study what I really enjoyed-cars.

I took my edition of Extreme Racing out from the bottom of my backpack. I felt self-conscious about

it, mainly because I was a girl and I didn't want anyone to know that I was in to something like

that.

I was so absorbed into the chapter that I was stunned that I had an abrupt sensation to move to one

side. As soon as I did, a car suddenly zoomed past my peripheral vision and I realized that I had

been a second away from getting crushed by an SUV-and I didn't even look away from my book!

A shiver ran down my back that was so big, it made my teeth clatter against each other. I suddenly

felt like there was eyes watching me. I looked around and, of course, there was no one there. I let out a breath of air that I hadn't realized I was holding. I was so glad no one saw that impossible moment.

They would probably be even more weirded out than I felt, if that was possible.

I still felt the eyes of someone on my back and it made me shiver again.

Calm down,Brooke,I told myself. You're just being paranoid.

Even though I knew there was no one watching, I ran the rest of the way home.

Little did I know that someone was watching me, and video taping everything that had happened.

"Dr. Tezla will want to look into this." Gig shut off the camera and floated away, to tell Dr. Tezla about his recent discovery.