The next day, Joey woke up more eager than he'd ever been before. He rushed into the bathroom to begin getting ready for the day ahead. He took a quick shower and came out to begin toweling off.

While he did so, he felt a sort of unknown presence. He stopped for a moment to survey his surroundings and then dismissed the feeling. After he was dressed, he went over to the mirror to begin shaving.

He looked in the mirror and saw a dark, shadow-like "cloud". Startled, he jumped up and turned around, his razor pointed forward in an attacking position. There was nothing in sight.

He walked out of the bathroom and looked around the apartment. He noticed the burnt model of a school and ran over to it. "God Damn how did this happen?" he shouted, "I spent a whole damn month on this thing and now it's ruined."

He looked at the ruins that used to be his masterpiece. Columns were tipped over, roofs were caved in, and windows were destroyed. Just then, he felt the presence again. He started walking around again and jumped when his phone rang. "Hello?" he answered in a startled voice. "Joey?" the other voice said. He knew that voice better than any other particularly because it was...

"Michelle! What's up?" "Are you okay," she asked, obviously sensing the fear in his voice, "you seem scared. Have a bad dream?" "Umm...yeah, I did. How'd you know?" "You know, women's intuition."

"That's not what's got me worried though. I uh-never mind." "No, tell me." "I just have a feeling that something's here, nothing major. Not that I'm complaining but why did you call?" "I just had this feeling that something was wrong with you. I can't really explain it."

"Well aside from the dream and the paranoia everything's great. So are you going to the tour thing today for college?" "Yeah, what time does it start? I lost the form." Joey looked over at his clock. It was 7:30. "It starts at noon. I'll be leaving at about 11:30. You need a ride?" "No I'll catch a ride from my roommate. She's headed that way about that time." "Well, that's not what I wanted to hear." "What?" "Nothing. Guess I'll see you later, bye."

He walked over to his bead to relax for a while before running a few errands since he didn't need to give Michelle a ride. He plopped down, turned on the TV, and looked over at the picture of him and his friends again.

He stood on the left. Next to him was Michelle. Then it was Amy, Jackie, Michael Heinemann, Kenny Fuller, Brent Dreyer, Tony Nygren, Andy Livingston, and Omar Somers. Then there was the group's couple Cali Lasher and Tyler Eagan. Finally, there was the person that nobody really liked but they'd felt bad for him since middle school so they decided to accept him as a "friend". His name was Will Auburn. They usually want nothing to do with him but they still invite him to go places with them just to be nice.

Joey began thinking about all the years they knew each other and how he was afraid they would be separated this year but everything was going great and they would stay friends for at least one more year. The next thing he knew it was 10:00. "Oh shit!" he shouted. He ran over to the key rack, got his keys, and went out to do his errands.

He arrived at the college gates at about 11:30 and saw all of his friends waiting there. "Hey guys," he said as he got out of the car, "I didn't think you would all be here." "Well we are." Michael said.

"Yes, you are," a voice said. Startled, they all turned around to see who it was. Through the bars of the gate, they saw a tall man in a black suit standing there. "You have come for the tour no doubt." "Um...yeah," Joey said, "Who are you?" "I am the dean, Dean Rivers" the man replied. "Well then, hello Dean Rivers," Joey replied.

"So," Michael began, "when will everyone else be here?" "Oh they're already inside." "Wait, why?" Joey asked, "The paper says the tour begins at noon." "Oh it does but if any of you had bothered to read you would know that schedules were passed out at 10:00 along with teacher introductions for students."

He looked at his clip board and took a small stack of papers off of it. "We only have 13 schedules left so I'm going to assume these are yours." He handed Joey the stack of papers through the bars of the gate and the group all found and compared their schedules.

"Well now, let's go," Dean Rivers said as he opened the gate, "the others have started their tours so I will show you around the school." The group of young adults followed the dean through the gates and into the school.

They traveled all over the school down hallways, up stairs, through doors, and past groups. As the tour progressed, they were more and more excited at where they would be spending their next 4 years at least.

"And this is our cafeteria," the dean said as they walked into the doors of the cafeteria, "Of course this is an open campus so you don't necessarily have to eat our food. We grantee that all our food is safe, though, along with everything else at our school. The only thing we have a problem with is the fact that we are using gas stoves. We plan to change those about midway through the year along with the wooden door back there. I don't know who designed this campus but they practically made this cafeteria a death trap."

He looked over at the sudden nervous expressions on the future students' faces. "We don't foresee anything bad happening ever though so no need to worry." He gave a kind of nervous laugh.

After the tour, the group started heading out to their cars. As everybody got in their cars, Joey noticed something.

"Hey Michelle," he said, "where's your ride?" "I uh..." "You what?" " I told her not to come get me." "Why would you do that" "I was kind of hoping to go home with you." Joey was instantly excited.

"Don't get any ideas," Michelle said, noticing the look in his eyes, "It's not because I want to go out with you. I just feel like something is wrong and I need to be with someone else besides my roommate." "Why me though?"

"Honestly, you're the only one I can trust. I know that if something happened, you'd do all you could to protect me. You would do that right?" "Of course. Well we should probably get to my place, hop in."

When they got to his apartment, they felt a slight breeze when they walked in.

"Did you leave a window open?" Michelle asked. They both looked around the room but all the windows were closed. "It doesn't look like it." Joey said. "Well maybe it was the air conditioner." Michelle suggested. "Couldn't be." Joey replied, looking around the room with a puzzled expression. "Why not."

"Two reasons actually. If it was the AC we would still feel the breeze." "What's the second reason?"

"This is the real interesting one. My air conditioner broke last week."

They both felt something bad was going to happen soon. Michelle suddenly noticed the burnt model of the school. "What happened to that?" Michelle asked.

"I don't know," Joey said, "I just woke up and it was like that." "Something bad is going on," she said, "I just know it." She began to cry. "Come here," Joey said giving her a hug, "everything is going to be just fine. We'll all be fine. I promise."