---Ephraim,

                My dad came home the night I had the fight with Autumn while I was cooking diner. He paused at the door and looked at me like he was about to offer me some "fatherly" advice or at least try to. But Delia saved me from all that. She zipped into the kitchen and instantly started begging him to let Autumn's little sister spend the night. I watched as he as usual caved in.

                I slammed the oven door and tried to leave the room before he could notice but as usual he caught me on my way out.

     "Ephraim what's wrong?" He asked as usual trying to seem sympathetic

     "Like you care" I replied as I sat down at the table

     "No something's wrong, usually I have time to get farther than the welcome mat before you start yelling at me"

     "It's nothing" I said as Delia ran in smiling. She hopped up on one of the chairs followed by Autumn's little sister.

     "Ephraim's mad 'cause he made Autumn cry" Delia said as Spring's eyes locked with mine.

     "You made Aught cry? What did you do?" Spring said as she hopped off of the table I stared at her and shook my head.

     "I-I didn't make her cry"

     "Al and Mary's, Autumn?" Dad stared off for a moment like he was having on of his episodes again. I nodded. He suddenly got loud and aggressive "Go over there and apologize, before Al gets home and I don't want to hear anything about it." I had never seen him so upset before. Spring and Delia looked at each other I shook my head and grabbed my coat.

                I had to have stood on the porch for at least an hour. Staring at the light blue house. There was one light on in the whole house. It looked sinister with the one light on in the attic it made it seem like eyes were peering back at me. I couldn't help but to wonder what pissed my dad off so bad. It took a while for me to work up the courage to walk across the street and stand on the porch.

                I knocked on the door and almost instantly Autumn opened the door. She had her black hair pulled back in a high ponytail and she was still wearing her sweater. Her eyes were red rimmed.

    "look Autumn I'm sorry" She tapped her nails on the door frame.

     "I know" she said with an omnicent smile as she slammed the door in my face. I stood there for a moment and knocked on the door again. She opened it again.

     "What now?" she said shaking her head.

     "Nothing, I just well-"

     "I am watching lord of the rings you have ten minutes"

     "I'm sorry"

     "You said this already stop wasting my time" She slammed the door and I gave up and went home.

                So I went home and went to school. By third period I had noticed something, Autumn had actually came to school. It was a miracle. And as I entered the class and sat down I looked out side.

                She stood in the hall looking at the door to the classroom of which I of course already sat. She looked frightened like the doe that sat on my porch last year. She swallowed and walked into the room all eyes were on her and her tight pink sweater. Amy started murmuring to her friends while Autumn sat next to me.

     "I thought you wanted to kill me", I said as she shook her head crossed her ankles and looked at me. Her eyes seemed slightly out of place too gray to be on her tan face maybe or too wide.

     "I'm sorry, I was just really pissed off, I'm good now, I think" She said as the teacher started to take roll.

     "Autumn Wood?" the teacher called looking around Autumn raised a pink nailed hand and smiled "How nice of you to join us Miss Wood" The teacher said before going on.

     "You think?" I whispered with a smile as she put her head down and yawned.

     "I think," she said nodding as she closed her eyes. She slept the whole period till the end when I kicked her desk to wake her up when the teacher called on her. Her head went up,

"The reason why the pH of rain is acidic is because the H2O inn the atmosphere breaks down when water vapor is formed and that extra H makes it more acidic because there aren't as many bases being added to it" her head slumped down again and the bell rang. She gathered her stuff and stood.

     "I've got lunch next how bout you?" she said as she stretched

     "I've got lunch too, but why the change, this isn't some elaborate plan to poison me is it?" I inquired as she smiled and hook her head.

    "No, if I was going to poison you I wouldn't be so blunt about it I'd offer you a mint" she said as she stopped at a locker opened it, shoved her back pack in and took out a little black purse and slammed the locker shut. She pulled a pair of car keys out of her purse and a roll of certs. "Mint?" she said flashing a smile I just looked at her. She had to be kidding.

     "if you were me would you take a mint from you?" I said as we walked down the now crowded hall.

     "Good point, hey wanna drive to the diner with me?" She said as she stood in the doorway. She smiled and pouted slightly.

     "Sure, why not" So you're going to get into a car with this girl, good luck.

     "You don't mind really loud music do you?" She said as she unlocked her car and got in. The car was beautiful and on the inside it was equally cool as I threw my books on the little bench in the back and sat down in the cream leather seat.

     "No, not really" I said as I nodded she then leaned over and opened the glove compartment. She pulled out a magazine or something and closed it.

     "I completely forgot about this thing… It's Manga, Spring told me last night that you had a bunch of them an I have a bunch of extras, it's Rama ½" she said as she tossed the book in my lap and put the keys in the ignition. Instantly music started blaring as I flipped through the pages it was loud music something by the strokes. We drove past a house and out side was a banner that read 'Welcome home Collin', instantly I thought about how I had been neglecting Amy, but she wasn't really mine to neglect now was she. All those thoughts went out of my head when I noticed that Autumn had stopped the car and she was staring straight a head.

     "Look, I hope I haven't just freaked you out or anything, but I need to tell this to someone, and you're the closest thing to some one that I know seeing as most people here hate me" She said with a forced smile as she looked at me her eyes looked glassed over almost.

     "Oh, I'm not freaked out, I'm just pulled off to the side of the road with a girl a barely know who said her self that she would if given the chance would try to kill me"

     "That was yester day," She said  shaking her head "hear me out Ephraim, I view you as my friend, can you handle that you are my friend! There is a possibility that I am going to die, this year, and  the idea of my parents hiding more things from me doesn't make me feel any better," I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

     "You're going to die? How? Why?"

     "I don't know how or Why but I know it's gonna happen this year, something bad is going to happen and it's gonna change my life, I can feel it, it's weird it's all around me the air is thick with tension"

     "And you sound like an English book"

     "Ephraim, I'm telling the truth, something very bad is going to happen and I don't know what" I nodded and suddenly I realized something. She's crazy.