Catrina glanced at her clock from her bed. It read 12:32 PM in big red numbers. She stealthily tiptoed over to her window. She always sneaked out at night to drink and party with her friends Sully, Frog (Elizabeth Ann), and Chester. All of her friends called her Cat or Kitten because at a first glance you would think that she was innocent and not rebellious at all. She hated her innocent looks, but on the other hand they got her out of a lot of trouble.

Cat was lucky that her bedroom was on the first floor of her house because it wasn't a far jump to the ground. Once she hit the ground she booked it for Chester's house which was only half a mile away. Once she made it she knocked on Chester's window. His head appeared looking through the window to make sure it was only her. He opened it to let her in. For a moment they sat still looking at eachother. "My folks had another argument today so mom took her medication and it knocked her out good, and dad is at his friends drinking. So it looks like you and me, tonight." Chester said with a little bit of excitement in his voice. Cat didn't like Chester that much, but she liked his beer a lot more.

She sighed and said, "So where is the beer?"

Chester flinched "I thought we agreed on something else, didn't we?"

"You know how Sully feels about me just coming here alone…Beer?"

"Fine, but only if you let me-"

"OKAY!" Cat yelled at him.

Chester walked out of the room and came back with a 6pack. "Where do you get all of this beer?" Cat questioned because he was only 15 and she knew that his dad would know if they had been drinking from his stash. "Can we say 'Fake ID'" he said with a little bit of fondness in his tone for being so good at getting away with what he had done. She knew that he was going to get her drunk so he could put his hands on her, but she knew better than that.

They drank down the most of the 6pack, but Cat only drank 2 because she knew she had to get home safe without her parents knowing and she wanted Chester to be the drunk one so he'd pass out.

When he got drunk and passed out Cat looked at him for a second. What a loser! He thinks that I would let him touch me. He always passes out when he drinks. Fool. Cat drank for years out of her dad's stash, which was not much, but Chester was new to it and couldn't handle more than 1. She laughed bitterly and jumped out his window and headed home.

In the morning her alarm clock woke her up. She only had a minor headache. She forgot to reset her alarm clock because yesterday was her last day of school. By the time it took her to turn it off she realized someone has been going through her room because all of her personal stuff was scattered everywhere. She was so furious that she wanted to scream, but held it in because it was only 6:30 and she thought she was seeing things from drinking last night. She just laid down until she was hungry for breakfast.

Sitting up she looked at her stuff, and it was still scattered everywhere. Cat ran out of her room and screamed "WHO THE HELL HAS BEEN GOING THROUGH MY STUFF!" Her mother looked at her father then at Cat, and spoke in a low voice "We have. And where were you last night? If you were drinking again-" "No, mom I was not drinking!" Cat lied with a flat warning tone, and before her mom said anything she took off for Sully's house. She didn't want to see Chester; and Frog wasn't going to be home for the next week and half, because she was camping with her parents.

She was so glad that he was home and let her in when she knocked on the door. "Kitten?" he said in a shocked voice. Cat looked him in his eyes because whenever she fought with her parents he would let her stay for the day. He looked her in the eyes and said, "What happened now? Did they catch you drinking at Chester's?"

"Well sort of."

"Sort of…"

"I wasn't in bed that night and they searched my room for stuff to prove I was over there."

"And…"

"I got mad and threw a fit at them for being right."

Sully sighed while shaking his head. The phone rang. They both knew it was Cat's mother making sure she was there and that she would be sent home by eight that night. By the time he hung up Cat sat there looking at him. She had the longest expression on her face. Sully sat down next to her and said, "What's with the long face? You look like I've betrayed you or something."

Later that day Cat decided to take a shower so she could feel a little bit better about herself, but it didn't work.

Once out of the shower she sat on the closed toilet lid and looked deep into her own eyes in the mirror. Everything is going to be ok. When I go home everything will as it was before I went out to Chester's. She knew that it wasn't. Her parents are going to have a long talk about her sneaking out at night, and going to talk about all of the stuff they found in her room. She hated for her parents to go through her things like that.

After a long last look at herself in the mirror, she took her gaze away from her own eyes she saw the door open and close, but when she turned around there was a woman looking at her. Cat raced out of the bathroom screaming, and not even caring that all she had on was a towel. Sully ran into her as she ran down the hall. The only thing that Sully could get out of her was "Bathroom."

Sully came out of the bathroom shaking his head "I didn't see a thing." Cat looked up at him in disbelief "There was something looking at me." "Why don't you go home and get some rest." Cat could not believe what she was hearing. Go home?

Cat was running down the street. She had enough. She was so sick of everyone telling her what to do. The only place that she could go was Frog's treefort. Now no one would know where she was. Cat loved her friends but she could only drink with Chester, She could only sleep and talk with Sully, and with Frog they did spiritual stuff. Frog had incense that she burned when she was about to have an Out-of-body-experience or in Cat's words to 'Astral Project'. Either way they were the same thing. Frog taught Cat how to astral project, but Cat struggled to do it.

She climbed the ladder to the fort and let herself in. She laid herself down and tried to remember how to astral project. First she relaxed herself then she did everything Frog told her to do but her mind wasn't clear enough to do it. Cat felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. Someone was behind her. Cat looked up to see a tall man with a pale complexion smiling at her. Before she had anytime to react he grabbed her and gagged her. Cat tried to move but she fell into a pit of darkness.