"We have new projects," Katherine's mythology teacher said, causing the class to groan, "I'm gonna assign everyone a character or subject from mythology and you're going to do research on it and present it in 2 weeks," she finished.
"Hey, Katherine," a voice from behind asked her.
She turned around to find Lyssa, her old friend from childhood, before school, when she joined a new crowd.
"Yeah?" Katherine replied.
"Did you sign up for this class because you thought it'd be easy? I did and now we have a project," Lyssa complained, saying 'project' as if it were a cuss word.
"No, I like mythology; always something different," Katherine replied as she turned back around.
Lyssa tapped her shoulder and continued to talk to her, surprising her greatly.
"Could ya help me with mine? I'm not very book smart," she asked sweetly, although Katherine saw through her façade.
"Then you shouldn't have signed up for a class that you couldn't spell," Katherine replied coldly, without turning around.
The teacher walked to all the kids' desks and handed them packets. When she was done, she walked back to the front of the room; "You may start now; go down to the library."
The students all rushed down to the library, although none were gonna start on their projects; they were going to talk, write notes and act like complete idiots.
By the time Katherine got the books she needed, it was time to go to her next class so she checked them out and through them in her locker, rushing to make it to her next class.
"Hey," Shannon said to Katherine as she entered the room, just barely before their bell rang, "cutting it kinda close, don't ya think?"
"Shut up!"Katherine stated playfully. "I was in the library with my 'class', although that might be too optimistic a term," Katherine replied.
After dinner that night, Katherine pulled all her books out on the new clean table and started to research. Her topic had been Dream Demons, which she had actually never heard of. She was more interesting in Greek mythology but she decided that it might be cool.
She opened the first book, one titled Dream Demon Prophecies and Myths. She looked through it, while her mother washed dishes and her father read the paper nearby.
Katherine was looking through the same book, that apparently had a lot more information than she had caught on when she first picked it up, and just finishing with the prophecies. The final page of prophecies surprised her the most; it was about the ultimate Dream Demon, someone who guards the negative gate of dreams, the Nightmare gate.
She turned the page to the picture and was stunned by what she saw; man wearing a tattered sweater of red and green, a dirty old fedora and he had a burnt face; the third degree burns very visible on his face.
That wasn't what stunned her though. She was stunned at who he looked like; her father.
