I stood up ready run again when I saw the creature just standing there not far from us with that twisted grin on its goat like face. Suddenly it disap...eared, I hoped that I had been imagining it and it hadn’t already caught up with us. I turned my head to look back at Sam and saw the creature dragging him into the wall, the while time it held eye contact with me.I slumped back down to the floor, I had lost every last drop of hope, I would never leave this place and eventually that thing would. “I’m here to get Liz!”“I’m Mike.”“I know who you are!” she exclaimed. “I saw you around the school before you graduated! But you would never have noticed an eighth grader!”She was peppier than any girl I’d ever met and seemed close to bursting with energy.I nodded and smiled, “Let me get Liz. You can come in.”She followed me into the house and I called out for Liz who came bounding down the stairs.“Hi, Mikey! I’m leaving with Violet! We’re going to figure out how to take care of Jake Baxter. I doubt I could have donebetter." Of course, we still have a huge mess to sort out, Jack," he said, frowning."I hope you weren't kidding when you said you had a plan."I turned to look up at him. "I do, but it will take both of us to pull itoff. Our stories have to be spot on, and once we get started down this path,we'll have to, like, totally stick with it until the end." Then I sighed andgave a little shrug. "We should probably start with the important stuff. Sowe can get used to it." Get used. In the third semester, I switched from General Chemistry to Organic Chemistry. Unbelievably, she was the Assistant Professor for that class, and she had control of 50% of my grade. She let me know on Day One that I was going to fail. I tried to move to another class, but I couldn't find anything that fit in my schedule with my other classes.The trouble continued in Computer Programming. On the first day of class, the professor informed us that he graded on a strict Bell Curve. I shouldn't have.