I wake up the next morning starving. I had fallen asleep far too early and subsequently missed dinner. Stumbling out of bed, a pair of shaky hands opened the window. It was freezing but it helped wake me up. I stretched my tense legs and started preparing for the mountain hike of everyday: school. My jeans seemed stiffer than usual and my top stretched out and I was in a bad mood leftover from last night. Why didn't Jake call me back? I knew for a fact that he always has his phone on him so there must have been something keeping him from it. "Oh no", I thought, "could he have been grounded?" Jake had some pretty temperamental parents and a grounding was nothing out of the ordinary but he hadn't done anything (to my knowledge) deserving of a punishment. "I guess I'll find out at school," I thought as I started my car. I loved my car despite its suburban essence, it was my mom's old one and it still smells of her perfume. While driving into the school parking lot I discover jake's car is nowhere to be found. "Hopefully just running late" I thought to myself as I walked into school. The bell shrieked and I started jogging to my first class. "Maybe he's sick".
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Inflicted
Mystery / ThrillerAlex, a tomboyish teenager, becomes interested in a strange local criminal that is somehow connected with her dead mother, and, with the help of her best friend and little sister, finds out something she could've never imagined.
