I was on full alert all day Wednesday, even at school, sure either the creature or Demitrius would show up. If not them, maybe something else would drop on me and blow my world wider open. Not that I was asking for trouble or anything. It's just I was so used to it by then it made me even more nervous when the whole day went by and nothing happened.

I'm sure my friends thought I was losing it.

It was getting so I was afraid to go to sleep, too. I wasn't having full-out ...