It's the next day and I wake up thinking, It's sunday. I grab my phone and see the bandit left a message 1 minute ago.

Bandit:Ok first task

Bandit: Go get some red paint

Kat: I see making more signs

Bandit: You will see.

Bandit: now do your work

I'm grinding my teeth. I haven't felt so helpless in a long time. But I have to follow his instructions. I grab a couple 20s and head out. I ran to the nearest hardware store. Of course the people at the counter are giving me suspicious looks. I'm buying RED paint. Same as the signs and in middle school. I give the money and head out acting nonchalant.

Kat: ok done

Bandit: Good, leave it at the base of the tree in town square.

Kat: Fine.

I do as he says and leave. I'm sure that if I put a camera they would notice. Eyes everywhere right?

Ugh I really, REALLY. Hate this person.

I walk home, then text Leah if she wants to come over. She replies quickly, sure.

IShe comes over in 30 minutes. I am hiding something from my best friend. I really want to tell her. So bad. But if I do, she and the others will be in danger.

"Hi Kat!" She says,

"Hi Leah!" I say with the best smile I can muster. It works and she smiles back as if nothing is wrong. I wish she would figure it out. We hung out for a few hours. Somehow we never run out of things to do.

We say goodbye and I flop onto my bed. Suicide really doesn't seem like a bad idea. The more I think about it the more I think it's a really good idea. It's just what would happen after I die. There's too much to live for. I guess. I decided to make this a good day. I do my lazy Sunday routine and come to bed satisfied and almost forgot about the bandit. Almost. I go to sleep and wake up gasping for air after being so disoriented I can't remember why I was gasping. But I can't fall asleep and it's almost 7:00 so I guess I will get up. I grab a bun and brush and leave. All before my family wakes up. I am walking to school and hear Celeb call me. I turn around.

"Hi Kat!" Says Celeb

"Hey" I say.

"Up early?"

"Yeah, rare occasion, where's Diana?"

"At home, sleeping"

"Oh ok."

"I'm going to tell you something"

"Ok?"

"I like this girl and I'm not sure how to tell her."

I stare at him. Then reply.

"Oh wow ok. Well it would help to know who it is."

He blushes and says

"Ava."

"Ohhhh. Well, you should try being friends first, yeah."

"Oh ok. Thanks." I wave to him and I walk away.Celeb like Ava, Contact from the bandit, danger, melissa. My brain is steaming so much that I wall right into the pole, ouch. I stumble back and I try to regain my balance but the world is spinning very fast around me. Then I find myself staring at a spinning sky. What is going on? I try to get up but I'm so dizzy, and everything feels so cold and hot. Then I realize that I'm fighting to stay awake. Why did I go ahead of Celeb? That's my last thought before I'm consumed by darkness.

I wake up in the nurse's office getting woken up by my mom.

"Huh?" I say but it sounds like a frog croak.

"You passed out. From a fever." She says, Ugh, I forgot. I get up and stumble. Was my brain always this heavy? When we get home after an eternity. I flop onto the couch.

"You should get into your bed." My mom tells me

"Nooooooo" I whine.

"Fine, I'll get a blanket." She says, When I am nice and cozy I take my laptop and log in.

I play a few games from roblox, minecraft and any other things to kill time. My mom leaves me after a few hours. So, I'm alone. Being sick is a pain, Literally. Everything aches. My head is the worst. I knew that overworking your brain could give you a headache but I didn't think it could get you SICK. Ugh, I'm so tired but if I sleep I will get fever dreams. More like nightmares actually. They always scare me. No matter if I knew it was a dream. When I was young I had a dream that was just like annabelle. I didn't even know what it was! I end up falling asleep a few minutes later.

I'm falling.

Then I hit the concrete, looking up. Not the sky, but a black hooded figure with a black mask looking down at me. Then darkness encased me. I tried to run, but no matter how far I went I couldn't see light. Just dark. I would hear noises. Then I would see the figure then I see their eyes. There are no eyes though only sockets. I ran as fast as I could but then I turned around and it's right behind me. I run and run but the figure doesn't even break a sweat it just gets closer each time I turn. Until I see it is right behind me.

I wake up breathing very hard. Ugh, this is why I hate fever dreams. They are always the scariest thing anyone can imagine. Once I get my breathing back to a more normal way. I get up to get some water and flop back down. I didn't know brains could be so heavy. I give up and settle for the computer. Where I write up a story about a girl who is secretly a blogger. It's going well, 10 pages. When my phone starts ringing. I was just barely able to reach it.

"Hello?"

"Kat! Omg what happened! I heard you went to the nurse unconscious! OMG who brought you!?"

"One question at a time Leah. Ok, so 1: I had a fever and kinda collapsed from it. 2: I dunno who brought me"

"Did you use your brain too much? Oh well, you missed so much! Someone vandalized a locker, well, specifically, your locker."

"Wait... MY LOCKER!?"

"Yeah... someone vandalized it by putting a sign on it and spray painting off the sign a bit. That person really needs to learn how to draw in the lines. Anyway, It was a picture of a big guy getting beat up by a lot of little guys. The sign said. There is no justice in this school, and we are here to bring justice. Join the revolution!"

"Well, A pretty good way to go to the dark side. But it had to be my locker. It's going to take forever to get rid of the chemical smell from my locker."

"I'll help!"

"Thanks Leah, if only everyone in the world was like you."

"That would be creepy. Oh, I gotta go. Bai!"

"Bye"

She hangs up and I'm back to writing a story. It's so boring to be sick. But it does have its perks, I guess. You don't have to do anything and you can play the sick card when people try to make you. Ugh but the downside is that you're so bored, bored, bored.

All the books are just out of my reach. Sometimes, I really wish I could use the force. I just lay there refusing to sleep. I grab the laptop because I'm not going to waste hours of the little life I have left, just laying there doing nothing. I go and continue my story until up to page 59. When my brother comes home screaming.

"I'M HOMMMEEEEEE" The noisy brother strikes again. The moment he sees me, sick. He just stops everything, and backs away slowly. I roll my eyes. My brother doesn't like getting sick. I go back to my story stuck on how I should continue it and then I give up and give myself a break. My phone vibrates and I pick it up and see the bandit is texting.

Bandit: where were you

Kat: Sick

Bandit: that's too bad, we were going to make you do something else.

Kat: Well, I'm sick.

Bandit: Then find a way to bring 5 of those tiny candle things to the same place as last time.

Kat: PLEASE TELL ME YOUR NOT DOING ANOTHER SALEM WITCH TRIAL

Bandit: god no. I'm just going creative.

Kat: Did you guys vandalize my locker?

Bandit: that was yours? Well, yeah.

Kat: ....

Bandit: Do a good job.

I'm grinding my teeth, which. Hurts my jaw cause I'm sick. I call for my brother and he comes but stays a good 5 feet away from me.

"Can you get those tiny candles and leave them at the base of the tree in the square?" I ask as sickly as I could

"Why?" He asks

"Because I need you too."

"No I mean why do you want candles?"

"You know, you ask too many. Questions."

"Questions are how we now have the luxuries."

"Whatever can you please?"

"Ok, just stay away from me"

"Ok." I say and he runs off away from me. I swear he would be adorable if he weren't such a smart bragger. Or a tantrum.