Chapter 67: Pain's Plan

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 nightmares like I did the night after the party, but I still felt exposed when I slept and woke up with the feeling I was all over the perimeter of town the night before, peeking in windows, digging through people's garbage and stogging down roadkill to fill the emptiness inside me.

So when I woke up to a sunny Thursday morning and the world still spun, I decided to try to put everything out of my mind and go back to normal. After all, there wasn't much I could do about the creature. Mom said she had it handled. And a