Meet @ my house. need 2 talk. Was the text message I recieved from Beth as the final bell rang. Well that’s conventent. I thought.

I walked the short distance home to my house. It was empty like usual, so I wrote a note for my mom and dropped my stuff in my room. I was out again in under 10 minutes. I walked down a few blocks to Beth’s house and walked in.

“Beth?” I called as I knocked on her door. I may barge into her home, but never her room.

“Come on in.” She answered me, and so I do. I’m surprised I don’t see her flopped on her bed in an exagerated state as if the world had just ended.

“You okay?” I asked her as she continues her back and forth path across her room.

“No. I.. I heard something and I don’t know what I should do..” She stops in the middle of her room and looks at me searchingly, as if I have all the answers in the word to her unknown problem.

“Weird.” I mumbled to myself. I walked over to her bed and her eyes followed me.

“What’s weird?” Beth asked, as she sat by me.