Short Story Part 1: Tomorrow’s News

     My day started just like any other day of the week: Go to school, attend club meetings, and go to cheerleading practice. But today was different…

     I was running late to cheerleading practice when I noticed a paper sticking out of the filling cabinet in the drama room. I’m the president of the Drama club so I am always the last one in the meeting. I was planning on just putting the paper back in its cabinet until I noticed tomorrow's date. I thought to myself: I'm already late to cheer, I might as well read it.

     As I read the paper it has oddly small details about the school day tomorrow. A teacher is going to get fired, the fire alarm will go off and a student will win the school record at the track meet. I realized that all this was true: we are having to cut teachers, tomorrow is the last day of the month, and we have a track meet. But how would someone just know all of this?

     The next day, EVERYTHING I had read the day before happened. Mrs Banks got fired, after lunch we had a fire drill, and later at the track meet Joey beat the school's record for the fastest 200 meter dash. I still had the paper from yesterday in my coat pocket, I pulled it out again to see if anything else was going to happen. I missed a page when reading yesterday. The very last page was its own article.

“STUDENT DISAPPEARS AFTER TRUSTING HER BEST FRIEND”

    I looked down at the picture of the student who is going to disappear later today; it was my face… as I looked next to me, it was my best friend Lily calling my name. “Emma,” she said, taking a long pause before she said with an evil smile on her face, “Wanna come over to study?”