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S10, which has seen much better days and prayed silently that it wouldn’t give me problems; it’s been finicky about starting recently and I really don’t have time to get it checked out; especially with prom coming up. When it turned over right away, I sighed with relief and drove over to my friend Paige’s house.
    “Hi. You’re early. Oh…my… God…what happened to your lips!?” Paige cried, covering her mouth.
    “It looks that bad?”
    “It just looks…painful.”
    Paige, as always, looked perfect. With her long blond hair and startling green eyes, half the guys at school are in awe of her. Some people at school call her Skipper, Barbie’s younger sister, because of her sun-kissed skin, high cheekbones, and carefree spirit.
    “My lips were dry, so I tried using one of Allie’s lip gloss tubes. Bad choice.”
    “I guess,” she replied, trying to hide a smile. “Do they hurt?”
    I pursed my lips and nodded. “They burn a little.”
    “Just use Vaseline next time. That’s all I use.”
    “Oh.”
    She pushed her hair behind her ears. “Did you watch the news this morning?”
                  “Are you kidding? In my house you won’t find anything but Dora or Elmo‘s World on the television.”
    “Well, the media is all over this flu virus. It’s amazing how fast it‘s spreading. Many people are actually getting so sick they’re being quarantined in different countries. It’s like the Black Plague .”
    “Most of the little kids in my house are sick. If this keeps up, I swear I’m moving out.”
    “Hah, you wish. Anyway, it’s getting so bad, that in Europe, they’ve closed down a ton of schools. Wouldn’t it be awesome if ours was shut down? We could hang out at the mall and check out hot guys all day long.”
    I laughed. “Yeah, fat chance of that happening. They won’t even close when we have ten feet of snow.”
    “Well I for one am sick of school; sick of all the up-tight bitches, juvenile jocks, and dumb-ass tests. Seriously, I wouldn’t mind if school shut down for the rest of the year!”
    I raised my eyebrows. “Wow. Having a rough week?”
    She shrugged and stared out the passenger window.
    "Ok, spill it. What’s wrong Paige?”
    She looked at me, her eyes moist. “Eva King. She’s such a lying two-faced bitch. You know, she pretended to be my friend just so she could get closer to Kyle.”
    Kyle used to be Paige’s boyfriend until he broke it off with her last month. I thought she’d gotten over it already since she seemed to have a crush on someone new every week.
    “What do you mean?”
    “I saw them kissing in the halls yesterday. She is such a conniving bitch!”
    Eva is actually one of the most popular girls in school. Although Paige is much prettier and likeable, Eva’s mother is a famous news anchor and she gets treated like she’s some kind of a movie star herself. Eva’s also head-cheerleader and owns this super turbo-charged Mercedes convertible. Most of the guys at school are hot for her car.
    “And he’s a prick…they deserve each other.”
    She wiped away a tear and sniffled. “Well…anyway…there is this new guy, Jeremy, who’s really cute. He sits next to me in Biology.”
    I chuckled. “I can see you’re truly heartbroken.” 
    Paige placed her hands over her heart. “I‘m sure Jeremy could help mend it.”
    We both burst out laughing. Little did we know that in the next couple of days our lives would turn into a living nightmare and that we would have given anything to have such trivial problems.
     
     
     
    Chapter Two
     
     
    I spent most of the day at school trying to avoid those who were sick, which was almost everyone else. Many kids were absent and the halls were unnaturally quiet, except for the consistent coughing and nose blowing.
    During last period, my math teacher, Mr. Hogan, a balding man in his fifties, blew his nose loudly and said, “Keep taking your vitamins everyone. This flu takes no