2003-09-07

Autumn visited three different auto body places on Sunday to get quotes for repainting her car. Ultimately she chose to go with the second place and called her dad to confirm. Once it was decided, she took her car in and got a rental. However, the rental was old and beat up with transmission and break problems; Autumn hated it.

Madison went out with her father to pick out a new mirror for her bathroom. She decided she liked the triple-wide one best, and convinced her dad to get it. However it would not fit in the hole currently cut in the wall, so he promised to come over later the next week to cut a larger hole and install it. Madison decided to cover the glass with opaque contact paper… just in case.

Jasmine came over to Madison’s house that evening and noticed an old man sitting in Autumn’s car. Madison went out to look but saw no one. Feeling weirded out by the whole thing, Autumn asked if she could borrow Jasmine’s parents car instead. Jasmine texted Jay, who didn’t answer, and went ahead and gave Autumn the keys anyway.

The girls decided to eat cheese stakes for dinner and started texting Krin with just the words ‘CHEESE STEAK’ and ‘COME EAT ME.’ Krin didn’t know who it was from, but guessed it was Madison and came over. Madison greeted him at the door with a cheese steak that had a pair of googly eyes stuck in it to make a face.

After dinner, Krin walked Jasmine back to her house. As he was riding his bike the rest of the way home, someTHING leapt out of the bushes, mangled his bike, and threw him from it. Panicked, Krin ran for home leaving his bike behind. He managed to outrun the creature and get inside. Krin breathlessly explained the attack to his parents, who couldn’t quite understand what he was going on about.

Krin’s parents called the private security firm that serves the richer part of the mobile estate park. When the officer arrived he had Krin’s bike, with the mauled and slashed rear tire. Krin’s dad suddenly took the attack super seriously, and sober, serious conversation continued into the night. Krin did not tell the others about the attack right away.