So far Eric's day hadn't been great. First there was the nightmare about the dark room with the strange but somehow familiar woman talking while he felt drugged, as well as the other people he felt he had seen before. He kept thinking he might recognize them all, if he could think straight and if he wasn't busy trying not to freak because well he was in a dark and unknown room.The next part of the dream was even worse because at that point he was also strapped to a table while some weird fluid was being injected into his arm. Too make matters worse when he woke up he felt unusually hot. 

After he got up and dressed Eric checked the thermometer and found he had a slight fever, since it wasn't bad enough to stay home from school for he headed for the kitchen to make himself breakfast. Of course his mother had already left for her job but he was used to that.
  
When he was done with breakfast Eric left the apartment building and after grabbing his bike rode to school. When he got there some kid he didn't know gave him a flyer about the pep rally he really wasn't interested in so after parking his bike he threw it in the trashcan, unaware that the paper had caught fire.