Shelley stood in front of her locker at the end of the school day, taking any materials she would need for weekend assignments and leaving behind anything she wouldn't need.  It had been a bad week.  She had found a strange parchment and the people in her class created a rumor of how the mysterious note came for a psychopathic stalker.  Before people usually ignored her, but now she had a lot of unwanted attention, and could only hope for everything to blow over.  Still, as silly as the rumor sounded, the possibility of being stalked put her on edge and made her feel unwell and slightly paranoid.  Out of a strange fear, Shelley hadn't yet thrown the parchment away, which spawned another ludicrous rumor that she actually wanted to meet her stalker.  She closed her locker and hoped that everything would be back to normal after the weekend and the class' short attention span would find something else to latch on to.

As she made to head out of school, an older student stood in front of her.  "Are you Shelley Cao?" Jonathan Hyre asked, mispronouncing 'Cao' as 'cow' instead of correctly as 'tsao', which is what everyone did anyways.

Shelley nodded weakly and replied, "Y-yes..."

"I heard you got a strange parchment," Jonathan said.

"I-I did.  It's not from you...is it?" Shelley asked, shifting backwards apprehensively.

"No, no.  I got one too, so have others," Jonathan replied, trying to calm Shelley, knowing that the rumors surrounding her parchment involved a stalker.  "I take it you don't know anything about the parchment then?"

"I don't," Shelley replied.

Jonathan decided to be blunt, "Everyone I've talked to doesn't know anything about these parchments, so I wanted to gather everyone together tomorrow at 2PM, right here at this school."  Sensing a bit of emotional vulnerability, Jonathan dialed up the pressure a little, "Everyone's going to be there, so if you don't come we'll all have wasted our time.  You'll come, right?"

"I-I..." Shelley hesitated.  She had planned on finishing her homework quickly and vegetating the rest of the weekend.  But she was also a little curious.  Maybe the whole thing was just an elaborate prank, but maybe at least after Saturday, the rumors would finally stop.  "Y-yeah, I'll be there..."

"Great!  I'll see you at 2!" Jonathan said as he went on his way.

"He didn't even introduce himself," Shelley thought, feeling suddenly a little used.