I was literally frozen, just staring blankly at the message. Was this real? Did…did…April's Dad really just texted me? He's never texted me except when he needed to get a hold of April during our brief ‘only girls’ vacation. And that was like a year ago. We might live in the same house but we kept our distance, always. So…what the heck was this message? My phone beeped again. My shaky finger clicked on the new message. Mr. Joe Anderson. *What are you trying to learn from that book? I could teach you* Goosebumps raced through my skin. There was no way in hell April's Dad would say this to me. He thought of me as a kid, he treated me as such, ever since day one. He'd never say these things to me. Something was wrong. Maybe his phone got hacked? Another text. *But I must warn

