Chapter 1Shirley McKey parked her car in her regular space in front of her apartment building and shut off the engine. She groaned silently at the very thought of having to make the journey from her car to her apartment on the second floor. She was exhausted. She had slacked off on her studying for half the semester and now her finals were just over a week away. It was all coming down over her head like a heavy weight that threatened to crush her skull.
She knew that it was her fault and she accepted that, but she didn’t have to like it. Shirley had always been a classic procrastinator, but she was always able to pull through with a tight deadline approaching her. She thrived on the pressure sometimes and just had a problem with getting motivated when the pressure was not there. If she fe
