"So if you take the square root of both sides, then the answer is..." Mr. Hauserman said excitedly, circling the answer on the whiteboard.

"Sixty four..." The class said in unison, with a less than enthusiastic tone to their voice. This seemed to make Mr. Hauserman's mood go down a lot.

"Very good." He complimented. "Since you all seem to know this material inside and out, I will give you a head start to your homework. You have to do practice problems 17-53 odds on page 238 in your textbook." He ordered, writing down the homework on the board. Carly looked up from her doodle of her, Sam, Freddie, and Spencer drinking smoothies on a roller coaster to glance at the time. 15 minutes left of class. She could totally finish the homework, or at least get close to finishing it. She opened her notebook to a clean page and opened the textbook to page 238. She read the first problem, chewing the eraser enc of her pencil. She looked at the foreign problem.

9^2 + b^2 = 106 What does b equal?

Carly rolled her eyes. She knew how to do this, but she would never need to do this in her life. She quickly scribbled the answer to the problem and moved on to the next, more challenging one. She looked at her best friend, Sam, and saw she was trying to put a wad of gum in some nerds hair. Carly scoffed and looked down as she heard Mr. Hauserman yelling.

Suddenly, Carly felt a cold chill going up her spine to her ear. It was so cold it was painful. She brought her hand up to her ear and she heard a ringing in it. She heard a soft whisper - Four More Days. She dropped her pencil and looked around. Everybody was too engrossed in their work, doodles, or secretive texting and nobody seemed to have heard the whisper except for her. Carly picked up her pencil and turned to Freddie. "Did you hear that?" She whispered.

"Hear what?" Freddie asked, not looking up from his work.

"...Nothing." Carly said, shaking her head. She must have been hearing things. She tried to return her focus to the textbook in front of her but could not seem to erase the eerie whisper from her memory.

After school, Sam got in Carly's car and they started to drive to the apartment complex that Carly lived in. Carly was quiet the entire car ride until Sam finally broke the silence at a stop light. "Are you okay, Carls?"

"Huh?" She asked defensively, focusing on Sam's face before shaking her head and returning her attention to the road. "Oh... Yeah I'm fine. Just got something on my mind."

"Spill!" Sam ordered, repositioning herself so she was sitting on her right foot and facing Carly.

"What?" Carly asked.

"What's on your mind?"

"Oh... Nothing it's stupid."

"It can't be too stupid if it's keeping you quiet." Carly rolled her eyes and put on her turn signal as she made a right turn. "It's nothing. It's just... In math class. I thought I heard something strange, but it was all in my head."

"What did you hear?" Carly put on her left turn signal and made her next turn. "It's nothing! I just, I thought I heard a whisper. It's stupid."

"What did this whisper say?"

"Damnit, Sam, I don't want to talk about this." Carly said, looking quickly at her best friend. "Do you want anything from McDonalds? I'm really in the mood for fries." She asked, turning into the fast food restaurant and heading toward the drive-thru.

"Yeah, I'll have the triple bacon cheeseburger, super sized fries, a chocolate milkshake, a mcflurry, and a diet soda."

"Diet!" Carly said, moving up in line.

"Yeah, my doctor said I need to eat healthier. So, anyway, Carly. What did this whisper say?"

"I thought we were done with this!" Carly complained, moving up in line.

"You decided that, not me!" Sam reminded, putting her feet up on the dashboard.

"Fine, okay, whatever. It's no big deal, really, it's just..l thought I heard a whisper that said 'four more days'. But obviously that's not true because nobody else heard it. See? Nothing worth reporting. It's no big deal."

"Well, it's almost Halloween. Maybe it was a ghost!" Sam suggested jokingly. "Oooo!"

"Or a dumb classmate trying to prank me." Carly said, hoping that was the case even though she felt a cold, painful sensation crawling up her spine during class. She pulled up to the drive thru window and heard creepy chewing sounds and faint, high-pitched screams coming from the speaker. She looked at Sam, who did not seem to hear it. "Hello?" Nothing. Sam looked at Carly as if she was crazy. "Hello?"

Sam leaned over Carly. "One order of medium fries, a bottle of water, a triple bacon cheeseburger, super sized fries, a chocolate milkshake, and an M&M McFlurry." Sam yelled into the loudspeaker. Carly nervously pulled forward without saying a word.

"What the heck was that?" Sam asked.

"Didn't you hear the weird sounds coming from the loudspeaker?"

"No, only some dorky teen worker getting annoyed because you weren't giving him your order."

Carly felt her heart drop. She grabbed her head. "Are you okay?"

"No, I have a headache. Can we switch seats? Can you drive? I don't want fries anymore." Sam looked at her friend worriedly, before nodding her head. They both got out smd switched seats and Sam pulled out of line and just drove off. Carly looked out the window.

"So you heard something else just now?" Sam asked, driving down a quiet street.

"Shit, Sam, I thought we were dropping it." Carly snapped, her hand slightly moving from her head as she looked at her friend.

"I just want to make sure you're alright is all."

"Do I look harmed? No. I'm fine. Just take me home!" Carly rested her seat back and closed her eyes. She felt another paralyzingly cold feeling go up her spine and a whisper - How dare you tell your friend about me? Soon we will come face to face and I will make you pay!"