The next day I didn't see Dexter at school. I had to know what is going on. I met up with Grossman after school. "Hey, uh, Grossman?" The big guy turned and smiled, "Oh, hey new girl. What's up?" We started walking back home. "I need to ask you about something." He nodded. "OK. Shoot." "I need to know about Dexter. Somethings wrong and I want to help him but he won't tell me what's wrong." He said nothing. "Oh, please! I really want to help him but I can't if I don't know what's wrong." He looked at me in the eyes then sighed. He said, "Evertone has a different story, Dexter's is on of the less pleasant ones. Unlike Dexter I was born and raised here. He moved here about three years ago.
He was a genius from the start. With a Photographic memory. His Mom died a year ago so he lives by himself with his sister. His dad is in the Airforce so he doesn't get to see him much." I said, "Dexter has a sister?" He smiled, "Yeah, she's adorable. She found a red hoody that her mother use to wear. She wore it and never took it off. We all called her little red, to humor her." Of Course. "But the real problem happened when Red went missing. I remember that day. It was before his Mom died. We were having a family barbecue, everyone was there. Including Dex's dad. We all got distracted and Dexter's sister wandered off into the woods. At least, that's what we figured. She was missing for a whole two days. But we never stopped. We found her, she was scared and had some scratches on her but other than that she was fine. But, that was before we found out her new abilities. She kept on having these 'fits' and Dexter ended up locking her in his lab until she calmed down. These weren't regular tantrums that little kid has. They always happen during the night of a full moon." He shook his head. "It's hard to explain." I looked at him. We were almost there now. "What does she turn into a Were-Wolf or something?" He shook his head. "Worse, she turns into a mentally disturbed killing machine. Dexter still hasn't figured out where she got it. She only got out once. And she killed the firt person she saw." He stopped there. This was getting hard for him to say. "Remember when I said his mom died?" I nodded. He made a gesture with his hands that said, 'Well, there you go.'
I put my hand over my mouth. I think I'm going to throw up. "You Okay?" I heard Gross say. I nodded. I wiped my eyes and said, "Thank you." He nodded. "No problem. You sure your OK?" "Yeah I'm sure." I lied. I went to my room and started crying my eyes out.
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