**Author’s Note:** Well, the above tag is a bit of a spoiler, but I need to specify ages to avoid getting flagged.
**PART ONE**
It wasn’t my fault.
I mean, how could I possibly have known?
It all started a week before the first day of classes. Fresh out of college with an Education degree, I had already managed to land a teaching position at a small suburban high school. Not exactly my dream job, but it was a start. Decent salary, decent benefits, and rent was fairly affordable in the area. The only drawback was that I didn’t know a single person in town. All my former classmates were sticking with the bigger cities. But it was fine. I was a guy who actually kind of liked the idea of the peace and quiet that came with a borderline rural area.