Chapter 5

Mandy stared at the large book in her front with a perplexed expression. Today was another day in school and fortunately, or rather unfortunately in her case, she was assigned a project to research on democracy. The only good thing about it was that she happened to be paired with Jeremy and Kyle. 

 History class had ended long ago and Gerard, who had assigned the project, left but not without giving her a longing gaze. She had read meaning to his look. It only meant one thing: Stay out of trouble. 

“This sucks.” Kyle slammed his head against the table and groaned. “As if history wasn’t boring enough, he had to do this to us. Democracy? Everyone knew it was founded by Abraham Lincoln. Who gives a flying hell about this?”

Jeremy scowled at him at his last sentence which contained the profane language. Kyle ignored his friend.

“Hell, I would rather be interested in a research on Count Dracula or Frankenstein’s Monster or something like that. And those t