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The Devil and Katie S.
Carmel Catholic High School’s football team had made it to the semi-finals and the big football game was on that Friday. Carmel was going to be playing Lake Zurich. The whole school was extremely excited about the game, the school administration even allowed a spirit day for that Friday. The week passed by rather quickly for Katie and her friends. Friday came and passed and they were all excited for the big game.

When Saturday finally arrived Katie woke up waiting for the time she would go to her friend’s house before the game. Before leaving for her friend’s house her parents dropped her off at Michaels so that way she could get materials to make a shirt for the game. As Katie walked in the door she noticed an old man just sitting by the door. The old man looked like a decent man. Katie wasn’t able to describe him easily because he was something that she had never seen before. His skin was of a burnt color like he had been burned by fire. The man was wearing a nice pair of jeans with a nice shirt; he didn’t look too much out of the ordinary except for his skin. When walking out of the stored she noticed the man still sitting there. This time instead of keeping to himself he stood up to talk to her. “Hello,” he said “hi” she replied to be polite. Instead of allowing her to walk through the doors to get to her car, he stopped her and continued to talk to her. “How would you like it if you were able to get the greatest car ever for no cost?” “That would be really cool,” she replied. She then started to question herself about how he knew that her 16th birthday was in a month and she knew that her parents weren’t getting her a car. As Katie started to walk away he stopped her and said “Promise you will think about it.” “Ok” she replied while walking out the door.

After getting into the car her parents noticed that something was troubling her so they asked her what was wrong. Katie knew that she couldn’t tell them what had just happened without them worrying too much so all she said was “I’m fine.” While Katie’s parents were driving her to her friend’s house all she could think about was how to tell her friend what had just happened. As Katie’s friend was opening the door she ran inside and immediately her friend asked her what was wrong. “I can’t tell you right now, lets go into your room then I will be able to tell you.” “Ok…..” her friend said. Once they got into her friend’s room, Katie told her what had just happened and how she was thinking about accepting the car but she didn’t know how to get in contact with him again. “Are you sure that you really want to do that? I mean it doesn’t sound that great to me, I’m sure that you will probably have to do something in order to get this amazing car.” Katie’s friend asked. After thinking about it for a couple more minutes Katie was sure that she really wanted to do it.

Once getting dropped off at Carmel, they went to go give their tickets to the ticket collectors to get in. When walking up the table Katie recognized one of the ticket collectors “O my gosh! That’s the guy that I met at Michael’s!” “You mean that guy with the burnt skin” her friend asked. After confirming that it really was the guy, she started thinking, “I never told him that I was going to be here tonight.” “That’s really scary, almost like a stalker!” her friend replied. After Katie gave her ticket and got her hand stamped she went to go talk to him about the car deal. Katie and he talked for almost 20 minutes and once they were done, Katie ran to her friends and told them everything. By the time that she had gotten to her friends Carmel and Lake Zurich were tied at zero. Katie told them everything that had gone on between them. “That’s terrible! You can’t help Lake Zurich win! This game determines if Carmel goes to the finals!” Her friends all told her. “You’re right” she answered them. Realizing that her friends would hate her for the rest of her life if she did that and they found out, she decided to tell them that she was going to get hot chocolate. Instead of going to get hot chocolate she went inside of the locker room and got Carmel’s play book. To cover up what she just did she went and got some hot chocolate, brought the play book to the man, then returned to her friends. Her friends didn’t think anything of it but once second quarter started and Lake Zurich started getting touchdowns they began getting suspicious. The game ended with a loss for Carmel and Katie feeling really bad because her friends had just blamed the loss on her.

Once she got home she felt so bad that the next day when the man came by her house with the car she couldn’t accept it. She realized that she couldn't accept the car because everytime she would look at it she would remember that night. She apologized to her friends for betraying them and also the school. Even though the man had left without an argument, she was still afraid of what would happen if she ever saw the man again.