He smiled again, and my heart raced like the adrenaline rush of a Haunting. I felt alive and anxious for each moment. My mind whirled at different possibilities and analyzed every detail, yet connected nothing. The same questions raced through my consciousness: Why was this happening to me? What did I do to deserve this? Every other time I’d felt this way, I’d also felt terrified for my life. Everything flipped upside down. For the first time, I wondered why something so nice would happen to me.
