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There was a teacher named Mr. Griffin. He was known as the meanest teacher ever. He would give his students homework, and the next day when they turn it in, most of them get horrible grades. Then, a group of students had enough of these bad grades, and their names were Betsy, Mark, Jeff, and David.

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They planned to kidnap Mr. Griffin, and scare the daylights out of him to give all of his students good grades to pass high school and go to college. But they needed someone that could distract Mr. Griffin. That's when they thought that Sue would be perfect.

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They told David to pretend to date Sue so he can convince her to help them. Of course, Sue agreed to date David. Later that day, the group went out to the deep part of a forest, which nobody has ever went there, and had a picnic there. Then they told Sue about their plan. She didn't like it, but David convinced her. So she said she could help. She still didn't like the idea though.

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Later on, Sue went inside to talk with Mr.Griffin to distract him as Mark and Jeff got in his car. When Mark saw Sue and Mr. Griffin come out, he told Jeff to get ready. Once Mr. Griffin got in the car, Jeff grabbed his arms and tied them and put a bag on his face. They took Mr. Griffin to their car and went back to the forest. Sue walked away sadly, not wanting to help them.

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They took Mr. Griffin up into the deep end of the forest by the waterfall. They told him that all of the students from school are here watching him. They went through his pockets and found a vial with pills that read "nitroglycerin". Jeff took the vial and poured out the pills and smashed them with a rock to see if they would explode. Nothing happened though.

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Hours went by, and Sue found David and asked if they released Mr.Griffin yet and he told her no. She started getting mad and asked angrily if they left him all alone with the blindfold and still tied up. He said yes and she told him that they have to go back to let him go. They argues about it for a little, but finally David agreed to go back.

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They noticed the sun was slowly going down. Jeff had a game and Betsy had cheer. They can't be late for that. So they left Mr. Griffin and said they will go back later to check on him after the game is over and it shouldn't be so bad.

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When they did, Sue was saying that she was incredibly sorry to him as she struggled to take off the ropes. He didn't say anything so she assumed she was sleeping. As she was trying to take them off, David came over and pulled the blindfold off of Mr.Griffin's face. Everything went silent. Sue asked him what's wrong. He looked at her and said "He's not asleep. He's dead."

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They drove to the school to find Jeff, Mark, and Betsy in the gym. The game was finished. David told them that Mr.Griffin is dead. They asked what happened and he said he will tell them if they get in the car. Once David told them what happened, Sue started to cry, and never has anyone seen it, Mark hugged her, telling her that it's ok and it's going to be alright. They were kinda shocked, because Mark never does such a thing.

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David started freaking out, and in the back of his mind, it was saying "we've got to go get mark! He'll know what to do!" He told Sue to get in the car so he can drive them to the school to get Mark

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Mrs. Griffin began to worry. Her husband hasn't came home for 3 days. She told a detective and he said he could have left, but she told him that he would never do such a thing, even when she has a baby that will be coming soon. So the detective told her that he would like to speak with one of the students from school that has seen Mr. Griffin last.

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Mark knew that they had to do something about Mr.Griffin. He said they could roll him in the lake, but Sue said they should bury him. So Betsy, David, and Mark went back to the forest to Mr.Griffin's corpse with shovels and buried his body near the river.

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Sue was in class when the intercom tuned on and told her to go down in the office. Mark was standing by the fountain and told her that they are going to ask when she saw him last and what happened. He said to just lie about what happened so they won't get in trouble. She walked in and started making lies

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A few days later, Mrs. Griffin came to Sue house and asked her what happened. She lied to her, but Mrs. Griffin knew her husband and said that he never did such a thing. Sue was getting nervous until David came over and asked if Sue can go with him. Sue was relieved that he came

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A day went by, and a lady and her boyfriend came in to talk to the detective, saying that they found a bottle of nitroglycerin out in the deep part of the forest. The detective took it and saw Mr. Griffin's name on the vial

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Mark, Betsy, Jeff, David, and Sue were all together and Mark said that they will have to hide Mr.Griffin's car. He told Jeff to spray paint the car and then him and Betsy can drive it to the airport and leave it there. Nobody should notice.

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David was walking with Sue and he told her that he stole a ring from Mr. Griffin and she told them that they have to get rid of it immediately. They went to his house and he went upstairs to find the ring wasn't there. He walked back downstairs and saw that his grandma has it. She asked where his dad is, because she thought the ring belonged to his dad, therefore saying that she thought he was back in town. He said he found it but she didn't buy it. So they left after the argument

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Sue's mom came in her room as Sue was sitting on the bed, thinking about what happened the other night. Her mom gave her a note that she said she found in a briefcase and that he didn't get a chance to give it back to her. It was her final song for Ophelia. He put a note on her paper.

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Mark heard that Sue found out he was the one who killed David's grandma to get the ring. He tied her up with cords and Jeff and Betsy helped. He told them to leave and Mark told her that he was going to burn the house down. He took fire from the fireplace and let them touch Sue's mom's favorite curtains as they climbed up the curtain and licked the ceiling. Then she saw Mrs. Griffin outside of the window as she took out Mark. When Sue looked into her eyes, they held no hatred, only sad, gentle, and accepting eyes.

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A few days later, David called Sue and told her he woke up to find that his grandma died last night. His neighbor saw someone in the room wearing a brown sweater with her. She asked where the ring was, but he said that she doesn't have it anymore. When they hung up, she was wondering who was in the room with his grandma. Then she remembered that the lady said it was a guy in a brown sweater. Mark always wears a brown sweater. The person who killed her was Mark.

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"Miss Connell: It pleases me to see the growing maturity of your work. It is indeed the "little deaths" the small, daily rejections of our well-meant offerings, that render the soul lifeless. It is an adult thought, well expressed. I am glad that you are a junior, for it is will allow me one more year in which to work with you.I look forward to watching your continued development as a writer and hope that I may be able to contribute toward it. Brian Griffin." She would have been like the old Susan and wept, but this was the new Susan that had cried herself dry of tears. She put the note in her drawer and went to comb her hair.