Well, there goes Joe again.

Hitting cats with shovels.

If I had known I was going to be assigned the imaginary companion to a child psychopath I would have just stayed in purgatory.

“Common Jay, let’s see if we can get all of Miss Clifton’s cats! Then we’ll get our payback.” Joe exclaimed with a devious grin stretched across his bony face.

Joe was dead set on killing all of Miss Clifton’s after she found Joe’s dead frog head collection and told his parents. He figured if she was gonna take away something he loves, why not give her a taste of her own medicine?

“Uh-huh, be right there!” I replied awkwardly.

Listen, I might not be real in the material world, but there are lines even I simply wouldn’t cross.

I’m not not sure why the imaginary companion comitteee assigned me to someone so… hopeless and twisted.

Because let’s be honest, Joe will probably end up in prison before he turns 16.

I didn’t want to kill Miss Clifton’s cats, after all she was the grandmother of Sadie DuPont, who was the human companion of Katrina, my crush.

I gulped. Katrina would despise me if I killed Sadie’s grandmother’s cats because then Sadie would be horrified and I would look like an accomplice to the murders.

No.

I couldn’t let that happen.

I’d have to break the #1 rule all imaginary companions have to follow:

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_Never hurt or betray your human companion._

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