Interlude

April Chase was always a smart girl. A very smart girl.


She had gone to a state college on a scholarship. She was going to get her degree in business and management. She wanted a well paying job when she got out of school. She wanted to be well off.


But things don't always go as we plan them. What is the saying? "Man plans, God laughs." And the gods did laugh at April. She was a smart girl, but not in the way needed for her classes. Quickly, she was failing. And she didn't know how to succeed.


One professor, however, did and told her how. All that was required of her would be certain sexual favors.


April was many things, but she was not someone who traded sex for grades. She told the professor this and he quickly pointed out that he wouldn't just fail her, he'd get her kicked out of the college if she didn't do what he wanted.


Well, that irked her. And you don't want to irk April Chase. So she did what any sensible person would have done: she broke into her professor's home one night and chloroformed him while he slept. Then she put him into his car, stuck a hose from the exhaust into the window, and turned the car on. Then she left and let him dream.


It's what any sensible person would have done, right?