"There are a couple," I admitted, wrinkling my nose to the subject. Ben, of course, was something that I had partially invited, but that didn't take away from his creep factor. There were run of the mill creeps at school, too. The types that wouldn't really make any moves that couldn't be fended off. It was the ones like Ben and Tad that I (and Betty) were on the watch for.

"Ben's not that bad but... I mean, you heard about the Purge, right?"