 Venus Spring Face-Off, written by Johnny Zucker, narrated by Jenny Brice. This work is copyrighted 2008 by Johnny Zucker. This recording is copyrighted 2008 by W. F. Howe's Limited. And now, Venus Spring Face-Off. Chapter 1. I'm watching you. Venus Spring stared at the inside of her school locker door in horror. Tape next to her pictures of legendary kickboxing heroes and her favourite stunt artist, Kelly Tanner, was a piece of lined paper, bearing these terrifying words. This would have been unnerving and scary enough, but the spindly handwriting sent particular tremors of fear through Venus's body. She'd recognised that writing anywhere. It belonged to her arch-enemy, Franco Dane. Franco had been at her grandfather Dennis's stunt camp in the summer. Venus had gone to the camp to learn stunt skills and have fun. But while there, she'd uncovered a plot that Franco was caught up in, along with his mother. Venus had thwarted the plot, but Franco's mother had died in a plane explosion after an airborne fight with Venus, an explosion that Venus had been very, very lucky to escape. Venus had been convinced that Franco was also dead, but on her return home from stunt camp, she'd received a postcard in his distinctive spindly writing saying, See you soon. This had completely spooked her. She knew the tone of the postcard was deeply menacing. Not only was he alive, but he was on her case. In the intervening two and a half months, thoughts of him had continued to haunt her, and she had often imagined she'd seen him. Once she'd even chased someone believing it to be Franco, and then suffered huge embarrassment when it turned out to be someone else. But here was that distinctive writing again, and yet again the message seemed both menacing and threatening to Venus. She had been to her locker only ten minutes before, but she'd forgotten the file and had quickly returned to it. This meant that the note had been stuck up in the interim, which meant Franco must be fairly close by. Perhaps he was even watching her now. Venus shivered uncontrollably. She looked both ways down the corridor. To her left a group of younger boys were swapping football trading cards outside the first floor gym. To her right a sixth form girl was speaking on her mobile and twisting her hair in her fingers. Venus looked at the note again. Sample complete. Ready to continue?