Story for Sibunian's 'Joy Mercer Death Contest'

All she can think about is the couple walking ahead of her. She hates them and they know it.

Well at least she knows it.

She laughs at something he says, and her eyes turn into slits. All she can think about is how that should be her holding hands with him. She was here first after all. If she had never gotten "protected", last year, that would be them holding hands. She knows it.

But no, it's that stupid American holding hands with him. It's *her* that he's dating. Patricia keeps on telling her that she should just give up. That there's supposed to be a 'Fabina' and not a 'Jabian'. (A/N: Ewww!)

Amber tells her that if she doesn't stop interfering with 'Fabina', that she'll come after her. After all, she already broke them up once this year. Not that she's complaining.

She notices that he pulls her to the left, towards the school's garden.

'No!' She thinks. She follows quietly behind them and ducks behind a rock when she starts to hear them talk.

"It's beautiful Fabian!" She says. Her eyes become even smaller, if it's even possible. She knows exactly what he's showing her. If you go through the hedges that make the path throughout the garden, there's a small pond in the center, with cherry blossom trees circling it. She knows this because they found it two years ago when Jerome had made fun of her and made her cry.

She goes to stand up and say something when a hand covers her mouth and pulls her back into the forest. When the hand comes off her mouth, she turns around and sees Amber standing there, a big pink bag on her left arm.

"What are you doing?" She asks, though her tone suggests she knows that answer.

"I. I was walking through garden. What's so weird about that?" She tells her.

"You were spying on Nina and Fabian. What did I tell you about breaking up Fabina Joy?"

She backed up until she hit a tree trunk. Amber slowly walked towards her, like a lion stalking their pray. She looked side to side looking for an escape when all of a sudden; she was hit in the stomach.

Amber hit her over and over again with her pink purse filled with high heels. She hit her until Joy sunk to the ground and stopped moving.

When Amber got back to the house, Mara was walking around the house.

"What are you looking for Mara?"

"Joy. She has my science book." Amber fought back her laugh.

"Oh, well Joy left. Her parents aren't even coming to pick up her things." Mara frowned.

"And why is that?" Amber turned to walk up the stairs.

"I guess we'll never know."