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Author's POV

Mara spies on Nina Martin, knowing that she's next on the hit list.

Nina is everything Mara wants to be.

Pretty, mysterious, sweet and innocent. Of everything but conceit.

That's right, Mara thinks of Nina as a whining, bratty, conceited American.

She hates her for having everything Mara doesn't have.

That night, Mara slips into Nina's room as the girl sleeps. She pours a colourless, odourless chemical into Nina's water and slips back out.

When it comes to morning, Nina wakes and has a sip of her drink. The chemical is very powerful and immediately, Nina drops dead.

Amber wakes at the thud and sees her friend. Amber calls the police. Mara has left the empty chemical tube there, as if Nina had done that to herself, purposely.

The new housemother, Vera, as Mara had anticipated, tells the police that Nina had never shown any signs of trouble in her life and it made no sense that she'd done this herself.

Mara pretends to cry, enjoying every second of her sick game. She has nothing left to hate the now dead Nina for, because she's dead.

She smiles as she ticks off another death on her list.

"Willow Jenks [x] dead. (and thank goodness, I thought I'd never be rid of that "Squee")

Trudy Rehman [x] dead. (and thank God. She was so whiny. I thought we'd never be rid of her.)

Nina Martin [x] (bratty and self-obsessed American.)

Three down. Now for:

Amber Millington [ ] (Self-obsessed idiot.)

Joy Mercer [ ] (whinging brat.)

KT Rush [ ] (pain in the neck)

Patricia Williamson [ ] (vicious and cruel {not much of a reason to kill her, I am too.})

Victor Rodenmaar [ ] (Rude and horrible.)

Eddie Miller. [ ] (Arrogant and lazy.)

Alfie Lewis. [ ] (Greedy and stupid.)

Fabian Rutter [ ] (Goody two shoes and too clever {may pose a threat to my secret, gulp})

Vera Devenish [ ] (Too good at solving pules, may pose threat.)

Jasper Choudhary [ ] (May solve out the killer, want revenge for murder of beloved fiancee. {yuck, BTW})"

Mara knows that she won't stay hidden long and she had to finish the job very quickly.