So most of you know that my feelings toward Joy are like, love/hate- this chapter basically allows us to have a little sympathy for her, but I'm also being kinda mean to her, making her disappear. :P

Enjoy!


Joy pushed her Chemistry textbook into her bag and made her way down the hallway. She looked up in surprise when someone ran into her and didn't even look at her, they just kept walking. She shrugged it off and went on her way. But someone ran into her again, and this time it was Patricia.

Her best friend looked around, as if she had felt the hit on her shoulder, but she just jogged to the end of the hallway where their friends stood. Joy's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. Why hadn't Patricia apologized?

She hopped up to her group of housemates and smiled. "Hey, guys."

Patricia laughed at Alfie, completely ignoring Joy. The others laughed as well when Alfie's magic trick didn't go the way he'd planned.

"Um, guys? It's Joy, can you answer me?" she asked with a nervous chuckle, snapping her fingers to get their attention.

They looked away from Alfie, but not to look at her, they immediately started talking amongst themselves. Amber was giggling as Alfie grumbled about his magic trick; Mick was explaining the school's new sports program to Fabian and Nina; Jerome and Mara were planning when they'd hang out and play another game of chess; and Patricia and Eddie were bickering as usual. And none of them paid any attention to Joy.

"Did I do something wrong? Why aren't you guys talking to me?" Joy spoke a little louder, hoping to turn a head.

No one heard her. Her friends didn't look up. People scattered around the hall didn't turn to look at her. Joy's stomach churned. "Guys, what's wrong?" she called.

She turned to Patricia, her best friend since before she could remember. "Trish, why aren't you talking to me?"

When she didn't receive a reply or an eye roll, and she just slapped Eddie on the arm, Joy whipped around to Fabian.

"Fabes, why isn't anyone talking to me? I'm sorry for whatever I did."

Fabian just smiled at Mick politely, obviously not finding the sports talk interesting but taking interest for his friend.

"Mara," Joy snapped at her other roommate. "What did I do?"

Her heart twisted painfully. Everyone was completely ignoring her. She stepped in between Alfie and Amber. They continued their conversation, not once looking down at her, as if she wasn't there. It was like she was invisible.

Joy gasped. She looked down at her hands. They weren't there anymore, or at least they were invisible, because she could feel them but couldn't see them. And her arms were starting to do the same.

She couldn't believe it. She was disappearing. She was invisible—her worst nightmare.


Review?

"Guess I should have seen this coming; should have known it all along. You're a fake; see clear right through you. Left me dying; it's all your fault. These are the memories between us. Let it go, and let live again."

Anyone know this song? :3

-Rachel