'What do you want?', Heather Chandler asked us.
'Here's some food for you', JD answered.
'Thanks', she said.
As she ate, she gasped.
'Corn nuts', she uttered.
And she collapsed on the ground, and died.
*
Pauline Milford, the thirty-five year old teacher, said: 'It is a tragedy that everyone is concerned about the death of a student, especially Heather Chandler, who was popular at Westberg High School; a student who is with her other Heathers, a social clique. Suicide is not a thing to laugh at, Veronica'. I stared at the class. Faking it was something I was good at; faking it was the only thing that caused murder to happen; teenage murder of those teenagers we hated.
It was only a matter of time before others died.
*
'God has taken Heather Chandler. Corn nuts! It is His Word. For He is the Law', Principal Ripper declared. 'Everyone is scared. Teenagers are hurting', Pauline said. And the meeting ended.
*
Ram and Kurt were near the woods.
'Okay, so we can make out with you, Veronica'.
'Yes, and...'.
Suddenly JD fired his gun at the football player.
He shot him dead.
Ram fled.
'I'll get him'.
He raced towards the woods.
Once the teenager died, Veronica shivered.
'He's dead'.
'What should we do?'.
'Here's some water, and magazines. And cough syrup. And the other items'.
'They're not...'.
'Write on this piece of paper about their love for each other. Romantics will lap it up; it will be death for all of them who hated us', JD said.
And then they fled to his car, as police officers raced to the crime scene.
*
The funeral of Heather Chandler was abuzz with crying family members, and school students. I cried until I saw the coffin. Faking it was the norm; death was inevitable. What's your damage?, that was what I heard from the Heathers; that's why I hated them all, except for JD, who was slightly unhinged. Afterwards, I was at his place. His Dad was gloating as he rode his exercise bicycle in the Lounge room. 'This is Veronica, Dad', JD said.
'Hello, Veronica', he said.
'Where's your Mom?', I asked him.
'Dead. She went into a building, and never came out of it. She knew what she was doing', JD's Dad answered.
I rolled my eyes, and hoped to end the ruse before it was too late.
*
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