Chapter 1 - Liar

"...and you want me to do what?!" Karen hostilly screamed.

"Calm down, man. I'm sure it's easy thing to do." Josh breathed out, like the smoke of his cigarette. "You took acting for a reason, right?"

Karen slammed his beer bottle against the table. Her face turned red enough to burn the pale make-up off her head. Her hazel eyes glared into his green ones.

"Hey, dude," he paused to take a drag.

"Don't call me a dude, you slimy bastard."

"The fu-" Josh shook his head a little. "Look all you need to do is pull his leg, and you're done" Josh slowly pulled the bottle downward. "I can take care of the rest if he takes it too seriously."

Nothing could seem more erie in the dark basement room. The shadows creeped to listen for a falshood from Josh. Karen flopped back into the stool where she sat in with some of Josh's cigarettes. The bottle shattered, and scattered to the ends on the bottom ofthe trashcan. She lit one up instantly as she landed. Karen's glare intensified. The stiff silence came around once more.

"You hand the money over at school and I'll pass him some notes it in the first class we have together."

"Who do you even have in mind as to who you wanna fuck around with?" Josh commented.

"I'm thinking the lab partner's got a thing." She dragged on her cigarette, snarling wickedly as she breathed it out.

"What about the douche next to me?" Josh said snidely. "He's got something for you. Man, I'd love to beat the shit out of him"

"Shouldn't you be fighting other juniors?"

"Seems like a smartass enough to be one, lemme get a beer"

Josh lifted himself from the beat-up couch, and watched karen steal it. Josh offered one, Karen refused. Flipping through the yearbook Karen noticed the person in front of her in her chemistry class. She felt that there was always something strange about him. He never smiled for the picture, his hair was grown to his shoulders and there was a bleak expression on his eyes that shouted his soulessness through Karen. Karen was always haunted by his usnusal appearence, and look fair enough for Josh to even fight. His shouldres were broad, but he wore baggy clothing. His face was white and clear like a ghost, and looked fleshy.

"How about this kid, Josh?" Karen pointed at the picture with the burning cigarette, with a 'holier than thou' attitude.

"Dunno about him man." Josh looked some more. "His face pisses me off a ton though."

As Karen looked onward in the yearbook, but quickly stopped to only see Josh's hand entangling her wrist.

"Y'know, if you look too much in that yearbook from last year," Josh took alast drag of his cigarette and leaned his beer on her left shoulder.. "You'll forget you had a boyfriend, man." His hand slowly moved down her pants, toiling with her panties.

"Damn it, Josh. We just had sex two days ago." His chin and 'five-o-clock-shadow' scraped off her.

"So?"

"How about, after you beat him up?" She trew his hand off of her.

"Aight, I can wait..." He took a sip of his beer. "Don't stand me up."

The next day finally arrived. Karen waited for Josh to finally come in. Two minutes late to class, and a speech from the old frail teacher later, Josh was finally seated. In front of her, the gloomy looking individual was hunched forward with his hood on. Looking down, Karen noticed that there were chains all over his pants, and the pants themselves were black. She tried hard to find chubbiness in his legs, but there was nothing to pick at. His arms were covered by baggy clothing, so she wouldn't be able to know how his upper body was in terms of fitness. She also noticed his hair was a dark brown, and tripped at his neck.

She took a glance at Josh, all she saw was a jacket and some slim jeans, of course she knew that his stomach seemed to hang out ever so slightly. She became unsure of Josh's ability to even fight him.

As the teacher was talking, she finally seemed to notice that the student in front of her was asleep. She took out a filler paper and wrote on it as if she was taking notes.

To person in front of me,

   You look cute, wanna meet me after class?
I'll be at locker 422.

                                                    