Sapphire sat up in her bed staring, just staring out into nowhere. “Daddy… why’d you have to go?” Sappy looked down in her lap where there lay a picture of her father, Randolph. A tear gently slipped from her eye and landed in a slight splatter on the picture. She shook her head and whipped away the tears that were now streaming down her face more quickly. Sappy turned to look at the clock; 3:25am was in bright red numbers. Suddenly Sappy heard a horrifying cough from the other room, “Oh great, the monster has awoken,” Sapphire rolled her eyes and placed the picture carefully to one side while quickly laying down and pretending to be fast asleep. The ground nearly shook as that beast stormed into the kitchen, hacking up a whirl wind. “Where the hell are my cigarettes?!?!” Melinda, otherwise known as Sapphire’s mother, loudly questioned to nobody in particular. Sapphire sniffled quietly and grinded her teeth at the sound of Mel’s voice. Slowly, with gasping breaths, Mel finally went back to her bed and, eventually, fell asleep again, roaring with abrupt disturbing snores. By now Sapphire had fallen fast asleep and was dreaming away. On the other hand, Joel was busy away at his desk. “We’re going down, down in an earlier round and sugar we’re going down swinging,” sang Joel, well more of a hum than an actual sing. His door was slightly cracked, just enough so that he could tell if somebody was approaching. On his desk was a little reading light, that he had on as bright as it would go so that the drawing, of Sapphire, he was working on would be perfect to the last detail. “Sappy’s got to love this!” Joel murmured to himself. On the paper was a very talented sketched thick heart, dripping on one edge what seems to be a tear. Inside the heart, which has a slight crack in an upper corner, almost too small to notice, is Sapphire’s beautiful face. It’s a perfect front view, drawn from pure memory. Her smile was from ear to ear, a very rare thing to see on Sappy’s face these days, her eyes… oh her eyes; they had a slight sparkle in them, seeming almost nearly accidental, but yet standing out oh so much. Her lips, her full yet thin scrumptious lips look even better on paper than in person, which is quite a hard thing to do. And then there’s her hair, down and oh so shiny. Naturally wavy, tender looking and long… long radiant and has a nice sort of silver look when the sun hits it just right. Quickly, almost out of instinct, Joel’s head shoots toward the clock; 6:20am he pulled another nearly all-nighter. Yawning and stretching Joel slowly forces himself into bed so he can fake having slept all night.

BUZZ!! Melinda’s alarm was going off like crazy. Sapphire woke up and started to get dressed, sluggishly, so that she wouldn’t need to deal with ‘it’. Nearly 10 minuets later Sappy was standing outside the school watching the guys tackle each other in the snow for the football. She grinned, pain. Nobody never really understood how much pleasure Sapphire got out of other people’s and her own, pain. Joel tiptoed up behind her and slightly pushed her from behind, “Boo!” Sappy turned around and managed to kid him with a smile, “Hey Joel” The conversation goes on to say, “Tomorrow night is decision night, Me or Her” Joel’s face went pale, “Sappy…you can’t-” The bell blubbered out a loud ring and the crowed headed for the door. Sapphire was amongst these people, and Joel lost track of her. Sapphire laughed and joked around with friends like any normal day, but really inside her there was a grudge bubbling about. “Hey Sap!” The sound of this kid’s voice sent chills up and down Sapphires spine. He was cruel, stupid, and the biggest smart ass this world has ever known. Sapphire hated his guts! “What do you want Deryck?” She snapped coldly. Deryck casually walked over there, throwing his arm over her shoulder. “Looks like somebody’s gonna be late!” He snickered. Sapphire pushed his arm off like an unwanted booger on her finger. “Yah it does, don’t it? You might wanna be on your way then, buddy,” Sappy turned and stormed off to her first class of the day, English. As she walked Sappy could hear Deryck mumbling and complaining about her remark. Sapphire entered the classroom and sat in her seat, “So glad you care enough for your education to join us Miss Conner” The teacher snapped. Joel gave Sapphire a confused look and Sappy just grinned an evil look of plotting toward him.