Love Me!

"You Know You're Right" by Nirvana came playing from the radio/alarm clock, in Marks room. Mark opened his eyes and sat up in his bed. As he looked over at his dresser, he saw his Geaman Ontario High School yearbook from last year. Mark opened the book, and went straight to a page he had bookmarked. He moved down the rows of student faces, until he came to Kristen.

"Good morning baby!" said Mark, as he kissed Kristens picture. "I'll see you later!" Mark got out of bed, and started getting ready for the day. As with everyday, he thought about Kristen. Mark remembered about how, since the tenth grade he had a crush on Kristen. He remembered how happy he was, when he was paired together with her on school projects. He also remembered the more unhappy times, when she had boyfriends. Those were soon turned to happy times, when Kristen and her boyfriends would break up. Those school days were over though, Mark having graduated two years ago.

"Yeah, we're going out to the bar tonight!" said Kristen, as she sat in her room, her brown hair flowing over her pillow. As Kristen spoke to Nicole, she looked around her bedroom. As her eyes moved across the room, she saw her posters of Nelly, Eminem, Usher, B2K, and O-Town, among

other pictures of singers, and actors.

"Well," said Nicole "hopefully we'll all be waking up beside someone tomorrow morning!"

"We can only hope!" laughed Kristen "Well I gotta go to work, so I'll see you all tonight!"

"Okay," said Nicole "bye."

"Bye" said Kristen as she hung up the phone, sat up, and started getting ready for work.

***

"Hi Kristen!" Mark said to himself "No, I gotta say something better then that." As Mark tried to decide what to say, he saw Kristen coming down the street. "Okay," Mark said to himself "here's your chance!" As Kristen walked past Mark, he opened his mouth only to find no words come out.

"Can I help you?" asked Kristen. She looked at Mark, who still had his mouth open, still no words coming out. Kristen raised one of her eyebrows, as she kept on walking.

"Shit!" Mark said to himself.

A little while later, Mark found himself at home. As he entered his room, he pulled out his wallet, opened it, and pulled out a condom. "Well guy," Mark said to the condom. "Looks like you're not going to be used once again!" Mark sat on his bed, turned on the TV, and began flipping through channels. Finding nothing on, he noticed that there was a cassette in the VCR. Mark pressed play, and began to hear cheesy sounding porno film music.

"Oh yeah," said Mark "I forgot that I had Gladiatwhore in here! Well might as well release a little built up tension." As he watched the porno movie, he found his eyelids getting heavy. Mark closed his eyes, and when he opened them found himself in gladiator gear.

"What the fuck is this?" Mark said to himself. He then heard the sound of footsteps coming towards him. As he looked, he saw a figure coming towards him. The figure walked right up to him, it was Kristen, wearing only a toga.

As their faces met, Mark looked into Kristens brown eyes, as she began removing Marks gladiator gear. Mark then watched, as Kristen removed her toga, and mounted herself on top of Mark. Mark closed his eyes again, when he opened them, be found himself back in his room. Somewhere in his room, he could hear "Liquid Dreams" by O-Town playing on a radio. As he looked over at the TV,

the porn was still playing. As he laid in bed, he looked down at his crotch. He then proceeded to stick his hand inside his pants, feeling a wet sticky spot. "Fuck!" said Mark angrily, "Not again!"

Later that day as Mark walked down the street, he saw Melanie and Nicole, two friends of Kristen. He recognized them because, in school, when he was paired up with Kristen, he never had an opportunity to be alone with her, because her friends were always there. As a result, Mark was usually left to do the project himself.

"So," said Melanie "who's going to be at the bar tonight?"

"Well," said Nicole "as far as I know, Kristens going to be there. Uh, me, you, Desiree and Jordon." As Nicole finished saying this, Mark walked off with a smile on his face.

"I'll talk to her tonight at the bar!" said Mark happily, as he walked away.

"Is Kris bringing Jimmy?" asked Melanie.

"I would think so," said Nicole "I mean he is her boyfriend!"

***

That evening, Mark walked over to the bar, and stood in front of the doors.

"That's what I love about living in Canada." Mark said to himself "I'm nineteen, and thus old enough to go into a bar. If I'm lucky, I'll be leaving with Kristen!" Mark pulled breath spray out of his pocket, and sprayed some in his mouth, as he walked into the bar. He entered the bar, to see people sitting and drinking. As he looked around, he saw people talking and laughing. He watched as couples sat close together, holding hands. At the other end of the bar, he saw

Kristen and her friends sitting at a table. As Mark began walking towards them, he passed two girls and a guy sitting at the bar. As he walked passed them, he listened as the two girls laughed, and the guy asking what they were laughing at only to get more laughter as a response. Ever so slowly, Mark managed to make it to the table and walk right up to Kristen.

"Hey Kris," laughed Jordon "looks like you got a visitor!"

"Yeah?" said Kristen, as she looked at Mark. "Oh it's you, so are you gonna speak this time?"

"Well..uh.." said Mark, as he heard Kristens friends laughing under their breath. "Yeah..I am..I..uh..I wanted to ask you a question."

"Well," said Kristen "ask away!"

"Well..uh.." said Mark "I..uh..was wondering if..um..you maybe wanted to go out sometime..like on a date or something!"

"That's sweet," said Kristen "but..." All of a sudden, a guy sat down beside Kristen, and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Hey baby!" said Jimmy "Sorry I took so long, there was actually a line at the urinals." Jimmy then looked up at Mark "Hey buddy, can I help you with something?"

"No Jimmy," said Kristen "it's got nothing to do with you, he was talking to me!" Kristen then looked over at Mark. "I'm sorry," said Kristen "but I already have a boyfriend, his name is Jimmy."

"Well I'm sorry to bother you!" said Mark, as he quickly turned around, and began walking out of the bar, hearing the conversation at Kristens table.

"Who was that?" asked Jimmy

"Some guy," said Kristen "I think I might have went to school with him or something."

"Get this Jimmy," laughed Jordon "that guy just asked Kristen out!"

"You're kidding?" said Jimmy

"He actually did!" said Desiree

"Can you believe it?" said Melanie "that ugly motherfucker, thinking he would actually have a chance with Kris?" As Mark left the bar, he could still hear the laughter from the table.

The sound of running water could be heard, as the bathtub was filling with water at Marks home. As Mark got into the tub, he placed a double edged razor blade on the side of the tub. As Mark sat in the tub, tears began running down his cheek as he picked up the razor blade.

"I'll never have a chance with her now!" cried Mark "It's all because of her fucking friends, and that asshole boyfriend of hers! If only I could get rid of them, then I know Kristen would be all mine!" Mark proceeded to bring the blade up to his wrist, when he stopped and had a

thought. "Get rid of them," said Mark as he put down the razor blade "that's what I'll do!"

***

It was about three in the morning, as Mark walked up to Kristens house. Having had a crush on her this long, Mark found out a long time ago where she lived. At least once a day, even if that wasn't the way he was going, Mark would walk by Kristens house. Mark proceeded to walk into her

backyard. Climbing the tree in her backyard, Mark managed to make it up to Kristens window, and climbed inside her room. As her looked over at the bed, he saw her sleeping peacefully. Mark walked over and watched Kristen for a few minutes as she slept. He then moved over to her dresser, where he saw her address book sitting on top. Mark picked it up, pocketed it, then walked back over to Kristen. Mark watched Kristen sleep for a few minutes more, before walking

over to, and out the window.

***

Jordon opened his eyes the next morning, to see a nude woman lying beside him.

"Hmmm" said Jordon "when did I pick her up?" Jordon looked over at his alarm clock, and saw that it was eight in the morning. "Shit!" said Jordon "I gotta be at work for nine!" As Jordon got out of bed, he found himself feeling hungover. "Note to self," said Jordon "don't drink too much if I gotta work the next day!"

After showering, getting dressed, etc, Jordon went to his car to drive to work. Jordon got in the car, started it up and turned on the radio. "Without Me" by Eminem was playing on the radio, as Jordon sang along. As Jordon started to pull out of the driveway, he looked in his rearview mirror to see the reflection of someone in the backseat. The next thing he knew, he felt wire being wrapped around his neck. As the assailant tightened their grip, Jordon found that he was losing oxygen. Jordon continued to struggle until the wire managed to break through the skin, causing him to bleed from the neck.

"Well," said Mark, as he stepped out of the backseat, bloody wire in hand. "Is me asking Kristen out so funny now?!"

"Where the fuck is he?" said Nicole, as she stood behind the counter at Tim Hortons. "There is no way in hell he's getting out of this shift, I don't care if he is hungover!"

Nicole proceeded to pick up her cell phone, and call Jordon.

"Come on," said Nicole, as the ringing continued. "I know you're there!" After letting it ring about fifteen to twenty times, Nicole hung up. All of a sudden her cell phone rang, she

answered it. "So, finally decided to get off that girl and answer your phone?"

"What?" said Melanie

"Sorry Mel!" said Nicole "Just trying to get through to Jordon, looks like he's trying to skip out on his shift again!"

"Well that's Jordon for ya!" said Melanie

"Tell me about it!" said Nicole "So why'd ya call?"

"Well me and Des were going to the mall." said Melanie "We were gonna meet up with Kristen when she got off work!"

"We'll see!" said Nicole "If I show up, I'll meet you in the food court!"

"Hope to see ya then." said Melanie "Bye!"

"Bye!" said Nicole, as she hung up her cell phone.

***

Kristen worked at a clothing store in the mall. She decided to get the job because she figured, with her looks and fashion sense, she'd be perfect to sell these types of clothes. As Kristen was straightening up some of the clothes on one of the racks, she looked into the rest of the mall to

see Mark staring at her. Freaked out by how he was looking at her, she looked away. When she looked back, she saw that Mark was gone. Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, she felt a hand touch her shoulder. She let out a scream, as she turned around to see Jimmy.

"Did I scare you?" asked Jimmy.

"Yeah you did, you asshole!" said Kristen, as she punched Jimmy in the arm.

"Sorry!" said Jimmy "Why are you all freaked out?"

"Well," said Kristen "I was looking outside the store, and I saw that guy from the bar last night!"

"The one that tried to pick you up?" said Jimmy

"Exactly!" said Kristen "He was standing outside the store, staring at me...it creeped me out!"

"Well I'm here now," said Jimmy "you have nothing to fear."

"My knight in shining armor!" said Kristen in a sarcastic voice. "What are you doing here? I thought you had to work at BP today."

"I asked for the day off," said Jimmy "I'm sure they

can survive one day without me!"

"Well they can only hope so!" laughed Kristen

"Anyhow," said Jimmy "the reason I'm here, is I wanted to ask you if you wanted to do something after work?"

"I'd like to," said Kristen "but I'm meeting Des, Mel, and possibly Nicole, were gonna hang out for a while."

"Okay," said Jimmy "well give me a call later tonight if you wanna do ANYTHING!"

"Man," said Kristen "you're a horndog!"

"You love it!" said Jimmy, a smile on his face.

"Yeah I do!" said Kristen as her and Jimmy kissed.

"Talk to ya later then." said Jimmy

"Talk to ya later." said Kristen.

"They must not be here yet!" said Nicole, as she stood in the food court. Nicole looked around the mall from the food court, then looked at her watch. "Well," said Nicole "I probably have time to go to the washroom before they get here." As Nicole walked over to the washroom, Mark followed behind her.

As Nicole sat on the toilet, she heard someone come into the washroom. As she looked at the bottom of the stall, she saw a pair of feet standing in front of the stall door. The stall door began shaking from the person pulling on it.

"Occupied, idiot!" said Nicole. Nicole watched as the feet walked away from her stall, and into the next one. As Nicole sat on the toilet, she heard a sliding sound. She looked down at the floor, to see half of Marks body inside her stall. Mark stood up, pulled out a knife, and put his hand over Nicoles mouth.

"Shh!" said Mark, as he brought up his pointer finger on the hand which held the knife, and brought it up to his lips. Still holding his hand over her mouth, Mark pushed the knife into Nicoles chest, her screams muffled by Marks hand. Mark pulled the knife out of Nicoles chest, slid back under the stall, washed off the knife, and walked out of the washroom.

"I guess Nicole wasn't able to make it." said Desiree, as her and Melanie sat in the food court.

"Guess not" said Melanie "Well, lets head over to meet up with Kristen."

"Good idea!" said Desiree.

As they walked over to the clothing store where Kristen worked, they saw Mark walk by very quickly.

"It's that guy from the bar!" said Desiree

"Yeah," said Melanie "wonder what his hurry was?"

"Hey guys!" said Kristen, as she walked up to Desiree and Melanie.

"Hey," said Melanie "So what's on the agenda?"

"Not a clue!" said Kristen

"Sounds good," said Melanie "We'll just see where this day takes us then!" Kristen and Melanie followed behind Desiree, as they walked over to her car. As they got in and drove away, Mark stood in the mall parking lot, watching the car until it disappeared into the traffic.

***

Having dropped off Melanie at her house, after their fun filled day. Desiree and Kristen spoke in the car, as Des was coming up to Kristens street.

"So things pretty serious between you two?" asked Desiree.

"Yeah," said Kristen "I really love him!"

"So," asked Desiree "how old is he again?"

"Twenty," said Kristen "he'll be twenty one soon!

"Not bad," said Desiree "with you turning twenty this year, there'll only be a year difference."

"Yep!" smiled Kristen

"So," asked Desiree "have you?"

"Have I what?" asked Kristen. She looked over as Desiree took her hands off the steering wheel, made a circle with one hand, and stuck out her pointer finger on the other hand. She then proceeded to stick the pointer finger in the circle of her other hand.

"That?" said Kristen excitedly.

"Yeah!" said Desiree. Des watched as Kristens face began to go beet red.

"Maybe!" said Kristen, as she put her hand in front of her face.

"Oh ho!" said Desiree "You did!" Des pulled in front of Kristens house, and Kristen got out. "Naughty naughty!" said Desiree.

"Yeah," said Kristen "you should talk!"

"Me?" said Des "Why I'm just a sweet innocent virgin."

"Whatever you say!" laughed Kristen "See ya."

"See ya." said Des, as she drove off. As Des got home, she pushed a button on her keychain that opened the garage door. As she got out of the car, the garage door closing, she heard a noise. "What the hell?" Des said to herself as she looked around the garage. "Get a hold of yourself Des!" Desiree said to herself "There's nothing here." All of a sudden, she saw a hammer coming at her. She moved out of the way, and the hammer smashed through the car window. As

Desiree looked over, she saw the person holding the hammer was Mark. She quickly moved out of the way, as Mark once again swung the hammer in her direction. Acting quickly, Des brought her foot up and kicked Mark in the groin, causing him to fall to the ground. As she ran towards the door that led into the house, she saw Mark get up. Looking up on a shelf, she saw a toolbox. She quickly picked it up, and threw it at Mark, hitting him in the face. She walked over and looked at his body, it wasn't moving. As she turned around and headed towards the door, she felt the claw end of the hammer rip through her heel. As she fell to the ground, she saw a puddle of blood around her foot. Mark then stood up, holding the claw end of the hammer over Desiree

"Why are you doing this?" pleaded Desiree. Mark said nothing as he brought the hammer down, the claw end going through Desiree's skull.

"These Are The Days" by O-Town came playing from the stereo in Melanies room, as she spoke on the phone.

"I didn't think you were gonna call!" said Melanie.

"Well you gave me your number," said the voice at the other end "Sorry it took so long, I was...busy."

"I see," said Melanie "Well anyhow..." All of a sudden, the power went out in the house. "Shit!" said Melanie.

"What is it?" asked the voice at the other end.

"The power went out," said Melanie "I have to check it, can I call you back?"

"Sure," said the voice "bye!"

"Bye!" said Melanie, as she hung up the phone. Melanie stood up and picked up a flashlight, as she headed into the basement. "I really fucking hate this," Melanie said to herself "It's one thing when the power goes out in the day. When it goes out in the evening, everything gets too

damn dark!"

After some searching, Melanie managed to find the room which had the fusebox. As she moved the flashlight around the room, she caught the glare from the tools like hammers, saws and drills. Having found the fusebox, Melanie examined it very closely to find they were just turned off. Melanie turned them on, then turned around to see a power drill pointed at her eye. Melanie looked behind the drill, to see that Mark was holding it, a look of anger on his face.

"What are you doing with that?" asked Melanie weakly.

"This!" said Mark, as he activated the drill and stuck it into Melanies eye, causing her to scream out in pain. Mark then knelt down in front of Melanies body. "Well," said Mark "just gotta take care of one more, then this ugly motherfucker WILL get Kristen!" Mark then proceeded to walk

up to Melanies room, as he entered the O-Town CD was still playing. Mark walked over to the stereo and ejected the CD, he then picked it up and looked at the back. As he looked he saw himself and Kristen holding each other, as O-Town music played in the background. He then saw his image being replaced by Jimmy, angrily he threw the CD to the ground, causing it to smash.

"That was wonderful!" said Kristen, as she laid in bed beside Jimmy.

"Yeah, I know!" said Jimmy, a bragging tone in his voice.

"Little cocky aren't we?" said Kristen.

"Hey," said Jimmy "never use the words little, and cocky around me!" Jimmy then got out of bed, and stood up.

"Where are you going?" asked Kristen

"Gonna go take a shower," said Jimmy "care to join me?"

"Maybe later!" said Kristen, a smile on her face. As Jimmy left the bedroom and closed the door, he heard "Hot In Herre" by Nelly playing very loudly. Jimmy then walked to the very end of the hall, and went into the bathroom.

As Jimmy was having his shower, he heard the sound of footsteps in the bathroom.

"Kristen, is that you?" asked Jimmy. Jimmy listened, but heard no response. "Kristen," said Jimmy "if you're here for a little more pierced tongue action, well just come on in!" Jimmy watched as the shower door slid open, revealing Mark holding a knife in his one hand. "What the fuck?!" said Jimmy, as Mark grabbed and threw him into the sink. "Ah! My fucking back!" said Jimmy angrily, as he ran towards Mark, and tackled him, causing them both to crash through the

shower door. With Jimmy on top of him, Mark began stabbing the knife in Jimmys direction. Mark finally managed to stab Jimmy in the stomach, causing him to bleed in the tub.

"Well asshole," said Mark "looks like she's mine now!"

"He's probably waiting for me," said Kristen, as she shut off the Nelly CD. "Maybe I'll join him!" Kristen covered up her body with a housecoat, and walked to the bedroom door. She opened it, to see Mark standing on the other side. Mark opened up Kristens housecoat, and examined

her naked body.

"Just like I pictured it!" said Mark.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" said Kristen, a small sound of fear in her voice. "What do you want?"

"I only want you!" said Mark, as he walked towards Kristen, causing her to walk backwards until she fell on the bed. "The day I've been waiting for!" said Mark excitedly.

Jimmy opened his eyes to see the bottom of a bathtub. As he looked down, he saw a puddle of his own blood. Weakly, he managed to get out of the bathtub. Because someone was almost always calling him, Jimmy had decided that he'd always have his cell phone with him. Jimmy reached

over to the toilet lid, where he sat his cell phone. Jimmy picked it up, and dialed 911, as he grabbed a towel and wrapped one around his waist to conceal his nakedness, another he used to soak up some of the blood.

"Oh, how I've waited for this day!" said Mark as he stood over the bed, which he now had Kristen tied to. Mark, in the nude sat down at the side of the bed, and put his hand on Kristens face. His breathing and heart rate increased, as he began running his hand all around her body.

"Why are you doing this?" demanded Kristen.

"Since grade ten," said Mark "since the day I saw you I thought you were so beautiful. I always pictured a day when people would be talking about that hot couple Kristen and Mark. How was something like that supposed to happen, when you're going out with Jimmy instead of me?" As Mark spoke, Kristen could hear the sounds of approaching sirens.

"...and so I thought if I killed them, then no one would stand in the way of us being together!"

"Look," said Kristen, as she heard the sounds of sirens come up to the house. "I really don't like you in that way, I'm sorry!"

"NO! NO!" said Mark "I won't hear it! Trust me, after the sex everything will be different." As Mark walked over to the pile of his clothes, the police busted through the door, guns ready.

"Put your hands up!" demanded the officer, as he saw Marks hand in the pile of his clothes.

"Do it now, asshole!" yelled another cop. They watched as Mark began pulling something out of the pile of clothes. Acting quickly, the police began opening fire, the shots killing Mark quickly. One of the officers ran over to the bed, and untied Kristen. He handed her a housecoat,

then led her out to an ambulance where Jimmy was laying on a stretcher.

"Jimmy!" said Kristen "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," said Jimmy "just got me in the stomach, looks like we won't be going out to dinner for a while!"

"You asshole!" laughed Kristen, her laughter soon turning to tears as she wrapped her arms around Jimmy, as the ambulance doors closed, and the ambulance headed to the hospital.

The cop that helped Kristen downstairs, walked back up to the crime scene.

"Think he's the one who killed those other people?" asked the second cop.

"I think so," said the first cop "the guy who called, said that they were friends of theirs!" The second cop then looked at Marks lifeless body.

"So what did he have under the clothes?" asked the second cop.

"See for yourself!" said the first cop. The second cop put on a pair of gloves, and moved the pile of clothes. He picked up the item in Marks hand, then walked back over to the first cop.

"A condom?" said the second cop.

"A condom!" said the first cop.

THE END