It's time for everyone to get their fear on with an excerpt from the award-winning Cheerage Fearage (Wild Child Publishing, 2012):
The silver moon threw light on the
two girls as they eagerly peeled off their clothes, tossing them in heaps on
the wooden dock. They jumped off into
the vast lake, giggling and squealing at the shock of its coldness as the dark
water swallowed up their tanned, limber bodies.
Although fierce competitors on the
school’s most exclusive faction, the two girls were the best of friends with
much in common. They ran with the same
elite crowd, dated the same square-jawed jocks, and chose the same stylish
trends to be mindlessly imitated by featureless masses. Quite simply, they were perfection
personified coupled with a “rules-don’t apply-to-us” attitude that even the
teachers chose not to challenge - the outcome resulting in unequivocal
classroom suicide.
“Nervous about tomorrow?” asked the
sandy blonde with an I-know-better grin.
“Yeah, right,” shot back the
redhead. “It’s in the bag, sister. Fly high or die.”
“You know I love you best, right?
“Of course. It’s you and me forever.”
They traded playful splashes and
squeals until without warning, the blonde gripped the redhead’s neck taking her
under. She held down the thrashing body,
welcoming the newfound power and control that had evaded her for so long. Vindication was only moments away….
Responding to a startling kick to the shin, she released
the girl without delay playing it off with a full-bodied laugh. “What are you doing?” the redhead yelled,
spastically choking. “You trying to kill
me?”
“Relax,” said the blonde.
“You’re my best friend. I would
never hurt you. You know that, right?”
But the redhead didn’t answer – at least not with
words. Her shrill scream was cut short
by the blonde thrusting her under again, this time with even more force. She yanked tufts of the covetous red hair everyone
always spoke about, the crowning feature that solidified her title of reigning
school beauty. Brutally jerking her head
to the left and wrenching it to the right, she forced the girl to swallow
massive amounts of water.
The redhead’s adrenaline now metastasized into rank primal
fear. She kicked and scratched for dear
life causing the blonde to tighten her grip.
Overcome with sheer panic followed by pure helplessness, the redhead
relaxed into an inevitable surrender.
With the determined patience of a professional assassin,
the blonde counted slowly to fifty, waiting for the shapely, agile form that
had cruelly beat her out of every competition to go still and flaccid
forever. She delighted in feeling the strong
steady pulse slow to a mere fleeting throb and then finally to complete
nothingness. When the time came, the
blonde released the body into the dark water without pause or sentiment, and
gracefully swam back to the dock, crawling up the ladder with a smooth,
athletic gait.
Mission accomplished.
Giddily content, the blonde patted
away streaming lines of lake water with her tank top, tossing it back on along
with her vintage cutoffs. She left the
other’s clothes balled up below the “NO DIVING” sign and never looked
back. The long-suffering
second-in-command was now the captain of the Valentine Cheerleading Squad.
It was official. The queen bee had be dethroned and destroyed.
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