There's no time for this, no time to stop and think and plan. You wait out here any longer than is absolutely necessary and you're good as dead. Now you have someone who's stationary, who's head is leaned downwards, who you know from school, and you want to stop and think about it?
"Amber!" you shout, running out from the fountain's shadow. Her head's tilted slightly as she drinks, eyes unfocused as she re-hydrates. "Hey, down here! I need help!" You concentrate on her eyes, searching for any sign she could give.
And then she was done. Standing back to full height, she stretched, wiping her mouth dry with the back of her hand. You continued to scream and leap, terrified of being left alone here. Amber sighs, and turns away, ready to head back to the courts, and as she does so her eyes happen to cast downward, and happen to land on you.
"Yes! Yes, it's me, Nick! From class, remember?" Your heart lifts; this was easier than you could have hoped. Except, Amber's expression wasn't making sense. She didn't have the spark of recognition or the shocked gasp of confusion you expected. Instead her lips pursed into a grimace, her eyes crinkling with disgust. "Amber?"
Suddenly with a rush of wind her shoe's red rubber sole blocked out the sky. She thinks I'm a bug, you realize, and then she steps down.
You crumple, her toned calves generating tens of thousands of pounds of force. The last things you feel are her power, as lean muscle twitches beneath tanned skin, your remains bursting like a balloon, just to course through the channel-like indent's beneath her Adidas. With a final twist of her ankle she drags your pulp across the concrete, a nearly imperceptible red smear left in its wake.
Amber doesn't even bother checking, and your bloody, mushed corpse remains hidden on her sole for the rest of the day.
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