Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ The Joker ❯ The Joker ( Chapter 1 )

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Her car was a dark orange color with a scratch running above the front left tire. She had a pair of jack-o-lanterns hanging from her mirror and a thin, black necklace with a jade tiger hanging from the end of it. Her backseat was covered in long forgotten homework and rotting sandwiches in lunch bags. Her front seat was littered with empty water bottles and crusty white socks. With all of that clutter, it was hard to concentrate on anything for very long.

She stared at her lap, twiddling her thumbs nervously.

He stared at his muddy, white tennis shoes, sometimes risking a fleeting glance at her down-turned face. She gazed up, and green met blue in a heart-wrenching moment. She knew what he would say, and she knew she needed to hear it or her heart would never be complete again.

"I like you." Three simple words, nothing more.

She met his eyes again, and she saw a blank, numb expression before he turned from her.

"But you like... her, don't you?"

When he wouldn't meet her eyes for a third time, her heart shattered.

She had always been the fool in love and now… just the fool.