Chapter 2: Act

Ken gasped in shock as he saw his partner's body on top of him.

He sighed in relief that he was able to escape the gunshot, but as a result, blood and guts were all over him which almost made him feel like puking.

He quickly threw the body aside as he tried to see who shot him.

LuXie walked into the room through the front door. Once Ken saw her he noticed many things immediately. For one he saw his gun in her left hand along with her sadistic face which he had come to grow used to.

"LuXie, what are you doing here!" Ken shouted out in fear and anger.

"Aww Ken, do you know how much I missed you? Imagine my surprise when I come by just to see you with a new bitch!"

"You, you stay the hell away from me!" Ken yelled as he moved further away from LuXie.

However LuXie didn't listen, in fact, she got even closer to him. She pointed the gun and fired but luckily for Ken he had quick reflexes. He dodged right as she fired and he dashed with all he had to the door.

LuXie cursed that she missed but ran after Ken. She kept the gun raised along with a sadistic smile plastered on her face.

At this point, Ken was deep down the hall but he wasn't foolish enough to believe he had lost LuXie. He turned his head slightly behind just to see her fling a knife towards him.

Ken slid in time so it only grazed his shoulder, but if he hadn't moved he had no doubt it would've hit his spine. Despite his wound, he wasn't slowed down much, he continued going as fast as he could.

Once he reached the stairs he ran down so quickly he stumbled, falling down all the way to the bottom.

"Ughhh," Ken grunted as he struggled to get up.

'I must run away quickly,' Ken told himself as he got the energy to stand up and moved towards the door with all his might.

Ken, who thought he was out of LuXie's reach, smiled happily as he was about to reach outside of the house, but before he could open the door, he felt an immense pain in his leg along with a loud bang.

"Arghhh!!" Ken screamed as he clutched his leg in pain.

He turned around to see that LuXie had the gun pointed at his leg.

She shot him in the leg!

His chest began to pound immensely, he felt the fear washing over him, the fear of death.

"Y-you don't have to go this far killing me just because I cheated on you LuXie," Ken laughed nervously.

"Why can't I? I really hate fucking liars," LuXie responded in a provoking tone.

Ken gave up on his tough act, "You fucking bitch! If you hurt me, my father would come for you and your entire family!" Ken yelled in rage as he looked at LuXie.

But instead of the scared expression he expected, LuXie was smiling at him. It wasn't the crazy smile you would assume of someone like her, the smile was sweet and almost coaxing.

"Oh, Ken," LuXie called out as she walked closer to him.

"You aren't even going to be alive to tell a soul." The way she said it almost sounded like she pitied him.

Eventually, she was so close that the two were now face to face.

"LuXie, please let me go. I'm begging you. If you let me live, I promise I'll get out of your sight, you'll never have to see me again I promise!"

Ken begged for his life, his entire body was trembling. He had always known LuXie to be a sweet and innocent girl, he never expected her to be like this. All he knew was that LuXie was aiming for his life, so he had to try and run away.

LuXie stood still for a while as she pondered about something.

"I don't think that's possible, but we'll have lots of fun playing the new games I've prepared," LuXie laughed as she knocked out Ken with her fist.

***

"Uggghh," Ken grunted as he felt immense pain in his head, but what shocked him more was to see himself tied up to a chair in the boys' gaming room.

"You can scream all you want, but no one would come and save you," LuXie laughed as she wiped the knife in her hands.

The boy's gaming room had a soundproof wall and doors, so no one would be disturbed by late-night gaming.

Ken looked at LuXie, whose green eyes seemed to glow.

"Now let's start my dear Ken," LuXie smiled at him as she held the knife and pierced into his flesh.

"LuXie stop, I'm begging you!!" Ken's screams could be heard as LuXie tortured him, a couple of seconds passed, then minutes. She kept going until she was fully satisfied.

"Aww, I thought he would live a little bit longer, what a pity."

LuXie grumbled in disappointment as she used a wipe to clean the blood-stained knife and threw it aside making sure to burn it after.

LuXie then left the blood-stained room, going towards the showers to wash off all the blood-stained clothes. Then she walked over to the incinerator close to the house, all the while looking around making sure there were no witnesses.

She was so efficient that you'd think she'd done it before

LuXie then left the campus to the mall, where she bought some groceries like nothing happened.

***

After that, she walked up to a hospital and stopped at the receptionist.

"Excuse me, Maria, I would like to meet old lady Su." LuXie said in a polite tone as she gave a pretty smile to the receptionist.

"Oh, LuXie, you're such a lovely girl to visit your grandmother every day," the receptionist commented.

The receptionist thought to herself, 'I'm so glad Old lady Su has such a lovely and beautiful granddaughter that visits her like this.'

"

"Well, you can LuXie visit Old Su, but she doesn't have much time left, so please cherish your last moments with her."

"Thank you, Maria, I will," LuXie responded.

"You're welcome LuXie."

LuXie walked through the many, many hospital wards until she reached the one she was looking for. She peered in to see an old lady with glasses was sitting on the hospital bed, looking out the window.

Her old and wrinkled skin looked so soft and fragile. Once she noticed LuXie in the door she turned her pale face to look at LuXie, giving her a smile.

"Come here LuXie dear," the old woman waved her hands towards LuXie to come closer.

"Grandmaaaa," LuXie cried as she hugged the fair old lady tightly.

"Ah child, you basically see me every day, so why do you always cry when you see me?"

Old Su laughed as she patted the crying LuXie's head.

"I just don't want to lose you," LuXie said as she wiped her tears.

"Don't worry, even if I'm gone, you're grown enough to take care of yourself," Old Lady Su said with a content smile.

"I remember when you were just a little girl. I met you on the street all skinny and sick, but now you've grown into such a lovely and beautiful girl," Old Lady Su paused before continuing.

"I'm such a lucky lady to have such a beautiful and kind granddaughter," Old Lady Su smiled as she touched LuXie's face lovingly.

"Unfortunately, I won't be able to spend a lot of time with you. So do live well once I'm gone," Old lady Su said sweetly.

"Thanks, grandma, I'll try my best."

After that LuXie left the hospital to her apartment.

Old Lady Su watched LuXie leave as the former smile on her face was replaced with a sad expression.

"As beautiful as she is, I fear that her temper could get the worst of her one day," Old Lady Su sighed as she shook her head in disappointment.

"After all these years, I still couldn't change her. I just hope she doesn't hurt anybody."

Old Lady Su laid on her bed as she remembers when LuXie was a kid she never had any compassion for anything except for her grandma.

She met the child in an alley, she was covered with scars and beating marks, Old Lady Su gathered that LuXie had most likely been abused and that she ran away.

Lady Su offered to provide shelter for LuXie, and she was hesitant at first, but when she realized that there were no ill intentions, she stayed with her.

Old Lady Su shivered thinking back on the day she saw LuXie killa stray cat. She had pretended to mourn for the dead cat, and all the neighbors fell for it, hook line and sinker.

Old Lady Su watched from her window and pretended not to see that. But as they continued to stay together, Lady Su found out that LuXie had a bad habit of wanting to manipulate people. She would do anything to make people like her, and make them do whatever she wants. But Old Lady Su could breathe easy believing that LuXie never killed anyone, but has only gone far to make her enemies bedridden.

Old Lady Su sighed as she looked out the window, "At least she's not my responsibility anymore."

Once LuXie entered her apartment, she walked into a private room and switched on the lights.

In it were images of people with red X marks across their faces.

She then happily skipped over to Ken's picture and crossed his picture off with an X mark.

"There's going to be an entertaining show tomorrow."

***

The next day, as LuXie came down from the taxi, a student immediately spotted her and rushed over to LuXie with a panicked expression.

"LuXie, something bad has happened to Ken," The student stated with a scared expression.

"Why, what happened?" LuXie looked at them with a shocked look.

However in her head she chuckled.

"They said that Ken was attacked yesterday and the police are investigating."

"What ended up happening to him?" LuXie asked with a fake frightened expression, pretending to tremble out of fear.

"We were told that Ken died," the student emphasized as she felt pity for LuXie.

Other students noticed LuXie as they walked towards her to break the terrible news, but stopped after finding that she was already told.

"How could Ken die! It's impossible. I refuse to believe it!"

LuXie cried out dramatically, slumping to the ground, but a few girls helped her stand up.

"Please, someone tell me what happened to Ken," LuXie asked, pretending to care about Ken.

"Please follow us."

They led LuXie to Ken's mansion and police officers were gathered everywhere and on the glass to the door was written 'REVENGE FOR LUXIE' in blood.

"The police officer said that Ken was murdered as his body was cut into pieces," one student explained in horror as the police took Ken's body away in a bag.

LuXie trembled at the sight as a few girls around her patted her shoulder.

"Who could have done this to Ken? he didn't deserve this!"

LuXie cried while covering her face. The other students were stunned about how she could still care about Ken when he cheated on her.

LuXie had a faint smirk hidden behind her hands clasped over her face. Her plan was brilliant! She wrote that message herself, that way it could be a cover as one of her fans. Since she had so many she was sure they would never find that it was really her who killed him.

Despite LuXie's false display of shock and sadness over Ken's deaths, many students replied differently.

"LuXie don't cry, he probably deserved it," one guy said, attempting to comfort her.

"Yeah, that guy was a bully and drove some people to suicide. But since his father is the prime minister nothing was ever done to him."

A girl yelled as she clenched her fist, the girl thought about how t she couldn't save her friend, she was happy that Ken died.

"Don't worry LuXie, he wasn't a good guy anyway. He doesn't deserve your pity," a group of others stated.

"Thank you all so much, but I'm afraid that this strange person might also attack my friends," LuXie said, wiping her tears.

All the other students felt touched by LuXie who seemed to not even consider her being in danger.

"I'm feeling sick so I would like to visit the washroom," LuXie stated as she left the scene with a sad face.

However, as she walked by herself her sad face turned to one of pure joy. She was so ecstatic that her plan was going off without a hitch.

She then entered the girls' washroom and locked the door behind her as she stared into the mirror and laughed.

"People are such idiots sometimes," LuXie scoffed as she stared at her reflection in the mirror.

All of a sudden a faint red light appeared which caught LuXie's attention, but she decided to brush it off as nothing. She got ready to leave the stall.

As soon as LuXie opened the door, she felt her belly as she saw that she was stabbed by a strange-looking knife.

LuXie looked up to see that it was a rich girl in their school called Liana.

"Hahaha, you deserve this bitch I know you have something to do with Ken's death, now you'll regret it," Liana laughed hysterically as she pushed the knife deeper into LuXie's belly.

LuXie gritted her teeth in pain but immediately grabbed Liana's neck.

Liana was shocked that LuXie could still move since the knife she used had been coated with some strange poison.

But before Liana could move away from LuXie's clutches she could suddenly see behind her back even though her body was facing LuXie, which caused her to laugh before she fell down dead.

LuXie too fell down on the ground as blood continued to ooze out of her belly. Even though her vision was fading, she could see other students noticed LuXie as they called for help, but unfortunately, it was too late and LuXie stopped breathing but she could see herself in a strange red circle with strange engravings which the other students couldn't see.

After that, LuXie saw herself being sucked into the circle as she watched her lifeless body above. She tried to break free from the force that was pulling her until she was fully submerged and disappeared.