KATIE

KATIE ==Katie always wanted what other girls had. She wanted anything: shoes, clothes, hairstyles, talent, and even personality. Nothing was ever good enough for Katie. And now she wanted Lisa's ring. ==

==Katie played with her black curled hair she had copied from a girl named Evelyn, and stared at the topaz ring around Lisa's finger. It was a simple piece of jewelry: a small gold-yellow topaz stone with a metal band that had even tinier stones encrusted on it... and Katie wanted it more than anything in the world. She would give everything she had taken away for that simple ring. Everything. Hair. Clothes. Shoes. Ideas. Makeup. The list could go on for miles. But there was something different about this ring. Katie was drawn to it, almost magnetically. ==

==She imagined herself wearing the ring wherever she went; showing it off and making it look better than Lisa ever had. Even though the ring made Lisa look more like a goddess than before, her golden hair gently brushing over the stone when she flipped her hair, her blue eyes making it look like the sun against the sky when she rested her face in her hand. It made Katie sick, sick that it wasn't her. ==

Lisa caught her eye and smiled from across the classroom, and Katie faked a smile back, the only original thing belonging to this devious copycat.
==The next day Lisa was absent. And in the back of the classroom, Katie, with a smug smile, crossed off Lisa's name on a list while she twirled the topaz ring on her finger. ==