Patrice Fendle

Sometimes I wonder what it's like to be Jadria Tollison. No, I don't really ponder what it's like to be a slut, rather, I wonder what it's like to be among the popular girls at school, lusted after by the better half of the boys at the school, and still not the best.

As I mentioned before, the only thing that Jadria can beat Chryssy Bale at is world's biggest skamp.

I believe that if Jadria just looked around ERHS a while, she could truly find someone that she could commiserate with; Patrice Fendle.

Patrice is by no means a slut, though. And no one would dare call her one. Even if she posessed ho-ish qualities, everyone would be scared to call her that because they'd be frightened of getting killed.

Patrice is an alleged murderer. This is what happened.

Up until the end of last year, Patrice went to school at Hiram Hall. She and a guy named John Dabner were tied in an epic battle for none other than... the top GPA in the Junior class. Well, the top 10 students in the Junior class are always known as the Junior Marshalls at the graduation of the present Senior class, and the Junior with the highest GPA out of those 10 is considered the Head Marshall. If you ask me, it's nothing but a bunch of pomp and circumstance that could really be done without. I know when I go to graduation, I won't be paying a lick of attention to the Junior Marshalls. Yet and still, I don't think that I would have said that to Patrice last year.

The Senior Class sponsor that year at Hiram Hall was a man named Mr. Fletcher. Being a man that made a big deal out of everything, he called Patrice and John to his room right around the beginning of the second semester and told them that there was no way that there could be two Junior Marshalls and that they needed to step their game up and both try to win top honors in the Junior class that year. Patrice took this as a very serious challenge.

She worked dilligently to get ahead of John, but the more she tried, she actually began to slip further behind him.

By spring break, Patrice had slid to third in the class, behind the previous number three, Mei-Song Le. And it was after spring break that some weird things started happening.

Three weeks after spring break during 5th period, Mei-Song was rushed to the emergency room because of an intense burning sensation in her stomach. Doctors concluded that she had a very serious case of food poisoning. This led even more controversy, seeing how she had eaten some Lo Mein from her parents' Chinese restaurant for lunch that day. Her parents were forced to close their restaurant, despite the fact that several students claimed to have seen a hooded figure standing over Mei-Song's lunch while she got up to get a soda.

Mei-Song never returned to school that year. And between her missing so much school for her illness and not being able to catch up, Patrice was back in spot number 2.

Then, John Dabner died.

No one really knows what happened, or how he died. Being Jehovah's Witnesses, his family didn't have anything investigated. They seemed to accept it with a stoic calm.

Patrice on the other hand, laid on her grief extremely thick. She held a candlelight vigil for John on the football field; got Student Council to place a plaque in the trophy case for him; and she made t-shirts with his face on them, sold them, and donated the profits to an administration established scholarship fund in his name. All this was considered extremely weird, seeing how Patrice always seemed to keep to herself and never showed one bit of emotion until John's death. Everyone began to subscribe to the thought that she was trying to cover something up, but no one had the balls to say anything to her.

Needless to say, by default, Patrice Fendle was to be Head Marshall that year. But she wasn't.

When she transferred to East Rivercrest three weeks before the end of the year, everyone said that they had heard that someone threatened to expose Patrice's dirty secret if she didn't relinquish her title as Head Marshall, so she transferred. Who knows?

What we do know, is that Patrice's GPA wasn't good enough for top honors here at East Rivercrest either. She was second to Head Marshall Si Everhart.

And now, senior year, she is still second to Si. Or at least she is for now.