Connie watched in horror as Halley's head slid down the chute, and her lifeless corpse spurted from its neck stump.

She'd never really known the girl too well. Halley was the kind of girl who spent all day in the library, while Connie was the kind to cut class and smoke under the bleachers.

She'd always known that she was going to die young.. she'd just thought that it'd be a drug overdose, or suicide by cop, or a high speed car crash.

There was almost a bizarre anticlimax to being decapitated by laser as human cattle. Connie had always thought that it was going to be some kind of action that she herself instigated that did her in.

To think that this was always going to have been her inescapable fate kind of felt like her choice had been stolen from her.

"so this is how it ends" the rebellious teen thought... It was so depressing.

The laser sliced through her neck, and she felt the indescribable pain of being separated from her own body.

Connie's head slid into place next to Halley's dead head. Somehow, though she couldn't quite realize how, she was still alive. She blinked and looked up at her friend Sienna, who was next in line to get snuffed.

It was a full minute before Connie kicked the bucket. She lived long enough to see Sienna's frightened head land beside her.