(A/N: This is my first story, so any feedback would be appreciated. Please enjoy and let me know if you would like more.)

Chapter 1: Frustration and Annoyance

Mandy's love story began like so many others; flowers, a question, and a swift kick to the groin.

"But Mandy," Irwin wheezed as he started to feel something other than pain and suffering flow back into his body, "Why won't you go out with me? It's been six years."

"Yes, Irwin. It has. However, you do not seem to get the memo that I am not nor have ever been interested in romance. It is for the weak and brainless." Mandy sighed. They were sixteen now, puberty come and gone, and she felt that besides the physical aspects, nothing had changed. She was still being annoyed by Irwin's attempts to make her "his woman". As they got older though, Irwin was starting to get more frequent in his attempts to ask her out. Many high school students were getting it in their mind that dating and romance was the most important aspect in their sad, pathetic lives. Irwin, not surprisingly, had followed suit. It didn't help her either that now she was "gorgeous". She had long blonde hair, curvy hips, and as Sperg put it before he "went missing" a year ago, "perky boobs that would make the most perverted man happy."

"Mandy, I will follow you until the end of time to prove my love for you!" Irwin proclaimed, somehow finding the strength to grab his flowers for her and prop himself on one knee.

"That's what I'm afraid of." Mandy shuddered as she walked away from him.

Irwin is getting too annoying, she mused to herself. She hated the aspect that a man who had a crush on a woman could continually ask for a date until he was "friend-zoned", and he was "persistent" and a "martyr for love". She on the other hand, was considered a bitch because "how dare she not accept his feelings" and "he was such a nice guy". They will all pay when I rule the world, she concluded.

But for the moment, that didn't solve the problem. She was banned from getting a hold of Cinnamon, thanks to Grim trying to prevent her ruling the world. Even though she could intimidate him to let her do her thing, if she did that today, there was still years of research that needed to come about, and she didn't have years to wait to get Irwin off her back. She needed a better understanding of Chemistry, which she was receiving for free thanks to years of scheduling her own classes and public school funding her AP classes.

And she couldn't get rid of him either. He was half mummy, and a quarter vampire. She was not going to upset Underworld forces just to get rid of a pest. Besides, after Sperg's "disappearance," the police were now getting concerned about the safety of the students of Endsville. She was not a prime suspect in the case, since no one could prove he hadn't "run away," but since everyone knew that Irwin was infatuated with her, she would be considered a prime suspect. Even if they did manage to find his body, the circumstantial evidence would be highly against her.

How could she rid herself of Irwin continued to swirl in Mandy's mind, until an all too familiar voice called out to her.

"MAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNDY!"

Sigh. Somedays it did not pay off to be Mandy.