Let me tell you a story. It's the story of my summer. My summer started out fairly normal...well as normal you can get in a small town. School got out for the summer and I spent my time with my friends. What I didn't know was that all this was going to change. One lie, one secret, and one promise. Those things completely were blown out of proportion but I am getting ahead of myself. I should introduce myself. My name is Samantha Rain Newman. I was 16 when this summer started and by the time it was over I was 17. My friends were and are as follows: Mickey (the computer guru of the group), Cecilia ( the musician), Howard (the outrageous hermaphrodite), Becky (the all American pot head/the girl who was in love with Mickey), and finally Colin ( my ex-boyfriend). I am the outspoken slightly ditzy one of our group or I used to be when we were a group. Now back to my story. Like I said this summer started out pretty normal. Howard and me hanging out and picking on each other and going out with everyone to either swim or just drive. It was going pretty good. Becky and Mickey had some drama going on because you see Mickey and Becky used to go out and then Mickey told Becky he only wanted to be friends with her. Needless to say Becky was devastated when that happened. She pretty much had herself convinced that she was in love with him. Personally I don't see how they could have ever hooked up. Mickey is too good for her in my head. Now before you go on about how could I say that about my own friend or she used to be my friend you must understand that Becky has many issues concerning herself and her past. She used to be a pot head and has recently went back to it. Mickey was her only reason for not doing it because he can't stand drugs. That's one the greatest things about him. Anyway, Becky also is a very insecure person who was a party girl at one time and in with the popular people who like to drink and do crazy shit like that. After she started going out with Mickey that stopped. She also became friends with Cecilia, Howard, and myself. We all don't do drugs or that's how it used to be. We used to have great fun just making fun of people, driving, swimming at Cecilia's house, and talking. Then that's when the trouble started. Mickey started becoming closer friends with Cecilia, which that got Becky's undies all in a real twist. She accused Cecilia of trying to steal Mickey away from her. That just wasn't true. You see as smart, funny, kind, and cute Mickey is he had one secret. One that he was and still is keeping from people. This confession was first told to Cecilia and she tried to keep it very badly but Howard and Becky cornered her and she cracked. I remember the night the first melt down came. Becky stopped by my house with Howard and Cecilia late and said they were going to Mickey's so naturally I wanted to go so after I asked my mom about it she said I could go for a bit so we all show up at Mickey's. I had no idea it was a basic show off thing and would contain basically Becky screaming at Mickey his secret and what a lying bastard he was. He's not one by the way, Becky just likes to think he is because she can't face the truth. After that Becky took off with Howard for a minute which by now both me and Cecilia were stranded at Mickey's house so Mickey's sister took us home. That was just the beginning of the cracks. Everyone decided to give friendship a try again but Becky and Howard weren't about to let Mickey live with his secret in peace. They constantly took jabs at him whenever they could. Now Howard and I were friends for longer than all of us as a group had been friends but he is a prick when it comes to Mickey's situation. Howard you see is a hermaphrodite so he is also sexually confused. He's pretty sure he likes guys but recently he has been getting into girls. Not to mention he acts like a complete girl himself. I got myself in a big mess with him. Colin my now ex-boyfriend is his younger brother whom I loved or had myself convinced I did. I'll get to him eventually. Now back to Mickey's problems. Everything came to a head one the 4th of July which is about two or three weeks before my birthday. All of us decided to go see the fireworks here in town and then spend the night at Howard's house. Well at the fireworks there was a tension between just about everyone and things got worse when Mickey was holding hands with Cecilia when we were walking. When we arrived at Howard's house things got worse because Howard's mom was really drunk and sick and said we couldn't stay there so we ended up thanks to Cecilia's mom staying at her house. Things were going just fine until Cecilia and Mickey snuck off to Cecilia's room to just talk. Howard tried spying on them. That's when the fight started. Howard started accusing Cecilia and Mickey of things that weren't true and I even had to put Howard in his place some. Then things started calming down some when me, Cecilia, and Mickey started joking around and having fun. Howard was still pissed but Becky put him in his place. That's when everyone decided to go swimming. The end fight happened when Cecilia got out of the pool the same time as Mickey. Becky and Howard both started freaking out. They accused Cecilia of stealing Mickey away and she kicked them out of her house. That was the start of some of the cracks between me and Howard too but there had been many before. It was more of a love/hate relationship between Howard and I. Sometimes we loved one another and sometimes we hated each other. Things were made worse when I started seeing Colin. Howard didn't like that. He wanted to keep me all to himself. Things just didn't work out that way though. I fell for Colin. He was smart, charming, cute, and a good kisser. Those are things I could never feel towards Howard because he considered himself gay at the time so I decided to give Colin a shot. That's about the time the fights between me and Howard got worse. We even ended up not being friends for a period of time. Colin basically just sat back and watched it happen. I know he felt bad because it was his brother but he wanted to be with me or I thought he did so we just got through it. Howard and I continued to fight but it was more of a girl on girl fights. I continued dating Colin and finally I felt like I was in love with him. I remember him holding me and how much I never wanted to leave his side. My mom calls it puppy love and oh how right she was. While all this other drama between my friends was going on I thought I had a safe haven with Colin. I was so very wrong. Everything I ever told Colin was secretly being told to Howard and Becky. Then they took the information and were spreading it around town. Colin was also spreading around how I was sleeping with him. I wasn't. I am not some whore and when I found out I immediately broke up with him. That was the same night I went to Mickey's house crying over Colin. He held me and before I knew it I was laying on my back on his bed with him on top of me and we were making out. It was wonderful except I knew how very wrong this was. I knew it would never be anything serious between me and Mickey so I stopped it before it got too far. Mickey and myself decided to just brush it off and continue being friends. While all my personal drama was happened poor Cecilia was getting threats made against her life by Becky and Howard was trying to get close to her sexually. Howard would leave her emails with attached pictures of his penis and his cum. He would send her love letters and once even sent her a vile of his blood. He was going crazy. Maybe it was the summer heat or maybe it was because he didn't get enough love as child but Howard also came after me. He broke into my e-mail account so that I couldn't get into it and then proceeded to send Cecilia threatening emails which she thought were from me till I told her the truth. If Mickey didn't know how to hack e-mail accounts I wouldn't have gotten it back. I safe locked it and told Howard I never wanted to be his friend again. I believe him and Colin were doing stuff together in an act of "brotherly love". That still makes me quite ill. I also was told by a lesbian friend of Becky's that herself, Becky, Colin, Howard, and Becky's new boyfriend Thomas were having wild orgies together and going off to smoke pot. It's a wild scene for sure and I am so happy I am not friends with these people anymore. The funny thing is that they accused Mickey and Cecilia of being a couple when anyone can purely see that Mickey likes men more than women even though he is bisexual. I once walked in on Mickey getting a blow job from a mutual friend of ours named Tony. It was a hot scene but I walked away in a hurry. I couldn't stop laughing for awhile because they are so cute together. Nobody knows because Mickey doesn't like his personal preference out in public just like Tony doesn't. They're both pretty good kissers. I know from personal experience with both of them. I used to date Tony some but we decided we work better as friends. With all these hookups you would think that Becky and Howard would stop but they haven't. I have had to take legal action to get some sanity. I have a restraining order against Howard right now and one pending against Becky. Howard treats me like an ex-girlfriend now and is hell bent on getting revenge which I don't really have time for him anymore. I have a new man in my life. Right before me and Colin broke up I met James over the Internet. There was an automatic spark there. Our personalities just clicked and clicked so we became friends. I knew James liked me as more than just friends and that I like him as more than just friends too so I was in a bit of turmoil. Then all this with Colin came to the light so now I am attempting a relationship only slightly slower with James. I am also happy for Cecilia. She found herself a man too. His name is Wally. He's a college boy and oh so hot. He is majoring in art and has painted Cecilia. The painting portrays her in a beautiful light even though she is nude in it. I personally wouldn't have went that far but Cecilia is a wild spirit like that so she really didn't mind. I am in complete awe of Wally's musical knowledge too. He is like a walking music dictionary. The two of them were and are perfect for each other. Unfortunately they just recently broke up when Wally had to go back to college in Ohio. He was something special to her. She even gave her virginity to him. They had a wild romance even though it only lasted a short period of time. Maybe someday they'll get back together. Now school has started. The summer is basically over. What did I learn from this summer? The last people you suspect are the one's who will stab you in the back the quickest. You know who you're true friends are when things go sour. Finally I have learned that I don't know everything.
The End.

For now at least...

By S.J. Stokes