It's taken all that I have in me just to stop thinking about it everyday. I've learned to give my mind a break. But it's still there, it still lingers. Why you left still remains unspoken to me. I can list reasons that run through my mind everyday, but until you actually decide to tell me. I will never know. I remember that summer as if I dream I was there every night. You and Joe were living with me. A dream come true, living with my two best friends. Back in those days when we thought we were invincible. When our top priorities were hiking in the back woods and sitting in the creek till the sky dimmed. Just talking. Because thats all we needed. Each other. Who knew that squeezing three teenagers into a 10' x 10' room would have been as successful as it was. Remember that night when it was storming. We ran outside once we saw the horizon turn black. It only took moments until the dark sky laid before us. The clouds rolled as if hell was about to break loose. All three of us just stood there starring silently until the first crack of thunder echoed through the field. We looked right at each other with big smiles on, I may have jumped, just a little. Then it began to rain. I stood there and watched as you guys started running around like fools dancing in this late spring storm. Right then I felt like the luckiest person in the world to have you guys. I was happy. That dosen't happen to me that often. It didn't take me long to join you guys as we frolicked through the yard. The rest of the night was spent in the house with candle light while we played on the piano and guitars. There was no need for power that night but the storm decided to make that decision for us.
As good as the summer started out it didn't take long for things to turn upside down. I was working my normal summer job as a counselor so I wasn't around much. You and Joe were getting under each others skin. Whenever I had some time off I just got over burdened with complaints about each other and both of you looked at me as if I was the answer to everything. But I didn't know what to do. It stressed me out knowing that your friendship was falling apart and I wasn't there to help things out. This stress plus an already stressful job ( yes running around trying to keep twelve 8 year old girls together is very stressful) , I couldn't sleep. One night I was laying in my cabin trying sleepless again when my supervisor came in telling me they needed me in the office. So abandoning my cabin I made my way down the big hill to the front office. A phone call awaited me. My moms unstable voice set a bad vibe to begin with. Thats when I found out you left. Not a bag full of clothes. No personal items. Just out the door, gone. I know it's not Joe's fault you left. I know they wanted you back, but that wasn't an option for you.
I broke down. My boss was there to comfort me and listen to my rants and rambles. I was miles away, there was nothing I could do. If I could have, I would of ran home then and searched day and night till I found you. Not even minuets after finding out a crack of thunder shook the very building below my feet. My boss and I looked straight out the window as we watched a wall of rain come towards us. I don't think I've ever seen it rain so hard. It didn't take me long to remember I had a cabin full of 8 year olds and no one was there with them. There was no dancing in the rain this time. I struggled as I ran up the huge hill that camp was built on. A better description for the hill that night would be a waterfall. The flooding water was already up to my ankles. Just like I expected I get back to a cabin of little girls freaking out that I was not there when the storm began. Thunder broke so loud that it made my stomach drop. Like it wasn't there already. But running around trying to distract the kids with jokes and stories was helping me take everything off my mind. It's safe to say I didn't get any sleep that night. Finally the storm began to calm down. The girls promised me the would get to bed if I stood by the door to make sure the storm doesn't get in. So I stood there looking out into the lightning in the distance, all night, trying to stop thinking. But that never happens, does it?
I will never forget that night. Once I finally got off of work I came back to a family with blank looks on there faces. Nobody knew what to do. Nobody knew where you were. There was nothing we really could do. All I could think about is you sitting in a ditch somewhere, cold and alone. Or worst of all, I thought you where gone. Never to take a breath again. But even in my doubts I always dreamed of me driving home from school one day and you would be there, waiting. But it never happened. Loosing you tore me apart. It added tension between me and Joe. It didn't take him long to leave me too. Senior year came and gone, without a word from my best friends for months at a time. It was a summer to bring us together. It was the summer that tore us apart. Who knew that this was the ending point. Major things changed in all of us that year. Things never really where the same after that.
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