independent #4

Many people say they don’t have any regrets, that everything happens for a reason. Well let me tell you something, that’s not true. Everyone has those times when they say, “I wish I hadn’t...” or “what if I…” Regret is something that happens to all of us. But it doesn’t happen for a reason. Believe me I would know. It all started last year, the beginning of the summer, our summer, “The Summer of Lies”.
My friend and I both couldn’t wait for the summer. We wanted to do what every teen wants to do, have fun, party, and get away from school. But little did we know that, that summer would be the one neither one of us would ever forget. Friendships would be lost, hearts would be broken, friends would become enemies, and lies would be told.
We began hanging out with our guy friends more and more often almost every week we would have a sleepover with them but because of this every week a new lie would be told. They would always be missing when we all hung out and everyday they would hear a new excuse that we are busy or we can’t do anything. And behind their backs we all hung out day after day. The guys didn’t seem to care that we would lie to them and at that time we didn’t care either. But soon I started to regret the lies I had been telling and I began wishing that one of them would be able to hang out with us. So I asked to guys to call them and invite them to come and hang out next time we all got together. But the next time I hung out with the guys the one I wanted to be there, wasn’t there. And then a heart was broken. My friend and I will never know if they guys really invited them when I asked them to, but one things for sure, the guys never wanted them to come.
When the first month of our summer past we were almost inseparable from the guys. We were all best friends. But they were still missing. And that’s when we lost a friend. Lying was something that we did best, both of us my friend and I without even knowing it could lie. Its almost funny looking back on it and remembering how lying came so naturally after a while and how you could even fool yourself and mix the truth with what you wanted the truth to be. And for everyone who has a best friend and say that no matter what you will be best friends forever and nothing can come between the two of you, just be careful about what you say because even the best of friends can become the worst of enemies. And maybe there would be a whole new “Summer of Lies.”