"Summer’s End"
"Summer I didn’t start that rumor, I promise you" Marissa was starting to yell at Summer. We had just gotten out of the movies ten minutes ago. I overheard some girl from our school, and heard that Marissa started a rumor about me. Obviously Marissa is denying this. "Summer, I am your best friend, we are like two peas in a pod, do you really think I would do such a thing to you?" Marissa kept shouting. " Will you two knock it off?!" yelled Kay. "Whatever, I’m not dealing with this anymore." I began. "I hear everyone from our school talking about this rumor, that they heard from Marissa. Its like all over the school, even my friends on myspace are annoying me about it!" I was getting really annoyed now. " I’m sick of people saying things about me that aren’t true...this has got to end."
Ryan, Seth, and Kevin got out of the movies about ten minutes after the girls finished arguing."Marissa, I just saw uncle Pete in the movie we were watching. He said he needed to talk to you about something privately." Kevin told his sister. " Uh okay, tell him to, um meet me outside the theater in fifteen minutes." Marissa replied. I wanted to know what was going on. I felt like a newborn kitten that just came into the world, and knows nothing about life yet. First the rumor, and now Marissa’s uncle wants to talk to her privately? I am so confused, I said to myself. Something is definitely going on, I just know it.
"Summer!" Seth shouted across the soccer field. " Wait up babe!" Seth wanted to catch up to me but i was running as fast as a cheetah. "Oh, hey Seth."I began." Whats up? How was your soccer game?"I said, completely out of breath. "We won! I can’t wait for your game tomorrow, I know you guys will win, you have the best goalie ever." Seth said to me with a huge smile creeping up to his ears. " Haha thanks."I gave him a playful punch on his shoulder.
"Want to stop by Creamy’s Ice Cream and get a bite to eat?" I asked Seth. "Sure, im starving, want to ask Marissa and Ryan?" I began," I don’t think that’s a good idea, Marissa has been avoiding me, I smiled at her this morning and went to give her a hug, and she said she had to go. She took off before I even got to say sorry about being so stubborn yesterday. " Oh, im sorry love." Seth said comforting me He gave me a kiss, then put his arm around me, and we walked to Creamy’s.
Marissa and Ryan just happened to have been there also. Seth said it was okay if I didn’t want to talk to her. They sat at the other end of the chilly restaurant. It quite odd to see Marissa and Ryan in their favorite place to eat, and not even say hello. The restaurant seemed different then usual. It was extremely cold, which was normal. Seth and I were glad though, since we had just finished soccer, and were sweating like pigs. Still, Creamy’s Ice Cream Parlor, something was not right. It was raining cats and dogs, and the thunder was so loud, all you kept hearing was KABOOM! The slightest crackle of thunder would fade away after the huge sound, then the rain drifted back to place. Our food had just come, and with a blink of an eye, the lights went out and the electricity also. I heard someone calling my name, but it wasn’t Seth. I thought for a minute, maybe it’s Marissa, or possibly Ryan. But it wasn’t. The person had a deep and crackly voice. They kept saying, " Summer, Summer, come here, closer, right now, come here Summer." I was getting terribly frightened now, I started searching for Seth, but it was so dark, I could not see anything. I screamed for him, " Seth, where are you?" He found me two minutes later, and he held me in his arms. I told him about the person that was calling me. He said everything was okay, and to just stay close to him. As I laid in his arms close to his chest I heard, and felt his caring heart beating so fast. I knew something was not right now. Seth rarely, if ever, gets creeped out. I heard the person calling me again. I jumped up from his arms. "Seth, Seth, do you hear it? He is calling me again." Seth replied, " Yeah I hear him, stay here, I’ll be right back, I’ll find out who it is." I started to cry, I didn’t want Seth to go. I loved him too much. Just then, I heard a scream. I ran over so fast my heart was thumping in my chest. "Oh my gosh! Seth, wake up!" I screamed at him. But I was too late. The murderer killed Seth. I laid there on the cold, slippery wet floor, holding him in my arms this time. " I miss you" I whispered into his ear. I started studdering as I began again... I love you Seth, and I always will.
Our team had won the soccer game! We were so excited. I think it was because of Seth. He had faith in me, and I miss him a lot! He was truly the best. His funeral was today, late tonight. I wasn’t sure if I could handle it though. Marissa, Kay, Kevin, and Ryan were coming also. I hope nothing else goes wrong. Losing Seth was the most pain I can ever take.
We arrived at the funeral, and I saw his parents. Crying each tear onto each others shoulders. I thought to myself, " I wanted that to be us, not at a funeral obviously, but together always and comforting each other through the toughest times. It was kinda of dark, and I began to get scared again. I stayed close by Marissa. I tried to hug her, but she squirmed away, leaving me and my shadow alone in the dark to stare at each other. Then, I heard it again. " Summer, Summer, where are you? Come over here! Now! Closer!!" My heart started to race. Marissa pulled me aside, and I was so glad to talk to her. When she started talking though, I was definitely NOT thrilled.
"Marissa! I knew you had something to do with it! Why the heck would you do such a thing?" I yelled at her. "You were so mad at me, and that night that my uncle Pete had to talk to me, I didn’t realize but he tricked me into killing Seth." " I wasn’t the one who killed him though, Uncle Pete’s friend was calling you, and then Seth came over. I was cutting my sandwich and my uncle turned me around and stabbed the knife through his chest!" Marissa cried to me for forgiveness. " Do you really expect me to say, oh its okay, don’t worry about it" " I can’t just do that Marissa your uncle killed my boyfriend, my closest friend! You can’t do anything to change that!"
A year went by, Marissa and I had never said I single word to each other since that day. I go to Seth’s grave at least once a week and tell him about school and such. Tonight when I went, it was extremely dark. Not a person to be found, so I thought.
I was sitting right by the tombstone talking to Seth. I heard someone come up behind me. I quickly turned my head. No one was there. I heard someone calling my name. It wasn’t the same person from before though. This time the voice wasn’t crackly, but it was definitely a boy. I said, " Who is there? What do you want from me?"He didn’t answer. A few minutes later he began to talk. I didn’t know where he was though. He grunted faintly, then began, " It was me who killed Seth, I never liked him, he always had you." I thought for a second, this must be Marissa’s uncle, she told me that he killed Seth. He started again, " the night during the movie, yes that was me. I didn’t like him since day one. You both would always flirt, and kiss and hug. It was bugging me to death!" I was getting really terrified now. I yelled at him, " I don’t know who you are, but there is nothing, absolutely nothing you can do to change it. He moved closer to me, and I started screaming and squirming. " Get away you psycho!" the last words he said was, " It was me, Kevin, Marissa’s brother." I gasped so loudly I think Seth heard me all the way in heaven. He began again, " I have one last thing to say." I waited patiently. He continued, " goodbye Summer, this is your end, go be with your beloved boyfriend." Before I knew it, he stabbed a knife right through my chest, as he did to Seth the year before. I also realized, before he killed me, it was exactly a year tonight that Seth had died. My last words I recited before he got me with the knife were, " I love you Seth."