- Drew
squinted across the hall at the poster on the wall. Checklist
For Girls For Homecoming.
He rolled his eyes; why should
the girl be the one to have to worry
about all that shit?
- A
few weeks later Theresa and Drew were watching a movie in his room
when the phone rang. It was Amber, who was barely comprehendable
between screams and tears.
- Drew
and Stephanie had photography together. They barely spoke. For
once, Drew just kept his mouth shut and did not blurt out any number
of random forms of bullshit.
- Upon reconciling
with Amber years later, Drew found out Stephanie had been in and out
of psychiatric wards.
- The
first memory Drew had of Amber was in a library.
- When
he first started teaching, for the first time in nearly ten years,
Drew walked through the section of the library where he first met
Amber.
- Originally,
at least how he remembered it, Drew was going to go with Amber.
- In
high school Amber had terrible taste in boys.
- After their reconciliation,
Amber
afforded herself an afternoon to go through a big box of memories of
her friendship with Drew which she had not looked through in years.
- On
the first day of summer in 2001,
Amber and Drew got together at a local bar where she purchased
illegal drugs.
- Near the education center he glanced
outside at the bench Amber had sat with him only months before.
- Amber
has been
dead for three years and the towers gone almost as long.
