- Drew
and Theresa
lay on his bed, staring up at the ceiling.
- Drew saw her and smiled.
- 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?
- Stephanie
attended the regional school across the county. She was never that
close to Drew or Theresa in the beginning. Drew awkwardly tried to
make out with her at a party once before she politely informed him
that she was much more interested in making out
with his female
companions.
- 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.
- Drew and Theresa had a bad falling
out with Amber and fell in love with each other.
- 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.
- Drew started
laughing until the glare Theresa gave him made him realize this was
not funny.
- Drew tried to be supportive but found
Amber's continued lack of romantic desire for him to be frustrating.
- 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.
- Theresa was waiting for Drew on campus
the morning after the towers fell.
- Drew
and Theresa
lay on his bed staring up at the ceiling.
- Neither
Drew or Theresa enjoyed making love.
- At
the end of the previous school year, Drew had been overcome with a
strong feeling that something like this was going to happen.
- After Drew pissed himself, he was constantly ridiculed and tormented by his peers.
- When Drew didn't update his weblog,
his referrer logs weren't quite as substantial as they usually were.
- Drew drove away quickly from the scene.
- After
three thousand murders and one dead best friend, it took the effort
involved with driving a stake through one certain oracle who'd really
outgrown his welcome last May to wake Drew up.
-
The more Drew rejected sex and all of its mind numbing idiocy, the more
it came to occupy his every waking thought.
- Amber got her driver's
license first,
so Drew and Theresa sat in the back of the boyfriend's band van while
the boyfriend, whatever his name was, sat up front being his usually
pleasant self.
- Drew sighs.
- A disgusting
Powerbar and bottle of water later, Drew and Theresa are sitting on
the curb behind the convenience store.
- Drew watches
each for a few minutes before leaving the basement and following
Theresa down the street to sit in front of the town library.
- By the time the autopsy
results were released it was clear Drew was being quite unfair to her.