Vine Labyrinth

Chapter 1: Memories

It's been a month since I finished High School. Yeah...it feels like forever. But trust me, it's not. This finished years in High School broke my heart in two pieces, one of them was me, and the other one were my friends. My family. The only people I could rely on. The only people I could trust.

Now I'm at home, watching TV and eating milk with cereals. The life of a mature person. What else am I supposed to do? I mean... How am I supposed to spend my holiday? My friends are miles away, I am alone at home and I have no one to hang out with. Fudge this show is boring!

I laid down on the couch, and stared at the ceiling. What was so interesting about it? I don't know! The thing is, it's so blank, I can imagine all the memories, all the adventures I've been through with my friends. My family.

There, in that corner, above the fridge, it's where it all started. When I first got into High School. I remembered how shy I was. I was literally shacking my butt there. I was always stuttering while talking in front of the class. No one was making fun of me though, which was good. I guess I was too pretty. And modest.

There, next to the ceiling lamp, it's the ninth grade. There is where I met Leland. My first High School friend. He was such a cutie with me. He would always offer to study with me, help me with homework, be by my side if someone bullied me in any kind of way.

On the other side, is the part when I met Amelia. She was so sweet and nice with me also, so me Leland and Amelia became the trio. We were suh have good friends and our friendship bound couldn't be broken. I remember we would always go in the park and ride our bicycles, eat ice cream, and enjoy life in the nature.

In the other corner, above the library, it's the tenth grade. Here is where I first met Julia. She offered to be in a team with me at a Chemistry project, so we worked together and found out that we could be very close friends. So now she is part of our group.

There, in the third corner, where it was a lamp, it's eleventh grade. Best year in my opinion. I had my first High School boyfriend! His name is Josh. There were such good times when I was with him. But it didn't stay that way. I caught him kissing another girl. My heart broke in a million pieces. I wasn't depressed though. Not like other girls who cry after the break up, eat yoghurt with cereals and all that kind is stuff. Well I did eat yoghurt after the breakup. But it was with strawberry.

After this huge mess, Julia, who was with Axel for two years, he broke up with her because he though she was kissing Josh. But that was not true at all. It was Jessica. The most popular girl in the High School in eleventh grade. Jessica made her life a hell. Jess hated her for an unknown reason and she decided to kiss Josh to make her break up with him. I hate Jess! She was so sad and depressed, and she decided to get revenge on him. The conclusion after the revenge? Police station.

It was a long story. We drove to the store and bought some stuff to prank him. It was twelve am. We decided that it was not the best idea to prank a guy, with a huge house at twelve am. He had cameras in all rooms. We didn't know. How? Well he never told her of course! And the cameras are hidden! So how the heck were we supposed to know? So yeah we pranked him and it turned bad. Real bad. But after the rain...comes the rainbow am I right? So in the end it all turned out JUST fine.

After this, Amelia, Leland, Julia and I went for a delicious ice cream. Just what we needed after that crazy experience. My favorite one? Chocolate! Anyways, holiday was coming and the sun was burning our skin because we were too lazy to apply sunscreen on. Rebels...what can you say?

And in the last corner of the ceiling, where there was nothing underneath it, the last of the last of the last. Twelfth grade. The last year in High School. It was depressing knowing that I will have to break up with my friends, of course we kept in touch! It's just that...it was sad. Even sadder than the break up from the eighth grade! It was like, one world was broken into two parts. Two completely different parts. On the first side it was you. But on the other side were your friends, your family, your everything.

We tried to make out of this year the best year ever. And it worked! Lorelei, and Adam also joined our group. We were happy to welcome new friends anytime. Lorelei actually has a little brother named Stephan. He is very smart for his age! He knows eleventh stuff and he's in the seventh grade. That's stunning!

Anyways, we tried to have as much fun as we possibly could. We had many sleepovers and we spent the Christmas and New Year's Eve together... Those were good times. We would usually play board games, traditional games, video games too. But now High School is over. And I'm far away from my friends. All of them in Las Vegas, me in Miami.

Now I'm just sitting here, staring at this blank ceiling remembering all the fun times we had. But then, I remember that I will never get to see them again. The group will never be reunited. Never. Even if we do call each other a lot. Like A LOT, we still can't meet each other. Too many miles. I could feel tears forming in my eye corner then dripping on my cheeks. Were those tears of sadness, because of knowing that I'll never get to see my friends? Or tears of happiness in remembering of all those magical moments we spent together?

Oh I'm sorry! I forgot to introduce myself properly: I'm Teresa Firestorm.