The Summer of Sophomore Year

Chapter 1

***FLASH BACK***
"Meg what the hell were we thinking", I said. Shit was going from bad to worse. How the hell did I get myself into this??
"Andrea it's going to be okay I promise." My best friend said to me. I just wanted to leave and go home but of course Meghan had a different plan.
"You wanted to find out the truth, Andrea. And this is the only way", Meghan told me.
Of course I wanted to know the truth but at what cost? I didn't know what the truth would cost me. Even now finding the truth out only meant more lies. To everyone. Including myself.
Realizing Meg has been talking I hear the last piece of a plan I know all too well. "Andrea listen, this is only gonna work if they think I'm dead."
I responded with, "you think I don't know that? Meg this is crazy and we've gone too far."
"No we haven't Drea! We needed to know the truth and I can figure more out if everyone thinks I'm dead. No one is going to look into our situation after that and they most certainly won't think I'm going to continue to look into it! Plus we've already planned out how we'll be contacting each other and we'll see each other again eventually. We both have to play a part if we want this to work", Meg insisted. We've planned this out all summer long and even now it seems unreal. We all needed to know the truth but I never thought of what I would lose in the process. Or even gain. I'm snapped out of my thoughts as I hear footsteps stepping on the leaves.
A familiar deep voice speaks out and says, "Meghan you ready?" As I stared at the guy Meg and I nicknamed Pretty Boy, Meg respondes with a "yes".
As I watched Meg leave in Pretty Boy's car, waving goodbye at me, that was the last time I saw my best friend for a long time.
***END OF FLASH BACK***
**3 months later**
I woke up today and wanted to go back to bed. It was August and I was starting my sophomore year without Meg. We promised no contact for 4 months and I was anxious to talk to her. 3 months ago when she disappeared without a trace, everyone thought she was throwing a fit and ran away. After a while and with the police investigating, the case went cold. Everyone is assuming she's dead, her parents even had a funeral. Her brother, Ahren, doesn't believe she's dead. He's been nagging me ever since she left. everyone knows where Meg went, I went and vice versa. Still everyone but Ahren believed the story I told. The only way to believe a lie is have some truth in it. I told the police Meg and I went to a party but got split up. Which is true (to anyone at the party) but we planned where to meet up afterwards. Ahren has been following me around trying to get me to tell him anything. Meg and Ahren use to be really close till he started high school. During Ahren's freshman year their dad got sick and eventually died later that year. Ahren started to sneak out and get into trouble.  Meg and I were in 8th grade and were at different schools so we couldn't really be there for him. I lived down the street from them so Ahren would drive us to school. Well now just me but I told him I didn't mind walking. He just wants to know the truth so he still gives me rides. I go through my morning like normal and hear the honking sound outside. I grab my stuff and leave the empty house.
"GEEZ AHREN CALM DOWN!" I yell at him as I get inside his car. He just responded with "if you didn't take forever I wouldn't have to honk" ha whatever like he even had patience to begin with. I received a text as I was going to respond to Ahren.
UNKNOWN: DID YOU MISS ME?- PB
I went still and realized who the message was from.
Ahren looked over and said "you good? You look like you've seen a ghost."
Yeah that's cause I practically did.

A/N: okay so I've had this story summary up for a while and thought why not publish the first chapter😅 anyways I know it's bad but let's hope it gets better!