Peter

     June 8th, 1967
     The sun was dull from the clouds, the air a bit humid.. but it was a special day. Peter came over in his new caddy just around 6 o'clock, he says he's taking me out on an adventure for my birthday tonight. I have no idea where we going, but he told me it's a surprise and he that he doesn't  want to spoil it. I'm so excited, I wonder where we're going, I wonder how far we gonna drive outta Aspen, ooh I hope it's to the drive in. I love the drive in, best make out spot in town they say. Me and Peter haven't had our first kiss yet, I wonder if that's what he's planning on doing tonight..

     He tells me to close my eyes, and we pull in to some grass,
"Okay, open!"
He ended up taking me to the drive in, just like I guessed. While we were sitting in his white Cadillac watching a scary movie, I  was eating the popcorn he'd bought,  when I went down to get some, Peter got some too and our hands touched. I looked up at him and he had a huge smile on his face, then he slowly leaned in like he was gonna kiss me, so I closed my eyes and leaned in too. Then right when we was about to, Susan came up with a beer in her hand and asked us if we wanted to go skinny dipping in the lake down the road from the drive in. I told her I'd think about it, Peter said he would too. I don't really like Susan, I mean she is nice and all, but she gets around too much, and she's followed after her daddy.. an alcoholic.

     Peter said he had another surprise for me, so we decide to ditch the movie and go to my other surprise. I don't know where we're at or what road we're driving down, so I ask him, 
"Peter, where we going sweetie?"
"It's not too far, I promise.." he says. I tell him okay and he asks " You do trust me don't you?"
And I say, "Of course I do, I have no reason not
to."
He don't say nothing and we just keep driving. A couple minutes go by and he turns into this spot in the middle of the woods, we go down to the cliff where the moon's the brightest. He stops the car and takes his keys out. I ask him, "What we doing here?"
He unbuckles, leans over me and passionately kisses me. I unbuckle my seatbelt and he pulls me into the back seat and gets on top of me, I can taste his saliva on my cherry red lips, then I ask him what he's doing and he says " do you trust me?"
I tell him yes. He kisses me even more so and tries touching me. I tell him to stop and he doesn't, I tell him to stop again and he asks "Are you okay?"
"No I'm not actually..." I said.
     He tells me to get out and go to the trunk. I meet him there and he says "Now  turn around, and no peeking." I hear the trunk pop open, and he tells me to turn back around and look. He has a butcher knife in his hand and he tells me "Don't be scared Laura I'm not gonna hurt you, remember, you trust me?" I start to back away and he gets closer. My whole body gets cold, and I don't feel right. I take slow steps toward the front of his car and he follows, "What's the knife for then?" I ask. He keeps quiet and starts to chase me around the caddy. I grab a big wooden stick to my right and I charge after him, gets him right in the gut. He falls to the ground gasping for air, so I beat the son of a bitch with that stick until blood flies everywhere and he's not breathing no more.                       The side of his caddy is covered in splatters of  blood. "He was about to kill me..." I say, "I just murdered a man." I can't think, I'm so traumatized by what just went down in the matter of 15 minutes... I can't bear to live like this, a criminal. I get in the caddy and start it up, I back up as far as I can and put the gas pedal to the floor and drive off the cliff...