The Best of Our Lives

Prologue

" I'm so ready to get out of this Goddamn town!" I huff as I walk out of my high school for the very last time, our stuff is packed and California here we come. My best friend, Violet, is right next to me and just as ready as I am to just get out. We get up to my matte black 1969 Chevrolet Camaro SS, which I saved from a scrap yard and spent my whole high school career fixing up, put on our sunglasses, and get in the car. Soon we're the first ones to tear out of that parking lot.

You see, our town is nothing but a dead end... It's a prison city and a college town all rolled into one little space. Do you know Sam Houston State University? Yeah, exactly, my town is the home to the Huntsville Hornets and the Sam Houston Bearkats.

"Scarlet, how excited are you on a scale from one to ten?" I laugh and look at her as I roll up to a red light. " Dude," I look at her and lower my sunglasses." You have NO idea." I speed off to our new lives.