Okay, so it goes like this:

Your mom dies. You're dad goes insane. You move to a small town named Everwood.

Your life seems to be over.

You meet a girl - Amy. You fall for her. Said girl is already in love with someone else. Someone else is a little hard to steal her from, because he's in a coma.

Amy uses you, and you're angry with her, but still in love.

You and she become friends.

Fast forward a few weeks.

Coma-boy wakes up, Amy decides she doesn't need you anymore, even though the love of her life can't remember her name. You're still in love, and then you meet coma-boy.

His name is Colin.

Colin can't even remember his own name half the time, but you watch as everyone, especially the girl who supposedly loves him, tries to mold him into the boy he used to be.

Everyone but you.

Colin and Amy grow distant.

You and he talk a lot, and he seems to think you're this great guy, and you feel guilty because you're in love with his girlfriend.

Then she breaks up with Colin, and asks you out.

The funny thing is, you and Colin have kind of become, well.......friends. So you feel like you'd be crossing that thin line of friendship.

Except your dream has finally come true, so you decide to say yes -but only with his blessing.

You try to ignore the pain in his eyes when he laughs softly and tells you it's cool. You push it back because you're getting something you've been yearning for, for what seems like forever.

So you and Amy start dating, and you and Colin get closer.

Another few months and you and he are best friends.

You're still dating her a year and a half later.

Everything starts to crumble one day, when you decide to do something you think is pretty cool.

You buy your best friend concert tickets for his birthday. You think that you're pretty lucky you're into the same music. You think you're pretty lucky to have a best friend like him.

Then your luck runs out.

You don't know what you've done wrong, because he was so happy when you gave him his present. And he smiled so widely in the diner, and touched you so.....gently, when he left.

It's a week later, and he's been avoiding you, and you have to do something.
Over the past week you've set a new brooding record, and you've gotten into what seems like a million fights with your girlfriend.

Everyone is mad at you.

Your dad, because...well.....he's your dad.

Amy is angry with you, and you're not quite sure why, but there's a tiny inkling in the back of your head. You think it might have something to do with the way she's started to refer to Colin as 'the other woman.' And how she says you're acting like a lost, little schoolgirl waiting for the big-man-on-campus to phone you.

You're starting to wonder what you saw in her in the first place.

And Colin.

The one person you can really talk to, who you can share your dreams with. The one person who understands you and accepts you the way you are.

Amy comes over while you're raiding you're dad's liquor cabinet, and asks you what you think you're doing.

You tell her that you have to find out what's wrong with Colin, if you'd done something to hurt him. But you need a little help.

A little liquid courage.

So you grab a few bottles, and you're not sure what you're drinking but you're in a hurry.

You swipe your dad's keys off the table, and run outside, there's a little voice telling you not to get in, because you just drank a lot of alcohol, and you may not feel drunk, but you will soon.

You ignore it.

A tiny voice inside you is screaming to go to Colin, and you nod in agreement, because you need him right now.

You get in, pull the seat forward, start the engine, and back out of the drive slowly.

Amy's still screaming in the background, but she's become a low buzz, and you can't quite make out what she's saying.

Colin's grin flashes brightly in front of you as you make your way down the street, and you're so busy rehearsing what you're going to say to him that you don't even see the truck in front of you.

Everything stills.

You're body seems to be moving, but you can't feel anything.

You can only see the jade of your best friend's eyes as the world goes black.


~Finis~