Summertime,
If I was getting paid
For getting drunk and getting laid.
I'd grab a phone
Just to call you up and say
Quit your job
Cuz I got it made.
The Dandy Warhols
***
Summer woke up. She'd been lying on the floor. Funny, she didn't remember falling asleep. Must have been because biology is just so boring. She sat up and saw Marissa lying in a crumpled heap on the floor. Her neck had red marks all over it.
"Oh my gosh COOP!!!" Summer yelled. She sprung up from the floor and rushed over to her friend. She felt for a pulse and found none. She knelt down and looked at the red lines on Marissa's throat. They looked like hand prints, small hand prints, her hand prints.
She staggered back up to her feet. She had to hide the body. No one can find out about this, Julie Cooper will lock me up in the loony bin and then I'll never be able to get my freak on with Cohen!
Summer tried to drag Marissa across the floor, but she wasn't sure where to stash the lanky girl's body.
Dammit, Coop, why am I always having to clean up your messes?
Summer decided to call Holly, who was always up for stashing a passed out Marissa and taking off. She dialed Holly's number and was thankful to get an answer. She left out the minor detail that Marissa was more than just passed out.
***
Back at her house in time for the Golden Girls rerun, Summer felt a little bit of remorse for accidentally killing Marissa, but it passed.
"Now, I really need to get some studying done." Summer said out loud to herself, grabbing her textbook.
***
At school the next morning, Summer ran into Seth and Ryan in the hallway.
"Hey Summer, have you seen Marissa?" Ryan asked.
Perhaps it was the way she jumped at the sound of Marissa's name, Ryan gave her a look that let her know that he had a feeling something was going on.
It was time to fess up. "I need to tell you guys something."
***
Ryan and Seth couldn't believe what they were hearing. She said she'd killed Marissa and had no idea what happened. A "rage blackout." Marissa must have done something to have caused it. And really, knowing Marissa, it could have been anything. Seth started to pout. He thought he was the only one who inspired the rage blackouts.
Ryan was the first to speak, "Summer, do the Coopers have any idea?"
"Well yeah, I mean I left them a note and all. I just didn't sign my name to the note."
Seth gave her an impatient look, "Well who's name did you write on the note then?"
Summer looked down at her shoes. With everything that had happened, Seth's reaction to the next piece of information is what she feared the most.
"I, um, signed it as "Anna."
Suddenly, they heard a commotion coming from behind them. When the three of them turned to look, several of Newport's finest were escorting a very confused looking Anna from her English class and out into their squad car.
"I guess I figured I'd fix two problems at once."
THE END.