During the course of most everyone’s high school career, they find that they have gone through at least one relationship that goes a little something like this.

1.      Meet cute guy/girl.

2.      Label as boyfriend or girlfriend… (Or at least friend with benefit).

3.      Go through the “No Air” phase

And finally….

4.      Mutual agreement that they are either  a.) Better off friends  b.) The flame died out or  c.) It would be detrimental to each other’s “not on a ventilator” status to remain seeing each other.

Fortunately and unfortunately, I was not most everyone.  Actually, I was from it, although looking back I’m not positively sure if that was such a good or bad thing.  Anyway, let me start from the beginning.

By Junior year, the whole high school scene was getting pretty dull.  I mean, history just repeats itself over and over again right?  So why the heck did we have to take a different version of it every year?  With each passing day the GED became increasingly appealing to me.  It wasn’t like I actually needed a full blown high school diploma anyway.  ‘The good enough degree is good enough for me,’ I thought with a smirk.  My track scholarship was coming soon enough, although I couldn’t possibly express how eager I was to get out the dump commonly referred to as King High.  Don’t get me wrong.  I wasn’t a bad student. The opposite actually.  Maintaining a ‘B’ average was cake work for me, and even though I could have easily had a 4.0 GPA, I didn’t want to make it seem like I was trying too hard.  I had a reputation to uphold, you know!

As I rummaged through my bag for the last time making sure I had at least a few of the essentials for the first day of school, my phone went off

Maneater…

Make you work hard
Make you spend hard
Make you want all, of her love…

Wish you never ever met her at all!

“Yes Maddie?” I said in the sweetest singsong voice I could muster at the moment.

“What’s wrong with you?” she asks, concerned.

Madison knew me oh too well.  She could see completely through me, like the masks I sometimes wore were completely transparent.  I swear the girl has superpowers, and boy, does it get on my nerves sometimes.