summer - from music

"Promise me we'll stay besties for life!" Amanda squealed, hugging her best friend Lindsay tightly to her.

"Promise!" Lindsay sobbed, wiping her nose on Amanda's black gown.

The girls had just graduated high school and were heading off to colleges on opposite sides of the country in just three short months.

Amanda pulled away and grabbed Lindsay's hand. She wiped her eyes and smiled. "We have to stay friends," she said to the other girl. "We know too much about each other!"

Lindsay nodded in agreement. "Yeah. Like I'm the only person who knows about that time you made out with Penny Simon's boyfriend in the boy's bathroom last fall."

"Lindsay!" Amanda whispered, slapping her arm. "I told you never to mention that again!" She tossed her hair imperiously. "Besides, I got some dirt on you too, don't forget."

Lindsay stiffened. Her hand grew cold and clammy in Amanda's grasp. "Oh?" She licked her lips. "Like what?"

"I know what you did last summer..." Amanda breathed in Lindsay's ear.

Lindsay jerked her hand away. "That girl drowned, I swear!" Her tears turned from tears of sadness to tears of fear.

Amanda's eyes narrowed in confusion. "What are you talking about... I was just kidding."

Lindsay's heart rate slowed. She sighed and forced a laugh. "Of course. So was I."

Amanda's lips twitched into a smile. She threw her arm aroun her friend's shoulder. "We'd better get going or the party will start without us."

"Yeah," Lindsay said, letting Amanda usher her out of the auditorium. But her mind was still on that girl from camp last summer, the one who no one had liked. What was her name... Ophelia? Oh well, it didn't matter. She was dead and gone and as far as everyone was concerned, she'd simply drowned in the lake.