The bell rang, my fifth period government exam was over, and school was officially out. My last summer of high school had started and I was soon to become a freshman in college. The only thing on my mind was relaxing and having fun with my friends. Their thoughts were the same except this was our last summer together before we went to college. So we knew we had to make the best of our time because change was forcing its weight upon us.

Since the very early parts of elementary school up to the end of high school, I had the same group of good friends. We would always invite each other over for birthdays and other events that involved fun. Of course I had other friends but these were my best friends. Most of us had joined choir in junior high and stuck with it till the end. We immensely enjoyed it because we would be together having fun, singing. We took advantage of the boundless time school gave us together and thought nothing of what would come after that. But once we were actually at the graduation ceremony in our cap and gowns, it finally hit us. This would be the splitting of our class. After summer everyone would go their separate way

Before summer even began, my parents repeatedly told me to get a full time job to pay the bills and my debt, but I took what I got, a part time job at Best Buy as a cashier. It got me by with my bills but I still neglected my debt. This gave me a lot more extra time to do nothing, so I spent a lot more time with my friends not caring about work or any type of education. Summer started with a bountiful amount of parties, road trips around the state, and trips to the beach. Everyday my group of friends would call each other to see what we could do. If there wasn't a party or a road trip, we would find something to do. Even if we got a big group together and did absolutely nothing. We were still all together and spending our limited time together. When we actually did things together, we would go to Galveston's Surfside beach, which was our favorite and visited weekly. Graduation and going away parties were always fun because you'd see people you hadn't seen since school ended and you'd find out what everyone planned to do with their lives. Besides the beach and graduation parties, we would do what other normal people did together. We went to more casual parties where people acted a bit different. We had several trips to the movies and mall. A few trips out of town to national parks where we would camp for days without anyone to bothering us. But as all good things do, summer was coming to an end.

As the first week of school ended, the weekend celebrations started and it helped me get my mind off of school. I talked to some of my fri

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