Excerpt: Summer Secrets

The summer after high school is one of the most exhilarating, terrifying, amazing, and horrible experiences that almost every teenager in the country has to go through. You have finally finished all the exams, you’re already in the college that you are going to, your decisions are already made, but your life is changing forever. For the first time you are facing the fact that you’re leaving home, mom and dad are no longer going to be there every step of the way; for every proud moment and every screw up. It’s a wonderful and terrible thought all in one. You have to leave everything you’ve ever known behind, start a new life, in a new place, make new friends, find new favorite places and new ways to get through everyday. The last summer before college is the summer of indulgence, where you spend three months reliving everything that was great about high school, you spend every second you can with the friends that you are about to say good-bye to, and you get to do it without any thought of the next test, paper, what Mrs. What’s Her Name in the English department is going to ask you to write about your summer vacation. It’s a summer of high emotions, massive indulgences, and if you’re not careful, enormous mistakes.