Title：Amy Kinzer - Party 01 - Ascent.epub
- Title：Ascent
- Author：Amy Kinzer
- Publisher：Amy Kinzer
- Date：2011-11-21T18:27:27+00:00
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Three teens go back to the past to save the future.
Chapter One
Matt
I hate the sound of crashing metal. Screeching tires. Brakes. I hate rain and dark skies and the smell of cheap beer. I might be the only guy who hates beer. It’s been a year since I’ve had a beer.
I hate groups.
I hate my life.
The thing is, I took all those stupid alcohol prevention classes that our school offered. But that crap happens to someone else. I didn’t know anyone who died. No, I mean I didn’t know anyone who had died that didn’t hold an AARP card in his wallet. Grandpa died from heart failure when I was a sophomore.
The one thing everyone knows, but the court system couldn’t prove, was that the accident was my fault. I never should have gotten behind the wheel after the party. I knew the minute I turned the key that I shouldn’t have offered to drive. I wasn’t fine. The courts let me off though, gave me a little pat on the head and told me to have a nice life. Go play football or join the Party. That’s what guys like you do. Popular guys. Guys who are athletic.
Now, if I could just turn off my brain then I’d be able to just move along and not have a care in the world.
But I can’t get the night out of my head.
It’s stuck in my brain.
It’s burned on the back of my retinas, where I have to look at it forever.
It spins in a circle, a video playing in my head that I can’t turn off. I want to turn it off. God, if there is anything I want to do more than turn off the video in my brain I would flip the switch and make it end. I’d rather watch Peter Pan with my kid brother twenty times a day then a replay of that night.
Mom keeps telling me it’s okay. Not to think about it anymore. It’s over, it was an accident, I didn’t mean for it to happen. You’re not guilty! The courts found you innocent. Just move on with your life. You can’t change the past. You can’t go back and change what happened. There’s no reason to keep thinking about it, stressing over it, replaying the whole thing in your mind.
Everything in life is relative. I’m sure everyone has
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