By: Claudia
Two friends two paths. Natalie and Lynn were friends for years, ever since the third grade. Natalie could still remember the first day she met Lynn. She had forgotten her lunch and Natalie had given her half of her sandwitch. Ever since that day, the girls were unseparatable.
"We'll always be friends," Lynn promissed.
"Natalie and Lynn, best friends forever," Natalie replied.
Now, it was there senior year in high school and the two friends still kept there pact alive. It was a Friday night in May, two weeks before graduation. Natalie and Lynn were getting ready to go to a friend's party.
"This is going to be great!" Lynn chatted excitedly as she finished putting on her make-up.
"Yeah, do you think that guy Nick will notice me?" Natalie asked.
"If he's smart he will," Lynn retorted.
After the girls were ready they called there mothers and told them where they were going.
"Remember girls, no drinking or getting..."
Natalie interrepted her mother, "Yeah yeah Mom, we get it."
A few hours later the party was really getting out of hand. Natalie had comsumed a large amount of beer and Lynn, trying to stop her but failing.
"Come on Nat, haven't ya drinkan enough?"
"Girl its a party!"
Lynn, fed up with Natalie's behavior threatened to leave the party.
"Hey Lynn you can leave, it's ok I'll drive her home," Nick said.
"I don't know," Lynn said.
"Well.."
Two hours later, Natalie still drunk and Lynn is through with coaxing her friend to come home with her left the party.
"I'll take her home," Nick said, "ok..." Lynn replied.
The next morning Lynn woke up to the sound of the phone ringing, rulling over she picked up the receaver.
"Lynn," Nick's voice came over the phone.
"Yeah?"
"Ummm," he paused, "Natalie went home with Stacy. Stacy and Natalie were killed in an acsident."
"What? What the fuck?! This some kind of sick joke?"
"No, I'm sorry Lynn."
"God, you said that you'd drive her home!" Lynn yelled.
"I know, but I was really drunk."
Two weeks later, at graduation Lynn stood up in front of all the parents and facalty.
"Two weeks ago, my best friend died because she got into a car with a drunk driver. I think maybe if I would've stayed at the party than Natalie would be standing up here and graduate with all of us, but she's not. As did I, we both made choices that night. A choice to live, a choice to die. Simply choices that changed the lives of all that knew her. We always said that we'd be best friends forever, and I guess we will because her lesson, the test that we all take in life, well she taught me. She made a choice and I'll never forget. None should forget, that we have choices."
