“Good morning
Anaheim, California! The temperature high for today is 97 degrees and
the low will be 88, so get on out there and enjoy the summer or should
I say, “Anaheim Heat,” says, Bob the weather reporter.
A much unhappy yet thoughtful Jen Cavaleri wakes up and talks, thinks,
and narrates about her adventurous day.
Great. Another boring day at school with zit-faced freshmen, slutty
sophomores, wannabe juniors, and of course, the ever so great seniors.
Why am I complaining? I am Jen Cavaleri, I have a nice 3.88 GPA, and
I am captain of the Anaheim Cheer Squad, President of the Honor Society,
and Homecoming Queen for two years in a row. Not to mention, I am dating
Jake Bolton, head football player, Vice-President of our senior class,
and amazingly gorgeous part-time model. Not bad!
I also have the best friends in the world, Molly, who is co-captain
of the cheer squad and is dating my other best friend Devon, who plays
football with Jake. Let’s not forget Jason, who is Jake’s
younger junior brother. This year has gone by really quick, I mean it
usually goes by slow, but this year has been great. Except of course,
for the time I came to school and had an accidental visit from my monthly
friend who leaves red stains on my “lower body”. It was
so humiliating!
Today is beautiful however; Mom and Dad might be going out to Florida
to visit Aunt Paulie and her seven shaved cats. Gross, isn’t it?
Yeah, she has some sort of phobia against hair. Makes me giggle every
time. Today seems like a great day to do some surfing, just like my
man Bob Marley says, “In Jamaica all there is to do is put your
foot on the board and go.” I called Jake but, there was no answer,
he might be with Molly and Devon. I need time to get ready anyway. I
have to take a shower and put on something hot for the beach. Maybe
that new Hollister g- string I bought a couple of weeks ago and that
new diamond necklace.
Oh my god, yesterday was so creepy. I was doing my Calculus homework
and I heard some shrieks coming from next door. I looked out and saw
Mrs. Patterson, Molly’s mom carrying a huge black bag, but it
wasn’t garbage day. It was really eerie. I almost tripped trying
to see what else was going on. Then, I saw Molly come out of her house
crying with rage. She looked straight at me and I closed my window.
I hoped she hadn’t seen me. I wonder where she and Devon are right
now.
“Ouch!” I yelled, as I cut myself shaving. I hate shaving
my legs every day. “Ring, Ring”, my cell phone rang. “Hello,
oh, hey Jake. I just got out of the shower, did you, Jason, Molly, and
Devon, all want to hang out at the beach today? Ok. Pick me up at 3:00,
ok?”
I went to put my phone on my dresser when I saw Mr. Patterson staring
at me ferociously from his kitchen window. I got stiff. He gave me this
very bleak and conniving stare that made it seem like he thought I knew
something I wasn’t supposed to.
I got to school late,
of course, I always do. I took the tardy pass from Miss Sweeks and she
gave me a dirty look. I saw a couple of freshmen girls staring at me
and saying stuff. “You’re just jealous”, I said as
I passed them all up. They said nothing back. That’s the problem
with all these freshmen girls, they’re so immature.
Whatever.
“Boo!” Jake startled me. He jumped out of the bathroom as
I was on my way to Calculus. “So, beach, me, you, friends, surfing,
lots of fun?”
No. I said in a sarcastic way. Yes, I mean. I teased him with a kiss
on the cheek and softly slapped his
cheek. “Bye stud.” I walked away.
I caught up with Molly. “What’s up?” I asked.
“Nothing much, just barely living.” she replied.
“I saw you yesterday
and you looked very upset/”
“Oh it’s nothing. My parents were just being stupid again
about Devon. They think he’s pressuring me to have sex.”
“Oh, you mean they don’t know you already did it?”
“No, you tard!” Molly answered anxiously.
I told her how we all had plans later to chill at the beach. “I’m
there,” she says.
“Alright.” I clapped her hand and we walked to class. Calculus
class was a bore and a pain in my butt, yet I knew something was up
with Molly. Usually she is so upbeat and happy. Today, she was acting
dumbfounded and I saw some scars on her neck and bruises on her arms.
I know something is wrong. But what?
Finally, lunch was here, and Molly, Jake, Jason, Devon, and I all sat
at the basketball table eating Doritos and nachos. I ate my lunch so
fast, I almost ate the plastic container that my nachos were in. I told
everybody I went to go get a drink from the water fountain. In reality,
I went to the girl’s bathroom and splurged out all the food I
had just eaten.
“Why am I doing this?” I cried to myself. I sat on the floor
and stared at the wall. Why did I have such a problem with food? I’m
not fat. I’m voluptuous. I knew my whole posse would be searching
for me so I got up, cleaned my smeared make up, and put on my “smiley”
face.
I found my friends and we left the lunchroom and were ready to leave
for the beach. On the way to the beach, Jake and I held hands as Molly
and I sang, “Man, I Feel Like a Woman” by Shania Twain.
We were being so goofy, and Devon and Jason were just laughing at us.
Jake’s car broke down as we approached the last mile of the beach.
We decided to leave the car and run. Whoever got there last had to jump
into the beach- naked-in public! I started running first, Jake and Devon
followed behind, then Molly, and finally Jason. As we all got to the
sandy, soft, and warm beach area, we saw Jason sprinting to beat Molly.
However, he didn’t beat her.
We all laughed. Jason took off his shorts and shirt and ran into the
surf headfirst. This set the mood for a great time. This really nice
lady let us use her boom box and we all showed off our “goodies”
in our cute bathing suits and swim trunks.
Jake and I grabbed two surfboards and went paddling into the surf. I
raced Jake, but he won. A huge wave approached and I went for it. I
lost my balance and fell right into the water. Jake had gotten a nice
wave. I found my way up to the surface and another wave came by, we
decided to do “grind the nose”. Basically, we walked back
and forth on the board while riding a wave. A couple of locals looked
us over and hollered, “You guys suck!”
“No, your mom does!” Jake yelled.
The locals shook their heads and walked away. The sun was glistening
and Jake and I just held hands
on our boards together. It was very romantic. The sun was starting to
get dimmer by the minute, so we decided to go surfing again. Only this
time, Jake went further away from me to do some Pipe masters—a
more grueling type of surfing. I kept doing some nose grinders and water
fountains.
Whoosh went the sound of a rough wave. I decided to do a water fountain
and lost my balance once again. As I was falling in the water, I glanced
over and saw Jason, Molly, and Devon waving and dancing on the boardwalk.
The next thing I knew, I was underwater and my head hit a hard surface.
I felt blood coming out of my head in the back. Strange thing was, I
didn’t feel any pain. My tether got stuck on a coral reef and
I sunk to the bottom of the beach. I tried pulling it off, but it wouldn’t
budge. While I was struggling, I noticed this strange figure. It was
a girl, with a white dress and I saw she had a porcelain face, almost
like a doll’s.
My eyes filled with terror when I felt a connection or déjà
vu feeling. My heart jumped down my throat when I realized it was Molly.
I screamed underwater. I grabbed the girl and shook her. I just floated
there staring at her when all of a sudden, she opened her eyes, and
they were filled with dark red blood, like the color of the stains on
her dress. I got so frantic that I broke off the tether and swam for
my life to the surface.
Once I reached the surface, all hell broke loose. I was shaking, screaming,
kicking and wishing I were out of the bloody water. Jake scurried to
get to me and helped me swim to shore. “What’s wrong?
What happened?” asked Molly, Devon, and Jason.
“What happened sweetheart?” asked Jake.
“I…I saw Molly’s dead body on the beach floor, covered
with blood.” As I looked at them to see a reaction, I felt my
body shut down.
Lights out.
“Where am I?”
I asked myself. I woke up in a white room wearing a patient’s
robe and strapped to a bed. I had medical tubes attached to my head
and arms. I saw no life in the room. It was scary. I thought I was in
a mental institution. I forced myself up to try and get rid of the straps,
but they weren’t coming off. Then, Molly walked in. “Hello,
sweetness. How have you been?”
“Fine,” I said coldly. “Why am I here?”
“You are here because I want to show you something and tell you
a story about a girl named Molly and her twin sister Tanya.”
“Who’s Tanya?” I asked.
“You will find out shortly. Look at this picture. What do you
see?” She threw the picture on my bed and I reached for it. My
heart sank when I saw the picture was of her and Jake kissing, in a
bed, fully un-clothed.
“Why…what is this? You were messing around with my boyfriend?”
I asked harshly. “You’re a slut! Why would you do this,
where’s Jake, Devon, and Jason?”
“Let’s just say Devon and Jason are sleeping forever.”
She took a sharp long knife out of her pocket and ran it across my arm,
making small cuts over my skin.
“What do you want? Who are you?” I asked crying. “Leave
me alone, bitch!”
“Yesterday when you were at the beach, you saw my sister, Molly.
I am not Molly, I am Tanya. It seems miss Molly was a little slut herself,
so my father and I killed her. She was pregnant and somehow, I think
you knew that. You turned my sister into a slut and you influenced her
to do things she didn’t want to do. You pulled her away from me!”
“I didn’t even know Molly had a sister,” I whimpered.
“That’s because my parents have always liked Molly more
than me. Molly this, Molly that. It’s all I ever heard. So I killed
the imbecile. Just like I killed Devon, Jason, and, oh yeah, your parents.
That trip to Michigan never happened honey.”
“Please let me go!” I screamed.
“Shut up!” she said. “Now you have an ultimatum. You
either die for taking my sister and turning her into a slut, or your
boyfriend dies!”
“No!” I yelled. “Leave him alone, he didn’t
do anything. Take me, take me! Please!”
I had spent nearly fifteen hours in the white room strapped to the bed,
when finally Tanya walked in with Jake. His mouth was covered with tape
and she handcuffed him to a chair. I heard him say in mumbles, “Let
her go!”
I cried. The world was cruel. How had I not noticed everything? I knew
the real Molly had had sex, had lied to her parents, and had aspired
to be like me. I felt so stupid.
“Shut up!” Tanya told Jake and I. “Now you must watch
me, Jake, as I kill your lovely girlfriend.”
As Tanya cut my body up, the pain was surreal; the blood trickled down
from every cut and showered me in a blood bath. As my final moments
neared, I thought about my life. How much I loved my parents, Jake,
and all my friends. Even if Molly were alive, I wouldn’t hate
her for this. It was my fault that Molly changed. The tears just kept
coming and my eyes went blank. “I love you all. See you in hell,
Tanya!” I said before my death.
Hours after the aftermath,
the police had gotten word of the horrific events at the medical hospital.
They barged in and immediately took Tanya into custody. “Leave
me alone, you jerks!” she yelled.
“Are you okay, son?” asked an officer.
“No, I’m not okay,” replied Jake. After having the
cuffs removed from his hands and the tape removed, Jake walked over
to the corpse of his beloved girlfriend. Jen Cavaleri was pronounced
dead immediately. Jake Bolton couldn’t handle all the sadness
and depression that followed. A day later after being questioned in
court, he decided to leave Anaheim, California…for a while.
The following is a letter from Jake Bolton after moving away to Ohio
and addressing his classmates with a letter of explanation and closure:
From: Jake Bolton
To: Anaheim High School Senior Class of 2005
I love Jen so much. She was
my life. I think about her everyday and will never be the same again
without her. Sometimes I go to the old Cavaleri house and watch her
window hoping to see her angelic face again. I don’t believe it
was her fault for Molly’s mistakes, but Tanya did. I made sure
her psycho ass went to jail for good. She will never hurt someone like
that again. I love Jen. After all the tragic events and death of Jason,
Molly, Jen, and Devon, I decided to move away. Leave this town. I miss
all my buddies-you know who you are. I will be returning someday. For
now, I go surfing alone and watch the sunset. I know Jen watches me.
I see her in my heart everyday. Just remember one thing, you may think
you know someone, but you may be wrong. Don’t pressure anyone
to do something. Be an individual and live life to it’s fullest.
Good luck to all. DON’T BE TWISTED!
“Good morning, Sandusky, Ohio! It is 87 degrees outside and
the low today is 83. So get on out there and enjoy the sun shine,”
reports John Bestow the weather reporter for Sandusky News.
Jake Bolton awakes for his first day living as a college student at
Case University. He talks, thinks, and describes his adventurous day.
I am Jake Bolton. I am beginning a new life in Ohio playing football
for Case University. Today I am going surfing with my buddies Kyle and
Rick. While I was surfing, I took a nice swim underwater to work my
arms and legs. I spotted a shiny object. I swam down and saw a girl…a
girl with a diamond necklace…it was Jen.
