American Teen Page #6

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It's refreshing.

And then I got this.

I'm hoping that he feels

he found someone

he can express himself around

and be comfortable,

rather than his friends

making him a bet,

like see how long he can last

going out with this lame girl

or something like that.

Brokeback Mountain was the movie

I watched last night with Hannah Bailey.

- Do you like that movie, Mitch?

- I did like it.

I think Mitch would have been

a good character in it.

Mitch is the character in it.

- That's coming from your cuz.

- Dude, your cousin's calling you gay.

We obviously are

in different social groups.

My friends were all, "What are

you doing? That's kind of weird."

I mean, I'd like to say that

that wouldn't affect me,

and that wouldn't affect my decision,

but I don't know.

- Thanks.

- There you go.

Now you got to get down on the grass

and pretend you're crawling.

- No. No.

- Come on! I'll do it with you.

I can't... What am I doing?

All right, ready?

All right. Now you're thinking about

your dragon life. Okay, awesome.

- I can't keep a straight face.

- That made my day.

- I like Mitch.

- Okay.

I like him more every time I see him

and hang out with him.

Yep.

It's worrying me, because

this is the worst time possible

that I could finally find a really

amazing guy and start liking him a lot,

like, right before I'm ready to graduate

and make very important decisions

about where I'm going

to be living next year.

As much as I don't want to admit it,

he's gonna at least weigh in

a little bit on my decision,

like I'll at least consider the fact

that he's going to IU, you know.

I don't know. I'm worried.

I found one sock. That's me.

I'm one sock.

I need another sock to go with,

to be joined up with.

And I see all these other pairs of socks,

and then there's just me,

and it makes me feel Ionely.

I need to find my missing sock mate.

The semi-formal is tomorrow.

Are you busy tomorrow?

I'm supposed to work tomorrow.

I could probably get it off, though.

My manager likes me.

Well, I mean, you'd have to, like,

try right now, because it's tomorrow.

So were you planning on going

to senior semi-formal?

No. It makes me nervous

being around popular people.

But, I don't know. I just thought

it'd be fun to ask you last-minute,

because we're a lot alike,

a lot of the same interests.

We both suck at life.

I said both.

- So much better.

- It is.

- Thanks. Enjoy.

- Thank you.

So, now what do we do?

Hey, how's it going?

I didn't... Okay, bye.

Look, Mike, my b*obs look a lot bigger

than they actually are.

- It's actually a really cool dress.

- Thanks.

This is my sister's.

Jackie, you've got to dance

with me, man.

- All right, let's find a table.

- Sit with us, sit with us. Here.

What?

What are you doing?

What's the matter?

I liked it better

when it was just you and me.

Why?

Because I felt like less of a loser.

- I'm gonna go dance.

- Okay, you go dance.

- I'll cry.

- I don't care.

This is my birthday. The very start

of my birthday. Right before midnight.

In a few seconds, I'll be 18, so it's like

a huge transition in a matter of seconds.

My life sucks right now, but what if

it's even worse after high school?

I'm afraid

of what's gonna happen to me.

Good morning, Tigers!

Happy April Fools'.

As many of you know,

college acceptance letters

will be arriving in the next few weeks.

Please don't forget to report your

decisions to the Counseling Office

as soon as possible. Good luck.

I have two weeks until my letter from

Notre Dame is here. I'm freaking out.

I know.

Well, we were gonna

go to Matt's for a little bit.

Not for long, like not past 12:00.

I'm not going.

I don't want to go to Matt's.

Not past 12:
00? That's not late?

Okay, not past 11:00.

There's no point

in you coming back here, then,

if you're going to be out there till 11:00.

I didn't know

you were going to be that late.

Like, stopping by

to me means, like, an hour.

Okay, fine.

Then I'll just stop by there till like 10:00.

If you want to go out there all night,

that doesn't matter.

Well, I don't want you to be mad.

I don't know. You've pissed me off.

I don't know whether you realize

that or not, but you have.

Like you honestly came here to eat

and wait until you figured out

what you were doing.

I invited you to go with me.

It's not like I came here and was like,

"Oh, by the way, I'm going over there."

No, f*** this, dude!

How disappointing will it be

if you don't get into Notre Dame?

Very.

And how are you going to deal with it?

I don't know, probably not well.

Okay. That doesn't mean

it's the end of the world,

and a quarter of the class

is reserved for grads' kids.

Is this pressure yours or your friends'?

Mine. And yours.

Okay.

If you'll be disappointed for you,

that's fine,

but you shouldn't be

disappointed for me.

And you're not doing this for me.

I like Notre Dame. Your brothers

and sister like Notre Dame.

There's just a lot of pressure.

And if you get in,

do you think that all goes away?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

So there's no other pressure

in life, then?

I mean, there's other,

but this is the main bulk of it.

There's still gonna be things

to deal with.

My older sister, Sara, she was the only

child that didn't go to Notre Dame.

She was different from all of us,

and we always knew that.

She had some learning disabilities

and she was always slower,

and I think it was rough on her

being inferior to everybody else.

She had always wanted to be a teacher.

She was amazing with little kids.

And she got accepted to college,

but she was struggling

with student teaching,

and she was struggling

with the exam that she had to take.

I think she just saw her dream

just being taken away from her.

It was almost two years ago,

Sara committed suicide.

She was living here.

It happened in the basement.

It was awful. I mean...

It was definitely the worst thing

that ever happened to me,

and at the same time, it really

brought us together as a family.

It was very hard on Megan.

Megan was just 16 when Sara died.

And I think it was very...

I think it affected her, and I think it

still affects her. It affects all of us.

My presumption is that

there's a certain element of guilt,

because Sara and Megan

were never close.

She may not even be aware of the fact

that this is affecting her the way it is.

But sometimes I see this rage in Megan,

this inner anger.

I just always want to go back in time

and change something,

and reach out to Sara,

and hopefully have done something, but

I don't even know if there's

something I could have done.

Honestly, we haven't talked for a while.

A week.

I guess I kind of apologize.

I'm sorry for like anything I did.

Same here.

I mean, I don't really know what we

both did to piss each other off so bad.

It was really bad timing.

It was Sara's birthday Saturday.

- Sh*t.

- That's why I was just such...

Like, I was just like...

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