Teenage Love    by Alys Ame                 Mar 2003

	Jamie sighed, put down the receiver, and started to cry.  She had just gotten off 
the phone with her boyfriend, Kevin, well now her ex boyfriend.  Laying her head 
down on her desk she started to wonder what went wrong.  Just last night he had 
called her, he seemed so happy having just beaten another level on his new PS2 
game.  They talked for hours about nothing really important.  As the call ended 
Jamie whispered the words I love you. She promised herself she would never say those 
three words to anyone. Because she witnessed first hand from her parents' 
divorce that love does not last.  And in the end someone always gets hurt.  
Tears slide down her cheeks she reached for a tissue she bumped a frame holding 
a photo of her and Kevin at the fair.  He had his arm around her and her head 
was on his shoulder.  Jamie furious with herself and Kevin for dumping her.  She 
picked up the frame and chucked it at the ground. Glass flew every where.  
Grabbing the photo, that had somehow managed to stay in the frame along with a 
few slivers of glass, she ripped it in two.  Then took her lighter and lit the 
halve of the photo with Kevin on it on fire.   There was a loud bang at her door 
and her brother marched in demanding to know what was going on.  Jamie, sitting 
on the floor getting cut from the glass, looked at him in disgust.  How could he 
expect her to explain what was wrong and she bet he did not really even care.  
So Jamie started to scream "YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND" while getting up to close 
her door cried "I hate being a teenager, I want to die!"   

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