Summertime, June, 16th, 1934
Detectives surrounding the area of the lake. A dead body was found. A young girl's body. The young girl was Anna Hawkes, nine years old, blond hair, green eyes. My best friend.......ex best friend. Let's just say, this little girl did not play nice with me and left me forgotten. She's lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. The detectives found her and not me. Well, I'm sorta used to it since I've always known to be forgotten and alone. Now, I'm dead, forgotten, alone, wet, and sunk deep into the water. How did Little Miss Anna Hawkes die? Hehe, me of course. She drowned me first and told my mommy and older sissy that I couldn't swim and sunk into the water. No. She killed me first. That's what I get though for playing with an older girl that finds me annoying and stupid. Know what? She's the meanie fat head. Not me. Bye bye, Anna. You will soon be forgotten........
Years past and sixteen year old Mimi Lowe was going to her great grandmother's house. She hated going there. She hated hearing about her grandmother's past and how she did this and that. It was an endless cycle of boring stories about history of her grandmother's "so-called" exciting lifestyle. She would always start with,"Did ya hear about the time I actually was a flapper and Curly from The Three Stooges actually asked me to have his hand in marriage?" or "Did I ever share that one time that I lost an audition to a movie to Shirley Temple? We actually kept in touch after that!" or something flat out odd like,"Did you ever find out that I once had a modeling job partnered with Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page? What a sweetheart she was!" Though most teenage children may find other grandparents' stories kinda boring or slow, Mimi's great grandmother's were actually rather interesting! But Mimi refused to believe a lick of it and was cursed with a gift of knowing more pop culture from the past than now. She used to be teased about it in forth grade. She bragged about her gift of knowledge of past pop cultures but other kids always said,"Who?" "Who cares? That's old!" "Are you an old lady or a nine year old?" "Does it look like they still matter now?" "Who was that chick from that other thing?" Nonsense like that made Mimi feel awkward, hurt, and upset. Yet she loves older things, and loves her great grandmother's stories, but acts like they're boring. The only reason was is because a girl from her high school only lives a block away from her grandmother and feels self conscious about how others look at her. She tells her great grandmother that they're interesting, but lies to the rest. Her mother worries about Mimi's self consciousness because Mimi was once a confident, outgoing unique little girl, until she started elementary school. She began changing. She started reading teenage love-sick novels about love triangles between vampires, werewolves and mortals, listening to pop music from top hit musicians that parents complain about and wonder if their child's taste in music has gone flat and buried. Mimi hated the music of today. She once had on her Christmas list if she could have every single album that The Doors, Joan Jett, or Stevie Nicks made, but instead she marked them out and wrote down for the entire series of Gilmore Girls and a new Miley Cyrus CD, that she won't watch or listen to and let them stay on her movie or music shelf. However, she does hide older CD's music from the 60's to the late 90's early 2000's in her newer music cases. Hiding comic books in her love sick novels. Her favorite personal quote was "Love sick triangle between a vampire, werewolf and some sad mortal chick? More like flu season sick at the thought of vampires sparkling and showing positives emotions towards mortals!" People never got that joke, so she always kept it to herself.
Her great grandmother, Great Gram Josie was quite the adventurous soul. To tell how incredible she really truly was, think of a more realistic female version of the movie Big Fish. She was just like the main character in that movie, except with a more realistic view point. She had the most amazing life, but had a moment in her life. One moment that was a fearful, frightening moment. She had never told a single soul, but she was going to tell Mimi. "Mimi dear, did you know I had a sister?" "Yeah, but didn't she die from drowning when you were twelve?" "Yes, a very sad and tragic moment, but that wasn't all of it. A young nine year old girl killed her." "A nine year old? How could a nine year old drown a six year old?" "It was a crime not even Nancy Drew could crack the code to. And you know about Nancy Drew, right? "Yes Great Gram. You gave me all of your Nancy Drew books, remember?" "Yes, but this is not about that little scamp. This is about my lost, forgotten sister. You see, I knew she wasn't missing. After that stupid little Anna drowned her,I wanted to wrap my hands around her little neck and draw the life outta her. To this day, I still do, but she got her revenge cake alright!" Mimi was shocked. Her great gram said almost every curse word in the book, but she never said "stupid" "dumb" or anything like that. She never slipped the words out upon her tongue. She kept going,"My sister Faith was a precious young girl, so her death was so tragic, I could have sworn the Earth stood still for a minute and the sun almost refused to shine, because our precious little Faith has left the Earth in spirit. But that little pathetic Anna, ooh, she got her revenge. An hour later, she struggled to keep swimming and dunked under water. Momma got so worried that she called the policemen. They only found Anna, and then Momma asked them to find Faith, but they couldn't. But I knew it was a lie. I knew what that little girl did to my sister. I tried telling my mother for years, but she would slap my face with her backhand and say,'Jo Ann Mildred Green, you never talk about that day. That was all an accident and you never speak of it. She maybe has another good family lookin' after her and I hope she does. I don't want my baby girl lost and alone and scared.' Momma hated thinkin' that her little baby girl was lost and alone. But she wasn't. It was a sad thought, but I knew Faith was in Heaven. I knew she was an angel and she was in good hands. Sometimes, I still feel her nearby and with me." Mimi felt like crying after hearing that. She knew how much her Grandma missed her sister, but tragic things like that in life happen and no one may like it, but it still occurs.
When Mimi went home that night, her mom told her some good news,"Mimi, I know you were worried about having a boring summer here at home, but Aunt Lilian is taking you and your cousin Grace to Great Gram's old summer cabin at Lake Prudence." "Really? How long am I staying?" "Oh, I don't know. About three weeks. You'll come back in time to go to Florida with your friends." "Is that the same place where..." Mimi's voice trailed thinking about Great Gram's little sister. She wanted to ask her mom, but was too scared to bring up something she wasn't supposed to. "Where sweetheart? What happened there?" "Is that the same place where Great Gram spent when she was my age? I knew she did as a little girl, but I didn't know as a teenager." "Oh yes. Yes. She spent her time there before going off to New York. She really wanted to become famous." "Yeah, I know." Her mom left, as she went on her computer. Her friend Rae sent her an IM on Facebook. Rae asked,"Hey gurl! So, u up 4 Florida this summr? :D!" Mimi wrote back,"Yeah! It's still in July, rite?" "Yeah! Duh! XD! Remember, i have 2 go 2 sooooo many reunions this summer? LOL! *sigh* if only my family were cooler like the family on Twilight. I wish my great grandma or even my grandma were like your great grandma. She's cool! How is she?" "Okay, I guess. Im goin 2 her old cabin and spending 3wks there, but im still goin' 2 florida w/ u guys." "Ooh, I bet it will b haunted! 0.o...XD!! LMAO!" "I dunno. i think that's the place where..." Mimi back spaced that message and wrote a new one. She couldn't bring herself up to talk about it. It was too much. She just wrote back,"Haha, very funny. I dont believe in that bull shiz. its stupid. the whole ghost supernatural thingy stories. 2 lame." "So, sammy and dean r lame?" "No! not that superntral. I meant real life stuff." "oh, okay. just as long as ur not messin' w/ my sammy and my deanie! back off woman! lol! :D! gotta go, rachael's @ my house and we're about to watch silence of the lambs. Nvr seen it, but want to! ttyl! :D!" "Bye!" Mimi logged off with anger. Rachael? she thought angrily. Rachael?! Rachael Grey? Ugh! I can't stand her! Rachael Grey was best friends with Rowena Powers, the most popular girl in high school. The whole reason why Mimi was going to love the end of 12th grade next year because she gets to leave her behind. Mimi hated the group she fell into. Her old friend Alex never talks to her anymore and Mimi still had that huge crush on him that's she always had on him, but she fell in with attention seekers and drama starters. Mimi knew she was a wannabe. She hated every minute of it, but she can't get away from them. Rumors, black mail, hostile frienemy sleepovers, and school dances ending up becoming like a Mean Girls movie. Mimi wanted to go back to being the adorable nerdy girl who had the adorable bright red hair and cuteness. But now she was a hottie figure. She changed her style, got contacts and straightned her red hair, and now she's come to boys' attention. At first she loved it, and now she hated it because more girls have gotten jealous and mean to her calling her boyfriend stealer, slut, fake, and other worse things. Mimi just wanted to mature, go to college and make real friends with real people. She hated being a Lindsey Lohan Barbie doll. She hated being called ,"The Next Lindsey Lohan" because of her red hair and beautiful looks and revealing clothes. She just wanted to be "Mimi Lowe, the cute smart nerdy girl who wants to be Alex Marks' girlfriend and a real girl." It was too late for now, since today was the last day was 11th grade and everyone's moved on.
On the weekend, Aunt Lilian came over and brought her young and only child/daughter Grace to Mimi's house. Mimi was already set to go, as she hugged and kissed her parents goodbye, told her little sister that she'll miss her and left. Lilian popped in a High School Musical/ Hannah Montana CD for Grace (she's only eight and loves Disney) while Mimi listened to No Doubt on her CD player. Listening to Gwen Stefani is way better listening than Zac Efron and Vannessa Hudgens singing about how cool school is, Mimi thought listening to Underneath it All. She was also psyched about the history she was going to see at the cabin and the stories and memories behind it to make it so cool. But Mimi also wanted to play Nancy Drew when she was there. She wanted to see if the story about Anna Hawkes drowning Faith Green was really as true as her broken hearted Great Gram said it was.
Detectives surrounding the area of the lake. A dead body was found. A young girl's body. The young girl was Anna Hawkes, nine years old, blond hair, green eyes. My best friend.......ex best friend. Let's just say, this little girl did not play nice with me and left me forgotten. She's lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky. The detectives found her and not me. Well, I'm sorta used to it since I've always known to be forgotten and alone. Now, I'm dead, forgotten, alone, wet, and sunk deep into the water. How did Little Miss Anna Hawkes die? Hehe, me of course. She drowned me first and told my mommy and older sissy that I couldn't swim and sunk into the water. No. She killed me first. That's what I get though for playing with an older girl that finds me annoying and stupid. Know what? She's the meanie fat head. Not me. Bye bye, Anna. You will soon be forgotten........
Years past and sixteen year old Mimi Lowe was going to her great grandmother's house. She hated going there. She hated hearing about her grandmother's past and how she did this and that. It was an endless cycle of boring stories about history of her grandmother's "so-called" exciting lifestyle. She would always start with,"Did ya hear about the time I actually was a flapper and Curly from The Three Stooges actually asked me to have his hand in marriage?" or "Did I ever share that one time that I lost an audition to a movie to Shirley Temple? We actually kept in touch after that!" or something flat out odd like,"Did you ever find out that I once had a modeling job partnered with Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page? What a sweetheart she was!" Though most teenage children may find other grandparents' stories kinda boring or slow, Mimi's great grandmother's were actually rather interesting! But Mimi refused to believe a lick of it and was cursed with a gift of knowing more pop culture from the past than now. She used to be teased about it in forth grade. She bragged about her gift of knowledge of past pop cultures but other kids always said,"Who?" "Who cares? That's old!" "Are you an old lady or a nine year old?" "Does it look like they still matter now?" "Who was that chick from that other thing?" Nonsense like that made Mimi feel awkward, hurt, and upset. Yet she loves older things, and loves her great grandmother's stories, but acts like they're boring. The only reason was is because a girl from her high school only lives a block away from her grandmother and feels self conscious about how others look at her. She tells her great grandmother that they're interesting, but lies to the rest. Her mother worries about Mimi's self consciousness because Mimi was once a confident, outgoing unique little girl, until she started elementary school. She began changing. She started reading teenage love-sick novels about love triangles between vampires, werewolves and mortals, listening to pop music from top hit musicians that parents complain about and wonder if their child's taste in music has gone flat and buried. Mimi hated the music of today. She once had on her Christmas list if she could have every single album that The Doors, Joan Jett, or Stevie Nicks made, but instead she marked them out and wrote down for the entire series of Gilmore Girls and a new Miley Cyrus CD, that she won't watch or listen to and let them stay on her movie or music shelf. However, she does hide older CD's music from the 60's to the late 90's early 2000's in her newer music cases. Hiding comic books in her love sick novels. Her favorite personal quote was "Love sick triangle between a vampire, werewolf and some sad mortal chick? More like flu season sick at the thought of vampires sparkling and showing positives emotions towards mortals!" People never got that joke, so she always kept it to herself.
Her great grandmother, Great Gram Josie was quite the adventurous soul. To tell how incredible she really truly was, think of a more realistic female version of the movie Big Fish. She was just like the main character in that movie, except with a more realistic view point. She had the most amazing life, but had a moment in her life. One moment that was a fearful, frightening moment. She had never told a single soul, but she was going to tell Mimi. "Mimi dear, did you know I had a sister?" "Yeah, but didn't she die from drowning when you were twelve?" "Yes, a very sad and tragic moment, but that wasn't all of it. A young nine year old girl killed her." "A nine year old? How could a nine year old drown a six year old?" "It was a crime not even Nancy Drew could crack the code to. And you know about Nancy Drew, right? "Yes Great Gram. You gave me all of your Nancy Drew books, remember?" "Yes, but this is not about that little scamp. This is about my lost, forgotten sister. You see, I knew she wasn't missing. After that stupid little Anna drowned her,I wanted to wrap my hands around her little neck and draw the life outta her. To this day, I still do, but she got her revenge cake alright!" Mimi was shocked. Her great gram said almost every curse word in the book, but she never said "stupid" "dumb" or anything like that. She never slipped the words out upon her tongue. She kept going,"My sister Faith was a precious young girl, so her death was so tragic, I could have sworn the Earth stood still for a minute and the sun almost refused to shine, because our precious little Faith has left the Earth in spirit. But that little pathetic Anna, ooh, she got her revenge. An hour later, she struggled to keep swimming and dunked under water. Momma got so worried that she called the policemen. They only found Anna, and then Momma asked them to find Faith, but they couldn't. But I knew it was a lie. I knew what that little girl did to my sister. I tried telling my mother for years, but she would slap my face with her backhand and say,'Jo Ann Mildred Green, you never talk about that day. That was all an accident and you never speak of it. She maybe has another good family lookin' after her and I hope she does. I don't want my baby girl lost and alone and scared.' Momma hated thinkin' that her little baby girl was lost and alone. But she wasn't. It was a sad thought, but I knew Faith was in Heaven. I knew she was an angel and she was in good hands. Sometimes, I still feel her nearby and with me." Mimi felt like crying after hearing that. She knew how much her Grandma missed her sister, but tragic things like that in life happen and no one may like it, but it still occurs.
When Mimi went home that night, her mom told her some good news,"Mimi, I know you were worried about having a boring summer here at home, but Aunt Lilian is taking you and your cousin Grace to Great Gram's old summer cabin at Lake Prudence." "Really? How long am I staying?" "Oh, I don't know. About three weeks. You'll come back in time to go to Florida with your friends." "Is that the same place where..." Mimi's voice trailed thinking about Great Gram's little sister. She wanted to ask her mom, but was too scared to bring up something she wasn't supposed to. "Where sweetheart? What happened there?" "Is that the same place where Great Gram spent when she was my age? I knew she did as a little girl, but I didn't know as a teenager." "Oh yes. Yes. She spent her time there before going off to New York. She really wanted to become famous." "Yeah, I know." Her mom left, as she went on her computer. Her friend Rae sent her an IM on Facebook. Rae asked,"Hey gurl! So, u up 4 Florida this summr? :D!" Mimi wrote back,"Yeah! It's still in July, rite?" "Yeah! Duh! XD! Remember, i have 2 go 2 sooooo many reunions this summer? LOL! *sigh* if only my family were cooler like the family on Twilight. I wish my great grandma or even my grandma were like your great grandma. She's cool! How is she?" "Okay, I guess. Im goin 2 her old cabin and spending 3wks there, but im still goin' 2 florida w/ u guys." "Ooh, I bet it will b haunted! 0.o...XD!! LMAO!" "I dunno. i think that's the place where..." Mimi back spaced that message and wrote a new one. She couldn't bring herself up to talk about it. It was too much. She just wrote back,"Haha, very funny. I dont believe in that bull shiz. its stupid. the whole ghost supernatural thingy stories. 2 lame." "So, sammy and dean r lame?" "No! not that superntral. I meant real life stuff." "oh, okay. just as long as ur not messin' w/ my sammy and my deanie! back off woman! lol! :D! gotta go, rachael's @ my house and we're about to watch silence of the lambs. Nvr seen it, but want to! ttyl! :D!" "Bye!" Mimi logged off with anger. Rachael? she thought angrily. Rachael?! Rachael Grey? Ugh! I can't stand her! Rachael Grey was best friends with Rowena Powers, the most popular girl in high school. The whole reason why Mimi was going to love the end of 12th grade next year because she gets to leave her behind. Mimi hated the group she fell into. Her old friend Alex never talks to her anymore and Mimi still had that huge crush on him that's she always had on him, but she fell in with attention seekers and drama starters. Mimi knew she was a wannabe. She hated every minute of it, but she can't get away from them. Rumors, black mail, hostile frienemy sleepovers, and school dances ending up becoming like a Mean Girls movie. Mimi wanted to go back to being the adorable nerdy girl who had the adorable bright red hair and cuteness. But now she was a hottie figure. She changed her style, got contacts and straightned her red hair, and now she's come to boys' attention. At first she loved it, and now she hated it because more girls have gotten jealous and mean to her calling her boyfriend stealer, slut, fake, and other worse things. Mimi just wanted to mature, go to college and make real friends with real people. She hated being a Lindsey Lohan Barbie doll. She hated being called ,"The Next Lindsey Lohan" because of her red hair and beautiful looks and revealing clothes. She just wanted to be "Mimi Lowe, the cute smart nerdy girl who wants to be Alex Marks' girlfriend and a real girl." It was too late for now, since today was the last day was 11th grade and everyone's moved on.
On the weekend, Aunt Lilian came over and brought her young and only child/daughter Grace to Mimi's house. Mimi was already set to go, as she hugged and kissed her parents goodbye, told her little sister that she'll miss her and left. Lilian popped in a High School Musical/ Hannah Montana CD for Grace (she's only eight and loves Disney) while Mimi listened to No Doubt on her CD player. Listening to Gwen Stefani is way better listening than Zac Efron and Vannessa Hudgens singing about how cool school is, Mimi thought listening to Underneath it All. She was also psyched about the history she was going to see at the cabin and the stories and memories behind it to make it so cool. But Mimi also wanted to play Nancy Drew when she was there. She wanted to see if the story about Anna Hawkes drowning Faith Green was really as true as her broken hearted Great Gram said it was.
I hate you
But I just can’t seem to break you
Do I want you here?
Do I want you gone?
Everyone says your such a tease
But not to me
Are you real?
Are you fake?
Do I need to be
With this drama queen
You spout lies
No truth to be found
Why am I still
Trying to see the good in you?
Is it worth it?
Should I listen to them?
They tell me to go
Before I’m a victim
Of you mighty undoing
I won’t fall
I’ve made a promise
Can I keep it?
Will I leave?
Will I remain?
Promises
Sins
They all appear
The same
Lies
Sentences
Preach the
Difference
I’m listening to you
I can’t break you
I’m falling now
No one to catch me
Do I leave now
That I’ve fallen
Are you worth my time?
Am I worth this pain?
God, help me choose
For this is not my decision
Any longer
I’ve put my faith in my despair
Now show me the answer
Tell me what to do
Do I stay
Or do I leave you?
But I just can’t seem to break you
Do I want you here?
Do I want you gone?
Everyone says your such a tease
But not to me
Are you real?
Are you fake?
Do I need to be
With this drama queen
You spout lies
No truth to be found
Why am I still
Trying to see the good in you?
Is it worth it?
Should I listen to them?
They tell me to go
Before I’m a victim
Of you mighty undoing
I won’t fall
I’ve made a promise
Can I keep it?
Will I leave?
Will I remain?
Promises
Sins
They all appear
The same
Lies
Sentences
Preach the
Difference
I’m listening to you
I can’t break you
I’m falling now
No one to catch me
Do I leave now
That I’ve fallen
Are you worth my time?
Am I worth this pain?
God, help me choose
For this is not my decision
Any longer
I’ve put my faith in my despair
Now show me the answer
Tell me what to do
Do I stay
Or do I leave you?
You’re the reason why
I have to lie
Why I hurt so much
That my heart’s in a clutch
I’m slowly dying
‘Cause of your lying
You used to be my magic
But now you’re a dick
You made me long to be
Everything that wasn’t Lee
But look where that got me
Locked in without a key
If only you knew
That I plummeted deeper than blue
But then again
You’re just another two timing has been
You ran away
Thinking it’d be okay
But you were wrong
More so than any love song
You made me want to sing
With you following
But look at how wrong I was
Believing you that it was just “buzz”
Now you’re the reason why
I cannot do anything but cry
I have to lie
Why I hurt so much
That my heart’s in a clutch
I’m slowly dying
‘Cause of your lying
You used to be my magic
But now you’re a dick
You made me long to be
Everything that wasn’t Lee
But look where that got me
Locked in without a key
If only you knew
That I plummeted deeper than blue
But then again
You’re just another two timing has been
You ran away
Thinking it’d be okay
But you were wrong
More so than any love song
You made me want to sing
With you following
But look at how wrong I was
Believing you that it was just “buzz”
Now you’re the reason why
I cannot do anything but cry
