Swallowing Stones

2 Pages 457 Words

On the day of Michael's birthday, he never expects to kill a man. He gets a rifle for his 17th birthday and just to test it out he and he best friend Joe to into the woods to shoot it. The next day he is on his way to take his driving test and they announce on the radio that a man has been killed by a stray bullet. He does not know how to act and needless to say, he fails his driving test, but doesn't tell his parents. He and his best friend decide to make a pact and not tell anyone about the shot that Michael made that day. Jenna, the murdered man's daughter is upset very badly by all this and refuses to believe that her father won't be coming home from a business trip soon. Michael finds all this very hard to deal with and is very withdrawn from his girlfriend, Darcy. She is very curious as to what is wrong with Michael. Michael soon finds out that he and Amy Ruggererio are very good friends and he believes he can confide in her. Jenna is also having trouble with her boyfrie!
nd and everytime she is around him she begins to have panic-attacks. Michael is a big track star and soon begins conditioning for the upcomming school year, every evening when he is running he ends up at Jenna's house. She soon noticed him sitting across the street on the steps of the church and wonders what he is doing. The police begin questioning people around Michael's neighborhood due to a tracking of where the bullet came from. After they question everyone about the guns they own, they want to know where the rifle is that Michael got for his birthday. He and Joe make up a story that Michael had loaned the gun to Joe and it was stolen from his car before there was a chance to try it out. The police didn't buy it, only they thought that Joe had done it, not Michael. In the meantime Michael and Darcy break up because she believes that he was cheating on her with Amy. Amy confesses to Michael that she saw them come out of the woods with the rifle that day. Joe...