Easy Come Easy Go

Ramos, Jose

PAS 113B

Easy Come Easy Go

“My life was fine for my first thirteen years, good for the past six, but now I know that my future will be great with this decision that I am taking right now”. That was the last thing that she said before she turned around and walked away. Samantha is nineteen years old, but she makes childish choices thinking that she is doing the right thing. She stands between 5’4” and 5’5”, has big round brown eyes, long black straightened hair, and really light skin color. Being from Mexican descent her religious belief is Catholic. The way that she dresses is not like any girl, she wears what she believes that looks good and compliments her style but not showing too much skin or being too provocative.

            Her life is like any other teenager she just graduated high school and is going to start college soon. She works part‑time as a cashier at Target, where she has been working for the past three years. There is a special someone in her life also, her boyfriend that she has been with for a while now. Well known in high school, her and her boyfriend named Carlos have many friends. It would seem as if Samantha had a perfect life, she had just finished high school and looking forward to starting college, has a boyfriend that she cares for, and friends and family that she could hang out with. Maybe it doesn’t seem to be a perfect life, but it sure does sound like the life that most people would like to have. But that is just what the people on the outside would see about Samantha’s life because only she knows how she really feels and knows exactly how unpleasant her life really is.

            Samantha and Carlos do have many friends that they hang out with, but most of their friends are guys. Carlos kept most of his female friends distant because he didn’t want them to cause any problems in his relationship with Samantha so he thought that hanging out with most of his male friends would not create any issues for him. He didn’t mind guys talking to his girlfriend because he knew that she not doing anything bad; there was trust between them. The only person that sometimes did seem to bother Carlos was Samantha’s best friend named Octavio. They had been friends since he could remember. Although he tried to not make it a big deal, he sort of knew that Octavio had some attraction towards Samantha. The kind of attraction that he wanted to be more than friends with her. Samantha and Carlos’s relationship was not like other couples, they never seemed to fight or argue. The weird part was that with Octavio, she would always have big arguments and if you didn’t know that they were friends you would think that they were a couple.

            Octavio was the type of guy that was known to be a player. Samantha would always see him with a different girlfriend almost every other week. That was the only thing that she didn’t like about him and that’s also the reason that they were just friends. Every time Octavio had a new girlfriend, there was drama for Samantha. Girls running up on her telling her to stop talking to their boyfriend or else there were going to be problems. Samantha would be involved in many fights over jealous girls just for being best friends with a player. When she met Carlos, everything changed. The jealous girls disappeared and the problems stopped for her. The reason was because Carlos had connections and told people that no one was going to mess with his girlfriend. He was a gang member, something that Samantha liked because she was crazy for those kinds of guys that she thought were “bad boys”. Carlos was Samantha’s first boyfriend. So from day one she knew that Carlos was special because he captured her heart.

            Samantha was having the time of her life with her boyfriend, but the worst of times with her best friend. He would tell her that she shouldn’t be with Carlos, that he is not a good person and was just going to hold her back from what she wanted to do. Although it was somewhat true it wasn’t all true. Samantha was going to go up state for college and Carlos didn’t like that idea because he didn’t want to lose her. But he was still glad that she was going to pursue a career that she wanted to do which was Business.

After high school everything changed between Samantha, Carlos, and even Octavio. Samantha and Carlos were each busy with work and barely had time to see each other or spend time together. Little by little they were growing apart from each other. It also seemed as if the feelings that they had for each other were slowly drifting away. When ever they had time for each other, they would just end up arguing and not seeing each other anymore. So a week before Samantha was going to move away and go up north for college, Octavio went over to Samantha’s house to say goodbye to her and he found her upset from an earlier argument she had with Carlos. They talked about what happened and after listening to what Samantha said, Octavio confessed to Samantha that he had feeling for her and that was the reason for him not approving of her being with Carlos. He also admitted that he was scared to not have her in his life and he wanted to spend his life with her. After he finished speaking Samantha was both in shock and with so much anger in her. She couldn’t believe what she had just heard. First because of what he had told her knowing that she was upset, second telling her that he felt an attraction towards her after many years of knowing each other and running through girls like crazy. So she just stood up and told him to leave, but before he left she mentioned to him, “My life was fine for my first thirteen years, good for the past six, but now I know that my future will be great with this decision that I am taking right now. Knowing that you were never a true friend all you wanted was for me to end up with you just like all the other girls that you have been with. Well if you were truly my best friend you would have realized that I’m not that type of girl and I’m glad that even though Carlos didn’t really know me, he did know that I’m not the type of girl that you can try and win over just by sweet talking me when I feel upset. I know we are having problems right know but we will get through them, because now you won’t be part of the picture to be causing anymore problems between us. So you saw the door on your way inside my house, now on the way out take a good look at it because it will be the last time that you will ever see it again. It’s a sunny day; I don’t need someone shady like you to keep the sun from shining on my face. I can’t believe that I considered you to be a friend, so goodbye and have a good life because I know I will. I have never had anything hold me back from what I want and don’t think that you are so special to be that person that makes me change my mind. These past months have been so miserable thanks to you. Thanks a lot for that now just leave because I never want to see you again in my life, goodbye.”