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~Chloe's (Narrator's) POV~

Didn't I tell you? You can have nothing at all, even if at one moment you had it all. Maybe everything didn't end on a good note, but both Frank and Gerard started moving on with their lives. I kept in touch with both boys, we all did. We being Amy, Anna, and even Billie. And obviously I remember everything once again. But apparently it wasn't for some time.

I had been in that coma for a few days and when I woke up, I had a somewhat bad case of amnesia. That lasted about 2 weeks, and as my friends tell me, I went on (or at least tried to) with life for those two weeks.

The thing that brought me back was that last day, the one that marked two weeks, I had walked into the wrong cabin. There I saw Frank curled up on one of the beds, shaking and crying. I tried getting him to talk to me and when he started talking, he said him and Gerard broke up.

Seeing him hurt, and because of Gerard, it somehow flipped a switch in my brain and it all came back with blinding speed. After that, I was filled in on all the things I'd missed during those two weeks. I wasn't sure why but I could only remember what jogged my memory, and what happened right before I had to go to the hospital.

It's a few years later now, about seven to be exact. And that meant we all had lives of our own, by that I mean they either had good careers, were starting their families, or just looking for that one special person in life.

But hey, at least now I can shed some light on how everyone else is doing.
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Amy

Let's see.. Amy and Frank had tried dating after camp ended and we all went back home for the summer. They were happy together for a few months, just nearing one year, before they broke things off. I was sad to see them break up, but she said that they were going to stay close friends.

We still talk to each other once in a while, even if both of us were well out of high school. There was those times where we would meet up about halfway and spend some time together, like old days.

When she got out of high school, she actually became a very successful songwriter for bands big and small. She seemed to enjoy every minute of it. I would too if I was around the music I love for some really talented bands.

If I remember right, there was one band that she came across she seemed particularly fond of. The name was Shinedown if my memory served me right, though I don't think that name will be big for a few years. Their albums are more the underground-rock type.

I was happy that's where she ended up; she got to do what she loved every single day.
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Frank + Gerard

These two, even through it all, have still remained friends to this day.

Like I said, both of them moved on with their lives. Even started a band together. Well actually Gerard had started a few years after he was out of high school. He called his friends Matt, Ray, even asked his younger brother Mikey to join.

Then after some after some time they had decided that they were in need of a second guitarist and they knew Frank played rhythm for years so they asked him. And I knew he'd been playing even way back at camp when I first met him. So of course he said yes.

To this day, that bad of theirs is still together. Their band name was My Chemical Romance, a name that Mikey had came up with, and they had recently put out their first CD together. To be honest, I loved their sound. Many people don't go for that loud-rock-partly screaming sound, but I wasn't one of those people.

They didn't have the most money, so they had to make their own way most of the time when they went on small tours. Most--no, all, of their touring was done in a van that Gerard and Mikey's grandmother had bought them. And whenever I could, I would go to one of their shows.

Even though things between me and Gerard had been awkward at first and for some time (after I got my memory back), we got past it and became good friends. And if you were going to ask, no, we never tried dating again.

All of their dreams were slowly starting to come true.
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Anna

One of my closest friends at camp, and still friends to this day.

I quickly started to notice after camp that Anna was starting to get some stomach on her, and I knew it couldn't be anything normal. By normal I just meant weight gain, and you couldn't get that big that quick unless you were living for two people.

As soon as I asked about it, she blurted out the whole story. Everything, from her being a mom-to-be, to Billie being the father. I was more then happy for her. I mean, I knew there was going to be some difficulties, being that we were teenagers and she was going to be a mom.

When we had to go back to school to start and finish our senior year, about half way through the year.. I think you can guess what happened. That March she had a girl named Isabelle Candice. Not the usual name, I will admit, but she wanted a special name for a special girl. I know, cheesy, but it fit.

I helped out as much as I could with her kid even though we both had to finish out the year. But during the day she would have her parents watch Isabelle and they were totally fine with the 'mom at 17' thing. Which was good cuz most parents wouldn't be.

Her and Billie stayed together for a long time after camp ended and well after Isabelle was around. But about two years later, maybe a little less then that, they broke things off all of a sudden. Billie wasn't around as much and he had a lot of focus on his band and their music. It's not like he did it on purpose, he just thought about his future.

When Isabelle was around the age of three (that's how I remembered), Anna had met someone else. Or should I say someone from back in high school, and they soon started dating. To add to that, his name was Adam and she had liked him for a long time.

They were happy together and Adam quickly got used to having Isabelle around. He treated her like she was his own kid. So after about maybe 3 or so years of dating, he finally asked her to marry her. And of course she said yes so there were together as husband and wife within about 6 months.

Everything ended up well for her, even if it meant not staying with her first love.
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Billie

Believe it or not, his name was one people everywhere would come to learn.

After him and Anna had broke things off, him and his small band went on to start putting out lots of music. They already had a CD out before camp and becoming a dad but it more of the less-popular kind. Soon enough, though, they made another that had become and instant success.

I think unless you lived under a rock for a good few years, you couldn't have walked into a music store or listen to the radio and not hear the name Green Day somewhere. As years went on, they had kept on making music, even if over the years they'd started to become less popular. They didn't care, they were doing what they loved and no one could stop them from doing so.

We talked on occasion, just like Anna and Amy still did. He didn't get too big for his high school friends. I can say that he held a grudge against Gerard for a few years, but for good reason. It took me time to forgive him as well but not as long as Billie. Eventually he did come around and saw that Gerard was a new person.

And that pulled him back into talking to both him and Frank once again. He still checked in from time to time, calling up to see what's good. But he liked checking in on Anna more often. He liked to know little things about Isabelle and how she was doing. You know, dad stuff. Even though he did get married and started a family of his own.

He was that guy, the kinda guy that could go from teenage dad to part of the biggest band in the world.
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As for me, and the rest of this story? I guess you could say that this story was one of celebrating freedom, but also enjoying the little things in life. Maybe it didn't seem that way, but all of us had become free somehow. And maybe we all learned something that summer, whether we knew it or not.

With Frank, I guess you could say he learned to live with a dark past of his own, but he didn't have to live in fear anymore. He also learned what real love was, not whatever had been there when he was with Gerard. I know it wasn't easy when he was with Amy but still, he was out there and enjoying himself. I give him credit for being so strong over the years.

Gerard, for a lack of a better term, learned from his mistakes. I can never forget the things he did to Frank, and to me, but I guess with me it finally woke up his common sense. Like I said before, I never dated him again, but he finally learned to stop hurting the people he loved. It taught him much more after that.

With Amy Anna and Billie, they each had their lives to live and their own lessons to learn. In a way, they all came to find that not everyone you care about stuck around forever. Amy couldn't have Frank forever but no longer had to wait around for someone that may or may not love her back.

Anna found out, the hard way, that she and Isabelle both couldn't call him theirs forever. And she didn't have to go through being a single mom alone, especially because of the fact that she was a teenage mom. As for Billie? even he had the money and the fame, life had a few things in store for him, too.

Music may have been his main if not only goal in life but that meant he had to give up the life he had with his first love and first chance at being a father. He didn't forget but rather learned learned that in order to succeed, he couldn't always have things the way he wanted them to stay.

There isn't much I could say about me, I was just here to tell you this story, I was just around to tell you this story. Even if I had to be filled in on a small part I missed out on. Everyone went on with their lives and we all had our own memories from camp to hold onto.

But now it doesn't really seem like it was even camp anymore, does it? I didn't see it that way at first or for a long time but there was something good that came out of it and reminded me that it was camp.

If it wasn't for camp, some of us would've never met and wouldn't have each other to hold onto. What I can tell you as an overview is that we all had our growing up to do that summer, whether we wanted to or not.

What can I say? Knowing the truth is always better then living with a lie. And we all know: The Truth Hurts.