The Plan Chapter 1 Megan’s Plan

My name is Megan and I’m about to tell you a story, a true and personal story, the details of which changed my young life forever.


When I was about 4 or 5 my father died of a heart attack. It did not take long for my mother to remarry. She and Jeff tied the knot just over a year later. Jeff also has a son from a previous marriage. His name is Cole. He’s a year older than me.


Cole and I were both so young when we all got together that for the most part we considered ourselves to be real siblings, not just step-siblings. That’s to say we were pretty close. He’d protect me from bullies; I’d keep him away from the “wrong kind” of girls. We exercised together and usually tortured each other mercilessly at home. You know the usual kid stuff.


That was until he met her, Candy, the woman who almost ruined him! They met at football tryouts when I was 14. For some reason she was the only girl on the cheerleading squad who didn’t want to sleep with him. I have no idea why not, he was 5’8, dark hair, brown eyes and well-muscled from our workouts. Even I, the renowned bookworm, had begun to notice.


Of course they began to date immediately and were very wrapped up in each other, which made me unbelievably jealous, until about a year and a half later.


I was picking through my locker at school when some meatheads began to speak in hushed tones right next to me. I swear, at that time I was convinced that I was actually invisible, at least to the opposite sex.They seemed to have completely overlooked me. Either that or they didn’t know who I was, because if they did they would never have been saying what they were saying.


They were bragging about how Tony, the star Quarterback, had gotten Candy drunk at a party and “screwed her all night”. Somehow, I just knew it was true. Tony did not have a spotless reputation when it came to cheerleaders and I just didn’t trust Candy. Not one bit.My heart sank for Cole, but feeling that I could never keep such information from him, I ran straight home after school,determined talk to him about it.


“Say, big bro,” I started, banging unceremoniously into his bedroom. “Have you slept with Candy yet?”


I was immediately nervous, realizing that he might react badly and ‘shoot the messenger’. Despite the fact that we were, and still are really open with each other, he looked shocked that I had asked. I suppose it wasn’t exactly a subject we normally got into.


“Umm…” He swallowed, also nervous to be talking about this with his little sister. “Not yet. She said she wants to wait for our Senior Prom and make it a special event. Why the sudden interest?”


He was eyeing me skeptically by that point.


“Nothing,” I lied, relived that he hadn’t actually touched her yet. “I just heard a rumor, but it wasn’t anything serious.”


He gaped at me as I turned tail and bounded back out of his room, away from the questions that were sure to fly from his mouth.


I didn’t know how to tell him she had cheated on him. I didn’t want to hurt him, especially without proof. So, in my enterprising way, I decided to get proof first. I called my friends and asked them to come over. I had something important to discuss.


There were only three girls on the entire planet who I felt I could trust with such a secret, Tina, Sally and Penny.