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 * The Devil and Betsy Kristan**


 * By Emily Mitchell**

Betsy Kristan is regular teenage girl with a bunch of friends, who have called her Bets since she was 5 years old, and loving parents that she argues with, and unlike all her friends, has no boyfriend. However Betsy is still looking for love. Although only 17 years old, she is determined that one day her fairytale prince will find her and all will end happily ever after. For now she has not had much luck and has had a lousy boyfriend here or there, but nothing has ever developed into an actual credible relationship.

It was the last day of school at Chocolate High School of Round Island, Illinois and Bets and her friends could hardly sit through last period for they had made plans get out of their school uniforms, relax and tan at the nearby public pool.

After 3 hours of waterslides and bobbing up and down in the pool Betsy’s friends left to pick up things for their sleepover at Betsy’s later that night, however she decided to stay back awhile longer and tan some more.

As Bets watched people enter and exit through the pool gate she was getting rather bored. When she decided to head home and began to fold her towel back up she saw the most attractive guy she had ever seen. He had styled, dirty blonde hair that highlighted from the sun, an all-over summer tan, perfectly chiseled abs along with toned arms and legs, and he was wearing red lifeguard shorts. Just then she realized he was a lifeguard at that pool but she had never seen him around before. He must have felt her staring at him because he glanced over and flashed a bright, perfectly straight smile right at her and winked.

For the next few weeks Bets went to the pool ever Friday at 12 ‘o clock to get a glimpse of her mystery man. She didn’t tell her friends about him because she wanted him to be her own little secret.

One day something new had occurred. Instead of walking straight to his spotting post on the deep end the Mystery Man approached Betsy. "Why are you all alone?" He asked. "All my friends work today and it's my only day off during the week." Betsy explained. "So do you come here every Friday then?" Mystery Man asked. "Yeah most Fridays." Betsy added with a smile. They then had a brief introduction before he had to speed off to help a kid who belly-flopped off the high dive. Turns out his name is Tommy and he is also 17. He had moved to Round Island from the south right before school ended. When his shift was over Betsy and him went out and made small talk while drinking some fruit smoothies.

They went out on multiple dates after that and within a month they were going out. She liked everything about Tommy. He was cute, athletic, generous, and had a little bit of a rebellious, tough side.

After Betsy had introduced him to her parents and friends they thought he was a sweet guy. However as the school year progressed they began to notice that Betsy wasn’t as good of a student, friend, or person as she used to be. She would come home hours past curfew, rarely do homework, and spend majority of her time with Tommy. Betsy’s friends talked to her less and less and her parents often grounded her, all of them explaining how Tommy was a bad influence. They would constantly refer to him as the devil but Betsy simply laughed it off every time.

Bets ignored all of them because she thought that she was in love. She saw past everything bad and adjusted herself to his rebellious ways.

One day Tommy came to pick up Betsy in his red sport car with black pinstripes. As they sped away there were fire tire burns on the road. After they left neither of them ever came back.