Renee's Young's new boyfriend was quickly selected by her. Renee isn't the type to be single. Ever. Through her whole life there has always been a "friend" waiting in the wings. The fact that he was the basketball team captain and dating the prettiest girl in school were no obstacles. Renee is manipulative, and even with his resume, he was a sweet and mostly innocent kid. Renee counted on her best friend Ellen to befriend his girlfriend to figure on how to maneuver the high profile couple apart. Ellen did her job well, reporting back dutifully, and Renee, a girl whose dating resume was weak, was able to wedge the hottest couple in high school apart. Slowly. Gently. Deviously.

A tough-guy friend that as a kid he was described as the type you would need to kill in a fight, because short of that, he would keep coming at you, even if you had knocked him down. Renee Ickson was like that. After Nathan's screw-come-and-dump, he wouldn't even take or return Renee Ickson's calls. Her resilience bordered on the psychopathic; certainly sociopathic. Renee Ickson was back on her feet in no time, with a new boyfriend, and a most vicious plan for Nathan.

It's the complete loss on Nathan's face that I remember, and when I do, it haunts me. What is it with pain fueled high schoolers? Do they need to inflict as much pain as possible on others and on themselves? It was years between seeing him at the Frisch School in Paramus, New Jersey, and running into him randomly one summer day in the Catskills. That old lost seemed to have become his lost life. His face and his cadence were nothing short of an explosion of pain. So appropriate that his piece of junk car, a Fiat Spider, wouldn't even turn over after I begrudgingly accpeted a ride from him.

Where did it all begin. Like I said, in high school. As you may have already guessed, about a girl named Renee. A pretty name for a pretty girl. Renee Ickson. An girl abused at home who Nathan dated one summer when she was 15.

Where did it all end? With Nathan's 22 year old body fished out of the Delaware River.

Don't high school couples break up all the time? Well, parents being oblivious as they tend to be, Renee Ickson's mom didn't realize her daughter had coldly dumped Nathan that previous summer, when she offered to pay Nathan to drive her daughter to the Frisch School every day.

Whatever Renee Ickson's feelings, she now had Nathan's wheels. Pretty great when you are only 15 years old. That gave her some bragging rights coming into a new school as an awkward sophomore. So once again, Renee Ickson and Nathan were back to being girlfriend and boyfriend. Well, at least long enough for Nathan to get his recompense.

Nathan worked and worked Renee Ickson until that 15 year old beauty gave it up to him. And then HE dumped HER. But not before one last act of coming inside of her.

Poor nathan never realized he had picked the wrong girl to literally screw with.