So I finished up the end of seventh grade at Seashore Middle Academy. My first two weeks there, I could not eat anything. I was so nervous. What if people don’t like me? What if I just end up, an outcast, yet again? But it was the complete opposite. Everyone was so friendly and everyone knew my name. It was such a small school that the new girl was like the shiny new toy. People got excited over things like having a new kid, in a small school. Getting a new student just never occurred to me as something to get excited about.
Let me introduce you to Kelly. She was one of Isabel’s good friends. We had a little bit of history not liking each other. Just because Isabel was my best friend and she was Isabel’s best friend. The whole jealousy, hormonal, territory, feelings getting hurt, nonsense. I felt like Isabel was replacing me. But that was stupid because it wasn’t the case at all. Anyway, long story short, Kelly became my very best friend. My Aunt Liz says that the best friendships start out that way. Seventh grade ended and Kelly and I spent the entire summer together. We were water girls for all the guy’s football games. We both had huge crushes on the two quarterbacks! We went shopping together, we went to the beach together, we told each other all of our secrets, and stayed up all night talking for hours and hours. It was my dream come true, to have a best friend like this. It was just like in the TV shows. That same summer though, I made best friends with Kylie. Actually, a lot of things happened that summer. But let’s take this one step at a time. My best friend before and through all of this, was Simone. I met Simone when I was just a baby. Our friendship just came so naturally. I didn’t really even think about it. I didn’t think about how I acted when I was with her. I was just 100% myself around her. It really was like we were practically sisters. I met Kylie at one of Simone’s parties. Kylie and I became insta-bestfriends. We hung out all Summer too.
Another important person that Summer was Kevin. Where do I start? I guess I’ll start from the beginning. Bare with me! I always knew Kevin because he was a friend of Simone’s. I’d been to his house a few times, we never really talked though. But this Summer, that changed. That definitely changed. I don’t really know what happened but we just started talking, a lot. We started hanging out more and more. It was like the summer loves that people always talk about... It was the best summer of my whole life. I always got butterflies and nervousness and OMG-Am-I-Acting-Like-An-Idiot Syndrome when I was around him.
I have two favorite nights from that summer. The first was more like an afternoon but you know, whatever. Simone was inside somewhere and Kevin and I were sitting on her hot tub, dangling our feet in the water, and talking. Talking about everything. Everything from school to music to food to friends. I’d never talked so much in one day! And let me tell you, I was just babbling like a crazy moron. But luckily, he didn’t seem to mind. It was the best. My hair was a huge frizz ball of dried chlorine and random curls, but he didn’t seem to mind that either. He had to of been the sweetest boy I’d ever met. After a while, Simone came out to tell me that my mom was waiting outside in the car. I didn’t want to leave, I didn’t want it to be over, already, so soon. We both stood up and we hugged and as we were pulling away, he kissed me. He nearly missed. But it was perfect. I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I left with the biggest smile on my face, I felt invincible, unstoppable even. As soon as I got in the car, I told my mom. After all she was my rock. I told her everything. She smiled and told me about her first kiss and we laughed. We stopped by CVS on the way home and I danced around the entire store, barefoot, singing Fearless by Taylor Swift.
My second favorite memory of that Summer was magical. It really was. It was Kylie, Kevin, Savannah and I. Kylie’s little sister and her friend tagged along sometimes. We went to sonic, and then to the park, and on our way back, walking to Kylie’s house I saw sprinklers. I was really hyper. And I saw them there. They were just making their little sprinkler noises. I grabbed Kevin’s hand and we ran through them, laughing hysterically. The four of us were already wet, so we put a sprinkler thing connected to the water hose on Kylie’s trampoline and played in the water. The sun was going down and the four of us were soaked. Kylie and Savannah went inside to change their clothes but Kevin and I snuck off. It wasn’t really sneaking. The golf course was right there, we’d just take a little stroll. Harmless. We walked on this little pathway that I liked to believe was made just for us. We found this amazing hill with two big palm trees and we sat in between them. And we talked. And talked. And talked. Like we could never ever run out of things to say.
Later on, Kylie and Savannah found us on the golf course, they weren’t too mad that we left. We all walked back to her house and watched a movie and I snuggled right into Kevin’s chest. Later on that same night, I couldn’t fall asleep. But I laid there for hours, in the dark, smiling.
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