summer

I kicked off my summer with a run in the rain, drops falling all around me and landing on the ground, along with all of the pressures of life.

A few days later, Caroline, Maggie, Molly, and I showed you guys what happens to squares around here.

We all surprised Hope for her 17th birthday, having to say goodbye as she and Megan went off to nerd camp.

Race for the Cure was the biggest crowd of people I have probably ever seen.

I went to camp and reconnected with my friends and performed in what was probably my last play. I climbed rock walls and walked tightropes and ziplined. I ate pie and huge amounts of ice cream and sat on the dock in the blazing sunlight. This was the last time we will ever be on the south side of the lake, and we all cried as we watched the final sunset over the water.

I screamed like a little girl when I pre-ordered Harry Potter tickets, and then was completely overwhelmed by the amount of people there and the feeling of connection between as us we knew we were all nerds. Finally, finally, after four years of loving them together, I saw Harry and Ginny become a couple.

I saw Harry Potter two more times after that, one being a date with Laura and the other being in 3D.

I traced my name in the sky with a sparkler as smoke enveloped me and all I could see were the outlines of my friends' faces.

I went to the zoo, the loop, and the botanical gardens with Katherine, Carrie, and Beth. I liked the penguins.

I played on the playground with my sister and we giggled and felt like little kids again.

We played with puppets and had a fake food fight and made bracelets at Bryan's house.

I went on a walk with my parents along the river.

I rode, squished by you guys, in the backseat of Carrie's car as we sang to "I Gotta Feeling" and Maggie smacked Kyle for stealing shotgun.

I saw Twilight and laughed harder than I did the first time I saw it.

I got snow cones with Megan and Caroline and then played on the playground, riding the raccoon instead of the duck with crazy eyes.

I got in a stuffed animal fight with Katherine and Beth and we threw things at each other, making loud A Very Potter Musical references and laughing.

I went to the loop and ate ice cream with Carrie, Molly, Maggie, and Caroline.

I got attacked by an angry Carrie as she yelled at me and Megan for jumping on her bed and shouted that we will not be getting friendship bracelets. Molly was extremely hyper because of three Red Bulls.

I fell, laughing, down a soapy tarp, chasing after my friends as we all landed in the soaking grass at the bottom in a heap.


It was a good summer.