Summer by Marissa Sky (color ebook reader .txt) 📕

was wearing a purple dress that barely came down to her knees and with blue eye make up on. She had never dressed up like this before. Maybe she was thinking the same thing I was earlier about looking better than every other person in the restaurant. She was crouched over her phone with her hand tucked into her chin. She turned to look at us and she started to smile.
My mom was the first to give the hug. She was always the one to give the love and it would just spread like a disease to everyone else. “Oh Annebelle, you look so pretty.” she looked at me and rolled her eyes. She had never liked her name that’s why she made Summer up a while back.
“Hey one foot how’s it going?” I was never the type to laugh at insults but I did this time for her.
She looked hurt, almost broken. A little paler then before.
“Wow, you remember that? It was like three years ago, get over it?” she smiled and shook her head.
“Nope, never. It will stay on your like super glue brother.” she laughed even harder.
We all went into our booth and we order our drinks. I looked over to see what she was going to order but she had her head on the table. She almost looked dead. I poked her in the side. She twitched but nothing no laugh or smile, she would usually stop whatever she was doing to slap me on the shoulder.
“Ally, may I be excused I need to go to the restroom?” everyone stopped to look at her.
“Are you alright sweetie?” Ally was Summer's stepmother. When she talked about her she would name her as her mom but when she was talking to her it was just Ally.
“Yeah I just don’t feel good I’m going to put some cold water on my face.” She just stared at Ally as if she was looking at a brick wall.
“Yes, you may. Caleb may you go with her. I’m kinda trapped over here.” she looked at me and winked. I got up right away, it was even a shocker for me. I looked at Daniel and he smiled and lipped you love her. I gave him the finger then quickly put it away before anyone else could see it.
“Yes ma’am.”
I got up and helped her out of the booth. She was holding her stomach. Was she pregnant? Huh? Did she have sex with Kyle already? I was suddenly jealous. I walk her to the bathroom and before she goes in she turns around and says “Kyle broke up with me.” and walked in. I could hear her crying in the stale. I sat in the chair right outside the door.

She got out a few minutes earlier, sat next to me and laid her head on my shoulder. “He thinks I like you.” What? The first guy that ever went out with her broke up with her because he was jealous? Of me?
“Why would he think that?” I should have never said anything. She looked up at me, my shoulder got colder. “I don’t want to talk about it. Lets go sit in a booth and play peanuts.” I ruined the moment because of my stupid mouth.
I followed her and she whispered something in Ally’s ear and my mom’s then sat in the booth next to theirs. I sat across from her and took out the cards and pencil out of my jacket pocket and laid it on the table. She looked at me and mouthed, it’s on. We played until our food got there.

“Goodnight my little cheater.” I was laughing cause I caught her switching the cards on the middle pile. “Oh you saw nothing.” She smiled and gave me a hug. I turn my head closer to hers. I could smell the soap from her shampoo. She loved the smell of cleaness, always trying to wash her hands in the middle of class because she borrowed a pencil from someone. God, her little habits make me want to hold her tighter.
“So when will I see you again? Maybe before break ends?” I just wanted to keep on holding her not wanting to let go.
“I don’t know, Kayla said that you can come with us to buy dresses and you a new outfit for the first dance at the end of the year. Maybe then?” she was biting her bottom lip.
She knew I was going to say no either way. “I don’t know Sum. You know how I feel about the mall.”
“Well you know how I feel about shopping with Kay.” She laughed, she untangled her self from me, then gave Daniel and my mother a hug. We didn’t say anything else.
The day she called me to go to the mall, I said yes right away. I wondered if she noticed?
Daniel was right, I had been in love with Summer. I just never knew it myself. I was going to do whatever it took for us to be together. Only if she felt the same way I did for her. Still that would never happen she was still so in love with Kyle.


SUMMER
“Kayla I have some bad news and maybe some good news.” I had called Kayla right after my dad talk to my sister, Pipper, and i. Pipper was crying in her room hugging her stuffed animals tightly. She always did that when she felt lost, all I wanted to do is hug Caleb.
“What did Caleb say he hated you?” She didn’t sound to interested, “and then kissed you too hard where you couldn’t breathe?” she was really having fun with this incident between Caleb and I.
“If only, but no Kayla are you sitting and not holding sharp objects in your hands?” I could hear her sipping on something.
"So have you heard from Daniel, he called looking for you. What a weirdo." She laughed like she had some big secret.
“This is no laughing matter, I am moving.” I could hear her choking on whatever she was sipping.
“What?!? Ohmigod. Summer. When, are you gunna be able to stay for another semester? Summer we were supposed to go to college together be princess in castles, become famous by doing absolutely nothing.” She was crying now. Her mother came in the room and asked what happened. “Mom get out! Annebelle is leaving us forever. Go away!”
“Kayla I know we were supposed to do those things, but you didn’t even hear my good news.”
“Good news? There is supposed to be “good news” out of this mess. Wait did you tell Caleb about this, What did Daniel say? They are going to freak.”
“Yeah I have a plan.” I ignored what she said about the brothers, why was she so concerned about Daniel too?
“What is it Summer?”
“Well let me finish, well I was hoping if I could convince my dad I would be able to stay at your house till my mom gets back from Fresno.”
“Ohmigosh, I would have never thought of that, I am going to go ask my mom now.”
“Kay,” I was kind of proud of my idea, of course it’s going to work out.

That night we were at the dinner table and I finally brought it up. Ally thought it was a good idea because then I would be able to see my mom when she gets off from her tour. My father thought wrong. “No way, I am not letting you stay with your friend, and her mom is already have trouble with financial issues.” He had “the look” like Kayla. “Dad, but I already went through the arrangements, you told me when I had an idea I had to back it up and I did. I would get a job. Pay rent, food, and other help around the house. Kayla’s house is big enough, Tommy is a college I will have his room. Please don't make me move.”
I was pretty convincing, I thought. My father is just a sucker for Ally's “look”. While I think about it a lot of people use the look. Dad said
"Find a job, and may be I will think about it." I got up and kissed him on the cheeck. I ran to my room and called Kayla right away.
“Kay, he said yes!” I could hear her scream on the other line.
“Okay I have to go shopping and fix your room, ohmigosh, I thought he would say no for sure, but your dad is very hard to read.” One time in the 6th grade Kayla thought she could read through peoples souls. She had a huge obsession with it, sometime she still thinks she has got the "gift".

I woke up with the biggest smile on y face. I was so excited on what I had planned, to calm my nerves I go upstairs and I look around. I would miss this house, growing up in here, it’s just very hard to leave it all. I walk over to my top drawer, I saw my two piece bathing suit and decided it was a swimming day. It was a yellow bikini with blue elephants. This was my favorite althpugh I did designed it myself and I love yellow and elephants. I look in the mirror and examine my body. I pick out my imperfections, and then my perfections, like my eyes, my legs, and my face. First year without acne.
I go in the bathroom and cleanse my face to wash off all the sleeps from my eyes. I wrap the towel around my arm, put on jean shorts and a blue tank top. I make my way down stairs and hear a familiar voice.
Caleb was sitting down on the breakfast nook chair. He was wearing a navy blue polo shirt, which looked great with his skin, and khakis shorts. He was talking to my dad about the Marlins playing last week. He looked straight up and saw me. He smiled with his pearly whites then got up so I could sit down. “Hey. what are you doing here?” I tried not to sound excited but I probably failed at that. ”Oh I thought it would be nice for us to hang out for a little while. You in?” He smiled and I had weak knees for a minute. “Sure I was going to go to the pool, no one is in it on sundays, so I thought I would go do laps.” He smiled and immediately said, ”Sure.”
We go to his house, so he could grab a pair of shorts and a towel. I went in and saw Daniel sitting in the love seat alone in the living room, I sat right next to him. “Hey, what are you watching?” He turned to me and turned back like I surprised him. “Simpsons. I have watched these over like 14 times and its still freakin’ funny.” I tried to laugh. I don’t really watch t.v. and when I do it’s just Law&Order. “Cool, so what is your plan for today?” He looked at my suspicious. “Well this.” I didn’t really like the idea but it wouldn’t make it so much better if someone else came with us so Caleb and I wouldn’t seem like we were dating.
“You wanna come to the pool.” He got up and got his things from his room. He probably thought I was gunna ask anyways. Even though he wasn’t my best friend, he still knew what I was like. We had known each other for seven years, I don’t even know myself as much as he did.
Caleb came down the stairs and looked at me. “Where