"Come on Spinugly, are you chicken or something?" Lawson teased. "You can always back out, just admit you're too much of a GIRL to be double dog dared." he laughed.
Spinelli was never one to turn down a dare, and it being the last day of sixth grade was no exception. She took one last look down, it had to be at least 20 feet. She just had to climb up ten feet more, give or take, and tie Prickley's jacket to the top of the jungle gym. A prank like that would leave her in elementary infamy until the end of time. She reached her hand up to the next rung, just as the end of recess bell rang. Her hand missed the rung and in a moment of panic she let go and began falling down. One moment she was screaming, and then everything went black.
"Ashley Spinelli I do not expect you to complain once about your broken leg this summer. Your dumb stunt could have landed you in so much more trouble than just that. You could have died. Why do you have to pull that kind of stunts? Do you not care about your life? Your future?" Spinelli tuned out her mother from the backseat of the car, one leg extended across the seat covered in a thick white cast.
To say she was angry was an understatement. It was the summer before middle school, the last summer before she was considered a real teenager, and she had to spend it stuck inside with a cast.
Maybe it wouldn't have been so bad if her summer plans hadn't been pulled out from under her. She was supposed to go cross country with her parents, her dad was going to take her to the wrestling museum. She was gonna swim in BOTH oceans. She had plans to eat fried food from every state. Now she was going to be stuck home with nagging parents.
"Look, Mom, I'm sorry I ruined your plans for the summer, but-"
"Ashley, your father and I spent a lot of money on this trip. I assumed you would know we are both still going on it, while you were in the hospital I found you living arrangements for the summer." Flo said, pulling the car into the driveway.
"Living arrangements? What, you're just gonna ship me off?" Spinelli said with anger in her voice. She had never particularly gotten along with her mother, but this was a new low.
"Well, all your friends have summer plans already, but luckily I ran into Jennifer, from high school, at the supermarket, and she mentioned that her youngests were at camp all summer, but her oldest daughter just wasn't doing anything at all and could use a friend, so she kindly agreed to watch you," Flo said, helping Spinelli out of the car and into the house.
"Well that's just great, you send me to live with some random chick from high school and now I have to live with her. She's probably a real weirdo." Spinelli mumbled.
"Ashley! The Armbruster's are taking you in out of the kindest of their own hearts, you could at least be a little nice about it, sweetie."
"I'm sorry, did you just say Armbruster?" Spinelli asked, her eyes widening in horror.
"Yes, I forgot you know their daughter Ashley, she was at the market too, what a sweetheart. She was actually the one who came up with the idea. I don't know why you've never mentioned her before, she seems like she could be such a lovely influence on you." Flo stated before leaving her daughter in the hallway, mouth agape.
Okay, this will probably be like the worst chapter of this story, but this should be the only solely exspositional chapter. Basically the plot I have in my mind is this story will follow Spinelli, who spends a summer with a broken leg and has to live with Ashley A., and Ashley A. turns her into an Ashley over the summer. Then it will follow her in middle school as an Ashley. What would you guys like to see in this story, comment and let me know ;).