Day One : See Shapes in the Clouds

Roxy was snoozing in the grass next to where Dirk was standing. It was the first day of their summer break and while Roxy slept, Dirk was trying to figure out how they were going to spend it. He was gazing up at the clouds, but he wasn't really looking at them; he was more concentrated on cooking up a plan for the summer. There were 56 days in their summer break including today. He kept his gaze up in the clouds, he wanted to make this summer special for Roxy since she had never really been able to enjoy it with friends, or well, a friend. She had been home schooled her entire life up until this past year. That's when she met Dirk. The two hit it off pretty well, Roxy wasn't anywhere near being shy, and she had a sense of humor similar to Dirk's. She also had this attitude of being perpetually drunk, even though Dirk knew that she hardly actually drank, she just acted that way because she enjoyed it.

Dirk stretched his arms above his head and sat down next to Roxy. She mumbled something in her sleep and he glanced at her, but she just rolled over and faced the other way. Dirk's lip twitched into something of a smile, but it faded away since he hadn't actually thought of anything for the two of them to do over their summer break. He scratched the top of his head and looked back up to the clouds, as if they'd give him some sort of answer. He wanted to spend every day with Roxy because he did like her and he wanted to be around her. But, he couldn't think of a way to spend every day with her without them boring each other to death. He would have to have something planned for them to do every day so that it never got dull or boring when they were together. He thought about that idea for a bit. He could compile a list of so many things they would have to do before they had to go back to school. It would be like a bucket list. He could make a list of 56 different things they needed to do before school started up again, and they would spend each day doing one of the items on the list. He nodded to himself. That sounded like a good idea.

Dirk leaned back so that he was laying in the tall grass next to Roxy. That would mean that he would have to think of something for them to do today. He really didn't have much time to plan something. He looked at the watch he wore around his wrist, it was already two in the afternoon. He plucked a piece of the tall grass from the ground and stuck it in his mouth to chew on while he thought. He stared up at the clouds, at one cloud in particular, it looked like a giant bear. It had large paws and an angry mouth. He watched as it changed again and started to look more like a puppy dog than a bear. He smiled to himself, enjoying looking at the shapes. Then an idea struck him. He knew what they could do for the first day.

He sat up and nudged Roxy saying, "Roxy, hey Roxy, wake up!" He let the grass fall from his mouth and he had to shove her a bit harder when she didn't wake up from just being nudged. "Roxy!" He said again, "Get up!"

A scowl worked its way onto her face and she let out a low growl. She turned sharply to face him and opened her eyes just enough for her to be able to glare at him, "What do you want Strider?" She hissed, "I was right in the middle of a very good dream for your information."

He just shrugged, "I figured out what we can do over the summer, and I guess if knowing what it is isn't better than your dream you can just go back to sleep."

She perked up, more interested in what he had to say now, "Forget my dream, what did you come up with?"

He turned his head to look at the horizon, "We could make a summer bucket list filled with things for us to do over the summer. And each day we could do one item off the list."

Roxy smiled, "That sounds like a great idea! So what's all on the list?"

Dirk turned back to her, "I haven't made the list yet. I just thought of the idea while you were laying there sleeping like a baby, enjoying your dream. But I did think of something for us to do today."

Roxy looked at him for a second, expecting him to go on to explain what that would be, but he didn't so she gave him a delayed response of, "And what would that be? I'm ready for anything."

Dirk pointed up to the cloud that had changed from a bear to a puppy dog and now just looked like a regular puffy marshmallow cloud. "We could watch the clouds," he said, "and we could tell each other what they look like. The most cliché thing to do in the books of course."

Roxy gave him a weird look, it didn't sound very exciting, but she guessed she would go along with it, "So we just lay here and tell each other what the clouds look like. Sounds easy enough." She rolled onto her back and looked at the clouds, they all looked like clouds to her.

Dirk lied back down on the grass and put his hands underneath his head and looked up. He pointed at a cloud to their left and said, "That one right there looks like a dragon fighting a scrawny knight with a limp-dick sword."

Roxy looked up to where Dirk was pointing, the cloud didn't look anything like a dragon and a scrawny limp-dick knight. She laughed a bit though, the limp-dick sword comment was kind of funny to her. She looked back up at the clouds, but had yet to make out any interesting shapes. Dirk continued to make jokes and comments on how the clouds looked, but Roxy saw none of the shapes he did. She laughed at everything he said though, she was enjoying herself.

At last a shape appeared to her in the clouds, she pointed up to a cloud right above where they were laying. "That one looks like a cat. A cat with three eyes."

Dirk looked up at the cloud and nodded, "Yeah Rox, it does look like it has three eyes."

A/N:

Well, there's the first part of this little project of mine! I hope it's somewhat interesting. And if it's not so much, perhaps as they go on and go on more interesting adventures. I plan to update every day if at all possible, and hopefully make it to the 56 chapters that I'm aiming for!

Please review! A review would make me super-happy!

-Terawolf