Ah, summer at last! Junior year is finally over, and now I have 3 months to do whatever I want! Well…almost whatever I want. I would have loved to go on the class trip to Europe, but my dad recently lost his job. There was no way my family could afford such an expensive trip! Luckily, my best friends Andrea and Kayt weren't going on the trip either, so we were going to hang out all summer!
"Bri!" Speak of the devil! I turned around and saw Andrea walking towards me, trying to simultaneously avoid the throngs of people, hold her purse, carry four textbooks, and balance a tray of "last day of school" cupcakes. She wasn't succeeding, and after she almost dumped the tray all over the floor, I ran towards her and grabbed it out of her hands.
"Careful babe, you're going to hurt yourself! And why do you still have all of your books? We were supposed to turn them in a week ago!"
She looked at me guiltily, "I forgot?"
"Hah, somehow I knew you would. I'll take this," I said, gesturing towards the tray, "You go turn your books in."
"Thank you! I'll be right back, I promise!" She dropped her purse and the delicate deserts on the floor, and ran off with her books, yelling "sorry" over her shoulder.
"It's cool," I yelled back, causing several people in the hallway to stop walking for a second and stare at me. I was used to it though. Being a drama kid, having people staring at you constantly is basically in the job description. I bent down to pick up the tray and her purse off the ground, when someone jumped on my back, knocking me over. I froze for a minute, feeling the cupcakes in the tray squish and the frosting begin to seep into my shirt and slip down the front onto my chest. The person on top of me was quiet for a couple beats, and then suddenly began shouting in my ear, speaking so quickly I had to concentrate to hear what she was saying.
"Oh my gosh! Briana, are you okay? Oh God, I'm so sorry Bri! I can't believe I did that! I just got so excited 'cause it's the last day of school, and you said we could go to the beach, and it's like, the perfect beach day, and we're done with school, and it's finally summer, and that new bathing suit you bought is so cute I just couldn't wait to see it. I'm so sorry, are you hurt, did you fall hard, did I squish you, am I squishing you, did I ruin your shirt, oh crap, I love that shirt, well loved that shirt, it's probably ruined now, what with all the icing and cupcake goop and all the little papers that are on the outside of the cupcakes. Oh, um Bri... Briana I think, um. I think there's um- I think you... Actually no, you definitely have icing down you shirt. It's all over your neck, and your chest and it's down your shirt, and- oh gosh, it's all squished up into you boo-"
"Kayt!" Silence. Finally. "It's okay. I'm totally fine. You just knocked me over. Into a tray of cupcakes. That were on the floor. No biggie. And you didn't squish me. You're too tiny to squish me. Just please calm down, okay? And stop. rambling. Okay?" I looked down at my shirt, but it didn't really matter. I could feel it. In places it definitely shouldn't be. Crap. I totally had icing in my boo-
"OH MY GOD! What the hell happened? I leave for two seconds and now you're on the floor, with Kayt on top of you, and oh MY CUPCAKES! KAYT! What the heck? Get off of her Kayt, you're squishing her onto the floor. Oh God, your shirt is totally ruined! I loved that shirt! It's all down the front, and down the shirt, which means it's totally all up in your boo-"
"Andrea! Can everyone just please STOP RAMBLING AND GET ME UP OFF THIS FLOOR?! Please?" Kayt disappeared from on top of me, and they both pulled me up.
"Thank you! And yes, I am fully and completely aware that I have icing IN MY BOOBS!" We all stared at each other for a minute in silence, until Kayt broke it with a little snort-giggle, which turned into a sort of gasping giggle, and then a little body-heaving trying to not completely burst out laughing laughter, until she gave up and just erupted in loud, full blown laughter. Andrea and I stared at her for a minute until I just couldn't resist, and busted out laughing with her. Apparently, Andrea couldn't resist either, so there we were, Kayt and I covered in icing, and Andrea, laughing our asses off in the middle of a slow-moving, crowded hallway. Yeah, it really was a good thing we were used to being stared at, because literally everyone in that hallway had stopped to turn and watch. I wish I could say that this totally wasn't normal for us, and that it was last day of school excitement and too much sugar filled icing from Andrea's cupcakes influencing our behavior… But it was normal. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Andrea bent down to dislodge the cupcake pan from- where it was still stuck to my chest, God that icing was like glue! Kayt grabbed up my bag from where it had dropped when I bent to pick up Andrea's cupcake pan, and grabbed my arm, pulling me to stand between her and Andrea. Once Drea had retrieved her bag, she linked arms with me, and the three of us walked down the hallway Wizard of Oz style, walking into the courtyard and then out of the school, finally free, and about to have the BEST summer of my life... With icing in my boobs... Well, you can't have everything.