Prologue
Well hellooo there. It's me Carmen, home for the summer, all alone. Lena is jetting off to Greece, with Effie. I wish I could go with them, Greece is so beautiful. Tibby is, well I don't know what she's up to, probably something with Brian. Bridget is going off to France, to some soccer camp with Eric and Diana.
Now if you don't know who WE are, and have no clue what I'm telling you, then I will explain it. We are the Ex Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. You see we used to own these magical pants that fitted us all perfectly. They came to us at a time of need, when we were all leaving for the summer, to different adventures. They taught us how to be apart; at when it was time for them to leave we had learned the lesson to well. We couldn't seem to find time together, all four of us in the same place, at the same time. So the pants taught us how to be apart and together.
True the pants are gone, never to come back, but we remember them dearly in our hearts. Before I get ahead of myself, let me introduce the four of us. We are four 'independent' nineteen year olds. Yet only four merely summers ago we were almost like one person, we were inseparable. Without each other, it was like we were incomplete. Bridget, tall, skinny, and the athlete. Lena the beauty, in every way from black hair to toes, and the artist. Tibby, well the rebel, and the filmmaker. And finally me, well every big aspect of Puerto Ricans, the drama queen, so naturally the actress. We started out being friends from our mother's wombs. See are mothers, Marly (Bridget's mom), Ari (Lena's mom), Alice (Tibby's mom), and Christina (my mom), all took a prenatal aerobics class. They started a support group known as The Septembers, where they talked about things like how fat they were and stuff. Lena was born first, then Bee and her twin brother Perry, then Tibs, and finally me. We were born from end of August to mid-September. Our mother's continued their support group, until finally they drifted apart, it was expected they had nothing in common except being pregnant at the same time. They left the name The Septembers to the four of us, Bridget, Lena, Tibby, and me. Over the years, we had become more like four sisters then four friends. That's basically all about us, up to two years ago.
Now, the four of us go to four different Universities, but all in respective distances, within four hours of each other (one of the rules we made). I would of course rather that we either went to the same school, or spent summers together, but no, all are spent apart. I have some fears that I have kept quiet, like how we will stay friends without the pants. Who knows what will happen this summer, or years to come, only time can tell.
