A teenage girl was sitting at the table with her aunt to plan their activities for the summer. The girl had long blond hair and her hair was cut in layers. The aunt was petite, and had light brown hair. This was the first summer that Maya Hart was going to spend a lot of time with her aunt (Kimberly Hart Oliver). When Maya was younger, Kimberly and her husband (Tommy) moved to New York to help Katy raise Maya. For years, Maya didn't want nothing to do with Kimberly. Or she thought she didn't. Nine years later, Maya finally formed a friendship with Kimberly. But, it didn't happen until an incident accrued that got them together. After the incident they grew really close and were in separable. Maya viewed Kimberly more like a sister than she did an aunt and she was also one of Maya's best friends. Every day, Kimberly walked to school with Maya and her other best friend (Riley).
Since it was summer, they were not going to be school for three months and could do what ever they wanted. Riley was going to spend some time with Maya and Kimberly. But, she was going to be in Philadelphia during a big part of the summer visiting her grandparents. Amy and Alan didn't get to see Auggie and Riley much and wanted them to spend time with them over the summer. So, that meant that Maya was going to be spending a lot of the summer with Kimberly.
"Have you made any plans yet?" asked Maya. "We've got two and a half months until school starts."
"School let out last week," reminded Kimberly. "We've already got two weeks of the summer planned. We're going on the Disney cruise together."
"And I have my samurai training twice a week," added Maya. "This is our first summer together. I want it to be memorable."
"Maya, don't worry. It will be a good summer," promised Kimberly. "One week, we're going shopping a lot to get clothes for our trip. We'll need clothes to wear in the spa, formal clothes for dinner, swim wear, some summer pajamas, and some cool clothes. I heard its going to be really hot when we go on the cruise."
"Then one week, we'll be going school clothes shopping," added Maya. "We will be trying on clothes almost every day that week. Every time, we go shopping you are looking at the athletic clothes."
"I'm a PE teacher," reminded Kimberly. "I have to wear athletic clothes to school every day. A lot of my athletic clothes are worn out and I need to replace them. You'll be having PE this year. We'll be able to pick out our gym clothes together. Maybe we can find some outfits that we both like. Last year we got a pink and white tracksuit, a yellow and pink tracksuit, and a black, pink, white, and yellow tracksuit. We both wore them on the same day."
"I do enjoy going shopping," admitted Maya. "That's two weeks planned. What are we going to the other rest of the time ?"
"I want to go the beach," said Kimberly. "Tommy, and I used to do it. We used to get lay under a beach umbrella, take walks around the beach, and swim."
"They have the new water park that opened," stated Maya. "There's the indoor water park and the out door water park."
"I'd love to go to both of them,' smiled Kimberly. "And I want us to go to the pool this summer. When it rains, we can go to the indoor pool."
"We'll be on the water a lot this summer?" asked Maya.
"That's the plan," answered Kimberly. "We'll also go to the movies."
"I bet we'll go shopping a lot too," stated Maya.
"We will," smiled Kimberly. "I want us to get some of the clothes that we want before everything gets picked over when school starts. We can go shopping once a week. And we can even soak in the Jacuzzi."
"I'd love to do that!" cried Maya. "Could we do that every day?"
"I don't see why we can't," replied Kimberly. "Tommy and I soak in it twice a week. In the winter we soak in it a lot. We can even do it right now."
Maya and Kimberly went into their bed rooms to change their clothes. Maya put on navy one piece swimsuit with yellow flowers and Kimberly changed into a pink bandeau top and a pink swim skirt. Kimberly turned the Jacuzzi on and filled up the tub. She put some pretty in pink bath soak in the tub. Maya walked into the bathroom and noticed Kimberly had everything ready. Both of them got in the Jacuzzi. It was Maya's first time soaking in a Jacuzzi.
"What do you think?" asked Kimberly.
"I love it," smiled Maya. "Thanks for making plans to spend the summer with me. I won't be lonely because I've got my other best friend to spend the summer with."
"And I'm spending the summer with my best friend," added Kimberly.
She put her arm around Maya and pulled her close. Both of them were looking forward to spending the summer together. They both would have time to build a closer relationship. But, neither one of them knew how strong their friendship was.