Heyo! Well, I figure I should respond to a few reviews. To )(*wings*)( : it could really be any town I suppose, I live in a quickly growing town in MN, and it just seemed like the perfect setting to start out with. To lookingforthelight : yeah, I know... i'm just trying not to make them too long, and that last chapter was a whole page double-spaced on my OpenOffice. I'll eventually start making them a bit longer when other POVs come in too. Well off the the story we go!
Mary's POV: Ugh. I hate the pool. Too much... Sun and stuff. Don't get me wrong, I like sunshine as much as the next girl, but that dumb headache from yesterday never really went away. Actually, it'd gotten even worse. Quite frankly, I was laying on a pool chair with my head in my hands, pondering how much force it would take to snap my neck with a pool toy. Last night I'd had fever dreams; running through a dark forest, falling into scorching magma... Thank the stars it was almost time to go home. "Hey!" Oh, its Britney! Britney has been my friend since around first grade. She is usually pretty quiet and dark, but she has a totally different side too. We once threw big heavy rocks through the windows of one of the abandoned buses on her property. Ha, good times. "Hi..." I said blearily. It was a beautiful summer day, and everyone around me was having fun... Me, not so much. Last year, I practically lived at this pool. I swam like a dang fish. I swear I absorbed enough chlorine that, if someone lit a match too close anywhere from June to September, the house would blow. So this totally wasn't me. Duh. "Hey, is there something wrong?" Britney asked. Now something you need to know about me before we go any farther is that sarcasm is my native language. People tend to get sick of it, but that's their problem. So, naturally, I couldn't help myself. "Nope, its just kinda hot out here. Making sure my brain doesn't melt and ooze out my ears." She didn't look surprised at my retort. "Yeah, I guess that was kind of a stupid question, wasn't it?" Yep, here it goes again. "Naaw. Perfectly legit." She grinned. "So, am I still coming over tonight?" She asked with a hopeful look. Now, this was probably the fifth time she'd asked me today, so I was getting a little, how do we say... Irked? I sighed. "Ok, Brit, what was the answer half an hour ago?" I gave her a look over my dark glasses. Ah, Transitions, you've gotta love 'em. She half-smiled. "Ok, ok. I get it." She walked away. They sounded the air horn, signaling break time. Yay! Its time to go home! 8th grade is officially over, and I am a freshman!
Ok, so i'm more proud of this chapter than the others... I don't really know why. I tried to make it a little longer, but it still isn't very long, I know. It'll come, all in good time. Thanks to loyal readers, it always makes me smile to read your reviews and whatnot, and I take every single one to heart.
-Mary