It's been a week since the band visited me. And guess what...I'm leaving! I'm so happy I'm actually going to start living a normal life again. My parents had come in earlier to take everything of mine from the room and took it home. Now I'm just waiting for them to come back anad pick me up.

It's been about half an hour and i just saw my car pull into the hospital parking lot from my window. I was dying to get outside after spending 3 weeks in a single room, not counting having to get x-rays and blood taken in different rooms.

It took my parents about 10 minutes to get up to the room.

"Ready to go sweetie?" my mom asked. She had a HUGE grin on her face.

"I've been ready since I got here, lets go!" I said as grabbed both of my parents arms and pulled them out of the hospital room.

It took about 45 minutes to get home from the hospital. As soon as we pulled up the driveway, I jumped out, ran to my room and threw myself on my bed. Not that hospital beds were really uncomfortable but I missed my bed so much! I layed there for a few minutes then jumped up and ran to the kitchen. I opened the fridge and pulled out a piece of cake. The hospital food was terrible so I had to get some real food into me.

When I was finished unpacking everything, I looked at the clock. It was 2:45 already! I ran over to my mom.

"Mom who else knows I'm back home?"

"Just us, and family but we haven't had a chance to tell your friends. Why don't you go surprise them? It's almost band practise anyway," she answered.

"You were reading my mind mom!" i shouted as I ran back to my room to get a sweater.

I began walking down to band practise a few minutes later. Usually I would have gotten a ride but I felt the fresh air might do me good. I looked around for people that I might know. The street was pretty deserted. I heard a slam behind me and turned around. It was just my next door neighbour Tony. He'd lived there all my life. He was my age, but he didn't go to my school. We were actually really good friends. Usually I would have said hi to him but I was in a real hurry. I looked at my watch. It read 2:56. Only four minutes left to get there! I began to jog.

I reached practise with a minute to spare. I stopped to catch my breath before I opened the door and walked in. I stayed hidden behind a wall and listened to them talk.

"No Zach! You're doing it wrong! You're just- just-oh forget it!" I heard someone say. I think it was Marta.

"Where's Summer when you need her," I heard Freddy say gloomily.

I chose that moment to step out from behind the wall and said "Right here!"

"Summer!" Freddy exclaimed. He sat up from his drum set and ran over to me. He gave me a huge hug. I was taken my surprise. I knew I looked it. Zach looked at me and smiled.

He let me go but still had his hands on my forearms. "Are you okay?" he was really close. "Yeah," I said smiling.

Band practise went really well that afternoon. Sometimes I caught Freddy looking at me and as soon as I did he would turn away. Not once did it occur to me that he might actually like me. I just thought he was happy I was out and back.

We were all getting ready to leave, when Freddy, Zach and Katie all came up to me.

"Wanna come over to my place Summer?" Katie asked. "Those two are coming. We thought maybe we could watch a couple movies and stuff like that. You in?"

"Sure, just let me call my mom and tell her," I replied.

This day just kept getting better and better