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skylinechick07- thanks for the review. I hope you like this new chapter. And thanks for being the first one to review.

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Flame31- Whoops. Sorry I didn't make that clearer. It's actually Izzy does like George; she just doesn't know it yet. :) yep yep. I'm mean like that. She is in denial, so she doesn't want Meredith to think that she likes George. Is it still confusing? If it is, sorry.

gafan003- I'm glad you like my story. I hope you like the update. I regret to inform you that Derek is now going to come on to this story for a while. For right now he is kind of erased from her life after he left the group. Sorry. I'll get him in some time later. But not soon.

Chapter 9

Summer came to Redding Academy very soon. Before the students knew it, it was summer again. The four friends welcomed the days of sun shine and time on the beach gratefully.

Christina's operation had gone smoothly and took place days after summer started. She only spent a few days in recovery and was back on her feet the day after. For some reason the whole tumor scare put a new bounce in her step.

"This sucks," George said. "I have to get a job this summer. If I don't, I won't have any money to spend this summer."

"You better get a job." Christina back to her old self, "Don't think that you can go freeloading off of us just because you're broke."

"Well, the bright side is that I can probably get a job at a hospital or doctor's office." George said trying to find the bright side to his situation.

"I'm going to get a job too." Meredith said. "I don't think that I can stand around all summer. I need something to do. If I don't, I'll probably die of boredom!"

"Well, I kind of need to get a job too," Izzy confessed. "I need some money for school stuff and other things."

"Well, considering that you all are getting a job, I might as well too." Christina sighed in defeat. "But I still have to go to summer school. If I don't make up for my grades I won't be able to get into a good college. I guess I could get a job for after school." Christina sighed yet once again.

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George managed to get a job at the hospital where Meredith's mother worked. He got a job as an assistant to the receptionist, after someone not to be named pulled some strings.

Christina interviewed for a job at an auto-shop for motorcycles and was hired on the spot, even though Christina could only work in the afternoons. Christina still had to go to summer school too. The school board would just not accept her excuse that she had a tumor and it affected her work. They said that she still had to make up for her work.

Izzy had been interviewing for a job as and assistant to a designer, but instead they hired her as a model. She was shocked, but she still accepted the job.

Meredith was leafing through the classified section of the newspaper, when a job had caught her eye. She had never though she would be a teacher, but her father said it was fun so she decided to give it a shot. She called the director of the summer school program, and she managed to get a job as a TA or teacher's assistant. Little did she know that there would be familiar faces at her newly acquired summer teaching job.

They set out in the beginning of the summer to their new jobs, and one with school too, not knowing what challenges ahead they would face. They had no idea where their jobs would led them, if anywhere at all.

They set out into the world of the unknown.

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Okay! So there is no cliffhanger in this chapter. So sue me! I'll get you one in the next chapter maybe, if you guys are good. Just kidding!

I'm sorry I didn't go into detail about Christina's operation. It's just I'm still a kid, and I don't know that much about doctors and the doctoring terms or whatever you call them. I'm not studying to become a doctor okay?

Well, I hope you like these next few chapters about Meredith, Izzy, George, and Christina's summer. They are purely them and their jobs, no tragedy or that much drama... yet. Just as a hint about the upcoming chapters. Of course nothing is written in stone yet; it's just an idea forming in my brain.

I've noticed that my chapters are kind of small/short. UNDERSTATEMENT! Fine, fine, it is an understatement! But you can't blame me; well… actually you can but never mind that! It is a kind of hectic schedule I have to balance; I mean there is not much I can but in between my homework, studying, classes, more classes and studying, reading, and procrastinating. Just Kidding! I probably could find more time to write these chapters/updates, but I do kind of have a writer's block, so I'll do the best I can do. And you do the best you can do. REVIEW!

Wow! I think I've now written more for my, whatever you call this than my actual chapter. Aww man, this is bad. I'll right more next time you can count on it.

Okay, well I should stop writing this stuff now. Thanks again to all of you who reviewed!

Your writer of short chapters/updates,

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