POV CAMERON
Driving down Treelawn, my street, we slowly approached 1562.
Sitting on the porch of the house was a girl with long brown hair with tears streaming out of her eye's. Eye's that was as golden as gold with a splash of blue, if you looked close enough. This girl could be no one other then Summer.
Slowly, getting out of my car, I watched as she didn't register the sound of my car door slamming shut, as she ignored the loud sound of the gravelled rubbing up against the souls of my slip slops, how she bluntly didn't both to see the girl standing before her.
"Exuce me, but I think your in my way" I smirked as I watch the anger boil in side of her.
"You know what… you can just go to he..", as the words were about to make it out of Summers pale pink lips, she tilts her head up to see who had enough nerve to interrupt her sobs.
Leaning against the pillars on my door step I waited for words to come to her mouth.
"What? You didn't actually think I could just get up at a moments notice and just leave" I attempted, but still Summer made no effort to speak.
"Are you mad at me? Because the last I checked we left on a good note…" I thought about how I watched as Summer grew smaller as I left and the tug I felt in my chest. Summer was like my sister, I don't know what I would do without her.
"Summer, I don't care if …" As I was about to finish her head snapped up.
"you shoud care if I'm angry or upset or… or frustrated with you!" She closed her eyes and when she opened them I felt a pain in my chest to see the tears that fell, "we're friends Cammie….best friends" Summer looked down at her shoes, trying desperately to hide her face from me.
"I was going to say…I don't care if your mad at me because your just going to have to put up with me" I watched as she looked back up with me. Her eyes widened and a small smile tugged at the corner of her lip as a small laugh came out. She quickly tried to catch herself as she looked at me again.
"don't make me laugh, I'm still mad" she attempted to be serious, but didn't last more than a second.
"why is it impossible to be mad at you" Summer complained whipping the remainer of her tears away.
"Because I'm just that good" Earning another laugh from her.
"Sure and my mother is actually a man" she teased back.
"You never know, this world works in mysterious ways" She hit me and I attempted to defend myself away from her. Once we settled, Summer looked down at the poach step she was sitting on.
"So way did you really come back," Summer turned on the step to face me. I slide down on the step taking a seat next to her and sighed. As I thought, I watched as Mark carried my duffle bag out of the car.
"I don't know, I guess I just wasn't really ready to go" I looked over at her to see her reaction and watched as she nodded her head like it made sense.
Summer fumbled with her hands, furrowing her eyebrows as she bit her lip in thought.
"Do you think…I mean…is there still a chance…you might go but just not yet?" I looked over at Summer to see her focused ahead of her as she held her breath. Turning to look back at the car I let out a breath I didn't realize I was holding.
"To be honest…I don't know," I paused to gather my thoughts, "I think I'm going to take a little time first to appreciate and understand the things and people I already have in my life" out of the corner of my eye I watched as she gave me another nod.
"So this summer…it's going to be different?" I smiled at Summer.
"Yeah, I think it's time for a change" Just as I said it we both smiled at each other. Summer jumped off her feet and held out her hand. I looked at her confused.
"You said this summer was going to be different which means…were going to the party at the beach." She said stilling having her hand out to me. I cringed.
"I was more thinking…" But before I could finish my thought Summer crossed her arms over her chest and raised her eyebrow, daring me to go on.
"Okay" Her eye's widened and she smiled like she has every time she wins a fight.
"really? No catches? Or jokes?" I shook my head at her.
"No, I completely and tottaly am committed to a fresh start" and with those words, she grabbed my arm and dragged me into my house and up to my room.
Summer halted at the door and just stared into my room. Looking around we both just stood there. Just for a moment I forgot that I had almost gotten on a plane. Seeing my empty room was like someone smacking me across the face.
"Maybe we could go shopping instead" I nodded my head, before realizing she couldn't see me.
"Yeah, I need know cloths anyways" She nodded and then we both just stood there in silence.
"We should probably get going" Summer said, breaking our trance.
"Let me just get my purse from my duffle bag" I said, still not moving.
"Okay I'll meet you out in the car" Summer turned down the hall to the stairs as I stopped at the edge of my door and knelt down. Opening my duffle bag I started to rummage through it until I finally found my purse. Quickly standing up, I rushed towards the stairs. As I ran I caught a glimpse of myself in the hall way mirror and stopped. It wasn't the fact that my hair was a mess or that I barely had any make-up on that caught my attention, it was that I still had on my mother's sweater. I almost looked like a colon of her.
My train of thought's were interrupted by the sound of a honk of a car horn. I snapped my attention back to the stairs and continued on down.
Leaving a quick note for Claire and Mark, I made my way out the door not pausing to close the door on my way out.
….
"So white or…..Pink? which one should I get?" I turned around to see Summer holding up 2 different tank tops, " I mean which one will go better with the white baggy sweats I have that say 'PINK' in pink?" She said as if it were the easiest questioned in the world. I looked between the two tops and finally just picked one.
"White one" she turned the tops towards her and scrunched her nose while she pursed her lips.
"I think I'm going to go with the hot pink." She place the white one back on the rack as I rolled my eyes for the millionth time. So far Summer has gone with the opposite of everything I say.
"Why do you even ask?" I questioned with a little laugh added on lightly.
"because your opinion matters to me, but honey, you need to go shopping more often because frankly, your losing our touch." Summer said before disappearing between clothing rakes and reappearing with an orange dress questioning me. I shacked my head in disagreement and she shrugged and disappeared again.
"It hasn't been that long" I said defensively finally. Her head popped up again with her eyebrow raised, "okay maybe a little longer than I may be thinking"
"Understatement" She singed, while throwing a bikini at me. I sighed and found a change room.
"So, who's throwing the beach party anways?" I said as I slipped out of my sweater and t-shirt, than finally my shorts.
"Sorry, I just get invited, I don't actually find out that information" she says as she threw a few dresses and shoes over the stall.
"Which beach is it on?"
"South" just as I come out, she turns around. She smiles and gives the bikini I had on a thumbs up and I go back into the changing room.
"who's going to be there?" It was an unnecessary question since I didn't know anyone anyways, but I thought I would ask any ways.
"Just a few people"
"Who's a few?"
"oh, umm…do I really have to name names?" I came out again and Summer shacked her head as I did a little spin.
"I guess not" I say as I pull one of the dresses and throw the orange one that Summer had snuck in over the stall.
I heard the dress hit the floor and the sound of feet moving towards it.
"Oh, come on Cammie, it's not that bad, I think it's kinda cute" I walked out of the stall to see Summer holding the dress up against herself.
"Then why don't you get it?"
"You'll be jealous" she sang as she did a little twirl.
"Okay, I'm done, I think I'm going to wear the white dress" She rolls her eyes and heads for the register.
"What's the eye roll for?" she sighs and turns to me.
"I just can't get through that head of yours! Your always buy clothes that are blue, white or black, where's the colour?" I shrugged and looked down at my choice of clothing. Sure she might be right but my bikinis are…
"and bikini's don't count" I stared at her as if she could really hear my thoughts.
"I have blonde hair and blue eyes, I don't need any more colour." Summer frown as she handed the girl her clothes.
"Yes you do have blonde hair and blue eyes which means you could get away with wearing any colour!" she exclaimed.
"Let's just pay and get out of here" I said finally. I was getting bored of this conversation.
As we exited the mall, I let the sun's rays shower me with heat as I slipped on my sunglasses. Summer just shielded her eyes with her hand as she refused to buy a new pair of sunglass when she can't find her other ones.
"So my house or yours?" she asked before hopping into the car.
"Yours, I don't really have much of a room right now" with those words she sped out of the parking lot and into Florida's open road.
…
Sitting on Summer's blue bed sheets, dressed in my white strapless dress and a red strapless bikini already on, I waited for Summer to finish her make-up.
When she did, I picked up my make-up case and moved into the bathroom to do mine. Out of the side of the mirror as I was going my eyeliner, I could see summer staring at herself in her closet mirror.
"Her Cammie," she called to me.
Just finishing the top line of my eye I called back "yeah" I than watched as she peered over her shoulder at me.
"You know that kid Jake?" I thought about it for a second.
"In our grade?"
"No in a grade above us"
"Oh, yeah" she than looked at me again.
"What do you think of him?" I stopped for a second before applying my mascara to think.
"Blonde hair, brown eyes, sweet, really cute, but I don't think I'd every date him or anything." Summer sat on the edge of her bed and started fiddling with her hands.
"Why do you say that?"
"I don't see Jake like that," I paused before doing my next eye and looked Summer in the eyes through the mirror and smiled.
"Do you like him?" At my words, Summer's cheeks flushed a deep rosy red.
"is it that obvious?" I finished up my left eye and laughed.
"When are you ever going to learn that you can't hide anything from me" She laughed and shook her head.
"He was the one that asked me to go to the beach party" My head snapped towards her.
"I'm not going to be a third wheel because I've…"
"No! no! I told him that I already said I was going with you," I raised my eyebrows.
"was this before or after you asked me?" she bit her lip nervously.
"before," she said shamefully, "but it was Jake! And it was me! And…and he was asking if you were going and then…" She sighed and fell back on her bed. I moved to the edge of the bathroom door frame and leaned against it.
"I panicked" I laughed at her stressed face. She propped herself on her elbows and glared at me, "don't laugh, I thought I was going to die of embarrassment in those few seconds!" Summer exclaimed. I couldn't help but laugh again.
"Summer, I don't really think that's possible, and your flustered at the moment just talking about him." Her cheeks took a deeper shade of red.
"Don't mock me, you're supposed to support me" She smiled while chucking a pillow at me. We laughed for a moment before I checked my cell phone.
"Hey its 8:15, we should get going." She reached down and pulled out a pair of flip-flops out from under her bed.
I picked mine up from her white fluffy rug and grabbed my purse on my way out the door.
ou know the more reviews i get i update faster :D a little bribe and I'm soooo sorry that zach isn't in it yet but i really spaced out the timing, but i bet you guys will LOVE the next chapter i already have it done. i'll tell you in the next chapter exactly which chapter zach comes in on :D