Daydream Believer

xcii. hipster cafés and twin sisters

xcii. hipster cafés and twin sisters

Justin's family was finally back from their vacation. Justin wouldn't stop talking about it. Sometimes I was a little jealous. Why couldn't our family go on cool vacations like that? Dad always said it was because we didn't have enough money, but I still wanted to go.

Justin, Robin, Rebecca, and I agreed to meet up at Robin's favorite café. Rebecca was a bit annoyed that we weren't going to Starbucks, but she still came with us.

When I got there, everyone had already found a table. Justin waved to me and I went over there. Robin was sipping her coffee and Rebecca was looking at pictures on her fine.

"Hey McKenna," Robin said. "What's up?"

"Not much," I said. "How was Hawaii?"

"AMAZING!" Rebecca screamed. "I took so many pictures. Want to see?" Rebecca showed me all of her pictures, which certainly took a while. Most of them were selfies, which I pretended to actually care about. Honestly, nobody wants to look at Rebecca's face that many times. There were some nice photos though.

"Did you have fun Justin?" I asked.

Justin nodded. "Yeah, it was pretty cool. We didn't have any Wi-Fi the entire trip, but I did get a lot of my summer reading done."

"I haven't gotten started on that yet," I said. "Are any of the books good?"

"Nope. They're all awful."

"Good to know."

Robin took another sip of her coffee. "Freshman English is the worst. They never have you read anything good."

Rebecca shrugged. "I liked Pride and Prejudice."

"That was sophomore year."

"Never mind. They're all horrible."

"Any more great advice?" I asked.

Obviously, Robin and Rebecca had plenty of advice for me. They went back and forth telling me what to do.

"Make sure to return your books on time at the library," Robin said.

"Don't eat the burgers in the cafeteria. They're disgusting," Rebecca said.

"Don't get caught playing games on your phone during school."

"Join cheerleading. It's super fun."

"You don't actually need a study hall, no matter what the counselors say."

"The more friends you have, the better."

"As long as you have a few close friends, you'll be okay."

"Drama is super fun in high school. You should take it."

"If you have Mrs. Wayne for biology, make sure to turn in your homework on time. It's a zero if you don't."

I stopped listening after a while. My brain was overloaded with suggestions for what I had to do to succeed in high school. Why couldn't there just be a manual or something for these things? Life shouldn't be this confusing.