Summer Break

All morning I'd been running around the house. I had to be at school, about twenty minutes ago, but for some reason I couldn't find any of my undergarments: Bra's and underwear. I'd run from the clothing line outside to the laundry room in the kitchen. My house was small, there wasn't many places for them to hide.

I call out to my mom, asking her if she'd seen them and she says no.

A grumble of frustration rumbles out of me and I get on my knees to look under my bed once more, even though I knew they wouldn't be there.

A knock on my door stops me from tearing my room apart.

"Charlie?" My step-dad, Dan, Calls. "You're looking for your-"

"Bra's and underwear dan. Bra's and Underwear."

He opens the door nervously, and smiles. He was holding a white laundry basket of overflowing clothes. My heart drops when I realize what he's about to say.

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"So Dan pretty much took my underwear and bra's and left me nothing to wear for the day."

My two friends, Summer and Niki, look up from their lunch and give me a 'should we be surprised' look. They seemed almost bored and used to Dan and his antics.

Dan had been in my life for a little over five years. He married my mom when I was 12 and has lived with us ever since. He was known to cause a little chaos here and there if he wasn't being watched. For example, This morning.

"So, what," Summer starts. "You're, like, not wearing a bra and going commando?"

She says the last part quiet enough for only us to hear it.

"Uh. Bra; no. Underwear; Yes." I say simply.

My friends giggle lightly and couldn't hide their attempts at looking at my chest. Niki even goes as far as tapping my boob lightly to 'check'. I slap her hand away and harumph at her. It wasn't exactly the time to mess around.

It was the morning and, already, the last day has gone to shit. We sat on one of the lawn tables in the front of the school, where we wait for the bell to go off. Even though it was morning still, we were all sweating and sticky. The gnats didn't come to play either. They swarmed us in massive clouds and had us waving our arms around every now and then.

Summer, from in front of me, is sat on top of the table in a lounging position. She has one leg propped up with an arm resting and the other leg straight out. Her legs were so long her sandled foot hangs off the end. Five perfectly painting toe nails gleam in the Florida sun. She wore jeans shorts that came up past her belly Button, a yellow halter top, and red sunnies perched on the tip of her nose.

The glasses were a tad bit too big for her so she had to angle her face and scrunch her nose to look at us. It made her all the more cuter.

Niki sits on the right of me. She was a tad bit shorter, especially since she was slumped over, reading something on her phone. She wasn't too keen on the sun. So,She made sure to apply sunscreen everyday she went out, and we joked with her about it. Still, she wore Red sports shorts that rose just below her belly button, red converse, and a cropped t-shirt.

From the small amount of skin showing on her, I could see dripping sweat on the small of her back. Along with her's, our necks and faces were tinged slightly red from the heat. I almost couldn't take it any longer.

"So, my mom is apparently taking us to Colorado this summer. We're leaving literally right after school." Summer says.

It wasn't quite random, but it was out of the blue. Summer was supposed to spend her summer here with me since Niki was also going away. Her and her mom were supposed to be going on some mission trip for their church. She wasn't even supposed to be at school. Her and her mom were supposed to leave this morning but their flight was delayed. She was just here to say goodbye.