Summer Lovin

16

Midsummers a night under the starts at a fancy country club with a bunch of stuck up kooks.

Every year kie invited me to go with her to make the evening as bearable as possible. I hate to admit it but I loved midsummers. It was a night for me to pretend to be a rich snobby kook. But of course I could never admit that to any of my friends.

But this year felt different. With everything that had happened with JJ yesterday it just didn't feel right.

I sat on kies expensive couch with my legs crossed in my floor length sage slip dress while I continued to mope like I had been doing for the past few hours.

"This is disgusting" kie says looking at herself in a full body mirror.

"I know it's just horrible" kies mom says sarcastically
"I'm asking you to relax and go to a fun party.

"I look like a bourgeoisie pig" kie said back as I laughed.

"Will you please not worry about socioeconomic injustice for one night?" Kies mom asked

"Mom people not 3 miles from here have no power, no running water" kie fights back

"Yeah that is true" I say somewhat relating

"And here we are going to midsummers, that's so tone deaf" kie said continuing to fight with her mom as I watched. 

"Do you know how hard we had to work to get into the island club?" Her mom asked giving me a feeling of ungratefulness

"Yeah mom how could I forget? You had to like grovel for like ten years" kie said still mad that she was being forced to go.

"Twelve" he mom corrected "and we also had to cough up a huge chunk of dough. And do you know why we did that?" At this point I had felt invisible in the room

"To keep up with the joneses?" Kie said

"No so you could have the same experiences that I had as a child. Honey do you know what the island club is?" Her mom said making me feel very poor.

"A factory for debutantes" kie responded

"It is a nice place with nice people, where you can do fun stuff" her mom said cupping her face

"With out of touch rich people, while the island sinks slowly into the ocean" kie said

"Amen to that" I say adding onto the conversation.

"Okay I want you to put one your party faces ladies if you wanna live" her mom said strictly.

"Yes ma'am" I say back as kie and I looked at each other not knowing what the night would have in store for us.

Once we had gotten to the club I immediately noticed the amount of money the people at this club had. From the cars to the dresses and tuxedos and the decorations to the location. This year something about it felt suffocating. Kies parents began talking to their friends when we noticed pope standing off near his dad helping out with the food.

"I'm gonna do British accent" kie said to me quietly as we walked up

"Please don't" I said laughing at her

She of course didn't listen. "Excuse me sir do we have to shuck these ourselves?" She asked sounding like some rich kook.

He slowly turned seeing the two of us as kie continued "cause it might mess up my costume"

"We wouldn't want that now would we" he said as they did there handshake with one another.
"I told her not to do the accent" I said joking around and going in for a hug.