Sunkissed Serendipity

Chapter 13

Isla

The past few days have been anything but interesting following the trip. I spent the first couple of days rewinding from the trip, and it was actually hard to get back to my normal routine. I came home, and all of a sudden I forgot how my life was before I went to Hawaii. We had gotten out of school and then gone on the trip, so it wasn't like I got into the summer routine beforehand.

I had been in a slump and was disappointed that I had to be home, so when my friends texted me asking to go out, I was in without even asking what we would be doing.

I hop onto my bed, plopping down on my stomach and holding my phone in my hand. A grin takes over my face as I type out, I'm in; what are we doing?

Kayla responds back the quickest, with a smiley face and saying, Group call.

It takes a little over five minutes for everyone to get ready for the call, but soon we are getting ideas for what to do.

"Wait," I say to them, halting the conversation when it gets out of hand with so many plans for what we could be doing today. "What if we just go to the beach and hang out there? If we get tired of the scene, we can go out to many other places, restoring the area."

"But that's kind of a long drive," Rylie says, and a few others agree with her. I flip to my back and say, "But that's okay. We can have a mini road trip and spend the rest of the day out. You guys have to leave in a little while, right?"

"Yeah," Kayla says with a frown, and I try not to think about how I was going to be spending my summer. The truth is, I didn't even have any plans because the girls were the only people I hung out with. We went out on several occasions and met up with more people from school, which made the plans even better. I didn't hang out with the guys alone, so it would be weird to hang out with them this summer. I didn't have any extended family because my parents were only children, so there wasn't anyone to hang out with there either. I'd be on my own, so the topic of how I was going to be spending my summer was something I didn't even know myself.

That would be something I'd have to figure out on my own, but I wanted to think of that later.

I shake my head, pulling myself into a sitting position and saying, "Come on. Let's make a day out of it. We can all hang around."

"I'll see if my mom will let me," Kayla says while Rylie automatically lets me know she will be able to do it.

"Yes!" I shout out loud, excited to get the day started and because I haven't seen my friends there for a while. After I came back from the trip, it was hard to get everyone to come hang out because of family. Those are times where I really feel left out for not having any family of my own. I didn't have any siblings, and it was just my parents and me. It was a very boring household, and I wondered what it would be like to be around siblings.

The girls have siblings, but they are all older, so they go to college and live by themselves, so I'm never around with them. I don't know what it is like to be around siblings, and I wish that I had my own. Something new other than this life that I live, which most of the time is uninteresting.

"Okay, ask your mom right now, Kayla," I say into the phone. "But everyone met up at my house later. I'll borrow my mom's car."

"Will you be driving?" Rylie asks, and I roll my eyes, knowing what joke she is going to be making. And here she goes: "But I would like to see my dad again after tonight."

"You're so funny," I say stoicly into the phone as I hang up. I knew that today was going to be fun, though, because we would all be together once again.