Just One Summer

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I ended up not going to bed until three in the morning. Honestly I have now Idea why I was up so late. I tried reading a book, which usually helps me fall asleep, but I just ended up finishing in and starting another. I stayed off my phone, but there was no way out of it. I was stuck awake.

It was weird too. I didn't have those late night thoughts like the ones you get in the shower also just the weird ones that really make you think about your life.

Nope. just layed there and read for hours, but my eyes never shut until three AM. It's not even like, I like the book I just could stay alseep.

It was kind of nice though because I got a lot of the work I need to get done for the newspaper over. I woke up late though.

I woke up around 11 o'clock rubbing my eyes and adjusting to the light coming into the room. Everyone says when they first wake up that they look at there phone that is never my case. The second I wake up I need to go the bathroom.

It's the same thing every morning, but at least it gets me out of bed so I can wake up. I took a quick shower and changed making my way downstairs and grabbing a apple. My little sister Nicole was already stuck to her phone for the weekend.

Little girl can stay up all night tweeting and texting and doing whatever she does on the phone. I have to admit I am probably the worst texter in the entire world. All my friends hate it, and by all my friends I mean Alex.

I was working on it, but I liked the peace of not being on your phone. I think it is an important advice, but while I sit here on the back porch I much rather have my coffee in my hands then my phone.

I sat on the porch for maybe an hour, before I decided it was time to check my texts, and emails. I made my way back inside picking up my phone off the side table next to my bed.

A lot of texts from the group chat and a lot from my mother telling me to wake up. My mom is a nurse so she has to work on the weekends and she works late. The only time I ever see her is in the morning with Nicole.

There was a faint knock on my door as I look up turning around. My dad stood in the doorway with a smile. I'm very close to my dad he has always been there for me for everything I have been threw.

"It's a beautiful day what are you doing still inside?" He asks, and I chuckle sitting at my desk he walks in my room looking at the picture that lined my wall.

"You talk to me like I'm a kid, dad. I'm going out at three anyways, but I woke up at like 11 this morning," I say and he looks at me with a smile.

"Where did that some from on weekends you are usually waking everyone else up," He says. You can tell her just came from the garage. From the black grease the linded up and down his shirt. I was only hoping he has washed his hands before he came in here and touched my white walls or I got some cleaning to od.

"I don't know I just couldn't fall asleep last night, actually dad I have somthing to ask you," I hesitate. He looked at me with a bright white smile. "How would you feel if I traveled with my friends this summer?" I ask.

"That sound so fun where do you guys plan on going?" He asks and I shrug.

"I don't know and I don't really care I just wanna go have fun you know? You would be okay with me leaving all summer?" I ask and he nods.

"Listen, Nikki, you're growing up you're gonna be 18 in a month once you are 18 you can do whatever you want as long as they provide to the law. I can't stop you from having the time of your life this summer, but I think I know what and who can," He says.

I knew he was referring to mom and money. Even though I had a plan for money my mother is going to be the hardest thing to get past. My mom is like a vision hard dog guarding us from fun ever.

"I have to do back to the garage, and be back before your sister tries anything stupid," I cuckle and give him a nod as he walk out of the room. I check a text I had gotten while talking to my father pushing up the time to go to the ice cream shop to 30 minuets from now then I get a text from Carley asking for me to pick her up.

I joke around with her being rich and not having a car then I let in and make my way to Carley's house. It was huge a little bigger then Alex's house.

"Okay lets go I am really craving some good ice cream," I pull out of the gated driveway as she turns up the music and begins to sing like crazy. I join her as we make our way to the shop.

Everyone was already there when we got there so we got what we wanted and made our way to the seats outside.

"HAve you asked your Mum about me yet?" Lucas asks his british accent being particularly ripe today. His accents was honestly once of the cutest things I have every heard.

If I'm being honest with you for some reason I have a small crush on Lucas. I think It is because I love his personality that's why I'm friends with him, but he is also very attractive. He asked me out once, but I shot him down at the time I thought that out friendship was more important.

our friendship is important, but if he asked now I would say yes. I would ask him other then the big deal of having public and personal anxiety and depression.

"Not yet I don't know how my dad will feel about it, he is very strict about money," ALex says which is probably one of the most true things that has every come out of her mouth.

"Oh dang, maybe umm maybe your parents Carley?" he asks and she shrugs. My ice cream melted t the minute as I played with it instead of actually eating with it. I just used the spoon to twirl it around the cup.

"I asked my parents about Nikki, and they said it would be an super cool trip, but my parents have never met you i'll ask from them, but I'm not so sure they will accept," She says, Lucas sits up smiling.

"Thank you for a least trying, C," HE says and the conversation goes back to normal, before we all realized that we all just excepted going, and we don't have a plan