Bye, I Guess... (Sequel and Third Book Included!)

Cinco

Hayley's POV

It's been two days, and there's nothing around here to do. Everyone's bored all the time. Also, we aren't supposed to call mommy, but Annie and I do it sometimes in secret. Mommy wants us to call her at least once a week, because she's still paying for our phones. So anyway, the school here is really small. There's only one class per grade in the elementary school, and Annie says there's two classes per grade in the middle school because another elementary school merges with it. There's no gym, so we tumble outside on the playground. Avery is mean, but the other girls are nice.

"Hayley?" Annie called me from downstairs.

"Yeah?" I responded.

"Soph and I were going to take a walk, do you want to go with us?" She asked.

"Sure," I said.

I put on my sneakers and made my way downstairs. The three of us walked out the from door and down the road.

Gail's house is kind of in the middle of nowhere. It's a dirt road that leads to her house, and it's nearly one thousand feet until the asphalt road.

Soph and Annie and I walked for a little bit, then we decided to go into the small woods across the road.

We walked through the woods, then we found a brook. There were a bunch of little stones on the bank, so we picked up some flat ones and tried skipping them. Soph was the only one who could skip stones.

"How do you do it?" Annie asked.

"Get a smooth, flat stone and hold it in you hard kind of sideways, like this," she said, showing us how, "then, throw it at a kinda sideways angle so that the flat edge is what touches the water first. The stone has to hit the water from the side, not head on. It'll skip."

She threw the stone she was holding. It skipped five times and landed on the other side of the river.

"Woah, that was so cool!" I exclaimed.

"Haha, thanks," Soph said shyly.

Annie and I tried a bunch of times, but we couldn't get it right. There weren't many flat stones left, so we had to be careful.

I took my last one, which was the flattest I had, and threw it perfectly! It skipped twice before stopping and sinking to the bottom of the water.

"Nice job!" Soph told me.

"Thanks," I said, smiling.