x high hopes x

Chapter 1

May sighed. She was really enjoying summer; to her, the summer of 2019 was probably one of the best summer so far. Too bad it was ending in about two weeks.

 This summer, she and her middle school friends had decided to become ultimate VSCO girls. They went all out with the scrunchies, decorated hydroflasks, kankens, birks... She scrolled through her VSCO, posted some photos of her at the beach (yes, again), took a Boomerang of the beach and posted it on Instagram.

"Come on, May!" one of her friends called.

"Join us! Stop looking on your phone!" another yelled.

They were surfing. Like legit experts, of course. It was, what, their 7th year of surfing?? Or 8th, May couldn't remember. But it seemed like forever.

"Okay, I'm coming!" May replied, grabbing her blue surfboard, then ran off to join everyone else. 

It had been a long time since she had last seen them. They used to all live in the same town, but now they all moved to different towns. Still, some of her friends went to the same school. May had moved farther away, to California. 

They surfed for a while, laughing and chatting at the same time. After, they ordered ice cold drinks and sat down under the shade of a nearby palm tree. Wow, summers in Hawaii can't get any better, can it?

May sat with June. They were the best of friends, thanks to Ms. Kate, who assigned them to work on a volcano project together back in the 1st grade. 

"What's up, babe?" June asked. "Gotta catch up on school, ahah, sksksk."

"Made some new friends, got a boyfriend, all that shit, y'know? Now you spill the tea, sis. OMG, do you still like Jake?" 

Jake was June's crush since 6th grade. 

When I mentioned him, she grinned and said, "Um, yeah, he's my boyfriend now. You won't believe this, but he says he had a crush on me since 7th."

"NO. FUCKING. WAY." I replied, feeling so happy for her.

"I didn't belive it at first either, but he swears it's true, ask him yourself. Ahh, what about your boyfriend??" June asked.

"Quinn? So we had to be partners for the Swing Dance unit in 9th grade, then he asked me out in 10th! He's one of those cute athletic guys who does TikTok and has over 800K followers! Like, what the fuck bitch, I'm dating someone famous?"

"Jesus Christ, you're like, so hot, babe. I'd be surprised if no one was dating you."