The Sun Shines Brightest in June (Completed) gxg

The Days In Between That Changed Everything.

For the first few months we talked all the time. I would call Klara

later in the day when I knew that she was resting after a long day. She

had started community college that year, and she had a job. She worked

in a bookstore, which I thought was very fitting for her. She told me

about all the quirks of her instructors and how she absolutely hated one

of her coworkers.

She had made new friends in some of her classes, and she

couldn't believe how much more relaxed college was. She felt freedom

like she had never felt before, but also more responsibility. She was

slowly learning to fend for herself. It was helping her figure herself out

more, which was nice. She loved that.

I had nothing to tell her about except for the same old boring

dramas of high school. Girls were gossiping, boys were being pigs,

teachers were being way too hard on the students. There was nothing to

tell her about my life. Nothing interesting.

After that first few months had gone by we started talking less.

The phone rang and rang, but Klara didn't always answer. When she did

she would tell me that she was swamped with homework, or just too tired

from work.

We sometimes swapped pictures back and forth instead of

actually talking. That was her idea, sort of compromise for when she was

too tired to talk. Most of the time they were of funny things, like her face

crammed into the piles of books on her desk, or her pretending to sleep

with the caption "zzz."

Maybe to anyone else, our relationship would have seemed fine,

but in the pit of my stomach I was starting to think that we were drifting

apart. I missed her. A lot. It didn't always seem like she was missing me

as much, though. I couldn't wait for June again. I hoped that maybe the

summer would bring us closer together again. Maybe by then she would

have herself figured out again. If anything, she would at least have more

free time.

Of course, the closer we got to summer, the less I heard from her.