A Summer To Live For

~Planning Our Future~

   He grabs my hand and I feel the warmth and shock of lightning shoot threw me. I look around and my friends are all hanging around talking to each other and there are multiple people standing around as couples. Dancing. They are dancing. I hate dancing. He's going to make me dance.

   " I don't know how to dance." I look at his beautiful blue eyes and he smirks.

   " I can show you." He puts one hand on my waist and holds my hand still.

  
   " ADDISON JACKS! Wake the hell up!!" I feel my body lift off of my bed and plop back down like I levitated for barely a second. I look over and see my best friend Sadie laying on my bed.

~Sadie.. She is my best friend and has been since the third grade. She is outstandingly beautiful. She, naturally, has dirty blonde hair but she dyed it last year red and now she always dyes it red. She has green eyes that just stand out, especially in the sun~

   "I should be used to you waking me up like this but yet everytime you give me a heartattack." I start to get out of bed. I smell a slite scent of coffee. "Warm Vanilla?"

  Sadie grabs the cup of coffee and hands it out to me waiting for me to grab it. "Yes ma'am. Your favorite."

  As I drink my cup of coffee I start to think about something that makes me very curious. "Sadie?"

  "Hmm?"

  "What are you doing here?"

   Sadie chuckles. "Okay, Addison. This is extremely random. Well not extremely but extremely. Anyways, so uhm. Well... Girls!"

  Girls?

  Next thing I know all my friends walk in the door. Emerson, Tegan, Alex, Grace, Penelope, Audrey, and Cecilia.

  "Should've known you had something up your sleeve when I smelled the coffee." I look at Sadie and she has a smile on her face. "Explain what we're doing."

  "Well actually Emerson is the one that came up with this plan." Sadie points at Emerson.

  "Oh don't blame this on me Flannel." Emerson starts to laugh. If you were wondering. We call Sadie flannel because she literally always wears some type of flannel. Flannel short sleeve, long sleeve, wrapped around her waist, head bands. You name it she wears it.

~Emerson.. Emerson is shy around people she just meets but around us she is crazy. She has an amazing personality and is super sweet. You can just look at her and tell she will be a good mom and wife one day. She loves to cook, clean, fold laundry. She does everything a mother does. She has the most perfect short, straight blond hair which she pulls off well. Her hair would literally never look good on me. Her eyes are a yellowish-brown.~

  "Anyways, so every single year we all complain because none of us ever do anything over the summer. We don't really go anywhere. We've wasted three summers and thrown them away like they were a scrap of paper we doodled our crushes name on so no one would see it. I think.. We think.." Sadie tilts her head a little to the side to look at Emerson. "That we need to make things worth wild. The only thing is, we don't know where to go."

  I take another sip of coffee. "I say we all go on a road trip around the US. I mean we live in florida. Why not start here and drive around."

  "We'd need two cars and a lot of money." Alex says as she digs in her wallet. She pulls out 72 dollars and throws it in the middle of the floor. "We can take my jeep. It has great gas on it. You fill the tank and you're good for three hours till the light comes on then 30 minutes when the light comes on to get to a gas station."

~Alex.. I just met Alex this year. She is very out going and really easy to talk to. She's easy to become friends with. She is very sweet but pretty rebelious. She has black hair and blue eyes which I heard is actually pretty rare.~

  Everyone starts to dig in there wallets and purses and pull out money and thrown it into the pile.

  Grace sits down and counts the money.

  "I could always get a couple hundred from my parents." Audrey says as she starts to text her mom.

~Audrey.. Audrey is one of those spoiled rich kids that you would expect to be really annoying and brag about money or her new flatscreen T.V. She is more of the "Oh my family is rich but I'm not going to talk about or ask for money from my parents unless I actually need it for something I want." She has red crazy hair and beautiful green eyes. She's a very bright person and very very beautiful.~

  "$217.89, where can we go with that?" Grace hands me the money. I look at the pile of money thinking about where we can go, what we can do.

  "Add six hundred onto that. My mom said she will put four hundred on my card and I have two hundred already on it." Audrey toses her car like a frisby onto the pile of money on my lap.

  "So we have $817.89. If each of us could possibly look around and find more throughout the time of now and when we leave we could make more" Grace stands up and walks down stairs.

~Grace.. Grace is a very organized, OCD person. Everything must be perfect. Like, her hair, nails outfit, shoes, make up. Her make up is always beautiful and her hair is blonde and always perfectly curled. She usually wears girly clothes unless she's having a lazy day.~

  I look at Sadie. "When are we leaving?"

  "It depends. How long will it take everyone to pack enough for a month?"

  "I'll take probably two days."

  "Okay, so let's do that. We leave on Thursday. Alex offered to drive, we need one more driver." Sadie looks around.

  "I can borrow my brothers truck. It's big and open." Tegan announced while rasing her hand.

  "Alrighty. So when Thursday comes we will organize who goes in what car and we will leave around two pm."

  Just then Grace comes running back upstairs. "I got.... I got a ziplock.. baggy for the money." She says holding up a ziplock baggy trying to catch her breath from running up the stairs. Grace takes the money and puts it in the bag and hands Audrey her card. She takes a sharpie out her purse and lables the bag For Road Trip Only! and puts the bag into the drawer of my nightstand. "Guard it with you life!"

  I rasie my hand up to my forehead and move my arm outwards quick "Ma'am yes ma'am!"