I walked out the back door and walked around in the back looking at my dad's little vegetable garden. I looked at it and thought about the summer I had been here and we picked green beans all day in the hot sun. I remembered pulling up carrots and ripping out the stems without getting the carrots. I remembered picking potato bugs off the potatoes and making my dad pick off the fat ones. I walked away towards the forest behind the house. There was a path going into it and I decided to walk into it. I walked along listening to the sounds of the leaves in the trees shaking and the birds calling to each other in the trees. I continued to walk until the path began to curve back and I found myself heading back in a circle toward the house.

When I came back, it was about 10:00. My dad was hunched over the plants in the garden picking green beans.

"Want any help?" I said.

"Sure" he said.

I kneeled down a little way away from him and began to pull the beans off the little bush and put them in the basket.

"Have you thought at all about colleges lately?" my dad asked.

"No" I said. I didn't want to go to college. My grades in high school were never very good so I didn't think I could get into a good one anyway.

"Well you might want to be thinking about that" said my dad. "Maybe you can even go to one here then maybe we could see each other more" he said.

"Yeah right" I said in my head.

To escape the awkwardness I said I was hungry and I was going inside for some food. I ate a peanut butter and honey sandwich then I went upstairs to my room. I plugged in my laptop again for lack of a better thing to do. I checked my email again and had no unread messages. I messed around on the internet for a while wasting my afternoon away and before I knew it, it was 6:00 and my dad came in to check on me.

"Getting hungry?" he said.

"Sure" I replied not looking away from the screen.

"Burgers sound good?" he said.

"Ok," I replied.

He left, I heard him clomping down the staris. I checked my email again for the 10th time that day and this time there was an email from Vikki. It said;

Hey Libby!!! What's up? What are you doing with your dad? I wish you could be here, summer just won't be the same without you. OMG GUESS WHAT??? I got accepted into Julliard!!! I got my acceptance letter today. Anyway, Emily says hi...she's in Spain with her parents right now.

-Vikki

I shut my computer off. I knew it was Vikki's dream to be a singer and now she would probably acheive that goal. Vikki and Emily are my best friends, but I can't help but feel jealus of them sometimes. Vikki was always the pretty one of the three of us. She had curly reddish brown hair and green eyes with freckled pale skin. She was a straight-A student and was well liked by everyone at school. She was on the cross-country team and the volleyball team at school and was very good at both, but her real talent was singing. She had a deep soulful voice that sounded beautiful when she sat at her piano playing and singing away. I could relate a little more to Emily, she was more average. She had brown hair and blue eyes. She was really big into dancing. She had done ballet since she was 3 and still did it 14 years later. She was one of the nicest people I knew, I had never known her to insult anyone and she could see the good in everyone. It was a quality I wish I had. She just never let stuff get to her. She never got upset and she as just the most optimistic person ever.