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A Different Kind of Summer
While his friends are enjoying their Summer vacation in glorious style, he is working in a grocery store close to home.
“Stop it!” Karl said as he slapped my phone out of my hand. “She’s not going to text you back anytime soon.”
I stared back at his cold brown eyes. “Fine,” I said, sitting back in my chair. I looked back over my right shoulder. Kristin was sitting with her friends, all of them laughing and conversing with each other.
“Give it a break,” Karl said, shaking his head. Karl was my best friend. “She’s not your friend, not anymore.”
“What’s the conversation?” Lucie asked as she sat down at our table in the cafeteria. Her girlfriend Sandy sat down next to her.
“What else?” Karl shrugged as he motioned to Kristen.
“Give it a fucking break already,” Sandy said. “Whatever you guys had in High School is now gone, she has moved on and so should you.”
I looked back. Kristin and I weren’t the best of friends even in High School. We were good friends at best. Then we came here, it wasn’t planned or did we know we would end up at the same college.
When we saw each other the first day, we hit it off. We talked every day and all night for the…
