I can feel the hot, humid air sticking to my body like popsicle juice dripping on my hands. This is a summer day I know I’ll never forget. The summer before high school… the summer before everything changes. I have a feeling in my bones this summer will be one of the best summers I’ve ever had.. It’s a delightful sunny day, a day that I’ve been waiting for a long time. The rain has finally cleared out and Jules & I are laying by the community pool, trying to get a tan so that we won’t look like ghosts when we go back to school. It’s the first pool day of the summer, and for once, it actually feels like summer. Kids splashing around, spraying each other with water guns, preteen girls trying to impress the male lifeguards on duty, popular music blasting on the loud, expensive stereos, the sun shining down on our pale, vampire-like bodies. A typical American summer.
I know in a couple of hours, Jules & I will leave the community pool, walk down to the run-down 7-Eleven, buy two large, mouthwatering cherry Slurpees and walk to our community park, where we’ll talk about what we want to do in high school and get all nostalgic about when we were little. Yet, I also have a feeling that this will be the last time that we’ll do this. Jules & I are changing. I can defend myself now. People don’t boss me around anymore and that’s something Jules loves to do. Jules is the leader between the two of us. She’s the one that would talk to people for me. And now? It’s just different. What if going to Greece to visit my family will change my perspective on everything? I guess that’s one thing I don’t have the answer to. At least not yet.