Life, Loss, and Lemonade by Laurie Friedman
Author:Laurie Friedman [Friedman, Laurie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Alabama, Best Friend, Best Friends, Boyfriend, Boyfriends, Darby Creek, Families and Relationships, Family, Fiction, Friend, Friends, Friendship, Girl Interest, Laurie Friedman, Romance, Sibling, Siblings, Sister, Sisters, Teenage Girl, Teenage Girls, Teenager, Teenagers, The Mostly Miserable Life of April Sinclair, The South, Readers, Intermediate, Social Issues, Adolescence, Social Issues, Emotions & Feelings
ISBN: 9781512434712
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2017-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
âUnknown
Saturday, May 16, 5:02 p.m.
Home from state competition
Feeling mixed
When I was with Leo yesterday celebrating Gagaâs birthday, I felt happier than I had in a long time. As I went to bed, I felt certain the dark cloud that had been hanging over me had lifted, but I was wrong.
This morning, I left on a 5:30 a.m. bus with the dance team to go to the state competition in Birmingham. Even though we left at an hour when no one should be awake, everyone was super pumped on the ride there.
The team high continued all day while we waited for our turn to perform, and then while the other teams performed, and especially when the results were announced and we learned the Faraway team came in first place.
Everyone on my team was cheering and going wild.
I acted like I was excited tooâbut it was just acting. I wanted to seem happy weâd won, and I was. But when we heard weâd won, my first thought was that I wouldnât be able to share the good news with Gaga. I felt like I had a secret I couldnât share with my teammates.
What would I have said?
6:10 p.m.
Talked to Billy
OMG! Billy just called and I canât believe what he told me.
âSophie and I hung out this afternoon, and she invited me to spend the summer with her in New York City.â
âWHAT?â Sophie hadnât mentioned a thing about this to me, and I honestly wasnât even sure what it meant.
âYou heard me,â said Billy.
âHuh? She wants you to come to New York for the summer?â I asked.
âYeah. Sophie told me sheâd been thinking about it and that sheâd come up with a way for us to spend the summer together.â Billy paused. âSheâs going to an arts day camp and said I could find something to do in the city tooâlike go to a camp, get a job, or volunteer somewhere. She told me I could even go to a student-government camp and learn how to better represent my school. She said there are tons of things to pick from, and that I could stay at her momâs or her dadâs apartment.â
I was shocked to hear sheâd suggested all this. I could tell Billy was too. He kept talking. âShe said this way, we wouldnât have to break up, and that it would be the first step in having a long-distance relationship.â
I took a deep breath. Sophie is normally so reasonable, but this sounded crazy. âWhat did you tell her?â I asked Billy.
âFirst, I told her I was already planning to go back to Camp Silver Shores.â
That made sense. It was the truth. âDid she understand?â
âNot really,â said Billy. âShe said that given the circumstances of her having to move back to New York City because her parents are getting divorced and both wanting custody of her, she hoped Iâd be understanding and think about changing my plans.
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