Sierra Jensen Collection, Volume 4 by Robin Jones Gunn

Author:Robin Jones Gunn [Gunn, Robin Jones]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56234-0
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

eight

SIERRA WAS GLAD to go to school on Thursday morning. Many of her friends were ditching, since it was the last day and it seemed pointless to attend class. But Sierra wanted to get out of the house.

Tawni had gone to sleep early but woke up a little cranky when Sierra started opening drawers at 7:05. Sierra still hadn’t gotten over the slump she had fallen into the night before. It all seemed so unreal. School was over. High school was over. A whole chunk of her childhood was over.

It came to an end so fast, Sierra thought as she drove to school. I can remember my first day of school when Mom made me wear those little red shoes with the buckles. I hated those shoes! What was she thinking when she bought those for me? Or did she buy them? They were probably hand-me-downs.

Pulling into the school parking lot, Sierra realized that, to her mother’s credit, she might not have understood Sierra’s preferences then, but she sure understood them now. Sierra thought her mom was great to be willing to adjust the family’s graduation celebration so Sierra could spend Friday night with her friends. Vicki’s parents had made a big issue of the arrangement, and Vicki said they had had a huge argument over it.

Sierra felt extra appreciative of her mom, yet at the same time a little melancholy. On her first day of school many years ago, pancakes had been served for breakfast, a love note had been tucked into her sweater pocket, and photographs had been taken before she walked down the sidewalk in a straight line behind Tawni, who was behind Wesley, who was behind Cody. Today she had made her own breakfast—a banana. No one had even said good-bye to her, and she had driven to school alone. Not that she expected her mom to take pictures. It was all just so different from the rest of her school experience.

If this was what being grown-up and independent was all about, Sierra wasn’t sure she liked it. Or at least she wasn’t sure she wanted to be at this point yet in her life.

Her last day of school was one party after another in each of her classes. Most of her teachers had nice speeches they gave to the students about what a wonderful year it had been. One of her teachers handed out cards with a Bible verse as a blessing for their future. It was a fun, sweet, sad, strange sort of day.

Instead of driving directly home, Sierra stopped at Eaton’s Pharmacy. A little soda fountain with red vinyl stools was located inside the corner drugstore. She ordered a chocolate shake. It was served along with a silver shake canister containing the portion of the drink that wouldn’t fit in the glass. The server was the same waitress who had been there the first time Sierra had visited the fountain with Granna Mae. Sierra didn’t remember the woman’s name but smiled and answered questions about how her family was doing, especially Granna Mae.

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