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.

—Unknown

Saturday, May 16, 5:02 p.m.

Home from state competition

Feeling mixed

When I was with Leo yesterday celebrating Gaga’s 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 too—but it was just acting. I wanted to seem happy we’d won, and I was. But when we heard we’d won, my first thought was that I wouldn’t be able to share the good news with Gaga. I felt like I had a secret I couldn’t share with my teammates.

What would I have said?

6:10 p.m.

Talked to Billy

OMG! Billy just called and I can’t believe what he told me.

“Sophie and I hung out this afternoon, and she invited me to spend the summer with her in New York City.”

“WHAT?” Sophie hadn’t mentioned a thing about this to me, and I honestly wasn’t even sure what it meant.

“You heard me,” said Billy.

“Huh? She wants you to come to New York for the summer?” I asked.

“Yeah. Sophie told me she’d been thinking about it and that she’d come up with a way for us to spend the summer together.” Billy paused. “She’s going to an arts day camp and said I could find something to do in the city too—like 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 mom’s or her dad’s apartment.”

I was shocked to hear she’d suggested all this. I could tell Billy was too. He kept talking. “She said this way, we wouldn’t have to break up, and that it would be the first step in having a long-distance relationship.”

I took a deep breath. Sophie is normally so reasonable, but this sounded crazy. “What did you tell her?” I asked Billy.

“First, I told her I was already planning to go back to Camp Silver Shores.”

That made sense. It was the truth. “Did she understand?”

“Not really,” said Billy. “She 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 I’d be understanding and think about changing my plans.

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