4- Pack your bags

“What is summer gonna be like without you Ms. Calista Hunt?” Cali’s best friend, Skye said dramatically as she painted her toenails a bright neon pink color.  “Can you believe this is gonna be our first summer apart? Ever? Since we were like 5 neither one of us have ever spent summer away from each other.  Can you believe it? I just realized how super close we are it’s so funny and weird!” Skye blabbered on “But I’m so psyched for you Cali. This is so exciting! When you get there you’ve got to tell me everything about everything. Say yes!” She practically shouted at Cali who was busy packing her stuff. “Yes.” She said monotonously to her overly energetic friend. “So have you planned where you’re going yet when you get there? Aside from all the touristy places maybe go check out some cool clubs? You’re eighteen! And eighteen is the legal drinking and partying age there. Oh my gosh Cal! Now you’re making me want to go with you. I wish I could go with you. Just imagine…” Skye daydreamed making a grand hand gesture into thin air “You and me on an unforgettable summer trip doing crazy awesome stuff together and meeting lots of great new people!” As Cali neatly folded a few remaining sweaters, she thought of how fun the idea would be to go with her one and only crazy best friend on an adventure trip to a foreign land. Skye stood up from her awkward position and opened Cali’s cabinet “Don’t forget to bring this!” she held out a black strapless mini dress with thin gold piping along the top, the tag still on.  Cali remembered going to the mall with Skye begging her to buy the dress because she looked “Smokin’” in it as her completely mental friend loved to refer to it.  “Skye, It will be close to wintertime when I get there and what will I be needing a dress like that for?” “You never know Cal. I’m just saying you wouldn’t want to regret it if in case you meet a cute Australian guy and he asks you out on a hot date and you’ve got nothing to wear and you get all panicky because I’m not there to go help you shop for an appropriate date dress.” “You are too imaginative and cocky sometimes you know that? Plus you are a mean b***h who never believes in my fashion sense.  It’s called classy meets vintage chic alright. Yours is more modern trendy and on the brink of sluttyness.” Cali jokingly teased her modelesque friend.  People from their High School see Skye Parker as another popular snob with a pretty face and long lean legs to die for.  She loved to show them off and girls get jealous while the boys go drooling over them. Growing up, Skye somehow evolved from awkward child into Ms. Popular who loved the high school limelight while Cali, the more quiet, reserved type who doesn’t like to draw attention to herself remained quite the same person, yet they somehow managed to stay friends after all those blundering teenage years. “I think I’m all set.” Cali said double-checking the contents of her luggage and finally zipping it up.  “What do you want to do now?” “Let’s go to the Deli! Seeing you pack all those boring sweaters is extremely famishing!” the melodramatic Skye said.