| IN GOOD HUMOR |
INDEPENDENCE EVE by Christine Seifert
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he car smelled like vomit and everyone had a sunburn. And to top it all off, they were very late to dinner. It was her mother’s special July 3rd dinner, a celebration to kick off the holiday weekend. Earlier in the afternoon, the boys had begged to stop at the water park, so Blair pulled the Highlander into the parking lot just like that. “Okay,” he said, “let’s do it.” The boys practically peed themselves, they were so excited.
“Do you mind?” Blair asked her when they were already getting out of the car, the boys dancing from foot to foot, doubledaring each other to go down even the steepest of slides head- first. “Well, what can I say now? I’m not going to be the bad guy and say no,” Annabeth answered. She didn’t care one bit that they were going to miss supper at the lake house. It was one less meal with her mother to endure. She wanted to go to the 22
