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"Ready or not, here I come!" I heard Jerry yell from The Counting Post as we called it. Every Sunday after mass we would play hide and seek-tag. It was fun as long as you didn't get found.

"KIDS!!!! TIME TO COME IN!!" What a kill joy. The only bad thing about Sunday was Sunday class. I didn't have any friends in my class, my friends were all older than me, they were my brother's age. I had to sit through an hour of the teacher talking and the only people in my class were girls. I guess 2000 was a bad year for boys. I walked in the class room and I was surprised, I almost thought I had gotten the wrong room because there, sitting at the desk was a blonde boy looking at his hands on the desk. I walked over to him, maybe I would have a friend now, maybe I wouldn't have to choose one of the snobby girls during group projects.

"Hi! I'm Summer!!" I put out my hand for him to shake. He looked up at me, his eyes were a dark blue. He looked me up and down. I had changed out of the dress my mom had made me wear long ago and now I wore jean overalls and my favorite striped shirt. The boy's eyes searched me for a few more seconds.

"Joey." His voice was rough, with a touch of sadness.

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