“They’ve never let me take a friend on our trips before.” It was difficult to hide my surprise. Although Livi is practically family now, we had never spent time together alone outside of school before I was invited on this vacation with her family. Her …show more content…
I definitely feel better. This is good for the soul, a week away from everything. We all know my soul could use all the help it can get.”
She laughed. I can never stay serious for too long, everything I say always inevitably ending in a joke of some form. We sat and talked about the wildest of things, told our craziest stories. We did this everyday that week, and if there was a single part of the trip I took for granted, it was that one. We did crazy things that week, but when someone asks me about spring break, all I can think of is the talks we had while drinking those delicious cookie dough milkshakes.
An assortment of family activities and bike riding filled most of the week, but staring at the stars was a favorite activity of mine. Livi’s parents required that we all spend at least five minutes on the deck at night to look up at the sky, the stars clear as I have ever seen them, yet I was the only one who did not mind. There is nothing more pure in this world than staring at a crystal clear night sky with nothing but the sounds of waves crashing onto the