The Summer Everything Changed
                                                                                           Chapter 5

Oh my gosh, how did this happen?
 I was walking down the beach my heart thudding as he told me another embarrassing story from when he was little.
 This wasn’t my idea. I hated the perky blond lady that was sitting at the table and laughing at my dad’s jokes. I think she did like me though, so I’m that deep in. I basically just kept to myself until I couldn’t stand eating dinner with them anymore.
 Derrik was working in a huge library in progress in our house. He insisted that he could work great with tools so dad let him put in some of the shelves, that’s were I went. I opened the door that reveled the large book room and a tall boy my age working on it. He kept to himself, not whistling or singing like most boys I knew would do.
 It was apperent that he didn’t know I was there. After a couple minute of pounding on the shelves, he stepped down to get more materials.
His brown hair was matted in sweat at the top and he kept pushing I tout of his eyes. I was studying him carefully when he realized I was standing there. “What the-!” He stepped back. “How long have you been there?” Bewilderment showed in his voice.
 “Only a few minutes.” I sat down in a chair and followed me over.
 “What did you think of Grace?” He sat down like this was his own house.
 “I don’t know.” I answered truthfully, “She seems to make him really happy.”
 He chuckled but didn’t reply. We sat there for a minute before I finally broke the golden silence, “I’m going to beach for a walk.” I stood up and dusted my sun dress off.
 He stood up as well, yawing, “I’d better get home then.” We walked through the small door again and I saw that dad and Grace were still laughing at the kitchen table.
“Dad. I’ll be going now to the beach.” A concerned look crossed his face.
 “Alone? It’s already nine and that’s usually when bad things happen.”
 I rolled my eyes at him “Dad, I’ll be-,”
 “I’ll go with her,” Derrik cut me off with a smile, “It would be nice to catch up on the 14 years we missed.” 
 

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