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🌻THE🌻
🌻SUMMER🌻
🌻I TURNED PRETTY 🌻
Episode 3
By Author Ike ✍🏽✍🏽

🥀MIRA 🥀

After I unpacked, I went straight down to the pool, where I knew the boys would be. They were lying around on the deck chairs, their dirty feet off the edges.
As soon as Gabby saw me, he sprang up, "Ladies and Gentlemen-men-men" he started dramatically bowing like a circus ringmaster. "I do believe that it's time .... For our first belly flop of the summer..."
I inched away from them uneasily...
Too fast a movement, and it would be all over ~ they'd chase me then .. "No way" I said
Then Conrad and Adrian stood up, circling me "You can't fight tradition..." Adrian said .... Conrad just grinned evilly
"I'm way too old for this ".. I said desperately, I walked backwards, and that's when they grabbed me... Adrian and Gabby each took a wrist ...
"Come on guys", I said trying to wiggle off their grasp, I dragged my feet , but they pulled me along . I knew it was futile to resist bit I always tried , even though the bottoms of my feet got burned along the pavement in the process...
"Ready", Gabby said lifting me up under my armpits...
Conrad grabbed my feet and then Adrian took my right arm while Gabby hung on my left ... They swung me back and forth like a sack of flour . "I hate you guys😫😫", I yelled over their laughter
"One" Gabby began
"Two" Adrian said
"And three" Conrad finished. Then they launched me into the pool, clothes and all . I got the water with a loud smack.
Underwater, I could hear them busting up ...
Belly flop was something they'd started about a million summers ago. Probably it could've been Adrian ., I hated it. Even though it was one of the only times I was included in their fun , I hated being the brunt of it... It made me feel utterly powerless , and it was a reminder that I was an outsider , too weak to fight them , all because I was a girl .. somebody's little sister 🙄🤦🏽‍♀️
I used to cry 😢 about it, run to Christine and my mom , but it didn't do any good ..
The boys accused me of being a tattletale . Not this time though . This time I'm gonna be a good sport. Maybe if I was a good sport , that'd take away some of their joy ..
When I came up to the surface, I smiled and said," you guys are ten-year-olds"
"For life😏" Adrian said smugly . His smuggy fave made me wanna splash him and soak him and his precious Hugo boss sunglasses that he worked for three weeks to pay for....
Then I said ,"I think you twisted my ankle , Conrad" I pretended to have trouble swimming over them ..
He walked over the edge of the pool ,"I'm pretty you'll live😼😼 ," he said, smirking
"Well at least help me out," I demanded .
He squatted and gave me his hands , which I took..
"Thanks ," I said calmly .... Then I gripped tight and pulled his arm as hard as I could. He stumbled, fell forward , and landed in the pool with a splash even bigger than mine. I think I laughed harder right then than I've ever laughed in my whole life 😂.. so did Gabby and Adrian . U think maybe that all of cousin's beach 🏝️ heard is laughing.
Conrad's head bobbed up quickly , and he swam over to me in about two strokes . I worried that he might be mad , but he wasn't , well not totally. He was smiling but in a threatening kinda way . I dodged away from him ,"Can't catch me", I said gleefully.
"Too slow"
Every time he came close , I swam away "Marco" I called out, giggling
Gabby and Adrian, who were headed back to the house , said ,"Polo!!"
Which made me laugh, which made me slow to swim away, and Conrad caught my foot "Let go," I gasped , still laughing
Conrad shook his head, "I thought I was too slow," he said , treading water closer to me .. we were in the diving well . His white T-shirt was soaked through, I could see the pinky gold of his skin😋🙃..
There was this weird stillness between us all of a sudden 😲... He still held on to my foot , and I was trying to stay afloat... For a second right there, I wished Gabby and Adrian were still here . I didn't know why...
"Let go "
He pulled on my foot , drawing me closer. Being this close to him was making me feel dizzy and nervous 🤭🤭....
I said it again , one last time even though I didn't mean it 🙃.
"Conrad, let go of me"
He did . And then, he dunked me. It didn't matter , I was already holding my breath .... 😰😰

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Episode 2 (Age 12)

By Author Ike ✍🏽✍🏽🌼


MIRA ✍️

The first time I had ever had my heart broken was at this same house 🏠 ... I was twelve ...🤦🏽‍♀️

It was one of those rare nights when the boys 😋 weren't all together - Gabriel and Adrian went on an overnight fishing trip with some boys they'd met at the arcade ... Conrad said he didn't feel like going , and of course I wasn't invited 🙄 , so it was just me and him .
Well not together but in the same house 🏠...
I was reading a romance novel in my room with my feet on the wall when Conrad walked by....
He stopped and said ,"Mira, what are you doing tonight?"
I folded the cover of my book over quickly "Nothing" I said ... I tried to keep my voice even , not too excited or eager . I had left my door open on purpose, hoping he'd stop by...
"Wanna go to the boardwalk with me?" He asked .... He sounded casual... Well, almost too casual
This was this moment I'd been waiting for... This was it ... I was finally old enough .... Some part of me knew it too, it was ready .I glanced at him , just as casual as he'd been "Maybe I've been craving a caramel apple"
"I'll buy one for you", he offered "just hurry up and put some clothes on and we'll go. Our moms are going to the movies; they'll drop us off on the way"
I sat up and said "Okay"

As soon as Conrad left , I closed my door and ran over to my mirror. I took my hair out of its braids and brushed it .. it was long that Summer , almost to my waist . Then I changed out of my bathing suit and put on white shorts and my favorite gray shirt.... My dad said it matched my eyes 😌... I smeared some strawberry 🍓 frosting lip gloss o my lips and tucked the tube into my pocket, for later. In case I needed to reapply 🌝...
In the Car, Christine keep smiling at me in the rearview mirror. I gave her a look like , Quit please~but I wanted to smile back ... Conrad wasn't paying attention anyways... He was looking out the window the whole ride there ..
"Have fun kids," said Christine, winking 😉 at me
Conrad bought me a caramel apple first and got for himself a soda, but that was it~ He usually ate at least an apple 🍎 or two , or a funnel cake 🍰. He seemed nervous 😰, which kinda made less nervous 🤭🤭...
As we walked down the boardwalk, I let my arm hang lose ~In case🤗. But he didn't reach for it 😫🤦🏽‍♀️... It was one of those nights , the kind where there's cool breeze 🌬️ and not one drop of rain... There would be rain tomorrow, but that night there were cool breezes and that was it....
I said ,"Let's sit down so I can eat my apple 🍎," so we sis . We sat on a bench that faced the beach 🏝️..
I bit into my apple 🍎 carefully; I was worried I might get caramel all stuck in my teeth, and then how'd he kiss 😘 me
He sipped his Coke noisily 🤦🏽‍♀️, and then glanced at his watch , " When you finish that , let's go to the ring-toss."
He wanted to win me a stuffed animal !! I already knew which one I'd pick too~ the polar bear with wire-framed glasses and a scarf. I'd had my eye on it all Summer. I could already picture myself showing em to Taylor . Oh , that ? Conrad Fisher won it for me.
I wolfed down the rest of my apple 🍎 in about two bites , "Kay," I said , wiping my mouth with the back of my hand. "Let's go."
Conrad walked straight over to the ring-toss , and I had to walk super quick to keep up. As usual, he wasn't talking much, so I talked even more to make up for it "I think when we get back , my mom might finally get Cable. Adrian and my Dad and I have been trying to convince her forever. She claims to be so against TV , but then she watches movies on A&E , like, the whole time we're here . It's so hypocritical 🤦🏽‍♀️" I said , and my voice trailed off when I saw that Conrad wasn't even listening. He was watching the girl who worked the ring-toss .
She looked about fourteen or fifteen. The first thing I noticed was her shorts . They were canary yellow and they were really, really short ASF . The exact same kind of shorts that the boys had made funna me for wearing two days ago . I felt so good about buying those short with Christine, and then the boys had laughed at me about it. The shorts look a whole better on her.
Her legs were skinny and freckled , and so were her arms . Everything about her was skinny , even her lips ... Her hair was long and wavy . It was red , bug it was so light it was almost peach 🍑. I think it might've been the prettiest hair I'd ever seen. She pulled it over to the side , and it was so long that she had to keep flicking it away as she handed people rings....
Conrad g at come to the boardwalk cossa her . He'd brought me because he hadn't wanted to come alone and he hadn't wanted Adrian and Gabby to give him a hard time. That was it 😢💔... That was the whole reason I could see the way he looked at her, the way he almost seemed to hold his breath .
"Do you know her" I asked
He looked startled, like he'd forgotten that I was there.. "Her? No , not really"
I but my lip , "Well, do you wanna?"
"Do I want to what ?" Conrad was confused, which was annoying..
"Do you want to know her"... I asked impatiently . ..
"Well... I guess."
J grabbed him by his shirt sleeve and walked right up to the booth . The girl smiled at us , and I smiled back, but it was just for a show. I was playing a part. " How many rings?" She asked. She had braces, but on her they looked interesting like teeth jewelry not like orthodontics
"We'll take three," I told her. "I like your shorts"
"Thanks," she said
Conrad cleared his throat. "They're nice,"

"I thought you said they were too short when j wore the exact same pair two days ago." I turned to the girl and said , "Conrad is too overprotective. Do you have a big brother?"
She laughed, "No" To Conrad she said , " Do yoh think they're too short "
He blushed 😱😱.. I'd never seen him blush before, not in the whole time I'd known him. I had a feeling it might be the last time. I made a big show with my watch and said ," Con, I'm gonna go ride the Ferris wheel before we leave. Win me a prize, ok?"
Conrad nodded quickly, and I said bye to the girl and left. I walked over to the Ferris wheel as fast as I could so they wouldn't see me cry 😢...
Later on, I found out the girl's name was Angie. Conrad ended up winning me the polar bear with the wire-framed glasses and scarf. He said Angie told him it was the best prize they had ... He said he thought I'd like it took . I told him that I'd rather have had the giraffe 🦒 , but thanks anyways , I named him Junior Mint , and I left him where he belonged , at the summer house...
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🌼THE🌼
🌼SUMMER🌼
🌼I TURNED PRETTY🌼
🌼Episode 1🌼

By Author Ike ✍🏽✍🏽🌼

🥰MIRA🥰

We'd been driving for about seven thousand years 🤦🏽‍♀️...... Or at least that's how it felt 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

My brother, Adrian, drove slower than Granna.... I sat next to him in the passengers seat with my feet up on the dashboard.....

Meanwhile, mum passed out in the backseat, even as she slept , she looked alert like at any second she'd wake up and direct traffic 😄😄...
"Move faster" I urged Adrian poking him on the shoulder "let's pass that kid on the bike 🏍️
Adrian shrugged me off "Never touch the driver" he said "And keep your dirty feet oof my dashboard 😾"

I wiggled my feet back and forth... They looked pretty neat to me 🥴🥴..... "It's not your dashboard.,. It's gonna be mine soon , you know😜"
Of you ever get a driver's license which I know you may never get " he scoffed " people like you should never be drive "
"Hey... Look" I said pointing out the window" That guy in a wheelchair 👩🏾‍🦼 has lapped us"

Adrian ignored me , and so I started to fiddle with the radio. One of my favorite things about going to the beach 🏝️ was the radio stations 😋..

I was as familiar with them as with the one back home, and listening to the Q94 made me just really know that I was there at the beach 🏝️..

I found my favorite radio station, the one played everything from pop to oldies to hip hop... Tom Petty was singing"Free Fallin" I sang right along with him 🎶She's a good girl , crazy bout Elvis, loves horses 🐎 and her boyfriend too🎶
Adrian reached over to the radio stations , I slapped his hands away

"Mira, your voice makes me wanna run this car 🚘 into the ocean😩😩" he pretended to swerve right ...
I sang even louder, which woke mum up and she started to sing too... We both had terrible voices and Adrian shook his head in his disgusted Adrian way .. He hated being outnumbered... It was what bothered him the most about our parents being divorced... Being the lone guy , without our Dad to take his side ...🤦🏿‍♂️

We drove through town slowly and even though I just teased Adrian about it , I didn't really mind.... I loved this drive this moment🥰😁

Seeing this town again , Jimmy's Crab 🦀 Shack 😋, The putt putt, all the surf shops .. it was like coming home after you'd been gone a long, long time .... It held a million promises of Summer and of what might just be ......

As we got closer and closer to the house 🏠 , I could feel that familiar flutter in my chest ... We were almost there

I rolled down the window and took it all in.... The air tasted just the same . The wind making my hair sticky... The salty sea breeze all of it folt just right like it had been waiting for me to get there...

Adrian elbowed me "Are you thinking about Conrad 😏?" He asked mockingly

And for once my answer was NO "No" I snapped

Mum stuck her head between our two seats ,"Mira , do you still like Conrad ? From the look of things last summer, I thought there was something between you and Gabby ...."

"WHAT!!😳😳... You and Gabriel" Adrain looked sickened 🤢 " What happened with you and Gabriel 😒?"

"Nothing" I told them both. I could feel a flush rising up from my chest ... I wished I had a tan already to cover it up "Mum, just because two people are good friends, doesn't mean that there's anything going on... Please don't bring that up again"

Mum leaned back into the backseat "DONE" She said .. Her voice had that not of finality I knew Adrian wouldn't be able to break through

Because he was Adrian... He tried anyways 🤦🏽‍♀️
"What happened with you and Gabriel 😒? You can't say something like that and not explain 😏"

"Get over it" I told him... Telling Adrian anything would only give him ammunition to make fun of me... And anyways there was nothing to tell ... There'd never been anything to tell ... Not really 🤷🏽

Conrad and Gabriel were Beck's sons . Beck was Christine Fisher formerly Christine Beck ... My mom was the only one who called her Beck.. They'd known each other since they were nine - Blood sisters , they call each other and they had scars to prove it - identical marks on their wrists that looked like hearts ❤️🥰

Christine told me that when I was born , I was destined for one of her boys . She said that it was fate . My mom who didn't normally go in for that kinda stuff said that it'd be perfect as long as I'd had at least a few loves before I'd settle down. Actually she said "LOVERS" but that word makes me cringe. Christine put her hands on my cheeks and said ,"Mira , you have my unequivocal blessings... I'd hate to lose my boys to anyone else"... Like I'm gonna marry the two of them 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

We've been going to Christine's beach 🏝️ house 🏠 in Bouston Beach since I was a baby 🥰... Since before I was born 🤦🏽‍♀️... For me , Bouston was less about town and more about the house ... We had our stretch of the beach 🏝️ all to ourselves 😋.... The summer houses were made up of lots of things. The wraparound porch we used to run around on , jugs of sun 🌞 tea , the swimming pool at night 🌃 - but the boys😋🙃 .... The boys most of all 🙃🙃

I wondered what the boys looked like in December 🤔🤔... I didn't know the Winter Conrad nor the Winter Gabriel 😞😞 and I was jealous of everyone who did 🤭🤭

I'd sit next to the radiator in history class and wonder what they were doing... If they were warming their feet along the bottom of the radiator somewhere too...

For me it was almost like winter didn't count ... Summer was all that mattered. .. my whole life was measured in summer

Conrad was the older one by a a year and a half ... He was dark, dark , dark completely unattainable, unavailable... He had a smirky kinda mouth and I always found myself staring at em... Smirky mouths makes you wanna kiss 😘 them .. to smooth them and kiss the smirkness away .. Or maybe not away ... But you can control it somehow... Make it yours ... It was exactly what I wanted to do with Conrad .. make him mine 😋😌

Gabriel, though he's my friend, he was nice to me ... He was the kinda boy who still hugged his mum ... He wasn't ashamed or embarrassed either ... Gabriel Fisher was too busy having fun to ever be embarrassed

When we finally arrived at the house 🏠, Conrad and Gabriel were sitting out on the front porch , I leaned over Adrian and honked the horn twice which in our summer language meant COME HELP WITH THE BAG STAT.

I got down from the car and they helped out with the bags
"You've grown a bit , Mira" Conrad complimented....

Yeah right....

Seeing Conrad again , having him look at me that way , I felt like I needed a second to breathe , I grabbed the stuffed polar bear on my dresser and hugged him close to my chest . His name is Junior mint ... Junior for short. I sat down with Junior o my twin bed 🛏️ ... My heart started beating so loudly.. I could hear it ... Everything was the same but not ... They had looked at me like a real girl not just somebody's little sister 🙄 🤦🏽‍♀️

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