Getting warmer already, that late-summer rainy season made Beth Ann feel drowsy, made her want to spend all day with the girls, stay up late and eat dinner on the porch and look at the stars. Summer made her love the simple things, and she wished Wendy were around more these days to do all the things with them like they used to. Crystal and Kenzie kicked their feet as they rolled along. They wore matching jelly shoes with Ariel and Sleeping Beauty on them, their hair in ponytails on the top of their heads.Wendy had been talking about Dale since they left the house, and Beth Ann was beginning to get a little tired of it.“It’s like it’s a whole different life,” Wendy told her. “I feel like we can do everything together. And I feel like I can learn to do stuff I never thought of, how to play golf or drink shots or even how to draw better. You know I can really draw? I don’t know why I never took any art classes. I don’t remember even going in the art room at school except when I was really little.
