The stars were shining as bright as ever. I just sat there, running my fingers through the sand making hills of sand. When is he coming? He was supposed to meet me here 30 minutes ago.

"Hey babe," said Brad. He was sweaty and red in the face but somehow his brown hair was perfectly in place. "Sorry I'm late, the guys wanted to play basketball."

"You should have at least told me. But whatever. Guess what? Happy birthday. I have your present right here."

"You got me a present?! You shouldn't have, we haven't even been going out for a year, and you got me something. I thought you wouldn't even remember." He looked happy which meant he made me happy. But I knew he wouldn't be happy for long.

I pulled out a medium-sized box out of my jacket pocket. Brad's eyes lit up and he took it and ripped off the golden wrapping paper. Inside was a simple gold necklace with the letter B on it. I saw him looking at it a few days ago with a group of friends.

"Jennifer, you shouldn't have. How did you know I wanted this?" Brad asked while putting on the necklace.

"I have my sources." I said shyly. We sat there for a while talking about everything. We kept making jokes and we laughed about everything.

About an hour later, I had to tell Brad something I knew he wouldn't like. "Brad, you know how we planned we were going to spend the summer with each other. Well we can't." I saw Brad look up at me suddenly interested in what I was saying. "I have to go to Florida for summer vacation."

"What? Why?"

It was really hard to look into eyes. He was really hoping to spend time with me during the summer. "I'm sorry. I haven't seen my Dad in two years and he wanted to see me for the whole summer to catch up. I won't even be back till the week before school."

"When are you leaving?" I could hear disappointment in his voice even though he tried to hide it.

"Tomorrow. At 8:30 a.m. I'll be leaving out of Charlotte."

"Oh. Will we still be going out?"

"Of course. I wasn't breaking up with you."

After talking a little bit longer, we got up and walked away from the beach. Once we got to my house, we kissed goodbye. It was going to be hard not seeing him.

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