Three weeks later...
It was another hot, boring July afternoon. I was sitting out on the front porch, reading, when Anne rode up the driveway on her bike.
"Monica, guess what!" she called, her face flushed with excitement. I had not seen her this excited since we thought we could go to the concert.
"What?" I replied, extremely curious.
"Kate got tickets to the concert!"
I was missing something here. "Okay, that's...great, but why are you so excited?"
Anne couldn't hold in her excitement any longer. "She got two tickets! She wants me to come with her! I'M GOING TO THE CONCERT!!!"
My first thought was, Why her? Why not me? My second thought was, Will Mom and Dad let her go? I ignored the first and asked Anne the second.
"Probably. Remember, Dad said that the only reason we couldn't go was because he and Mom couldn't take us?"
I remembered all too clearly. "So, let's go ask, shall we?" I was trying to be happy for her.
"Yeah, let's go!"
Well, Mom and Dad said yes. Anne would be going to the Hanson concert on my birthday, while I stayed at home doing homework. Or so I thought, when the phone rang...
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