So what is the little Slugger doing in these hot days of summer?😍💕 ps: I love your writing and it’s a real masterpiece!👏

sembell:

She spends the first weeks of summer mostly arms deep in mud somewhere in Central Park, constantly up to mischief and always making her father bring some fresh fruit or get a smoothie for her. She has bruised and scratched knees and elbows from her adventures, but that doesn’t keep her from frolicking around with all the little friends she made – mostly boys, because she’s a wild child and once she sees a sandbox and a water pump, her baby dolls are abandoned.

Her hair got very light during the two weeks they’d spent in Costa Rica, where her mother broke her heel and her father teared his shoulder in an attempt to catch her as she was jumping into the pool. And while David is alright to care for her, Gillian is barely able to go to the playgrounds or keep up with her in general. It was a very nice vacation nontheless, because there was even sweeter fruit than at home and her brothers had a lot of time to play with her, which she always enjoys tremendously.

Twice a week, David brings her to a summer gymnastics class, where she met Henry, a little boy she never stops talking of these days. The first boyfriend, Gillian teases, while David just grumbles with gritted teeth. As if it wasn’t enough that his oldest daughter is about to leave for college, now the little one is also starting to spread her wings…