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SUMMER HARPER AVERY / fifteen. i'm the kind of girl that would love to be yours if you asked me to.

[meredithfreakinggrey-deactivate]

If anything goes too badly, I have a bunker outback. We can hide in it together. 

[summerharper-blog]

Why do you have a bunker? Not that I’m complaining; anywhere I can hide when my mom is angry is alright with me.

[meredithfreakinggrey-deactivate]

I wouldn’t cross your mother when she’s mad. Don’t tell her I said that, I’ll never live it down

[summerharper-blog]

She gets this crazy looks in her eyes and I swear it looks like she’d murder. I love her a lot, she’s my mom, but she cannot handle being mad. Your secret’s safe with me, I promise. Just don’t tell her I agree, okay? I don’t want to awaken the monster.

[the-james-anders]

They killed my patient, can I write them off now?

[summerharper-blog]

Oh. That’s definitely not good. I’m so sorry that you lost your patient, but that still doesn’t prove that they’re all terrible surgeons.

[meredithfreakinggrey-deactivate]

Sure, lets go with that. Sometimes I forget your a Kepner. 

[summerharper-blog]

Yeah... Sometimes I wish I didn’t get her competitiveness too. 

[the-james-anders]

You’re full of sunshine and rainbows. 

[summerharper-blog]

I’m just an optimist. People deserve a chance. It’s not fair to write them off before they can even show you what they can do. That’s like, the worst way of looking at it.

[meredithfreakinggrey-deactivate]

Yes, and they’re tall. Which means they have big feet and having big feet means…

[summerharper-blog]

Oh, um, yeah... Yep, totally. Big feet, big brains.

[abby-shay-md-deactivated2015070]

“Oh God, the on-call room beds are so uncomfortable…” 

[summerharper-blog]

“The on-call rooms are only good for one thing.”

[meredithfreakinggrey-deactivate]

Football teams are overrated. The basketball team however…

[summerharper-blog]

I feel like I’m missing out on something good. Are they usually nicer than the football players? Because those boys could really use charm school.

[firsthq-deactivated20180111]

“My teacher talked for three hours today about our future and I still don’t know if I want to go to Yale or Dartmouth. Somebody help me, please.” 

[summerharper-blog]

"Just go wherever you’ll be happy. I myself an extremely partial to Yale, but that’s only because I want to be Rory Gilmore. If it feels like the right decision, it probably is.”

[the-james-anders]

Why do I always get the dud interns?

[summerharper-blog]

Maybe they’ll surprise you. You should give them a chance to prove themselves.

[abby-shay-md-deactivated2015070]

Harper Avery’s great-granddaughter finds medicine boring?! -gasp- Oh my poor little heart! Just kidding, love.

[summerharper-blog]

I know! My grandmother acts like I’ve chosen to be a murderer rather than a writer. I just can’t get behind all that stuff. What do you like about it?

[sammyevxns-blog]

I suppose it matters a tiny bit.. but I know what it’s like to be at the bottom of the social ladder, I don’t exactly have any friends and the ones I do have are mostly family.. Journalism is cool though. You can do something that not many students can and that’s an achievement, right? 

[summerharper-blog]

Sometimes I want to crawl out of the popular kid hole, just to see what all the fuss is about, and then I realize that they’re so unbelievably shallow. Being popular is like being sentenced to being awful. Sure, there are exceptions. It’s good we’re where we are though, I think good people deserve to stay good. And if that means we eat lunch alone? Well hey, I’ll eat alone with you! Oh yeah, I guess journalism is cool? I don’t know. I love it though, so I don’t mind. It’s such a rush to be covering something as it happens, or to know information that other’s don’t. That’s part of why I like it so much; I feel elite and special. I never really looked at it that way. It’s always just been... there. I chose it as an elective in the fifth grade, and I’ve been in love with it ever since.

[abby-shay-md-deactivated2015070]

Sweetie, that’s not how it works. We need to talk. 

[summerharper-blog]

It seems good enough to me. Read something every few years, get caffeinated, never have another bad emotion until your next “prescription” is due. How I wish that’s how medicine worked, then maybe I wouldn’t find it so absolutely boring. I’m kidding. For the most part.

[ryantheshepherd]

That’s why you look at the ground as you walk, so that you can make sure to avoid tripping over places like that. I’m sure they won’t make fun of you for too long about this. Just a couple weeks.. maybe a month… but no more than that.

[summerharper-blog]

I was engrossed in a Barbara Walter’s biography. Does that make it worse? If it does, pretend I never mentioned it all. Good to know I won’t be at my high school reunion still rehashing the subject. Maybe I’ll do something else embarrassing, and it’ll be replaced.

[abby-shay-md-deactivated2015070]

Oh sweetie, sounds like you had a bad day. Is there anything I could do to cheer you up.

[summerharper-blog]

I’m okay now. But Abbey, thank you for the offer, I really appreciate it. I’ve got a cup of coffee and a New Yorker now, so I think I’ll be happy for at least another fifteen years. That’s how the brain works, right?

[sammyevxns-blog]

Although it was probably embarrassing, I wouldn’t let it get to you. I mean, the football team aren’t exactly the best people to try to impress at school…. 

[summerharper-blog]

I guess that’s true. It’s just really hard being at the bottom of the social ladder already. Journalist for the paper makes me lame enough, it’s even worse when the rest of the package is added. Like, logically I know all of it doesn’t matter, but let’s be real -- it matters a little.

[ryantheshepherd]

I’ve been staring at the screen on my TV for the past two hours, and I’m still no further at passing this level than I was when I started. Pretty sure my butt fell asleep as well, so there’s not going to be any getting up and moving around for a short while.

[summerharper-blog]

What were you playing? I’m amazing at Mario Kart, if I do say so myself. Anything without Princess Peach as a character and I’m clueless.