With school starting in only four days, summer jobs at the local Dairy Queen and community pool are winding down, school clothes are being shoved into full closets, uniforms are being dragged out.
Monday will mark the beginning of cheerleading practices, most of the girls fresh from a month of cheer camp back in July. The boys have been on the football field in 100 degree afternoons, running drills and practicing plays for their new coach since the beginning of August. Effy Bennett is gone - the last big weekend of summer, visiting her older brother - Quinn Fabray arriving back from her summer volunteering as a counselor at church camp, Sebastian Smythe wandering through the town photographing everyone’s most intimate and private moments.
Saturday will host the biggest bonfire of the summer at the Weston ranch, one last hurrah before calculus and physics overwhelm everyone once again.
It’s the last few days to enjoy the sunshine and heat, to establish tan lines and carry around the smell of chlorine for dinner at the local diner. It’s the last few days of peace, before junior year begins and everything truly changes.