Middle School

She got out of the champagne Chevrolet Venture and took in the familiar surroundings. It was her first day back at her old school after her family had decided to move back to Tallahassee. Catie walked up the side walk past the front office heading for the seventh grade hallway. The move had more or less been just for the summer. With the housing and job markets being what they were in fall of 2004 the Sirianni family thought it best to go back to the town that still had these essentials waiting. It  had been three months since Catie has seen the people she called her best friends. The third week of the new school year was upon them and while her friends knew she was coming back, Catie wanted to keep the element of surprise for when exactly she would arrive. Walking past the sixth grade building she surveyed the faces of students who were just gaining control of their bearings.