Small World

Maya, and Talia stared off into the distance their silence settling uneasily between them. Since elementary school these girls had done everything together...until now. This was the summer of their senior year and while they are excited to be setting off into the wide world they will be going to different colleges and be many miles from each other. The weight of their decisions to attend separate colleges was just setting in with the reality of summer ending. They were sitting now where they had spent their summer tanning at the beach near their homes in Charleston, South Carolina.

Golden sun kissed skin and what should have been bright smiles but instead gloomy faces peered out from underneath their sun bleached hair. The sun was setting, casting a warm glow on the long stretches of sand when the girls sighed and wearily gathered their belongings together to head for home. As they walked past the many colored houses of Charleston's rainbow row Maya paused remembering riding their bikes here together as children. Maya was pulled back into the present when Talia turned to her and said "Come on Maya. We can't put this off any longer. I still haven't started packing for college yet and I have to leave out in two days."

"I know, but I'm gonna miss you so much. Why do things have to change so fast?" Maya replied. Talia shrugged her shoulders and started once more plodding towards her street.

Maya sped up a little to keep pace with her. Maya was staying in Charleston for college planning eventually to go through the medical college and become a pediatric oncologist treating children with cancer. Meanwhile Talia was going all the way across the country to the University of California, Berkeley for legal studies in hopes of later going to law school.