Summer’s in Full Effect

🍩☀️🎧🌭🌷🩵

When the crisp air of July hits (and by crisp I mean warm breezes amongst temperatures that feel like 101°), rainbows disperse back into the ethers, and sunblock scents linger along every seat coating, it feels like Summer is activated and in full effect mode.

This year summer feels like it did when I was a kid, going to summer camp, getting my first cell phone, sharing headphones on the bus with friends, playing with our mp3 players trying to get the .99¢ headphones you begged your mom for to click just in the right spot (or trying not to tear the last standing strand of the Apple wire headphones you found somewhere in your parents’ junk drawer). It feels like sunburns fading into suntans— or if you’re like me— it feels like “I don’t get sunburnt!” once a week every time you look at your lobster coded friends or family members. Days at the beach, sand lingering in all the wrong crevices— including your parents’ or older siblings’ car seat covers, hot dogs and burgers on a charcoal grill, chlorine-flavored chips and licking salt off soggy fingers while your hair drips all over your sandals your mom told you *not* to wear to the pool today (she’s not getting you new ones again!). Eating ice cream barefoot on the burning hot concrete, hopping from foot to foot, trying to get through a brain freeze— a thumb pressed against the roof of your mouth — one temperature fiasco at a time.

Making bracelets in the car until you get car sick, plantain chips as a midday snack, getting your first Dunkin frozen coffee after begging your mom for one every Dunkin visit (and the sprinkled donut that hits every time? *chef’s kiss*🤌🏽).

It smells like electronic Rihanna hits playing on the radio and the music turned up *every* time, it feels like finally getting to bond with your older sister, making friends who get you a little more, and singing at the top of your lungs with all the windows rolled down to the summer soundtrack you will think of for years to come. It feels like that kind of summer.

Those were the best kinds of summers, and summer hasn’t felt like this for a very long time. I hope every summer to come feels like this — like ☀️summer☀️⛱️🎡🗺️🏖️— again. I get to revive my inner child. Now I remember why summer was always my favorite season.

I hope it always feels like this for you guys too.

kisses *Muah*

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