Welcome to Dog Beach (The Seagate Summers #1)

Welcome to Dog Beach (The Seagate Summers #1) — page 7
During the summer Danish slept in my bed He spent all day with Micayla Bennett and me Everyone thought he was my dog And the house well the house felt like ours too The yellow room with the canopy bed was mine No one else slept there Mom and Dad had the room around the corner with the blue-and-ivory-striped wallpaper And Grandma’s room was at the end of the hallway She had her own bathroom but she’d let us use it All year she’d be busy on Seagate volunteering at the elementary school to help the kids with math setting up the concert schedule for the summer taking Danish to Dog Beach even when it was a little bit cold outside Even though I knew all that I always imagined her waiting patiently for us to come back for the summer We’d come for weekends sometimes but that didn’t really count Summer was summer Summer was when we were all together Grandma would make her famous corn chowder Mom would set up her easel on the back deck and paint landscapes of the ocean and Dad would try to play Ping-Pong with everyone on the island at least once After Grandma died we were all really sad We couldn’t imagine being on Seagate without her But when we came back that next summer being there was more comforting than we expected it to be Everyone wanted to tell us stories about Grandma Dad did some work on the house to spruce it up a little bit and Mom organized a special concert in Grandma’s memory Now the annual concert series is known as the Sally Bell Seagate Concert Calendar Danish died this past December It was sudden and I don’t really like to even think about it All winter and spring I kept