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Liz was barely noticing the scenery change, wrapped up as she was in the music playing on her iPod. That and dreaming about finally getting to go to Florida on Spring Break. Which she wasn't this year.
As the loud music (a curious blend of late '80s metal and more recent Pop) was drowning out anything her mother was saying, she was picturing the sunny warm beaches and salty oceans. Not the rather dismal looking brown outside the window. It had been raining, and spring wasn't springing as quickly as it should. The trees still liked kinda dead and the gound was muddy and depressing.
Liz realized that her mother had said something to her and removed the ear-buds. She smoothed down her wavy light-brown hair and looked at her mother.
"What?"
"We're almost to daddy's. Remember to be good."
Daddy! Liz was 12, 13 in just a few more months. Daddy .. she shook her head and sighed. No, she was going to be with her
father for a little over a week instead of with her friends in the sun and tropical weather.
"Mom," she said in an exasperated voice, "I know all that. "
Since the divorce, Liz hadn't seen her father for more than a day or two at a time. Visitation they had called it, and since mother had moved several towns over it was a rare occurrence. Not that Liz much cared, as she was starting to care more about her clothes, and about boys, and even now and then paying attention in middle school (though not that often!). Dad would be ... well, what could Liz think but that it'd be boring?