“Hey, our names kind of match,” she said as she chewed. I guess she could tell I didn’t know what she meant.
“Summer? August?” she said, smiling, her eyes open wide, as she waited for me to get it.
“Oh, yeah,” I said after a second. “We can make this the ‘summer only’ lunch table,” she said.
“Only kids with summer names can sit here. Let’s see, is there anyone here named June or July?”
“There’s a Maya,” I said. “Technically, May is spring,” Summer answered, “but if she wanted to sit here, we could make an exception.”
She said it as if she’d actually thought the whole thing through.
“There’s Julian. That’s like the name Julia, which comes from July.” I didn’t say anything.
“There’s a kid named Reid in my English class,” I said. “Yeah, I know Reid, but how is Reid a summer name?” she asked.
“I don’t know.” I shrugged. “I just picture, like, a reed of grass being a summer thing.”
“Yeah, okay.” She nodded, pulling out her notebook. “And Ms. Petosa could sit here, too.”
“That kind of sounds like the word ‘petal,’ which I think of as a summer thing, too.”
“I have her for homeroom,” I said. “I have her for math,” she answered, making a face.
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