Stuck

She wondered how long she could survive, but then the rationality kicked in. After all, it was only four weeks... Four weeks of not seeing his smile, not seeing his eyes light up when he looked at her; four weeks of not telling her friends every single cute thing that he had done that day.
She knew it would be hard. Family was more important than friends, right? When she had agreed to go to her sister's house in Maryland, she hadn't thought about how hard it would be to never see him. However, if she had been home she wouldn't have seen him very much either. That's just the way summers went around here.