The Summer Of Our Lives, chapter 3

<p>"We are? Green Day? Really?" I instantly regretted the thing I said about the drugs.<br /> "You're kidding! Give me that!" I lunged over Olivia to grab the paper she was holding out of my reach.<br /> "No! I'm totally not kidding," Liv said, hugging me and laughing with joy.<br /> "WE'RE GOING TO A GREEN DAY CONCERT!!!!! In the MOSH PIT!!!! And we have four tickets, so Kevin and Rob can come, too!!!"<br />I was too excited to ask what the hell a Mosh Pit was. Right now I was too excited to speak. I jumped up and down in circles, for want of something else to release all this energy.<br />Five minutes later, something dawned on me. I stopped jumping.<br /> "Liv," I said, "When is it?"<br />"July twentieth, at Madison Square Gardens in New York," Liv answered, "Why?"<br />"I just thought of something. We're twelve. Our parents barely let us go to the mall by ourselves. How are we going to convince them to let us go to a punk rock concert by ourselves with only two boys and God knows how many obsessive, screaming Green Day fans?"<br />"Hey," Liv said, "I take offense to that!"<br />I ignored her. "The point is, we have you, me, Kevin, and Rob. That's four of us. And two parents each makes eight parents."<br />"Yeah. So?"<br />"God, Liv, don't you see? That means we're outnumbered two to one! And YOU'RE supposedly the math genius!"<br />Liv collapsed back on the couch. "Well, all we have to do is think up a brilliant and well-prepared argument as to why we should be given permission to go."<br />"You're probably right, but still. I'm not that brilliant."<br />Liv laughed. "That's what we have me for."<br />"Okay, now I take offense to THAT." I flopped down on the couch beside Liv.<br /> "Let's get started. Kevin's parents will be easy. He's, you know, part of the IN-Crowd."<br /> Everyone at our school knew that the In Crowd got away with pretty much anything from their parents.<br /> "And you have the whole 'brilliance' thing going for you, I'm sure you'll think of something. You know Rob better than I do; you take care of his parents." I had been counting on my fingers but stopped when I reached myself.<br /> "I'm going to be the hardest. My parents will not fall for anything, especially not the 'Hello, Mother, you're looking particularly lovely today' crap, which is pretty much all I can think of."<br />Suddenly Liv leaned forward and shook me by the shoulders.<br /> "Cassandra Madison Jenkins, listen to me! I am going to that Green Day concert even if I have to hitchhike all the way from Kentford to New York!" She stopped shaking me.<br /> "Please try... I REALLY want to go SO bad, I love Green Day -"<br />"I'm not saying I won't... just, you'll have to help me, I'll never be able to do it on my own."<br />Liv understood. "Well, duh. Finger swear?" <br /> I held out my hand and we locked middle fingers. "All systems go. We are going to that concert."</p>