And this was the best one we had in ages.

Maybe it was because we had nowhere to go.

Maybe it was because we had nothing to do.

I don't know, it was just a nice, relaxing summer.

Bosco branched out into landscaping.

Rick actually put down his book and picked up a new hobby.

Sue spent her summer getting ready for her senior year, a year she dubbed, the year of Sue.

Mike WD-40'd everything in the house.

And I finally got around to flipping our mattress.

Yep, after all these years, we finally got it down.

It was summer the way it was meant to be.

Nice and lazy.

It felt like the longest summer ever.

I thought I heard something going on back here, what are you guys doing in the pool in the middle of the day?

Oh, you know, just enjoying the last Friday of summer before school starts.

Frankie, school started on Monday.

What?

Wait.

How could this happen, why didn't anybody tell us?

It was posted right on the school website.

Oh my god, Mom, you didn't check the website?

I can never remember my password.

This was supposed to be the year of Sue.

I'm missing everything.

I missed my first last Monday of my senior year.

I missed my first last Tuesday of my senior year.

You know how a calendar works, Sue.

Apparently we don't.

I was supposed to win out, I didn't get to miss a week of school my senior year, you people owe me a full week of leisure time.

What about me, it's hard enough being the weird kid, try being the weird kid who shows up a week late.

All right, listen, we can still make part of the day.

Come on, come on, people.

Dad, WD-40 the ladder.

Frankie 1234.

Colin Firth, Mrs. Frankie Firth?

Yes.

I should write that down.

Eh, no, I'll remember.

That was the longest day of my life.

Which is ironic seeing as I was only there for 47 minutes.

Oh no, what happened?

Well, because I missed the first four days of school, I have no idea what we're studying and neither do the assorted nerds who share the back row with me, my options for gym shorts were either adult large or youth extra small, oh, and I have to play Hitler in the school play.

Listen, Brick, I know you didn't get off to the best start, but you should take a lesson from your sister, when things are the toughest, that's when you got to stay positive.

The year of Sue is ruined.

I missed everything.

I missed all the sign ups for all the committees, I missed the senior panoramic picture, I missed the candlelight ceremony with the seniors like the candles for the juniors.

I missed the senior pep rally and the senior spirit rally and I know those sound like the same thing, but they are not.

Honey, I know it's not an ideal situation.

And you haven't even heard the worst of it.

I haven't?

Christine Felt Calner, the only other person in the senior class with braces, got her braces off over the summer.

Which makes me the only senior in the whole school who still has braces.

And don't tell me if I am the only one that is what makes me special, that worked with the terry cloth pants grandma made me, but not with this.

Sue.

I know it seems like you're never going to get them off and I don't get it either, they look perfect to me.

But you just have to hang in there.

You're so close.

Am I?

Am I?

Because every time I go to Dr. Naylor, he says three more months, I go in March and he says three more months, I go in June and he says three more months.

I go in September and he says three more months.

See, look, I circled it on the calendar.