Chapter 4

In the beginning of chapter 4 Cassie and Claudia are just getting home from the Green Lake store where TJ Howard works. They get home and later that night they see that their parents are playing a game of checkers. Mrs. Fletcher, the twins' mother mentions that the Howards are coming the following night and the twins can't help but wonder if TJ will be coming also. Cassie and Claudia head upstairs and lay in their beds. Claudia attempts to read a book while her sister Cassie attempts to keep up with her daily diary entries. In Cassie's entry, she covers everything from the night that they arrive at Green Lake and what activities they've already done and the people they've met. She specifically talks about how Claudia thinks TJ likes Cassie herself and how she thinks that Don, TJ's friend and coworker at the Green Lake store, likes Claudia. After writing that she asks Claudia if she would like to read and she accepts. Once Claudia is done reading the two are laying in the dark when all of the sudden, Cassie shouts Thomas Jefferson. It turns out that Cassie thinks that that is TJ's real name. After discussing it for a while, the twins go to sleep. The next morning consisted of regular vacation-y stuff like sleeping in late, tanning, swimming, reading and having a good day's rest. Mr. Fletcher also ends up taking his daughters to the stables and rents three horses. When they three get back home, the girls go fro another swim and then get ready for the Howard's to come over. The twins decide to dress nice just in case TJ decides to come along. When the Howard's finally get there, Mr. and Mrs. Howard tell the girls and their parents that both their sons had other plans and could not make it. While the Howard's and Fletcher's are together they discuss the 4th of July barbeque bash.