i’m almost done reading the last harry potter book
i should have read them years ago
but i’ve read them all this summer
& now i’m chapters away from finishing the series
& yet, i’ve been avoiding the book all day
i’ve had plenty of time to read
but instead i thought about cleaning my room,
read through the cards & letters that were sent to me last year at school,
skyped a good friend,
cut my hair,
went to frozen yogurt & caught up with a friend,
looked through some pictures,
& have spent a large amount of time on the internet
and i think i tried to busy myself & keep myself away from the book
because i don’t want to finish it yet
i always feel this way when i get to the end of a good story
i read eagerly until i get to the last few chapters
& then i struggle because i don’t really want to put it down
but i also don’t want to think about not picking it up again 
and even though there are still plenty of books that i want to read before the summer ends
i don’t want to get there yet
i want this story to last
& it will, as these sorts of things tend to live on in the readers
still
i think i’ll read some jane austen when i’m finished