thumbalina, elizabeth olsen

prologue

PROLOGUE

"Do you think we'll be best friends forever?"

"What makes you think we won't?"

I turn over to look at Lizzie and she just shrugs.

"People change, Amata. I'm scared for the day we cut ties" She says, still not looking at me, "You're going to go off, be the world's best boxer, and forget all about me" Lizzie huffs.

I recently have been in contact with an amazing trainer on the other side of California. Now, I will still be in the same state as my bestfriend, Lizzie, but we had never been that far apart for more than a couple days.

I turn to look at her, the moon was illuminating all of my favorite features of hers. I wish she would be the one I would come home to everyday.

"Look at me, Liz" She turns her face and I could tell she was on the edge of breaking down, "Where is this coming from?"

Her lip quivers and she takes a moment before answering me, "Are you going to forget about me when you move?"

I pull Lizzie into my arms and allow her to break down. Before all of this, I laid down a blanket so Lizzie and I wouldn't feel the grass on our skin. We were currently in my back yard but none of my brothers were home and my Dad doesn't disturb me like they do.

"You're my best friend, Green eyes. I would never forget you. No one would understand me like you do" I say, planting a kiss on her head as she keeps her head buried in my neck. "I'm moving to build the life I've always dreamed of, not to run from the life I have now"

Lizzie pulled her face from my neck and look at me in the eyes, tears drying on her face. "You're going off to build a life without me! You are going to learn how to live without me" she turns quiet at the end and looks down.

"I haven't been able to live without you for the past twelve years. I don't know how I could live a day without calling you to tell you what someone did to piss me off" I mentally pat myself on the back when I see a small smile on her face.

"You do get pissed off easily" She jokes and agrees with me, finally looking up. I nod with her and smile when she wraps her arms around me again. She still has a small pout that i find adorable.

"Sorry for that, it was dramatic, I don't know what came over me" Lizzie apologizes.

"it's okay, Dove. I get it"

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word count: 450

HI WELCOME TO MY LIZZIE OLSEN BOOK

some things i'll clarify before moving to the next chapter:

y/n is spanish in this book. from what i've seen, there's a lot of non-latino/ non-hispanics writing spanish main characters.
im latina 🫂 no imposters here
i will always ALWAYS put the translation
on the same paragraph in italics so every
non spanish speaker here will understand

i want to make up a nickname
for y/n bc i hate having to write
"y/n", it's so weird, so if
anyone has any ideas u can send
them to me 🤓

(y/n is g!p)
im aware the summary to this book
is so bad LMAO
so if someone has an idea u can comment on this
or message me and i'll answer 😵‍💫😵‍💫

this is a childhood bestfriends to lovers trope 😇