Mended Hearts

Part III

About a week had passed since Wendy and her family had finally moved back from Tampa to the podunk little mountain town in the middle of Colorado and had started a new chapter in their lives, with them slowly, but surely adapting to their old lives in South Park after all those years they had been away – as well as swapping their holiday visits to the town and visits whenever the teenage girl would have a school break for a now more, and perhaps, permanent stay.

With their new house now being halfway furnished and made to look a bit cozier than it had been when they had first moved in, both Wendy and her parents had been feeling much more relaxed due to having one less thing to worry about and now being able to focus on doing as much things as they possibly could before even more important plans would have to come to fruition; especially Sean and Vanessa starting their respective new jobs and their daughter enrolling into a completely new high school.

And with herself being unsurprisingly busy and running a ton of errands with her parents, Wendy hadn't been able to properly catch up with everyone with whom she had been on good terms, apart from her closest friends that were obviously very excited to have her back in town and delighted about finally getting to see her every single day now – especially considering the fact that summer break had been nearly coming to its end and the beginning of new school year had been approaching with each passing day, so it wasn't a complete shocker that the dark haired girl wanted to spend as much time with her friends as she possibly could.

Therefore, an invitation from her best friend for some well-needed girl time was definitely something Wendy just couldn't force herself to turn down, so she decided to spend the penultimate Friday of summer break over at the blonde teenager's house and make the most out of it.

The excitement she had been barely able to contain was most notable in the speed in which she had told her parents about going over to Bebe's house, grabbing the keys of her mom's car and driving off in the direction of a very familiar red house that belonged to the Stevens family.

And as soon as she parked the car and honked the horn to announce her arrival, the teenage girl flashed her best friend a hundred watt smile upon seeing dash through the front door. She stepped onto the pavement and swiftly shut the car door behind her, eventually locking it and making a beeline for Bebe's house.

''Told ya' that we will get to hang out this week.'', Wendy said with a cheeky smile, before being pulled into a tight hug by the blonde teen. She nearly felt herself being suffocated by the seemingly unbreakable grip Bebe had on her, although she quickly felt the latter pulling away and reciprocating the grin she wore on her face. ''Would you mind not choking me to death though? I know you've missed me quite a lot, but jeez.''

Finally letting the raven haired girl out of the iron grip she had formed around her, Bebe smiled gently at her longest and closest friend. ''I know, I know! I'm just super excited to finally have you over at my place! I feel like we haven't hung out properly since you moved back.''

''Well, we finally will!'', Wendy responded. ''We have a lot of things to talk about and catch up on!''

And with those words, the two girls continued their pleasant chatter all the way towards the porch of Bebe's house, where they decided to chill out and talk about everything and anything. The hanging out was made even better by Bebe's mother Karen, who kindly offered to serve two bowls of her tasty homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream and two lemonades for the inseparable best friend duo.

They went out to talk about a lot of different things that had happened in their lives over the past several months, especially about the reaction Bebe had when Wendy had announced that she would move back to South Park in a few months' time – being forced to put the mobile phone away from her ear as her longest friend had continued to squeal in pure happiness on the other end of the line.