A Collection Of Short Stories.

Friendship: A different ship entirely

It all started when Mom told me my runaway ex best friend “Linda” was coming home for summer. I was shocked, upset and obviously disordered. There was a lot running through my mind, like why was she coming back after 4 years.

Linda and I have been best friend right from when we were born, our parents were both friends and we were born only one hour apart. We grew up together in our small community, we always went on family holiday's together, it was such a delight.

We have always been in the same class ever since we were in kindergarten, I remember we always wore matching shirts every Fridays in elementary school. And when we got to middle school, we always had sleep overs every month.
We would talk about the latest gossip in Sunnyville — Our Community, My mom usually handled the food, her butterscotch cookies was a regular, I mean nobody ever gets tired of them.

Once it was our birth month, we organized a special sleep over to plan our birthday. Every year was always the same, A big Summer theme birthday bash.
Like every friendship, we had our seasonal quarrels, but we would always reconcile and get back together,We loved each other so much, and we made a Pact, Never would anything separate us ever again. Like you guessed, it didn't work.

Not long after our 12th birthday, Linda started to act strange, she began to skip school and her attitude change towards me, she kept so many things from me, and I would occasionally find her all by herself crying, she never wanted to talk to me about it.

A full month has passed and Linda was still absent in school. I decided to ask my Mom if she had any idea why Linda was behaving this way.
“Katie dear, Linda is going through a really hard time, her parents are getting a Divorce.”  Mom said. I was lost for words, poor Linda was going through all this and I couldn't even do anything to help her as her best friend. So I was determined to make her feel better.

After many failed attempts, I finally got the chance to talk things out with Linda, and we promised never to keep things away from each other. Linda began to feel better and soon after she was back to her normal self. We went on a school trip and we had so much fun there. That summer was officially our best Summer ever.

We were two weeks away from school resumption and I already had made a list of fun activities we were going to attempt that Fall, I was supper excited for it and I couldn't even wait to tell Linda about our new list of supper fun activities. l asked my Mom if I could go see her, she agreed and I rushed out. I got to Linda's house and I found her packing, I tried talking to her but I guess see was too busy packing, so I waited.

“I'm leaving for the UK I'll be going to a boarding school there.” Linda Said, I was stunned, surprised, better still dumbfounded. I couldn't believe this was happening, I ran off without allowing her to give any proper explanation. Why would Linda do this to me, I've always asked my self all this years, why did she leave without even thinking about how I'd feel. I was hurt, lonely and sad all this years she was gone, now that she's back I don't even now how to react.

Ever since Linda came back, we haven't gotten the opportunity to talk about what really happened. She has gotten everyone's attention and there all giving her a special treatment. It funny how everyone forgot that she ditched her best friend for some boarding school in a foreign country. I'm still upset, I mean who wouldn't be.

The day I finally realized I was wrong the whole time was the worst. It was when I over heard her Mom saying that she actually got a scholarship to go to the boarding school and she never even wanted to go, but she made her go so that she could take her mind off there family issues. And that she was wrong because she was being bullied and that's why, she had too return.

I had messed up this time, couldn't help but detest myself for being such a bad friend. Linda had been going through a lot and all I could care about was me. I've been such a selfish friend and I needed to apologize to Linda.

Our birthday comes up this Saturday, And I plan to apologize to her for my selfish attitude and Misunderstanding, Wish me Luck.