Just a Day In My Life

Friendship- Chapter 7

"Who's at the door?" Sophia asked. I didn't know whether to tell her the truth or to tell her I didn't know. I really didn't want to lie and ruin the relationship that I am growing with my only two friends at the Millennium.

"It's, uh, a friend of mine from Silver Valley. I wasn't planning on inviting her but she said she needed to talk so..." I don't know what it was but I felt kind of embarrassed to tell them about Ellie. I should feel prideful about my relationship with a good friends of mine but it's the opposite.

They seemed to understand anyways. I don't know why I didn't invite Ellie in the first place. I feel as if we were starting to drift farther apart over the span of a week.

I went to go open the door. Ellie was standing their in a outfit she wouldn't normally wear. She was in all black. She looked depressed. "Yeah, uh, he Natalie. Can I come in?" Of course I let her in and led her to my room where we were hanging out. It dawned to me that we had never hung out in my room before. I didn't want her to remain a stranger though so I introduced her to everyone

"Sophie, Whitney, this is Ellie. Ellie, this is Sophie and Whitney." Sophie and Whitney were so nice to her and she didn't even budge. She acted like she was shy. "Awkward...well anyways, um, I guess Ellie and I are going to talk in the other room."

I knew something was up with Ellie. She just would say anything, which is so unlike her.

"You said you weren't busy. You lied to me. You had friends over this entire time, probably not thinking about me or any of us at silver valley." Ellie was not happy.

"What do you mean Ellie? Are you sure everything is alright?"

"Yes I'm sure. I just wanted to ask you something."

She was acting really strange " yeah, what is it?"

"If our group got in a huge disagreement, about where we wanted to take our friendship and who we want to be friends with, who would you side with?"
Ellie had gotten deep really quickly.

"I don't know Ellie. I really don't know."

"I want to know cause Maddie and Kelly wanted our group to hang out with the nerds and geeks, Gabi wanted to hang out with all the bad kids and I just wanted to stay together. And now we've fallen apart without you here." Ellie was crying now. This seemed to really get her and it hurt me that I couldn't be there with her all the time for that support. There wasn't much I could really tell her.

"I don't know what to do in this situation. Try to set a sleepover or something maybe so you can straighten this out. I mean that the best you can do. If it doesn't work then I guess find some new people to hang out with."

You could tell she wasn't that strong right now and just wanted to burst out with so many emotions. "Ok. I'll try it. Thanks for the advice." She was wiping away her tears now. "Well I gotta get going so I'll talk not ya later. Bye."
Then she just left. Her visit was so quick and to be honest, I don't even know what happened. Her emotions and words were everywhere.

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I went back to my room to be bombarded with questions about where Ellie had gone. It took about 5 minutes to explain that she need help and then she was on her way.

Once I had calmed them down, we were back on our musical marathon. We had started listening to The Book of Mormon and listened to Hamilton (again). We were having the time of our lives.

It got later and later into the night and before you knew it, we were all sleeping. The night seemed really peaceful and I was glad to get all that silver valley drama off my chest.

Both Sophie and Whitney left around twelve, so I was left alone with Mikayla and my thoughts. You'd think I'd actually talk to my sister but no, I decided to think. I thought about what was happening with my friends. Why would Gabi ever hang out with the bad kids when last year she was talking about how terrible they were? Why would Kelly and Maddie leave Ellie? Why is Ellie so worried? I sat in my bed for so long thinking about all of this.

I had eventually turned on the tv and the rest of my weekend was a breeze.