Uncle Boing

Chapter 6

"Your first year of high school?" I asked keeping my eyes trained on the street, "how is it so far?" I said glancing over at Farkle. We had been spending some quality brother and sister time together since the dinner. He spoke highly of his friends Riley, Maya, and Lucas. Including his girlfriend who everyone calls Smackle.

"It's different," he said glancing out the window of my car smiling softly, "we're not kings anymore we're just regular -,"

"Freshmen?" I finished smiling slowly coming to a halt at a red light.

"Yeah," he said shrugging. "We actually almost stopped being friends because of a couple of seniors who made us all stay in a hole until we understand that there's more than just our little-closed world," he solemnly said as I nodded silently picking up the driving again. "I actually never realized how blind we were to everything else."

"You got used to it," I spoke up, "being kings and queens of your middle school. Having everyone focus on just you guys. So when you go to high school you restarted. No one really cares so much about you there because you're freshmen. Plus as much as I hate to tell you this sometimes friendships don't last when you get to high school and even when you get to college. Not because you guys had some big blowout, sometimes yeah, but you grow apart. You find out new things about yourself that the others may not like or you find people with more you interest and you just slowly start to hang out less and less. Sometimes you don't even realize it until you see or hear or smell something that reminds you of them and you just realize it ended. Life does that," I finished stopping in front of John Quincy Addams High School.

"I know," he sadly said a smile still on his face, "I guess we all just never realized it would happen to us is all."

"Then let me tell you a quick little story about my school experience so it doesn't seem so negative plus I think your girlfriend is waiting for you," I pointed out to a cute girl with glass looking over at us with a weird look.

"I haven't told her about you yet," Farkle said sheepishly.

"I have this friend who I consider to be my closest friend. I feel completely comfortable with her and can be myself when I'm with her. Her name is Daniella she lives in Chicago. We've been friends since elementary school but we went to different high schools. We didn't talk as much or hang out because of different high schools and all that. It might seem like we drifted apart but in actuality, we became a lot closer. When we do hang out it seems as if we were never apart. My point is little brother," I said putting a comforting hand on his shoulder, "sometimes distance can make a friendship stronger. It doesn't always mean it over forever. You just need to broaden your horizon. I hope I explained that clear enough I'm new at this giving out advice to younger people."

"I get it," he said nodding grabbing his bag from the back, "I should get going before it gets late. Thanks for the ride to school I'll see you later," he said smiling and giving me a wave before hopping out of the car and walking towards his girl.

"Farkle," Smackle said.

"Smackle," Farkle said smiling down at the girl.

"Who was that?" she asked

"My sister," Farkle happily. "Godsister. My parents are her godparents we meet a couple days ago. She's really nice."

"She's very pretty," Smackle said nodding her head firmly only making Farkles smile grow seeing how she actually felt jealous seeing him with another girl in her Smackle way.

"Come on," he said wrapping his arm around her shoulders, "let's go inside I'm pretty sure everyone is inside already."
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