Our Story

Chapter 2

I am literally the happiest teenage girl right now. I haven't seen Helen for five years and now, finally, we are together  for few days. I know  that is not enough, but that is all we have. Somehow, when we first met five years ago, we instantly became  great friends. My grandmonther always used to tell me that I would  like Helen and when I met her, I knew my grandmonther was right.

Now, our grandmas are out and this whole house is just for Helen and me. We are just looking for some fun, as every other teenager does. We are both fifteen. When we were younger we promised each other when we grow up, we will visit one another. Of course, it is still early for something like that, but I am looking forward.

"I am so happy we are  finally  together again." Helen says, smiling at me.

"Yeah, me too. You have no idea."

We hear the door closes and we know that we are left alone. Our grandmas have  some kind of gathering with their high school group.

"You want to go to the living room, we have more space there?" I ask Helen and I know she wants it as much as I do. I love when I am home alone, I can do a lot of stuff. I can dance, I can sing and nobody will ever see me or hear me.

Yay me.

"Yeah, of course."

"Do you want to watch some movie or something?" I am not sure what to do so she can decide.

"Yeah, we can also invite some handsome neighbour." She smirks. She has no idea that every single neighbour here is older than sixty.

"Yeah, you wish. There is no handsome boys here, trust me." I laugh along with the though of someone over sixty, sitting here  with us and talk about the high school problems.

"Boring." She rolls her eyes. "Let's  just watch a movie then."

"Good idea."

We head to the living room. When we enter it, we see all of the pictures and boxes on the table. What happened here? Probably our grandmas were looking at their pictures.  They also did that last time they saw each other and I have a feeling they will be doing that forever.

"Oh my God. What is this?" Helen asks as she sits on the  floor with one of the boxes in her hands.  "It is our grandmas' pictures."

And... I was right.

Yes.

I sit next to her and look at the pictures. This one picture is them sitting in from of their high school with some boys. Probably they are going to meet up with them now. Just guessing.

Helen continues to dig through the box and she finds some book. She lifts it up and  gives me the look that says "what is this?"

I raise my eyebrows wondering what that could  be. I know that my grandma has a shelf full of books. Why isn't this one on that shelf?

"What is this?" Helen lifts the book. "It is called Our Story. It is written back in 2013."

Now, I am just really confused.

"What?" I raise my eyebrows. "Who wrote it?"

"There is no name, Anna." Helen says.

"How is that possible? It has to be name on the book." What is going on?

"Let's find out." Helen opens the book and starts reading it.

"There were two girls who met each other just like that, out of nowhere. Through the days and months they became  best friends just because they started something out of fun. They didn't know, they had no idea how far that would go, but here they are, four years later, still doing the same. Making their own story, which is, of course, based on their fantasy. That fantasy they have had for ye-"

She countines reading it, but my mind has cought up with something. My grandma used to tell me the story of how Helen's grandma and she met. It is so similiar to this one. Maybe this is just some notebook that our grandmas wrote out of fun, just as Helen said.

"They have a spirit like a kid does. They hope it will not end any time soon." Helen stops talking and I know that this is a book that my grandmother always wanted me to read it.

Guess the time has come.