Dear Friend,
The first few weeks and months were probably the best I had ever spent. i finally had a best friend at school who was as weird and crazily mischevious as me. He came over occasionally, for play dates of tree climbing and ice cream truck robbing, and it seemed like it would never end. But then, the rumors started. No one knows who it came out of, or how it started, but there was a snowball of lies about Zach and I, and it quickly grew more elaborate. How we had a "scandal" romance, and how we were "snogging" behind the portables. We would never, we were too close as friends, but that not what people thought. And apparemtly, its not what Zach thought, either. It was a cold January day, and i was sitting propped up against the school, alone, trying to avoid the rumors that haunted me. I saw Zach pop his head out around the corner of the school, and walk towards me.
"Its true you know. What they say. I do love you." he stammered out. I fought back tears as hard as i could, and nodded slowly.
"I know." Was all I could get out. And that was it. The end of our paradisical friendship, but just the start, of something much worse...
