My name is Ann. I'm in seventh grade and I'm falling apart.
Here's a quick summary of my life:
In Elementary School me and my friend was irrsperatable. I met Mary in Kindergarten. Best friends since. I meet Elle in fourth grade. You get the idea.
So fifth grade comes. For the first time in six years, we were in diffrent classes. That was sad and all but at lunch and recess we stuck together like glue. We played make-believe games together and we all liked to read. Fifth grade ends with lots of tears.
Middle school. I'm the only one that went to River Valley. Mary went to an art school, Elle, a smart international school. For the first time in my life I was alone. I tried to make friends. None of them lasted. It just wasn't the same.
Here I am. Almost 13 and the only contact I have with my friends are through email and IM. Isn't that great?
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It's a Saturday and Mary has invited me to her house! I'm so excited. I arrive. We talk in her room for a long time. Then when we run out of topics we have nothing to do. "Being a teenager is boring." I told her. She disagrees. "I love being a teenager!" Then she goes on a rant about all of her boyfriends and her dates. I mean, who wants a boyfriend? We're 13!
So that playdate blew up in my face. I hadn't relized that Mary had changed that much! Or maybe we both changed.
I still talk to Mary. Just not quite as much.
I like to go on this one website. Gaiaonline. Elle is my friend on it. So is one of her friends from Utah. Everything is all and well until she suddenly get very sad.
Elle, I write to her, What's wrong?
Oh just everything! I miss all my friends in Utah! I miss you too!
I'll see you soon! I promise!
It's not just that it's, I just don't know what to do anymore! My whole world is falling down!
What's wrong?
I don't find out any more from her until one day.
I have these friends from my school and one of them moved to Utah. She lives in the same town I did. She met John! (Elle's friend) They are boyfriend and girlfriend now!
What's so bad about that?
I want him to be happy, it's just that I like him so much! And, and, I want to be his girlfriend! He's diffrent from every boy I have ever met. He can make me smile better then you can. He always knows just what to say! I miss him! I want to visit him!
Oh. That hurt.
Now I have no idea what to say to her! What do I do? I thought I knew Elle. I once teased her about how she might like John but she denied liking him in that way. Now she's pouring out her heart to me! I don't know what to do!
