If you can believe it, back in the fourth grade, Leyli Beims and I weren’t best friends. Well, we were for a while, but for some unknown reason, the two of us had a falling out and drifted to separate friend groups. Now remember, we were ten at the time. So of course, my friend group and I decided we would make Leyli jealous enough to come crawling back crying on her knees. Or something like that. So, being the great planners we were, all of us walked past Leyli and her cool friends: Olivia Leif, MaKayla Nelson, and Jaden Spear. We were at recess and they were playing on the jungle gym. We stopped, and without looking at Leyli, began to laugh like we were having literally the best time of our lives. We nonchalantly looked behind us to see if Leyli had that jealous look of despair on her face. Actually, it was more a face one makes when watching a dying bird. So, we took it up a notch, and what do you do when laughing doesn’t make someone jealous? You sing. You sing your little faces off. So we sang our favorite theme song to our favorite T.V. show - some Japanese cartoon - this time not hiding our blatant manipulation. We checked again and saw Leyli and her posse ignoring us. The rest of the memory is fuzzy; we may have resorted to name calling or physical violence. I’m not sure, but this story has a happy ending because the next week Leyli and I became best friends again over sugar cookies. And I know that for a fact.
by Cody Schmitz
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