Arashi

(type your memoir here) I didn’t even find out from Jaidan herself. It was at the science field trip in fourth grade when Katie Simons came up to me and said, “I like your outfit, by the way Jaidan is moving to Hong Kong!” That little side note at the end sounded like a joke at first, but I realized she was completely serious when I saw Jaidan out of the corner of my eyes, her shoulders shrugged and mouth pinched. “I was gonna give you a mint!” She exclaimed, elbowing Katie in the side. A mint definitely would have made it better, as you can imagine. My best friend in the whole world was moving across the world. It was only a year at first, but one year became two, two became three, three became four, and as of now four could become anything. Her stay in Hong Kong is a never ending test of our friendship. Two summers ago, she flew over for her annual visit for a couple of weeks. We went for a walk down to St. Luke’s church, and when we passed her old house, it was as if every memory we made together there came flooding back. Jaidan’s old house where I gave my first (absolutely horrendous) makeover, where we watched iFunny videos on her iPad in third grade and shoved it under her bed when her mom walked upstairs, and now it was filled by strangers. She took me to a stone on her driveway, and lifted away the leaves of a plant covering it. There were three handprints on it: one was hers, one was her brothers, and one was her dog’s paw print. Underneath, it read “The…

my eyes like I had 50 cups of coffee, and jumping out of bed like a deer running from its predator. Getting up so fast got me really light-headed, remembering the the last time I felt like this was when I was blowing up balloons for my brother’s birthday party. When I sat up of my squeaky bed, I went to my parent’s room to wake my mom up. I thought to wake her up because she was very tired because, of my little brother that had waken up at least 3 times at night. Then I had taken a shower, even…

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