New Friends New Beginings

by: Makala Sabas

She was growing up in a small town of Asbury, Missouri Where there wasn’t to do. Her best friend had just moved away and she was now alone. Her best friend and her had her were friends for 11 ½ years. It was a week before summer and she had everything planned out from going to the creek and going swimming to going the to each others house and sleeping over.

On the last day before her best friend left forever, they gave each other a gift to each other that had belong to them, it would remind each other of their best Freind every time they looked at it! It made them both break down and cry. The next morning when her Best Friend was leaving they hugged and cried with each other for the very last time. Her life changed forever and she felt like she would never find another friend like Addie

She thought she wouldn’t find a new friend in time for summer. One day right down the road where her friend used to live a new kid was moving in.  She was watching out her window,wondering if it would be anything like her  best friend Addie; or would it be a BOY! As she watched she saw a kid about her age walk out of the house wearing a green hoodie covering their head, she couldn’t tell.  They walked over to the garage and she thought whoever it was would never replace Addie either way.  As she was sitting remembering all the amazing memories with her best friend, out came the kid with a blue bike and his hood down.  It was a boy! Oh no, not a boy. Now I have no one. He won’t be able to play with me like addie did.  His name was Thomas. His family had just moved to Asbury from Red Lodge, Montana.

Thomas and his family were having a neighborhood party over at their new house and my family and I went over there. We met his parents and my parents introduced me to Thomas  “Hello Thomas” they said “this is our daughter Abigail.” Thomas’s parents looked at her and asked if they both wanted to go outside. Both of the kids walked off in the same direction Abby followed Thomas.

It was about 10:30 and time to go home so Abby and her parents headed up the block to their house. Abby was really tired and was ready to go to bed. She said goodnight to her parents and headed down the hall to her bedroom. As she laid in bed, tears came to her eyes, while thinking that he could never come close to the friend she had in Addie.

The next day Abby went out to the mailbox and Thomas walked out and said “hi” so Abby said “hi”. He asked if she could show him around town and show him what there is there to. She Shrugged and said “I guess”. So Abby went in and asked her parents if she could show Thomas around town and they said yes.

So off they went on their bikes towards town, it only took them about 5 minutes to bike to town. When they got there they locked their bikes up in front of the library and went inside. She showed Thomas around the library and introduced her to her school friends. It was a hot summer day so they all decided to go to the ice cream parlor to cool off before checking out the rest of the town.  Thomas asked what else there was to do in town and Abby said ‘theres one place that nobody else in town knows about, I guess we could go there?”  Tears came to her eyes thinking about the memories that she and Addie had made at this special place.  Little did she know that her and Addie had never had an adventure like her and Thomas were about to embark upon.

Thomas looked at her and with a smile on his face said “yeah, lets go”, so they set off to the secret place.They walked on a path that led them into the woods and ended at the lake. Abby had built up a fort with her friend who had moved away. Thomas asked if he could go in and she said yes. As they were going in they noticed that people must have been living in there because there were wrappers and clothing scatter around. They figured whoever it was hadn’t been there for a while so they decided to go in and check out the inside.  They went in and started to pick up the chairs and clean up the wrapped and bring out the clothing that the people left there.  They started talking about Thomas’s old school in Red Lodge and how he had just started playing baseball last year.  They talked about Abby and how she was the star in last years school play.  Then Abby told Thomas about the time that her and Addie went and jumped off the rope into the creek.  While she was in the middle of the story Thomas looked puzzled and Abby felt frustrated “Why doesn’t he care about Addie” she thought. He walked past her and said “what’s that?”  She turned around and saw Thomas open a duffle bag that was laying on the floor under an old blanket.  All the sudden Thomas’s eyes got really wide, she walked over to him and was shocked, “Where did all this money come from” she said very frightenedly.

They got scared so they ran to their bikes and biked to the top of a hill. Thomas said “what should we do?” “We should tell my dad” Abby said, her heart racing.   They wondered if they should go right to the police. Abby decided that they should just go home and sleep on it and meet at the hill and 9am.

The next day they met at the hill and decided to tell their parents.  They went home and told their parents about their findings.  They all met up and decided to go to the police station and report everything. They walked in and saw a wanted poster.  It read “WANTED” and had photos of two men that had robbed a grocery store from the next town over. The kids told the police about the fort and the bag with the money in it.  The police told them to go home and they would check it out. They warned them to stay away until it was safe.  They all went home.  Abby thought about what would have happened if Thomas wasn’t there with her and she went by herself, what would have happened if the men had been there. She couldn’t sleep at all.  The next morning Thomas came over after breakfast and they were sitting at the couch watching T.V.  There was a knock on the door. Abby’s dad opened the door and there were the police.  They said that the men in the wanted poster at the station were the ones that were at the fort. The police arrested them last night and there will be a press conference held this afternoon and the mayor wanted them there.  They got ready and arrived at the park where it was being held.  As they were sitting there on stage next to the mayor he said that there was a reward and as he said that he turned towards the kids and handed them each a check for $1,000.  The town started to clap and yell with excitement.  There was a party after with food and dancing for the whole town. As Abby sat at the table with Thomas she looked up and thought, this was the start of a great friendship.