As she and I were becoming friends, she was also becoming friends with AM on the bus ride to and from school. She later introduced us, and the three of us became inseparable. AM was a year ahead of us, so we didn't have any classes with her, but we saw her at lunch and again every opportunity outside of school. We rarely had sleep overs with just one person, it was usually both at the same time.
A year after that, SM came into the picture. I don't remember where she was before, but she joined AM and me for my seventh grade year. MM was going to a smaller school for 7th grade. SM and AM grew up together and lived right across the road from each other.
One weekend, AM and MM were both busy and couldn't spend the night and I couldn't go there. So even though I had only met SM briefly a few times, I called her and invited her to stay over and she came! She was so much braver than me! I never would have said yes! But she came and we had a blast. After that, the four of us were together all the time. Our parents had a heck of a time with all four of us at once. We took turns though, so it was really only about one weekend a month at each house.
We didn't do just one nighters. We did the whole weekend! And on breaks, we tried to do the whole break. Of course, when we started getting sick of each other we'd take a break, but that didn't happen too often. Like I said, we were inseparable.
As we got older, MM and I started staying the night on weeknights too. AM and SM couldn't join us on these, because they were in high school, and MM and I were still in 8th grade.
I had moved across town, so I couldn't take the normal school bus anymore. I had to take the city bus to get to school now. MM and I had missed it one morning and decided that the school wasn't too far and that we could walk.
It was chilly that morning, and we had light jackets. By the time we got to the school, we were freezing. It was about 3 miles, and took us about an hour. We were about 10 minutes late. I had a choir rehearsal that morning. My teacher pulled me aside afterwards and asked if I was okay. My face was pretty red from the cold, and I guess she thought I'd been crying. I told her I was fine and walked away. I didn't realize 'til later that she had been worried about me, but being 13, I kind of just brushed it off.
We had other friends of course and we tried to give them time too. A lot of those friendships haven't really lasted though, and I know that with my friends, it was probably my fault. I gave more priority to AM, MM and SM. I'm glad I had them while I did though.
Then came high school, and things started to change...
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