My names berry, and I have a best friend named sunny. We’re both about 14 and

We spent most of our time together in our small town just hanging around in the cold snowy turfs and streets. I was always navigator while she ate whatever snacks I brought along. We are that kinda duo, I guess.

I enjoyed her company and as much as we like being together I still had reasons to butt heads with her sometimes.

“Where are we going today berry?” She asked as normal. “I don’t have much on my mind today,”

“Didn’t you come drag me outside,” I questioned.

“You always do this! Next time if I put on my sweaters and shoes, you don’t have a plan I’m not coming out,”

“ well I did Kinda have something, that you might think is fun,”

“What,” I asked

“We usually play in snow and make snowmen and stuff like that, right?”

“Well yeah,” I said, “ and you make the weirdest lookin ones and scare people with them,”

“Well, I guess I’m bored of that,”

“Really bored? But we do it every day,”

“Exactly!” She stopped and looked at me harshly.

“But as I said, it’s not like you come up with anything.”

“Okay... well what about..”

She paused, her eyes looking around the street like she was looking for an idea amongst the houses powdered in snow.

“How about we go inside?”

“Well that’s a new one. Big plans today, I guess,”

“Don’t make fun!” Sunny yelled.

“I just think we should leave the snow for once, like, not contort it into human shaped figures, or throw it at people, take a break,”

“Wow sunny, you never use that many big words, maybe your serious?” I joked.

“You only think there big words because you don’t know any,” She scrunched her face at me.

“So we going inside or what?”

I followed her to her home, since my mom didn’t really like sunny all to much, and followed her lead through well lived in home.

“Sorry for the mess,” she said, “my brothers and sisters ruin everything around here.”

I didn’t pay much attention though, her home was pretty clean compared to my room .

We went to her room, with two bunk beds and a twin in the corner, two older looking kids watching tv and fighting over what dvd to play.

“Hey guys, could you leave?” Sunny asked calmly.

“Well, that’s a first,” one of them said, “you asking with-out cursing up a storm.”

“Cursing,” I questioned. Sunny was pretty calm, I couldn’t imagine.

“Hey, who’s your friend?” They asked.

“ so you have a guest over... Alright, but on one condition will we leave,”

“Yeah, sunny has a guest, it’s only fair we do. As long as she pays us! So cough up little sis, they said.

“Was this a joke?” I wondered.

Sunny was hesitant at first, so I chimed in.

“I have a whole backpack of whop tarts and anon cakes, you can have my snacks- oof!” I yelled. Sunny slugged me.

“If you give them the snacks I’ll lose all my respect for you,”

“You respected me,” I joked, she wasn’t joking.

I let her handle it, and her older siblings left, I hoped that that was the end of it.

“Berry you can take off your shoes, it’s warm in here,”

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So later, we hade gotten through all the food, and I was kind of tired of watching her movies. It was getting to be afternoon soon, and so I made it clear that I wanted to go home. but she wasn’t having it.

“Berry, why do you want to leave? Don’t you like it here?”

“ well sure, in a stay for half an hour kinda way, but it’s been at least four,”

“Well, I want you to stay, and it’s cold outside anyway,”

I looked at her funny, this whole time, her siblings would bother us on repeat, the dvds were scratched up , and Getting back to my life an only child was now a deep, deep want.

“Berry, are you sure you want to leave,”

I nodded yeah.

She sighed,”can I go to your house, with you,” quietly under her breath.

“Well, I’m not sure sunny,”

“ I’m tired of em to, yknow,” she said.

I looked at her slum expression.

Please don’t leave, I really like you more than them,”

I looked at her, was she being serious?

“Do you mean that, sunny?”

“Please, don’t leave, berry!”