“Are you finished?” Lindsey asked me, her tone playful as usual.

“Huh?” I asked her, we were in the attic and I forgot the reason why, what’s with the boxes?

“You know putting things that were important to you in the box.” She replied, reminding me.

I didn’t want to, I preferred sitting down and talking with her but I can never say no to Lindsey, she’s my best friend.

My mother’s picture… I don’t want to put in the box, it’s too precious to me… Maybe Lindsey won’t mind?

“Yes…” I lied and she smiled knowingly.

“Liar! You’re still not done yet, are you?” Lindsey asked, teasing me.

“I am done!” I said.

“Then why do you do that thing that you do when you lie?” She reached her pointy finger out, lightly tapping my nose.

“What thing?” I asked, I don’t do anything when I lie. I’m good at it!

“You shut your mouth tightly and look down whenever you lie.” Lindsey twirled her finger. She’d always been great at observation, it was the reason why we became friends in the first place. She had noticed that I wasn’t happy and making any friends, so she stepped forward, introducing herself and making me smile. “Plus, we’ve been friends since we were 3, I know you very well!” She added.

“That’s not that long! We’re 6 now and 3 isn’t even that big of a number!” I told her, holding my mother’s picture to my chest.

“2 or more is a big number and it’s the longest we’ve been friends for now but there’s still more bigger numbers to come! As long as we stay friends the numbers will keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger, and one day it’ll be bigger than the whole galaxy itself! We’ll live in that number, it’ll be pur own planet and we’ll call it Lindsey and Melany’s planet! It’ll have have fruit flavored rain, marshmallow clouds and cotton candy leaves!” Lindsey stood, twirling and jumping around in excitement.

“But Lindsey we’ll get cavities and our teeth will fall out if everything is sweet!” Lindsey always found a way to make me laugh and brighten my day.

“Then we’ll sell toothpaste and toothbrushes, so everyone has to pay us and we’ll be millionaires!” Lindsey threw her hands in the air, panting. She was getting tired.

“I though that maybe only you and I would be allowed in our planet, and maybe other people that we trust and are good. I don’t want our planet to be filled with bad people.” I stood up to stand next to Lindsey, she was staring out the attic window, peering through the garden.

“Okay! Mom, dad, grandma and grandpa are the only ones allowed besides us… we’ll be in charge and they won’t be able to tell us to go to bed, we’ll be the ones to tell them that!” Lindsey held my hand and turned to me, her smile wide and filled with joy, making me feel happy as well.

“Yeah, just us and mama, papa, granny and grandpa.” I held her hand back, smiling back at her.

“Is that what you didn’t want to put in?” Lindsey saw the picture I held.

I nodded. “It’s my mom, not mama.” I told her and she frowned.

“It’s okay, you can keep it. We should hurry up, it’ll get dark soon and we still have to bury the box!” Lindsey let go of my hand and hurried to close and lock her box.

I quickly followed her to do the same, hesitantly placing my mother’s picture inside.

“I told you, it’s fine you can keep it.” Lindsey saw what I did,she was frowning again.

I shook my head no, “It’s fine, I have a new mama now!” I smiled at her, locking my box and carrying it.

“Okay! Let’s go!” She was smiling again picking up her own box, leading me outside to the garden.

We buried our box and when we made it back to the house it was dark, mama rushed as, in scolding us for worrying her. Lindsey and I apologized to mama and hugged her, we ate dinner after Lindsey said grace and papa told us about the newspaper he read. That night Lindsey crawled into my bed and we went to sleep together.

Even though I wasn’t her real sister, she still treats me like one. Mama and papa too, they treated me as their own and I’m thankful for that.