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6 years Old and Growing Fast
Rating: PG-13
Quality: (Quality: Unrated)
As I look back through my life I remember all the sad things, like when my grandmother died when I was three, and the happy things, like when I got Christmas presents. I can also remember the funny things, such as when Dave dressed up as Christina Agulera (I would pay good money to see that again), and the incredibly stupid things, like when I got mad at Katie for holding Cali. These are all fond memories of me and my family, but I did have many friends too: Desi, Evan, Parker, Sara, Katie, Rachel, Monica, and a bunch of other peeps too. Some of these before and after K, but I didn't know that when I was 6 I would know what a true friend was:
It was my birthday party for my sixth birthday. Everything was going great! (ok that's an exageration but it wasn't totally horrible) My family was there, my friends were there and I was having (key word) fun! Well, the party ended and I was exhausted. As soon as everybody left, I ran inside to take a nap. When I woke up it was maybe 8:00. I know that it was dark and that's all. My parents told me to sit down. I did that and started wiggling my tooth. It was loose. It was my first one loose. I was so excited! But my mother told me to stop so I did. Then they told me, Jessica, How would you like to move to England? I screamed at the idea. England? Do they speak the same language as us? LEAVE AMERICA? And all my friends? What about Jacque? What about Blake? But none the less in August, two months later, we hopped on the 747 and flew to Heathrow Airport.
England didn't look as bad as it had seemed, but I hated it. I hated every last person. We lived in a hotel for about a month and when I started school, I had no friends, but the teacher assigned me a partner to show me around the school. Well, easily, everyone started to like me, prolly cuz I was american. My dad he can remember how I would talk to my friends in British, and then translate for him in American. They held a halloween party for me and invited a ton of people. That is where I met Erica...
...Eric just lived down the street. She was 8 and had a little brother, Laurie was was at the time, 3. Erica and I were always playing and I played with Laurie occasionally. I liked him, but I guess I was afriad of him. Laurie had been diagnosed with cancer. Brain Cancer I think. Well, either way, my brother played with Laurie and they became really good friends. Erica and I did a ton of things together and we did a few things with my friend Sam too. We all joined brownies, and I became a 6er with them (unusual in 3 months). I liked playing with them. One birthday, I invited a boy named Thomas to my party. Laurie came too, but he left because he didn't feel well. I was turning 7 and Laurie had just turned 4. We were having a ton of fun before he left. Well, I went over to thomas's house about a week later and came home to find my mother crying. I asked her what was wrong because my brother wasn't playing trains, he was sitting at the counter. She told me, Lynn (Laurie's mother) was sitting with Laurie, watching him sleep on the couch while you were at Thomas's...her voice trailed off. What? I asked, I don't get it? She goes, Laurie stopped breathing while he was napping this afternoon. I was in shock. I didn't know what everyone else was going through. I forced myself to shrug and ran up into my room and shut the door. I stood by my window watching all the neighbors crying. Laurie's death had had a huge effect. They had a funeral, and a few weeks later, towards the summer in July (Laurie had died in April), Lynn decided to have a tree planting. They planted a tree at our school in rememberance of Laurie. Only the personally invited people were able to attend. I got to see my teacher's baby, I was the only one, and watch the planting. That was when I cried for Laurie. I cried all the way home. Lynn told a story about him in reception (our pre-k). She said he was so afraid of leaving her, he hid under a desk and cried and he wouldn't let her leave. So she stayed with him the first day. Erica, being his sister hasn't had a party on her birthday since Laurie died. Their birthday's were close and Laurie had died pretty close to their birthday's. When I turned nine I moved back to america and I am still here. I haven't seen or heard from Lynn or Erica lately. They haven't talked to us since I was 10 or 11. Now I am a little older and I understand that Laurie and Erica were probably the two people in my life that were true friends, Erica protected us when the school went bad and Laurie taught us how to fight through everything. A four year old struggling through cancer and making it until he was almost 5 and a 1/2 is very impressive come to think of it.
I miss Laurie and Erica very much, but I know Laurie is out of suffering and Erica will see him again someday.
Lynn now works for the Rainbow Trust. It is a charity helping little children. They have moved into a house which they called at first The Lawrence House, but they now call it The Rainbow House for the charity and all the help they gave Laurie to try and help him.
Submitted by S_P_EarS626327@yahoo.com 48
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