Summary: It started off as a simple 'hi' that leads to so much more for these two little kids put next to each other in their class of 6 year olds. The story of how Zac, Evie, David, Cam, and Carly became best friends.
Word Count: 2546
"Hi," a young girl of only six years spoke to the boy who sat beside her at their shared table.
He looked up from tapping his hands on the table. "Hi," he replied, meeting her eyes.
"My name's Evie, Evie McLaren."
"Zac Blakely."
Despite being only six, Evie held her hand out to Zac, he shook it. Evie had seen her dad shaking people's hands enough in her young life to know that it was a polite thing to do when meeting someone new. The two didn't talk much more as their teacher began to talk.
Before the class went out for recess later that day, they were given time to eat any snack that they had brought with them or play with the toys in the classroom if they didn't have a snack or had already finished it. Zac and Evie both had snacks so they sat at their table to eat them. They were now able to talk more and their conversation fell on who their best friends were.
"My best friend's Carly. She's in Miss Parson's class. They have recess with us."
"No way. My best friend Cam is in Miss Parson's class too."
"Maybe they'll become friends and we can all play together at recess," Evie suggested.
"That would be cool," Zac spoke. A few minutes later, the two had finished their snacks. They threw away their trash and played in the classroom for a few minutes before they were let outside.
"I don't see Carly yet," Evie said, craning her neck to try and see where her best friend might be.
"I don't see Cam either," Zac said, looking all over the playground where their classmates were running around.
As if someone had heard them, an entire class was soon running out the doors of the school. "There's Carly!" Evie exclaimed.
"And there's Cam." Zac and Evie made their way over to Cam and Carly. The group played tag for the entire time they were outside that day. They raced through the playground equipment and around trees trying to avoid being 'it'. They all had the time of their lives running around and chasing each other over the course of the next few days.
By the end of the first week of school, Zac and Evie had already become really close. Cam and Carly also seemed to be getting along as far as anyone could tell. The next couple of weeks continued on and the group grew closer. They were already all best friends and nothing was going to change that.
CHCHCH
"Cam, what happened to your hair?" Zac asked. Clumps of Cam's hair were stuck together and it stuck up in different areas. Zac wanted to know why before the group went to go play.
"Carly put glue in my hair."
"You weren't sharing the blue marker. I wanted the blue marker."
"I needed it too."
"You only started using it after I asked for it. We're supposed to share the markers, that's what Miss Parson said and you weren't sharing." Carly huffed and folded her arms over her chest.
"Why don't we just go play tag," Evie suggested, trying to break up the conflict.
"All right," Carly agreed.
Cam's hair being full of glue was soon forgotten as they began to run around, chasing each other, and trying not to get caught.
It seemed nothing would change for this group of friends, they planned to always play together at recess and hang out. Zac and Evie were already quite fond of each other.
CHCHCH
"Mum, can I go over to Evie's. I want to go swimming with her." Zac had just gotten home from school as he was allowed to walk there and home by himself.
"We have a pool here, Zac," his mother spoke.
"But I want to play with her. Her mum will be home to watch us."
"She's the girl you're always talking about?"
"Yes. She lives right over there." Zac pointed to a house in the direction of his backyard and to the left.
"Why don't you go change into your swim trunks and I'll go over there with you so I can meet her parents."
"Thanks, mum." Zac raced off to his room where he had left his swimsuit. He was changed and ready to go in no time.
"Ready?" his mum asked.
Zac had returned from his room with his swimsuit and a t-shirt on. He had a towel tucked under his arm. He nodded enthusiastically.
"Let's go."
Zac ran out the back door to the house Evie had pointed out as hers. His mum lagged behind him so he arrived about thirty seconds before she did. Evie was sitting outside with her mum, waiting by the pool.
"Zac!" she exclaimed, getting up from the chair she was sitting in.
"Hey Evie." The two quickly exchanged a hug.
"Mum, can Zac and I get in the water?" Evie asked.
"Just a minute." Evie's mum walked over to Zac's mum. The two women shook hands and talked for about a minute before going to sit down by the pool. "Go on in, we're right here if anything happens," Evie's mum gave the go ahead.
Zac cheered and dropped his towel and shirt in a chair by he pool and cannonballed into the water. Evie laughed and jumped in beside him, splashing water up all around as she did so.
While Zac and Evie played in the pool, their mum's talked and got to know each other; they were getting the feeling that they'd be seeing quite a bit of each other in the future. "Next time you and Evie could come over to our house," Mrs. Blakely said.
"Sounds like a great idea."
The following day, Evie and her mum went over to to the Blakely's house after school. The rest of the week, they traded off whose house they went to to swim and hang out after school. After the first two days, Cam and Carly also came and were watched by Zac and Evie's mums since their parents had needed to stay at work longer than normal.
It seemed like this group of fast friends wasn't going to change at all, but three weeks into the school year, things did change.
CHCHCH
"Here David, this is where you'll sit."
A small boy with bushy curls sat at the table across from the one Zac and Evie shared as they entered the classroom. He nodded and sat down in the new place where his name-tag had been placed. Zac and Evie put their backpacks on their hooks in the back of the classroom and went over to the boy, David, who sat with his head lowered, not looking up.
"Hi, I'm Evie," Evie said, walking over to David. She held her hand out to him. He looked up at her and took in her genuine smile and outstretched hand, which he shook.
"And I'm Zac." He also held out his hand to David. "Do you want to play with us and our friends at recess?"
David smiled. In his other class, nobody had wanted to talk to him or play with him because of how shy he was; that was why he was no longer in that class. He hadn't been in this class for more than a minute and already two people wanted to be his friends. "Yes," he answered.
"Awesome," Zac said. He and Evie went around to their side of the table and sat down, smiling at their new friend.
Their teacher, Mrs. Hale, smiled. When she had heard that David wasn't doing well in his original class, she just knew that him joining her class with Zac and Evie would be perfect. They had welcomed him right away and she could already tell that they were going to be good friends.
CHCHCH
"Cam, Carly, this is David," Zac introduced at recess. "David, Cam and Carly."
"Hi," David spoke simply.
Carly smiled at him. "You want to play tag?"
David' face lit up. "Yeah," he answered, a gleam in his eyes.
"Okay, then you're it," Carly took off. It only took Cam, Zac, and Evie another second to realize that they needed to run. David took another second or two after that to run after them, seeing where they had gone before running after them.
He chased Carly down first since she had been the one to declare him 'it'. Nobody could keep track of who was 'it' after that. All five 6 year olds ended up being 'it' that recess and at many that followed.
They continued to become closer and had 'pool parties', if they could really be called that, altogether. One Saturday, several months into the school year, they also all went to the beach.
David, Carly, Cam, Zac, and Evie along with their parents met up at the beach for a day of fun in the sun. The kids wanted to get right in the water so while the other parents set up, Mr. McLaren went into the water with the kids.
After a while, they all got out of the water briefly to get boogie boards and have their parents blow up inner-tubes for them. Once they all had their choice thing, they returned to the water, relaxing and catching small waves as they washed up onto the shore. Cam sat on his boogie board and looked out to sea.
"You know, someday I'm going to be the best and most greatest lifeguard anyone had ever seen."
"Yeah right," Carly rebuttled.
"Let Cam live in his dream world. In actuality, I'm going to be the best lifeguard ever," Zac said.
"You'll have to train and work hard to get there," Evie said.
"Okay. You three go out and Cam and I will go pull you in like lifeguards do," Zac said.
"No way," David said. Carly and Evie agreed with David so the group just laughed and went back to playing in the water.
A couple hours later, they got out and dried off to have lunch. When they finished their lunch, they sat in the semi-wet sand and built castles with water trenches around them; they found it hard to keep the water in the trenches because the ground soaked it all up as soon as any was put in, but they tried their hardest to make it stay.
Later, they coaxed their parents into the water so they could go out farther than they could on their own. That night, all five of them slept well because all the fun and excitement from the day had worn them out.
CHCHCH
The weekend following their day at the beach, Cam, Carly, David, Zac and Evie had a sleepover at Evie's house. Carly came over to Evie's house soon after school on Friday. The boys all came over a little while later, a bit before dinner.
They all ran around in the backyard for a little while before going inside to eat. Evie's parents had them help take care of everything from their seafood dinner, but once all was taken care of, they were allowed to go change into their swimsuits to go swimming for a little while before bed.
When they came back inside after swimming and were changed out of their swimsuits into their pjs, the kids went to Evie's room and began setting up for the night. Zac, Cam, and David began rolling out their sleeping bags and expected Carly to be doing the same thing, but she was placing her pillows on the bed next to Evie's.
"Why do you get to sleep in the bed?" Zac asked. "We have to sleep on the floor."
"Because I'm Evie's best friend."
"So?" Cam countered.
"Girls and boys only share beds if they're brother and sister or if they're married," Evie spoke. "None of you are our brothers so unless you want to marry either one of us–"
"Ew! Gross!" Zac and Cam exclaimed at the same time.
Carly and Evie laughed. After that, none of the boys had any objections to sleeping on the floor in their sleeping bags.
CHCHCH
"Saturday morning cartoons!" Zac exclaimed the following morning when he woke up, suddenly becoming alert. Both he and Cam jumped up. "Do you have the channel Saturday morning cartoons are on?"
"Yeah."
"Then let's go!" Zac raced out of the room with Cam right behind him. David, Carly, and Evie followed a bit slower behind them.
When they got to the living room, Zac and Cam were already sitting in two different chairs with the TV on. Zac was working on getting to the normal channel that had the majority of the good Saturday morning cartoons on it. Carly and Evie went to sit on the couch and David went to a chair that was a bit farther away.
"They floor's lava!" Zac exclaimed when the second show they were watching of the morning had gone to commercial. "The only truly safe place is the couch." Zac easily jumped over to the 'safe' couch where Carly and Evie were.
David looked down at the area of floor separating him and the couch. "I'll never make it all the way over there," he cried.
"Pillows are temporary floating rocks in the lava that can help you get over here," Zac explained, throwing a pillow from the couch to the floor about a third of the way between the couch and David' chair.
David took the pillow from the chair and tossed it onto the floor another third of the way across from the one Zac had thrown on the floor. Using those, David was able to jump from one to the next and then to the couch to join Zac, Carly, and Evie at safety. "I did it," David sounded proud of his accomplishment. "Now you just need to get over here without touching the floor, Cam."
"No problem."
"Are you sure you can make it?" David asked. "It's a long jump."
"I'll be fine." Cam got his momentum ready to jump to the couch and the others moved out of the way. He swung his arms a little and jumped to the couch. He just caught onto the edge and pulled himself up onto the cushions next to everyone else.
"Cam, your foot touched the ground. Your foot burned off," Zac said. "You're dead and can't be on the couch anymore."
"My foot didn't touch the ground."
"Yes it did, I saw it."
"Me too," David agreed.
"Liars!" Cam declared.
"Cam, your foot touched the ground," Carly said. "You're out."
Cam crossed his arms over his chest and huffed. He slid down to the floor angrily as the commercials ended. At the next commercial, Cam was again allowed to join everyone on the couch. When that episode ended, Evie's parents were up and began making breakfast. After eating, they let the kids go out to the pool for a little while before they had to leave.
Everyone was eager to have another sleepover altogether whenever they were next allowed to. Cam promised as they left, that he'd make it to the couch next time.
And that was how Carly, Cam, David, Evie, and Zac became the best friends anyone could possible imagine.
A/N: So the first intention of writing this was from Zac saying 'You know we've known each other since we were six' to Mimmi in episode 19 of season 2. The part with Carly and the glue in Cam's hair was added on from her saying she thought she did that in season 2 episode 22.
As always, review and let me know what you thought of it. Requests are always welcome even though I might not get to it right away. Constructive criticism is welcomed. Also, I hope they all sounded like they were pretty much in character or if they seem OOC. Thanks,
-CrazyHayniac