What We Do

by violetcracks

It was a week I hated with a passion only another eleven year old would understand. I always saw it as the one week out of the year I wouldn't see my best friend, and I dreaded it. Until you invited me to come. Drabble

4. Chapter 4

Age 14

We walk into town with Emmett and Alice and explore the tourist shops.

You buy me a shark tooth necklace and put it around my neck while Alice makes kissy faces at us.

We roll our eyes and laugh, but we both blush at the gesture.

I buy you the same necklace and you wear it, even though Emmett tells you guys don't wear necklaces.

But you think it's cool so you wear it.

That night we go to the church carnival and ride the spinning rides over and over again.

Alice eats so much cotton candy we think she'll explode.

Emmett dares me to go on the Ferris wheel because he knows I don't like heights.

But I'm stubborn so I get in line anyway.

We're at the front of the line before I look up and see how high it is.

I chicken out.

You tell Emmett to shut up when he laughs at me, and you win me a fish to make me feel better.

You tell me that I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.

You promise that we'll conquer my fear together some day.

So we do.