True Friends?

True Friends?

Once upon a time, a  girl called Lizzie wanted to be the best at everything, so she wanted to beat her friends in all she could at school and in order to do that she started to study plenty of things to be the best of the class; therefore, she spent the whole vacations studying and because of that when she came back to school she was the best just like she wanted; then, she had achieved her goal, she also started making many friends and she became popular because of her intelligence.

Her best friends were Betty and Veronica, who became best

friends at school, but they weren’t that close before: They started making sleepovers, they went to parties, and the made everything together. 

One day, they started asking for many favors, in specific, academic favors, so they began asking her to do their math homework and she did it because for her, it was just a favor, an it was really easy but the problem was that it became something that happened on daily basis and she was tired of that, so she told them she was not going to do their homework anymore, so they got angry at her and they told her that they were not going to be their friends anymore if she stopped doing their homework.

 Lizzie was really sad because she didn’t want to be alone or

to lose her friends, but she didn’t want to be their slave either nor to do their homework because if she did that she would be doing her friends a damage because they were doing nothing, and they wouldn’t learn anything if she kept doing their homework. She was confused and she didn’t know what was the right thing to do, so she told her mother the situation and her mother told her that if they were real friends they would stay with her because of whom she was and not because of the advantage that they could take of her.

The next day, she went to talk with her “friends” but they didn’t want to talk to her, they spent the whole day doing things just to ignore her. She didn’t beg them though, she went home feeling good with herself because she preferred to be alone than to be hanging out with fake friends. To ignore the situation of her loneliness,  she started researching about things that she liked, one of them was the environment  since she liked all things that involved climate change, pollution, etc.

 Finally, after that she came to school and started making campaigns about that and because of those she made real friends, that liked her because of whom she was. 

By Dina Reyes, Step 9