Through it all hangin' tough, we'll be side by side...

...We'll be friends foreeeeever, till the end of tiiiiiime!
(That song is by the uber famous band, Zack Attack. You're welcome for getting that stuck in your head the rest of the day!)

It's time for Writer's Workshop with Kathy from Mama's Losin' It!
My Chosen Prompt: How did you meet your best friend?

I think I told this story on the old blog, but it's a good one... so we're bringin' it back!

The year was 1989. My brother, sister and I were in the front yard raking leaves. (To be honest, I was five... so I wasn't doing much raking. I think it was just something my Mom told us to do so she could be left alone for an hour.) As I was lolly gagging around in the leaves, I happened to see a pair of feet under the moving van that was parked in the driveway next door. They weren't just any old feet, y'all... these were KID SIZED FEET. & Those shoes? They look like shoes I could wear! Surely, there was a girl over there and she was my age! I'd never had a friend on my street before & the prospect of it was lovely! I watched the little feet march back and forth, back and forth, back and forth... mesmerized. I was in such a trance that I didn't realize the feet were getting closer and closer. I snapped to when I heard a little voice. There, on the other side of the chain link fence, stood a little girl with dark brown hair and a smile. "Hey! I'm Lauren!" , she said to me. I was a shy one at the time & clung to my sister like the world was about to end. "This is Lacey!", my sister proclaimed proudly on my behalf. "We can be friends!", the little girl said happily. Clearly, this girl wasn't shy. How were WE going to be friends? I couldn't even bring myself to speak to her. The less I spoke, the more she did. "If you won't be my friend, I'm going to jump over this fence and make you be my friend!", she told me. And then, she disappeared behind the truck again. I looked up to my sister to see what she was thinking, and before I could utter a word to her, the little girl reemerged with her Dad in tow. She lifted her little arms and her Dad lifted her over the fence.
True to her word,
she came over that fence and made me be her friend.
From that day forward, Lauren would be my very best friend. We would share shoes, clothes, dreams, nail polish, laughter, bikes, beds, stories, tears and for many years...that fence.
She's become a constant in my life.
She is my family.
She is forever.
I'm so lucky she jumped over that fence.
It was fate.

August 09
If you want to pop over and say hello to my BFF... you can find her here :)