Laura is my best friend. We are in the third grade.
We do everything together. We walk to school together.
We eat lunch together at school. Laura’s mother gives her tuna
sandwiches for lunch. My mother gives me peanut butter
sandwiches for lunch. We share our sandwiches with each
other. Sometimes Laura gets apples for lunch. Sometimes I get
peaches. We share our fruit with each other. We help each
other with our homework. She helps me with history. I help her
with arithmetic. We spend the weekends together. Her parents
invite me to their house, or my parents invite her to our house.
We sleep over. I spend the night at her house, or she spends
the night at my house. We talk about everything. We talk about
our brothers. They are so silly. We talk about our teachers and
our parents. We love them. We talk about the boys in class.
We don’t like them. They are so silly. Why in the world do some
girls like boys? Boys never grow up. We will never like boys.