My Life Would Suck Without You
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By Mark Mackey
©2014 by Mark Mackey
“So what do you say Julie,” Kimberly Masters, 15 asked her as they lay stretched out stomach side down on her bed in her room that afternoon. “Are you up for trick or treating one last time?”
Kimberly’s asking this did not generate any amount of surprise in 15 year old Julie Knox who she considered beyond a shadow of a doubt her best friend since they were both eleven.
“You don’t think we’re too old?” Julie asked.
“We just turned fifteen, and no I don’t. Besides Julie it’s going to be our last time.”
“Okay well since you put it that way, sure why not,” Julie almost instantly answered. “Let’s do it one last time.”
”Great choice Julie,” Kimberly said climbing off the bed. “Now I’d better get my butt out of here, I’ll call you just as soon as I get home.”
Watching Kimberly exit her bedroom, Julie had no idea this would be the last time she was going to see or hear her best friend for a good long while.
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And Julie didn’t, nor did anyone else for that matter during the course of the year. As a result of losing her best friend Julie’s life really sucked to the point she just wanted to die. It was as if her best friend had vanished into thin air. This led to her considering if she should take her own life, but yet at the end, thinking Kimberly might show up, Julie didn’t. Gradually she just moved on with her life. Still she kept up hope she’d get a miracle and have Kimberly returned to her.
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One of the memories which stood out in Julie’s mind had of Kimberly was when was four years ago when the two were both eleven years old and just starting out as friends. Her parents taking them to the pumpkin patch on 9th street in order for them to pick out pumpkins to carve into Jack O Lanterns for Halloween.
After an hour they were heading away from the pumpkin patch, choosing for themselves ones quite large in size; this forcing her parents to engage in the task.