We met when we were around 6 or 7, when we joined the swim team. In the beginning, there were four of us. I don't remember a moment without drama, when all four of us just had some pure fun. It was all a popularity contest. Each move, each comment on myspace, who had more friends, whatever.  We would kick each other during swimming because it could easily be disguised as an "accident." But just to prove the intensity, I ended up with a goggle jammed in my eye and an eventual black eye. Other girls got nosebleeds and whatnot. In the lockerooms, gossip ran nonstop.

Birthday parties and sleepovers were the worst. I remember Rachel, one of the four, gave me a sanrio coloring kit for my birthday once and I was pretty excited. The moment she stepped out of the room, another girl, came up and whispered in my ear, "I saw that somewhere in her house. Plus, it's pretty ugly, don't you think?" When Rachel came back into the room, my friend suggested that I make an order in which I liked the presents. Before the party, my mom had reminded me that it was the thought that counts.

At another party, the same girl who whispered in my ear decided to confront Rachel. She yelled at her and screamed and made the rest of us laugh and ridicule Rachel. At some point of our friendship, every one of us has been hated. Where the three of us would just turn on the fourth girl. As time progressed, our tactics would drop lower and lower. From stealing from each other, the rumors, whoever wasn't invited to which party.

But then we got older, and we started to drift. One of them moved away. One them found a new group of friends. And then it ended up as two of us, becoming really close. Now, she too found a new posse. On our myspaces and to everyone else, we're bestfriends that went to "hell and back." But everyday, I question why we hang onto the superficiality.

1. A Husky puppy with spoiled lifestyle and more dogs~!
2. Pay off debts.
3. All the game consoles in the world.
4. A bigger house. For my future dog&i.
5. Presents for family and friends.
   

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