Friendship: Not a Love Story

Written by, Maggie Wu

Nate and Lexa were the perfect couple. Both were popular, attractive, and really rude jerks. They’ve been dating since middle school and never broke up since. They were also voted best and everlasting couple. Everyone thought they were a couple that would never break up. Nate and Lext… there was nothing left to say. Everything was going well, until the day Brianna came.

It was their junior year in high school and a new student came. Her name was Brianna. Brianna was no one special. She was an Einstein-ette, so Lexa didn’t care about her. Let’s take a look at Nate and Brianna’s past… You’re probably thinking, Nate and Brianna have a past? Yes, they have a past, now just shut up and read.

“Brianna, what do you mean you have to move?!” cried Nate.

“I’m sorry, but I have to Nate.” Said Brianna.

“Why Brianna?”

“Bye Nate.” *beep beep beep*

Flashback over. Not back to classroom. *ring* There’s the bell.

“Nate, wait up! Do you remember me?”

“Of course I do, Brianna. How have you been?”

“Great! You?”

“I’ve been good.”

“How about I give you my number and we talk after school?”

“Okay!”

Nate did call Brianna later. They spent a lot of time talking about their lives and what happened in the past couple of years. They planned a lot of events together and had a lot of fun. Their connection was like they never separated in elementary school.

Nate pretended to be bad at math so Brianna could tutor him. They had a lot of fun together. That brought them close and closer. Pretty soon, Lexa caught on and found out that then used to know each other. Nate told Lexa he wanted to break up. She said ‘okay’ and they lived happily ever after. Yeah, right. Lexa threw a fit and demanded to know why. She already knew it was because of Brianna and wanted to destroy her. After two months, she got over it and moved on.

The next day at school Nate called Brianna because he felt she was hiding something from him. Brianna kept her mouth shut and told him nothing was wrong. She had a heart disease that couldn’t be cured. The only reason she moved when they were younger was because she needed to go to England and be treated and observed by doctors. She cried and cried while she was talking to him, and pretty soon, Nate made her tell him the truth.

Brianna was going to die in one month. She wanted to make the most of it. Nate spent the next month just with Brianna and he helped her through all the seizures and attacks she had. One month passed very quickly and Brianna was ready. She wrote her good-bye letters, visited all of her cousins and friends, and hugged her parents. On that very night, she died.

Brianna’s parents called Nate’s parents. They told him and he took it pretty well. Nate changed a lot. He didn’t throw nerds into the trash cans anymore. He stopped mocking the teachers, and he even improved in school. He later went to college, which was not planned, and became a doctor. He was a heart doctor and tried to fix and find cures for heart diseases. Brianna made that difference. She changed his entire life and he never forgot Brianna or ever found someone who could ever replace her.