GREAT READS → TEEN FICTION Issue 642 · January 4, 2017

Teen Fiction: Friendship Blues

She was quiet for a few minutes until she finally said “I wouldn’t encourage a friendship with her.”

Teen    Fiction:    Friendship    Blues
Photo: Shutterstock
She was quiet for a few minutes until she finally said “I wouldn’t encourage a friendship with her.”

Photo: Shutterstock

D ear Diary

I feel almost sacrilegious scarring your fancy pages with an unpleasant entry but how dare she! I never dreamed Faigy Marks would do this to me! And now I’m bored to bits during midwinter vacation because of her.

Imagine last week we were inseparable! And only last year she was simply one of my 25 classmates in ninth grade. It all started in the beginning of last year when she happened to sit next to me. Faigy’s compliments flowed like water from a faucet. “Suri your notebooks are a work of art!” “I love your shoes are they new?” Or “Suri how did you manage to follow Mrs. Bloom’s dikduk class so seamlessly?”

I must admit it felt good. At home I was the dutiful daughter who faithfully took out the garbage cleared the supper dishes and helped put the little ones to bed and no one said a word.

Before long my new friend suggested “Let’s walk home together.”

Continue reading with Mishpacha.

Create a free account to keep reading.

Everything you need to stay close to Mishpacha.