Cheat Sheet: A Short Story

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Every Moment Counts I hug her knowing that this will be our last. Tears are streaming uncontrollably down my cheeks, staining her shirt. I'm not ready to say goodbye. I don't understand why this is happening. Out all of the 7.28 billion people in this world, why did it have to be her? Two years ago, a good friend of mine moved to Michigan. She's been on my soccer team for as long as I can remember. Over the years, we've grown closer and closer every game and every minute we played with each other on the same field. Knowing that she would soon be living hundreds of miles away wasn't easy to process. All I could ever think about was how much I was going to miss seeing her smile everyday when she walked into soccer practice. My friendship with …show more content…

"Since this is the last time you will be with Emma, let's have everyone go around in a circle and share your favorite memory you've had with her," Brian said. While he continued giving directions, I thought long and hard about what I was going to say. From her trying to kill mosquitoes during soccer practices or her trying to trip me every time we were on opposite teams during soccer practice. My turn was coming up and I knew what I was gonna say. A long time ago, our team went to a soccer tournament in Iowa. My family took Emma because her parents weren’t able to take her at the time. On the way, we stopped at a starbucks to take a break from sitting in the car for so long. Emma had recently gotten a Mac laptop, which she was obsessed with, and brought it with her everywhere she went. When we were waiting line to order our drinks, she randomly pulled out her laptop and said, “Allie, take ugly pictures with me on PhotoBooth!” We probably took hundreds of pictures on her laptop in the middle of a starbucks line. As soon as I was finished, I began to look around the room at everyone's smiling faces realizing how much of an impact people can have of on your life, and can change it for the good. By the end of the last story, everyone was doubling over in laughter with tears streaming down their faces like rockets. In only a few minutes, those tears would have …show more content…

The first gift was one of our teams old soccer jerseys that was framed, and that the entire team signed. The second gift was a scrapbook. Each person on the team got two pages to decorate of themselves and Emma. As everyone gathered downstairs, we all pulled out the presents and yelled, "Surprise!" Emma's face beamed as she saw what we had made for her. While the team had a group hug around Emma, all of the parents started snapping pictures of us left and right as if we were celebrities. When everyone pulled away and the parents left the room, Brian pulled Emma to the side and said a few things to her that I wasn't able to hear. I knew right away that it was time to say goodbye. "Since this is the last time you will see Emma, I will give you all some privacy to say your final goodbyes." While he exited the room, it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. No one knew what to say. It then hit me that this is reality, and that this is actually happening as we speak. While all these thoughts were going through my head, I didn't realize that tears were dripping off of the edge of my chin onto the carpet. Soon enough, everyone in the room started to cry hysterically. All except Emma. She was off playing basketball with a mini basketball hoop. "Emma, aren't you sad you're leaving? Why aren't you crying?" I questioned. "If I sit with all of you, then I will cry,

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