• When I first saw Melanie, the lonely girl standing by the sold sign that was stuck in the ground of her new front yard, I didn't know that we would be best friends.
    We were both six years old.
    I walked over to introduced myself, and before I could say anything, Melanie said, "You're really short."
    I was, at six I was barely three feet. Melanie towered over me by at least five inches.
    But, instead of getting mad, I smiled, "So, my name is Jamie Sanders. What's your name?"
    Melanies crossed her arms, "Melanie Myers. Why do you care?"
    I kept my smile, "I always make the new kid feel welcome, I want us to be friends."
    Melanie didn't say anything, then she turned around and walked back to her house.
    A few days later, I hadn't heard from Melanie until my mom had gotten the mail.
    "Look, Jamie," Mom handed me an evenvolpe sealed with a birthday cake sticker, "I bet it's from that new little girl, Melanie. I talked to her mommy, and she said her birthday's coming up."
    Why would Melanie invite me to her party, I thought, Her mom must have made her.
    I picked off the sticker and pulled off the card, and it was from Melanie. The card was decorated with frogs.
    "You want to go?" Mom asked, "It's in a week. I need to call Melanie's mommy to let her know you're coming."
    "Sure," I said, "I want to make her feel welcome, and I think I know what to get her."
    A week passed and I was excited to go to Melanie's party, I had wore my favorite purple dress and shoes for the ocasion. But, when I showed up, I had found out I was the only kid that had come. It was discovered when two hours had passed and no one else had came.
    "Where's Melanie's other family?" Mom had asked Melanie's mom.
    "Before we moved, we had a family only party for her." her mom had to my mom. Mom nodded, looking at Melanie, probably feeling sorry for her.
    Melanie was so upset that she locked herself in her room.
    "Mommy," I said, grabbing the present I got her, "can I try getting Melanie out of her room?"
    Mom looked at Melanie's mom, then nodded at me.
    I climbed up their steps to her room. I knocked on the door.
    "Melanie," I said through the door, "may I come in?"
    I stepped back as the door began to open, Melanie stood there, dry tears covered her face and dress.
    "Are you comin'?" she sobbed, I rushed in.
    I held up the present, "You didn't open my present."
    Melanie snatched the bag out of my hand, "What is it?"
    "Open it," I told her.
    She threw the tissue paper out of the bag, I watched as it littered the floor. Then, she gasped as she pulled out a large purple and pink stuffed frog.
    "How'd you know I love frogs?" Melanie smiled the first time today, hugging the frog.
    "There's more," I told her.
    She stuck her hand down, then gasped again. She pulled out a best friends forever necklace set. There were two necklaces, they were frogs.
    "Oh my," Melanie hugged me, "this is the best present ever!" She handed the 'best' necklace to me, "Thank you, best friends."
    We both put on our necklaces, showing that we were now best friends forever.

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    It's been fifteen years since that day. We both went on to bigger and better things, Melanie got accepted to Yail, and I'm going to UCLA. We still keep in contact, but not like it used to be.
    I was packing up my dorm room when my vidoe chat popped up. I glanced at my laptop, and saw Melanie.
    "Melanie!" I raced to the screen.
    "Hey," she smiled.
    "It's been so long," I gasped.
    "I know, I wanted to show you something," she held up her hand, a wedding ring layed on her ring finger.
    "Tom proposed!?" I cried, "Congrats!"
    "Thanks, but there's more." she left the screen for a minute, then came back, holding a wore down pink and purple frog, and a child size best friend forever necklace with a frog on it.
    "You kept that stuff?" I asked, shocked.
    "Yeah." she said.
    "After all these years, our friendship survived." I told her.
    "Yeah," Melanie said, "We are the definion of best friends forever."
    "Yeah," I agreed, "And always will be."

    -The End