Beautiful Innocence

Beautiful Innocence

"Hey wait up!"
I called to my best friend, Katie. " I can't run as fast as you."
"Well, you should learn to keep up!" she yelled back to me.
"Can we stop playing tag? I'll never be able to catch you, so it's not fair."
"Fine," she said. She stopped running, and sat down on the grass. I caught up to her and sat down, breathless.
"Its not fair, how can you run so fast?" I asked her.
" I can't run that fast. You are almost as fast as me. You are much prettier than me though, so I'm the one who should be jealous."
" That's not true! My mommy used to say that I was very pretty, and my daddy used to say that I was the prettiest girl in the world, but I know that they were lying. . Besides, you are so much bigger than me, so I know that you way prettier than I could be. I'm only 6, and you are already almost 100!'
My friend looked at me with astonishment. "I'm only 17, so I still have many years to go before I'm 100. And your parents weren't lying when they said you were pretty.
I looked up at her. "That is almost 100! And yes they were bad because they lied. They always tell me not to lie, but then they did. I told them not to.
Katie looked at me with amazement. "They weren't lying, but it was still really brave of you to stand up to your parents. That means you are now a big girl like me."
I shrieked with delight. " I'm a big girl! I'm a big girl! Katie said I'm a big girl!" I screamed while I ran around
"Kiera! Don't make such a scene." Katie scolded.
''Sorry, I was just excited." I said sadly. "Are you mad at me?"
"No, I'm not mad" Katie said quickly. " I didn't mean to scold, I was just scared you were going to hurt yourself " she said reassuringly.
"Oh, okay" I said happily, smiling from ear to ear. I then heard a gentle ringing sound. I screamed and ran to Katie. " What's the matter!" she asked, looking around with concern. I giggled." I hear the ice cream truck! Can we get ice cream?"
She sighed in relief and laughed with me. " Sure we can. Let me just get my purse, then we can go have ice cream.
She picked up her purse and started to walk to the ice cream truck with me. I looked up at her in wonder. I don't know why she wanted to be my friend, since she was a big girl that went to the big school. She was so pretty, with her long brown hair and gentle green eyes. When she smiled, I could see lots of shiny white teeth. She didn't have any missing like I did. I wished every night that my boring brown eyes could magically turn into green eyes like Katie's. I wish my mom didn't cut my hair so short so it could be long like hers. I knew I could never be as pretty as her, but if she was my friend forever, it wouldn't matter. (524)
"why are you so quiet?" Katie asked me.
"I was just thinking." I said.
Katie laughed. " I swear sometimes you are older than me."
I was confused. " what do you mean? How can that be? You are so much bigger than me."
She looked at me lovingly. " you will understand what I mean when you are older."
I was confused. What did she mean?
I saw the ice cream truck right in front of me, so I ran up to it to get my ice cream. I looked up at the man in the truck and said," can I have black cherry? He looked around, but couldn't see me. Man! It isn't fun being this short. I pouted, and Katie smiled. " can I get a double scoop of black cherry ice cream for my friend, and a single scoop of chocolate for me." The man looked down and looked surprised. "I'm sorry little lady, I didn't see you there. The ice cream is coming right up." The man got our ice cream ready and gave me the ginormous one. I smiled and started eating my treat.
"We should get you home," Katie said.
"Ok. I am getting a little sleepy. Can you walk me home?
"sure thing. Katie said.
We finished our ice cream and started walking home. It was almost dark when we got to my street, and Katie looked at me strangely. " Did you get permission to come to the park with me?" " Of course I did. You could come in and ask my mom yourself." I said.
" I think I will. She said.
We walked in the door and it was dead silent. Katie looked at me in panic. She saw my eyes, which were furrowed in rage. " What are you doing?" she asked with fear in her eyes when she saw me lock the door and pick up something from the ground." " I just want my best friend to meet my parents. You know, they lied, just like you." I saw her eyes fill with horror. In that moment, she saw what I had just picked up, and knew what her fate was. She realized that I never was innocent.

The End