Prologue
Carter and I met from Instagram, an app that pretty much every teenager on the planet had an account on. I had been following her fan page account for "The Host" and after talking some in the comments we both discovered we had something besides "The Host" in common : Gymnastics. We became so excited and had to find out more so she gave me her kik username and I instantly messaged her. We got straight to the point which was gymnastics. We talked about the level we were on, how long we had been doing the sport, how much we loved it, our struggles, and pretty much everything thing there was to know about our gymnastics lives. After we finished that topic we started talking about "The Host" a nd how excited we were for the movie to come out, etc. Then the conversation died down a bit and shortly after ended. We didn't talk much after that, I just continued liking her pictures and commenting the occasional "Hello" or "How's gymnastics?" to be friendly. One day out-of-the-blue I had a feeling that I needed to talk to her and see how she was doing, so I messaged her. It turned out that she was very depressed and gymnastics wasn't looking too hot for her recently. It was hard to pay the tuition every month. she was behind in her skills, she didn't know how much longer she could continue with the sport she loved. Little did I know, that was the day that the best friendship I would ever know began.
