Short Story 1: Bestfriend or a hair pin

 Bestfriend or a hair pin?

 There once were two little girls ─ Anika and Gena─ who lived next door in a small part of London. They were both best friends and they loved each other so much. They attended the same school since they were young, and they played, hanged out and talked with each other often. They acted as though this big world only belonged to the two of them.

             One evening after school, Gena and Anika went to do homework together in Gena’s room. Once they were in a bedroom, Anika took a glance at Gena’s cosmetic box which lay on the cosmetic dresser when she saw something glittering in the box. She walked toward it and picked it up for a better look.

“oh, that’s a hair pin. Mom bought it for me just this morning” said Gena

 “It’s beautiful”, replied Anika while she was flipping the hair pin with her fingers, looking very interested.

“I know. I really love it. You know I ─”

“Gena dear, can you come down to the kitchen for a minute?” Gena’s mom called from the stairs.

“Ok mom! Wait here Anika. I will be back soon”. With that, Gena left the room.

           Three minutes later, Gena came back; then, they started their homework. At 9 o’clock, Anika went back to her house.

           A scream was coming from Gena’s room. The whole house has been woken up by the sound so early in the morning. Gena’s mom rushed to the source of the sound with a frightened face. Gena’s room was in a completed mess. Her clothes and socks scattered on the floor, her books lay off the table and her cosmetic box was cracked open.

“What’s going on honey? What are you doing? Why are you screaming?” asked Gena’s mother nervously.

“I lost it. I LOST IT! “, yelled Gena.

“Lost what, darling?”

“My hair pin; the pink, sparkling one that you bought me yesterday. It is gone now. I can’t find it”

“Maybe you dropped it somewhere. Why don’t you look under the bed? Or maybe you put it in your bag yesterday to show it to Anika, and you forgot to take it out.”

“Anika?” Gena repeated after her mom dangerously with this name. “Anika? Yes, it has got to be her. “

“You see. You forgot to ─ “

“No, mom. It is her. She stole it”

“Darling, I know you are upset, but you can’t just frame your best friend like that. She is a good girl”

“I AM NOT FRAMING HER! It is the fact. She was the one who was in my bedroom last night. She was alone when u called me down, and she was holding my hair pin with affection”

“Gena, I don’t think ─”, Gena’s mom didn’t finish her word when Gena ran out of the bedroom.

           Gena was walking to Anika’s house and knocked violently on the door. Anika was the one who answered the door. She was taken aback when she saw her best friend stood before her, shaking with anger.

“Gena, what’s wrong?”

“What’s wrong? That’s the best you can come up with? Hand me back my hair pin”

“What hair pin?”

“You know what hair pin I am talking about Anika. You were holding it last night. Now, I lost it. It could be no one else beside you.”

“Look, you’ve got to be more rational than this, Gena. I was holding it, but I put it down a minute later after you left. I put it back on the table. I didn’t take it. Besides, I am your friend. Why would I steal stuff from my best friend?”

“i don’t care. I WANT MY HAIR PIN BACK”

“But I don’t have it. I’ve told you.”

“Fine. Just keep it if you really love it. Then, we are friends no more”. Gena went back to her house without taking a look back behind to see Anika’s face was soaked with tears.

           One week has passed, and these two best friends still don’t have their matter solved. They kept ignoring each other’s eyes contact; they didn’t talk and hang out with each other anymore. On the seventh night, Gena was so stressed with her homework. She could neither focus nor solve a single problem from her exercises. Her madness drove her to kick the cosmetic dresser hard. Clink.! Gena tried to find out what caused the sound when, unexpectedly, she found something pink and sparkling lay on the floor under the dresser. She leaned down and slid her arm to pull it out of the dark. She gasped. It was her hair pin; the one she has been looking for. She was very happy; however, her heart sank at the same moment. She has accused the wrong person. Anika was innocent. Without hesitation, she ran to Anika’s house. She knocked and knocked, but no one answered. Only then did she realize that no lights were turned on in the house, and the door was locked from the outside. Anika’s family was not home. Gina stood on Anika’s front porch as though she was paralyzed. She just knew that she had lost a best friend because of the trivial stuff. Tears trickled down her cheeks without her knowing it. She was thinking of the memories she and Anika used to have together since they were little. The more memories played in her mind, the more guilt she felt. The last memory appeared to her was the last night they spend together doing homework in her room. She was dwelling on the worst memory ever when she stood in the same place, breaking apart their 10 years of friendship. She cried harder and harder when she heard a familiar sound talking to her.

“Gena, what are you doing here?”, Anika was standing behind Gena’s back. Gena turned around and, without realizing what she was doing, ran toward Anika and hugged her tightly and cried. She expected Gena to push her back, blamed her and walked her back on her. In contrast, Anika just stood there, hugged her back tightly and patted her back, and consoled her. Everything seemed to stop moving as though the Earth stood still for these two best friends to shed tears. It took time for these two to get out of their emotion, and sat down on the front porch.

“Anika, I am so sorry. I am terribly sorry. I shouldn’t have accused you”, cried Gena.

“ssh, ssh.. Don’t talk. I know”, replied Anika.

“I know you are mad at me. Just scold at me. Just do anything as you pleased. I deserved punishment”

“No, Gena. I wasn’t mad at you, nor am I now. People make mistakes. However, it is wise for them to learn from their mistakes. You are always my best friend, Gena. Forever and Always. ”

          

                           

“Best friend is someone who always finds the availability of the word forgiveness in her dictionary of life”