Lynn stepped out of the taxi in front of the house
she
had once visited daily. She was so excited to
be
returning here after ten years to a place that
held
such fond memories from her childhood.
She
moved up the sidewalk, climbed the front steps,
and onto
the porch that stretched across the front of
that old
Victorian house. She rang the doorbell and
waited in
anticipation for the door to open.
When the door
was opened there stood Katy, who
reach out her arms to give
Lynn a big hug. They had
first met when they were in
kindergarten and were
soon best friends. Then after the
death of Lynn’s dad,
her mother had to go back to work. She
came over to
stay at Katy’s every afternoon after school.
They had
spent many hours playing in that old house. They
would bake cookies with Katy’s mom and then have a
tea
party for their dolls.
During the summer months
Lynn’s mother dropped
Lynn there on her way to work each
morning. The girls
would sit in the porch swing listening
to music on the
radio and sipping sodas. Sometimes they
would go to
the beach or a movie. Wherever you saw one
you
would always see the other and they thought
they
would forever be together.
However the time
came when they were in high
school that Lynn’s mother got
remarried and they
had moved several miles away. The girls
then
attended different high schools and didn’t get to
see
one another so often. Their lives moved on in
other
directions as they attended different colleges and
met
new people. Their time together grew to be less
and
less as the years passed.
After college Lynn
moved to another city to work and
she met the man she
married. While Katy married
her high school sweetheart and
moved back to that
big old Victorian house, with her dad,
after her
mother’s death.
The young ladies
hugged each other and sat down in
that old porch swing to
talk. They couldn’t believe
they had let ten years go by
since they had seen one
another. They had so much catching
up to do.
The following day Lynn and Katy baked
cookies with
Susie, Katy’s daughter, and her little
girlfriend. Then
all four of them had a tea party for
Susie’s dolls. Lynn
spent a week there reliving all her
wonderful
childhood memories with her best
friend.
The morning Lynn was picked up by the taxi
to catch
her flight home, they vowed to visit with one
another
more often. The reunion taught them they should
not
miss out on precious time. Since theirs would
always
be a treasured friendship.
Copyright @ 2002 M. Doris Fuller
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