• “Hey Emi, your sitting with us right?” Kimiko asks me when we met in the hall.
    “Yup.” I answer.
    “Great! Come on, let’s go down together.”
    “Ok.”
    Were walking down the hallway in silence until she says,
    “So, can you not believe it’s almost the end of the semester?”
    “Yeah. I can’t believe that it’s already bin 3 months since I first got here.”
    “Your right.”
    I think Kimiko and me have a special bond or something. We do almost everything together, and we have so much fun. All the other girls in our group are nice too. Although Miki isn’t so nice to Kimiko. It seems like she doesn’t like her. But I know she’s just kidding. We get into the lunchroom and I see Miki. “Hey Miki!” I yell to her. She turns around and runs to us. All the other girls come and follow her.
    “Hey Emi! Come and sit with us.” she says taking me by the back and leading me towards the table.
    “Wait, what about Kimiko? Isn’t she sitting with us too?’”
    Miki just gives me this blank look in her face.
    “What? She can sit with us right? Right?”
    Miki looks at her friends, then looks at Kimiko, She giggles and laughs, they laugh too, it’s like they share the same mind or something.
    “Ha ha hah! Wow Emi, you’re funny. Now lets go.” She is practically pushing me now and I try to get loose but she has such a strong grip on my shoulders. I finally break free and run back to Kimiko.
    “Why can’t Kimiko sit with us?! What did she ever do to you?” Miki was silent. “Miki, it’s time they know.” one of the girls say in the group. Miki sighs and walks up to us.
    “Were taking Kimiko out of the group.”
    “What?! Why?!”
    “We don’t think she’s cool anymore. Kimiko is SO annoying. She’s WAY too talkative, it’s like she could talk for a week on a single breath.”
    I’m frozen in my tracks. I can’t believe she just said that! I didn’t think someone like Miki would say something so, so, so rude! She pushes Kimiko on the ground. Just when she looks like she’s going to give her a beating I block Miki’s way.
    “I won’t let you hurt Kimiko!” I yell.
    “Emi?” Kimiko says surprised.
    “Emi? Heh, Emi what are you doing?” Miki says with this look on her face.
    “You heard me! I won’t let you hurt Kimiko!”
    “Emi move out of my way or you’ll be sorry!” She’s screaming at me now but I’m not scared.
    “You can’t intimidate me! I’m not scared of you. What did Kimiko do to you anyway? You can’t just kick her out like that!”
    She’s glaring at me now. It’s kinda creepy looking, like she’s about to maul me like a bear, but I keep my guard.
    “Emi you don’t haft to do this. We can still be friends, right? Just leave Kimiko here so we can go back to our lunch table.” Miki says reaching out her arm at me.
    “No.”
    She whips her arm back.