Me and Dany were like Best friends no matter what, we would be paste with duct tape and never be able to rip off. Dany is a curly waved hair girl with dark suspicious eyes brown just like the wood of a tree and with a little nose.We would be always there to make us laugh and to make us feel good. She would be the smartest, and every one in my family knew it. Dany would be the superstar at basketball, piano she learn “For Elisa” in her first month when it felt like a billion years had past to learn just jingle bells for me, after all she was the super star at every subject she would take every math problem as a slice of cake and every science lesson just as easy as anything.  Dany would be as skinny as a needle and as nice as Dr. Seus. I had never felt the necessary to be like her or to have what she had. After all I would just come 2- 3 times a year to laugh and smile beside her. Monterrey, with big grey and green mountains, with a bridge that was as big as Seattle needle. In the night would be so pretty I thought I would be in Las Vegas.  For me it never felt like home town but I knew some day I would have to make my daily life out of it. My cousins for me like the friends that I never had and the people that made me the happiest person.  The day came and it was time to leave the big city and move to Monterrey but that didn’t mean we were going to have to be best friends.

Beginning of incident:
I had just changed school and know I had to learn how to roll with new people. I walked the huge crystal door but as I gave one step more I knew this was no type of prison it was a castle with people that looked enthusiastic. I was as  confused as a integers problem in math. I looked up and around knowing that here the whole world could stay .  Dany was like my “friend·” For me a friend was like a person you could ask for help or that one person you told everything, I thought but after all she didn’t want to be with me never. I would sit with her at the lunch table where everyone stared like I was some kind of psycho, I would sit waiting for Dany to introduce me or maybe just talk with me.    I started the first day wondering if she knew what it meant to start from the bottom all over again? Knowing that she had always been her whole life in the little city of San Pedro and to be exactly always in school. I knew she didn’t know how it felt to leave all the friends you loved to come to a completely new place were there is nothing except some people you don’t even know in your table and a person once was your cousin, sitting beside you.  I wanted her to understand that my life wasn’t like her’s with a Benjamin Steve Fordham award  and even the best at basketball, but for me the school was like a thunderstorm and every bolt of lightning  was a student and I would be like the tree that everyone hit me with their lightning bolts.  Nobody would even talk to me or say hi, and some say that after the storm the rainbow would happen but for me the rainbow hadn’t showed up yet. In Sunday lunch with all my family me and Dany wouldn’t even stare at each other we would be a positive and a negative magnet trying to bond. We wouldn’t talk to each other and I thought of a solution.

Middle of incident:
I miss the days when me and Dany were like gum to the floor. I thought it was time for a little cousin bonding out of school. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do this but I thought it was worth fighting for the person that once was my best friend. I invited Dany to my house I wanted to fix things up, so I call her via phone to her house, I could feel the phone shallow and scared for making the phone call as I was too the same.

“Dany will you like to come over to play to my house,” I said with a  cricket voice, not knowing if the answer was going to be the one I hoped for. 

“Um sure,” Dany replied.  In no time the doorbell rang. My mom opened the door for her as I was just walking down the stairs. She came over and the first thing  my mom asking Dany with a big smile.

“How is school going” my mom asked
“Awesome.” I got a little stressed but then I relaxed knowing it was just a simple question, we went to the living room, with my big brown sofa the one I loved the most no matter what,  it felt as if all the decorations were part of the awkward silence.   We had been deciding what to do, then my brothers passed and make a cool hand shake with her and that’s when my emotions bumped up like no other time because I knew that was my hand shake with my brother and that he had already done the exactly same one with her. I know it seemed like nothing to worry about but for me it was how me and my brother identify ourselves.  Me and my brother were best friends and I wouldn’t want dany taking over my relationship with my brother. As I wonder is dany better than me? Went running like velocity of light to my room with my eyes feeling up with tears knowing that in no time the tears will starts to roll. I jumped to my bed without closing the door, Dany came in with a really heartbroken face now she didn’t had that big smile of all times the one that made everyone cheerful. She just waited out the entrance of my room. I could see her clearly and she said

“If you don’t want to play it’s ok, but could you please give me some color pencils and a paper.” Dany said with a cricket petit voice but in somewhere of her I knew she still cared for her cousin, but I got stressed that I couldn’t find that part of her heart.  I got so angry that my cousin had treated me like that that I stared at her and smacked the door in her nose not knowing what type of person I was becoming because I knew we weren’t like that. Here I was not Convinced that this was not who I was and Something was taking over and I didn’t want to become a bully. I thought of me as bitter and I didn’t know If that was the word I wanted people to use to describing me.  Really I didn’t want to make my best friend the worst person in my life.  So I decided to ask  her.
End of incident: I started to realize that I didn’t want to become the personality of the bully I thought of myself and I wasn’t pictured like that. I did not know the reasons of Dany making that maybe it wasn’t her maybe it was her friends telling her to do that. I decided to open the door and see where Dany was. I found her laying down in a brown comfy couch.  I sat with her and decided to ask her a question that I found necessary to tell her.

“Dany why are you like that to me, because for it seems like you are punching me right in the heart I had never felt like that with you, and I would like to fix it”,

“Well the truth was that I was in peer pressure by my friend Amy and she told me horrible things about you that I don’t know why I fell for those lies, if I know you more than anyone else.” She replied.

“Don’t worry Dany but I will like for you and me to be best friends again like old times and have the adventures and fun things we had.” I knew this was the words I wanted to end up saying to her and the words that I hoped made a difference in our relationship.  The next days dany was a little mad at Amy for what she had said of her cousin, but that never stopped us from having a blast every Sunday. Knowing nothing and no one could cut our friendship.

Reflection:  Sometimes You don’t have to react the way you do in certain things. For me Dany is a friend that I would never loose she is my cousin, my friend, my “sister”, The most important she is the person that makes my world complete every day. From the part of Dany you should never believe lies that you know are false never fall in peer pressure because you are afraid to fit in you would never have true friends if they make you say those things or act that way to someone, because if should have put yourself in someone’s else shoes you could have felt the pain they feel every time something hurtful comes out of your mouth. You should never overreact at a problem if you don’t know the reason why it happened, and never break a friendship that once was the most valuable thing in your life.  Dany for me was the rainbow after  the storm, and Dany for me was the stars to my night and the ocean to my beach.