288. A New Friend

Sandra was an eight-year-old girl. Her best friend to be her neighbor, who had unfortunately moved another state about a month ago. Sandra was about her friend's move. They still send emails text messages to each other to keep in , but she already felt their friendship falling apart.

, a new family had moved into the house her friend used to live in. It was family of four, a married couple with two . One of the children was a five-year-old boy, the other was a girl who was one older than Sandra. Sandra's mother and father had over to introduce themselves as neighbors. Sandra's mother Sandra head over and do the same. Sandra not fond of the idea. Nonetheless, Sandra's mother and forced her to introduce herself to their neighbors.

When walking over, Sandra noticed the five-year-old of the neighbor's family playing in the mud their front yard. Sandra approached him and said, ", I'm Sandra. We are neighbors. What is your ?" The boy looked up at Sandra and yelled, "'m Benjamin!" He then flung a mud ball at . She screamed in shock. Benjamin's older sister then out of her house to see what was on, and noticed Sandra with mud all over shirt.

Benjamin's sister apologized to Sandra and scolded saying, "Benjamin, apologize! Why did you do that?" replied yelling, "Because she killed my men and on castle!" Sandra then noticed she was standing on his toy soldiers. Sandra then apologized and 's sister began to laugh at her and said, "'t worry about it! I'm Jessica. What's your name?" two began talking. It was the beginning of new friendship.