Fireflies

My name is Marc and I'm going to tell you a story about the last time I saw my best friend. As always Jason and I would go to the pond everyday before lunchtime. Jason was my neighbor and I guess you could call him my brother. My mom and his dad had a thing. Daddy didn't know about it , momma would always say " Don't tell daddy Marc, he wouldn't be happy. We all know how he gets when he's angry." As she and Jason's daddy went on with their business. I listened to momma I didn't want anything to happen to her, Daddy wasn't really friendly when he got upset. As I would walk to my room to put on the same shoes that I've been having for the longest time. I always wondered when will I get my second pair of shoes. I hate going to school because a lot of kids make fun of me because I've been having these shoes since 4th grade and I'm already in middle school. Even though all the kids in my class make fun of me because my shoes have a hole were my big toe sticks out and they talk, I call these shoes my lucky shoes. Before I meet Jason I had no friends what so ever. I was always the odd kid out. One day Daddy bought me these shoes and I decided to wear them the next day. That's when Jason walked in my class as the new kid. As always the other kids were mean and would bully him like they did to me. As he sat next to the chair next to me he introduce himself and I did they same. Since then we been really good friends, he was my only friend. Even though he was my best friend I hated walking to his house, his house was really far even though he was considered my "neighbor".

    Like the usual Jason's dad and momma went on with their business and I went over to Jason's house. We walked to the pond that was way further out in the woods. I hate going through the woods, these nasty Mosquitos will always get in me and suck my blood. I didn't worry about it Jason knew how to make the itching stop once we headed back home. Jason was the bravest and I was the kid that was always scared. I miss how Jason use to tell me scary stories and scare me. We use to always catch Fireflies, it was weird because it was during the day but I could understand why they were out it was really dark out in the woods. We decided to go fishing the last day I saw Jason. He had found fishing poles that day and said we could go fishing at the pond. We did, I had fun for the first 10 min. Then I saw that Jason wasn't catching anything and I saw how angry he was. " I'll stop fishing for you te get something Jason." I said. Jason didn't get any happier when I told him that, I started fishing again. Jason saw something swimming towards him and he got excited. The water all of the sudden got muddy, we weren't sure what was happening. I just stared at the water with amazement. Jason got up scared and as he got up something pulled him in the water. Didn't have time to see what had pulled him in, but as soon he was completely in the water the water turned clear. As soon as that happened I got up and ran home and explained what happened to my mom and Jason's dad. Then they said that Jason died 10 years ago. That I never had the chance to meet him. Then who was my best friend? What was really going on? Where my classmates right? They called me crazy all the time.