Friendship starts with conflict

As soon as Emma had left the school she'd rushed to her favourite coffee shop, however, as she was in a rush she forgot to check the time and by the time she got there, it had already closed. Her day was only getting worse, she quickly hailed another taxi and told them her home address.

Once she was home Emma had the time to worry about the minor details, she remembered how she was alone when she woke up and was feeling slightly hurt, she couldn't believe her so-called best friend would leave her in school by herself after hours. She hurriedly sent an angry text to her friend, wanting to know why.

18:24 [You]: You LEFT ME at SCHOOL!?!?😟

Emma waited patiently but she didn't receive a message back, she sighed deeply and went to take a bath, she wanted to relax after such a stressful day. She prepared a steamy bath and used her newly bought luxurious bath salts and other products, along with some beautiful and wonderfully smelling rose petals.

Once she had gotten out Emma checked her phone and frowned slightly at the notification of the message she received.

18:51 [Mommy Ren💖]: I'm sorry!! I had something to do- I tried so hard to wake you up but you wouldn't!

18:51 [Mommy Ren💖]: Rather than my fault shouldn't you blame yourself for being too heavy of a sleeper????

18:52 [You]: Then why'd you go? What's so important that you'd leave me alone in skl after hours??

18:52 [Mommy Ren💖]: Mychel McEntire's show was tonight! He's my favourite comedian you know that!!

18:52 [Mommy Ren💖]: I almost missed it coz your ass wouldn't wake up 😩😔

Seeing her reply Emma slowly let go of her anger, her frustration was also slowly diminishing. She understood that Ren was one of that particular comedian's biggest fans, she'd never missed his shows and went to see him live every chance she had.

Picking between him and her, as her best friend, Emma was rather sure Ren would pick Mychael McEntire 99% of the time. She didn't feel upset about it. This was because she knew that she shouldn't dissuade her best friend from her passion, which happened to be a comedy.

Emma cared a lot about her friend, although that hadn't always been the case. Emma quickly looked back at her close relationships with people and realised that her best friendships always did start with conflict.

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Outside the gates of an elementary, a little girl was throwing a tantrum about not wanting to start at a new school. She didn't want to join a new school where she didn't have any friends and she didn't want her mum to leave her alone. She had been crying and pulling on the woman's pant legs for about 10 minutes, whilst the mother kept carefully trying to convince her it would be alright and that she should go in.

"Don't be sad, I know you'll miss your friends, but they live nearby. Just because you're going to this elementary and not your old one doesn't mean you can't still see them." The mother bent down to look into her eyes and tried to reason with her.

"B-But, sniff, mummy, I don't want, sniff, to be here. I don't have any, sniff, friends here." The girl forced out her words between sobs.

"Aw, don't cry darling. You're really likeable you'll make loads of new friends."

"I don't, sniff, I don't want to! Why'd you, sniff, make me move?" Her sobs started to get louder and the little girl tightened her grip on the trousers.

As the girl kept repeating herself, saying she didn't want to move schools and that she didn't want to go in, a different girl walked by with her mother. They quickly said their words of parting and the girl was about to start going into the school.

However, instead, she overhead the whining girl and decided to take it upon herself to say hello and introduce herself.

"I'm Ren, don't cry. Daddy said crying is for the weak. Actually, now that I'm looking at you closely, your arms look like noodles." The girl said innocently.

The crying girl was startled and took a break from her barrage of complaints to look over at the girl, "Yeah well, uhm, you… you look fat, like a cow. So… mind your own business!"

The girl who came over to help remedy the situation couldn't believe what she just heard. In response, she tackled the girl that had recently stopped crying and they started to brawl. After a while, the teachers of the elementary came out and took them inside to tell them off and punish them.

When they were taken inside they were sat down on chairs outside the teacher's office and they were waiting for the teachers to call both their parents, the no longer crying girls' mother was waiting in the hall along with the teacher for Ren's mum.

"You bully, why'd you tackle me. You crazy?" The girl asked in bewilderment and anger. They'd both taken some hits and they were both slightly injured, the no longer crying girl had a bump on her head from being tackled and a swelling cheek from the punch Ren had thrown her way.

"Because you insulted me, daddy told me real men don't back down from a fight." She sneered slightly at the girl, she too was injured, she had a few bruises on her arms and back from the girl attempting to wrestle with her.

"But you're not a man, you poser," she shook her head, "and you insulted me first!"

"Hey hey, I didn't. I only stated the truth and neither are you."

"Yeah, well so did I, and so what?" The girl huffed lightly, "You ugly cow."

They picked up their fistfight right outside the office and it was a matter of time before they were stopped once again, they also had to go through another lecture about how they shouldn't fight classmates.

Their parents went into the teacher's office and they told them to take better care and instruct their children better. Once they left the room Ren's mother lightly bonked her on the head.

"You know, daddy always says you shouldn't bully women." She looked at her with a somewhat concealed smile.

"But mummy, this girl deserved it. Besides, she insulted me! Daddy said I shouldn't let people doormat me."

"I think you mean walk over you, like a doormat, but yes." She lightly patted her head, "Don't fight next time though, okay? If someone says something in the future just tell us or your teacher."