A NEW FRIENDSHIP

Taking in a deep breath to calm her erratic nerves Madison opened the door and greeted the principal but she only responded by pushing a letter towards her without looking up.

Breathing a sigh of relive that she was called only to be delivered a letter, she thank her and left to her room not wanting to return and finish the game upon seeing who the letter was from.

Ripening the envelope as usual she opened the letter and started reading it but when she was done she only squeezed it in a ball and threw it to the wall.

The letter had come from home, Ellison in specific had sent the letter, and her engagement had been yesterday but the duke she was supposed to get engaged to did not show up.

She had said in the letter that he was probably busy and that was why he couldn’t make it but Madison felt mad. He had no right to ditch her sister no matter what “business” he hard to attend to. She knew Ellison will be sad but she was going to put on a brave face as usual and pretend she was okay.

She hated anything that made Elli feel sad and that man did, even with them not being married yet, she wondered how miserably her sister life will be after marying him.

And as those notion kept swirling in her head she decided that she hated the man whoever he might be. it was well know how the upper class shunned the lower class and treated them without any respect, but her sister deserved more, she deserved much more and it was that very thought that led her to the conclusion that all noble class was rude and undeserving of kindness and common decency.

During the following day she had went on with her daily activity without any problem and when she finished she sneaked to the back of the school as usual to feed her little rabbit which she had kept secretly but then she began to hear sniffing noises coming from the back of a tree.

Holding a branch of a tree for protection, she approached the direction the noise was coming from and just when she was about to attack whatever was causing the noise she jumped when she saw Jen seated on the grass balling her eyes out.

Dropping the stick, she approached her slowly not wanting to startle her “are okay Jen?" that sounded weird to her too, obviously she was not. She was literally crying but she didn’t know what else to say.

“I am fine just leave me alone!" it took all of her self control not to walk out on her that very moment

“I know we are not exactly the best of friends, I mean we aren’t even friends but you can tell me if you have a problem”

She only chuckled “what do you care?”

“I don’t, I just know it easier to let it all out than keep your entire problem locked in and I am offering my ears to you.”

“Fine” she said throwing her hands in the air giving up and Madison joined her in seating on the grass. “My parents are getting a divorce” she said drying her eyes with her clothe sleeve.

It came as quite a shock to Madison as very few people from the higher class got a divorce. It was common knowledge that if any of the spouses were not happy and was having problems they took in paramours and lovers that were kept in secrete, but they rarely decided to separate because of the scandal that came with a divorce.

“I am sorry”

“Don’t be, my father asked for the divorce and really I don’t blame him” she just stared straight ahead without any emotion in her voice “mama never comes back home, she always here in bemount supervising the school, she’s always busy.” she ended with a small voice.

“I am sure she just wants to give you a bright future Jen”

“No, don’t you get it? She is just being selfish by chasing after her dreams and leaving my father and I behind because we aren’t part of them”

“Don’t say that, I am sure your mama loves you”

“And how will you know that, we are both living in bemount but I hardly see her at all, it’s like she’s here but not really here.”

“I know because I have also experienced being ignored by my mama, she always scolded me and she did nothing to stop my father from bringing me here.”

she turned her face away, remembering how her mother status had always mattered more than her, but she had seen Jen with her mother and even thou she was hardly present she tries to make up for it, not like her own mother who never tried to amend their broken relationship.

“I am sorry” Jen looked at her sadly “you know you are not as bad as I thought” she jokingly pushed her shoulders, feeling better from the change of topic she smiled at her

"Me too.”

Madison and Jen sat on the grass for hours talking about their lives and it was then the both discovered how similar they both were.

They had always been competitors from day one, so the sight of the two girls bonding was uncanny but the both of them discovered things about each other that day that nobody had ever discovered: their vulnerable sides.