A Great Day with a Great Friend

                As a kid, probably being eight years old, my friend and I hung out all the time, almost every day. This friend was Carlos Jimenez, who is the kid that moved and our relationship stopped, but he will always be known as my best childhood friend. He was the friend that I did everything with, every interest I had, he had also. We were pretty much the same person in two different bodies from different parents. Carlos and I were inseparable. Our relationship was golden, we never fought, we always had the same ideas, and we always knew how the other person would respond to our actions. We knew each other inside and out, not literally though. But one day, would we, or I, experience such a range in the friendship that it will never be forgotten by the both of us.

                The day was like any other. Carlos and I were hanging out doing whatever eight year old boys do, when we took our adventures outside. Carlos’ dad had just built a shed adjacent to his house for tools and other outside items. The shed was almost finished and there were only a couple things inside. Carlos’ dad only had to put on the lock to the door and it would be finished. Well this day was the day Carlos’ dad did so. We helped him put on the lock and as soon as we finished Carlos’ dad left to go run errands. We looked at the lock we had just put on and realized it was backwards! You could shut and lock the door from outside of the shed. We could not believe we had made such an amateur mistake but we didn’t know how to fix it without the help of his dad so we left it.

                Carlos and I were outside doing whatever we pleased when we came to the shed once again. By this time my other friend, Matt McGary, had come to hang out also. We showed him the shed lock that we had accidently put on backwards and he and Carlos climbed inside the shed and told me to lock the shed. We figured this was the correct way to show our friend our mistake. I locked the door, and stood back for a bit as a joke, leaving them in the locked shed. As  I was waiting, my mother came and asked me to help her with something at our house maybe two football fields away. Any though I had before my mother came simply vanished and I went to help her out.

                This thing she wanted help with took longer than I expected, about 2-2 ½ hours, and as soon as I finished, I thought about hanging out with Carlos and Matt again. Then I remembered, I had left them locked in the shed! My best friends had been locked in the shed for 2 ½ hours be me! I immediately ran back over to Carlos’ house, ran over to the shed, and unlocked it. Carlos and Matt came running out yelling, “There were bees in there!” rather hysterically.

                When they finally calmed down, I explained to them what happened. They didn’t seem mad more of like a disappointed emotion. Carlos and Matt decided, while locked in the shed, that I had forgotten since I would never play such a drawn out cruel trick. When Carlos and Matt came out and I saw they were not mad at me, I knew our relationship was stronger than most. I knew that even through some of the largest things in life, we would still be friends. I would stand corrected when they both moved within six months of each other.