Day 5: Holly David

When I was in the 6th grade, there was a new girl in class. I didn’t have many friends in elementary school at all, and I assumed this new girl would be scooped up by the popular crowd. She was pretty and thin (the necessary requirements for snobby girls like the ones I went to school with as a kid), so I was sure she wouldn’t be MY friend. But I was wrong. Holly was a great friend to me that year, despite that fact that my mother made it clear this was NOT someone she wanted me to hang out with. Maybe it was because Holly was 12 and allowed to be dropped off by herself at the mall and other things like that. I certainly wasn’t allowed to do that. But I did, that year. Holly had me come over to hang out, and her mom dropped us off at the Galleria to walk around for awhile. It was the most exciting thing I’d ever done up to that point, haha. I didn’t tell my mother; however, I told my nosey little brother. Robert ratted me out one night at dinner, and I was in HUGE trouble. It didn’t stop me from being friends with Holly, though, or stop me from starting to realize my mother might be a TAD bit too strict and that other kids’ mothers weren’t the same way.

Holly and I lost touch with each other in the 7th grade, which was 1996/1997. We ended up in the same school for that year, but had different groups of friends. I didn’t see her again, until Andrew and I went to a bridal show at Robbins Brothers in 2009, and I heard my name being called. It was her, and it was so nice to see her again! We have completely separate lives now (we are friends on Facebook, though), and I haven’t seen her in person since that day. I think about her randomly, though, and she made my 6th grade year the only good year I had in elementary school (especially on the last day of school, when she told Brenton Budd I liked him for me and he came to give me a hug, haha). It was nice to have a real friend, I hadn’t really had one of those. I was so happy to have a friend, I would’ve thanked the Lord if I’d had a relationship with Him back then. I am thanking Him today, though. And thank you, Holly! =)