No matter how hard life is, the things that break you will always in future be your fixes. With every day of sadness and tears, the people who truly are your friends will stay and bring no harm. With every rainy day there is always sunshine for each person who has been living in the dark. Silver linings might be hard to find, like a needle in a haystack. But it is easier to find those who care unconditionally, no matter your flaws. With love of someone, that will fix your shattered heart and replace with some of their own.
Nike was born in a small town Bredasdorp – as non identical twins, a boy and a girl, the first time she met her best friend Lgra-fiti was when it was her 6th birthday. Lgra-fiti was afraid of talking or playing with the others, she hid her head in the corner and tried ignoring every single thing. Nike ignored the others aswell and insisted Lgra-fiti to play with them, telling her to follow. A friendship grew with every new word, new toy and games.
Having the friendship, Nike remembered the first time she and Lgra-fiti was outside ignoring everyone in her birthday. Nike and Lgra-fiti loved ponies. Laughing everyday and eating the fruit at the back yard at Lgra-fiti’s house.
Nike in primary school had to skip math for social and writing classes, as they called it—physical therapist for her right arm and speech. Nike had asked the teacher why she was fixing her word sentences, “Why are you doing that?” The teacher seemed to try tell her what to do.
One day at the physical class. Nike was sitting at a computer having to compare things that look the same. Sadly the teacher walked out and she had to go to the toilet. She made an accident, she told the teacher that she needed the toilet and the teacher said “Nonsense that didn’t happen. ” Nike had wrapped her jacket around her buttocks, while wearing a sweat pants and had to go to the next 5 classes.
Everyday Nike and Lgra-fiti hung out with each other, Nike had always visited everyday. Until Lgra-fiti’s mom said Fridays are acceptable. They had to start concentrating on work. At the physical therapist class it was the last day of being there. She remembered having to write , “a, A. b,B…” etc. When she had to assemble a plastic ball. The teacher said that Nike may have it as a parting gift.
Nike had the joy of a little memento from the teacher, something that improved her imagination completely. She was only 12, to think for 12 years of her life she had to spend being taught how to speak and how to draw. Her handwriting was horrid. She remembered the primary school by standing in those halls. Friends chatting. Nike had gotten the nickname “Eyeball” from a girl called Tell—her nick name was Pita. Having no idea why she was called that, Nike found out a few years later that Eyeball was because she use to get very surprised and would raise her eyebrows.
Standing at the large trees at the age of 15, Nike and her friends scratched their names into trees. Having found out that Eden may not have sugar or even chocolate. She use to have a canister of hot water for tea with no sugar. Nike later found out that Eden was a bit late with growing breasts. Well Nike understood, because if you’re underfed or very athletic you would have little change in your body.
Nike had received a badge as a “Media Prefect” She had sorted books, read them and enjoyed the time she spent with Eden and Marx, apparently Eden and Marx had a rivalry against each other. Nike believed it was because Marx told Nike to write a valentine’s note to a guy Nike had a crush on. That same day Nike’s brother had asked her if she wrote it, Nike said “No” then told the truth. “Yes I did.” Her brother then said, “Don’t tell anyone” Nike nodded.
Back to the rivalry, Eden asked Nike to choose between her and Marx. Nike didn’t choose sides, she played with Eden half the day and the other half at Marx in school.
In grade 6 Nike had a friend called Mel, Every now and again they would give each other a gift. Nike use to get candles from Mel. And Mel got a black beaded bangle. Nike laughed about the day she had to dress like a Clown for a roleplay on stage. It was very rainy and her mother had made the clown outfit.
Another roleplay she had to be a popcorn lady, wearing white clothes with paper popcorn stuck to it. Her friends told her not to jump and say “pop” Instead she did jump and say it, made the class laugh. But it went well because the girls also gave out lolli pops, Nike believed it was a big-fat bribe.
Nike once was friends with a boy named chris, each break they would play Sonic and Tails. After being told to choose once again, by Eden. Nike had to tell him something instead of telling him that Eden said so, she said, “Boys play with boys and girls play with girls.”
The next day the boys and girls were playing together after she asked Chris if he was ok. He had became friends with Gielie. Nike was glad he wasn’t that alone, since then she didn’t talk to guys much. When Grant was in primary school, she had a play date at his house. They played Power rangers. Power Rangers was just like the friendship she had with Chane. The embarrassing thing was that Nike asked to pick up Chane’s dog, picking the dog up after Chane said yes. Putting the dog down, it started barking in pain.
That day she was chased out of their house, having done nothing wrong. Chane had huge life sized teddies in her room, and while playing together she took out Logens throat pills, they would suck on it, and laugh because the M on the thing was to Nike and Chane – Monster. Laughing because they’ll turn into Green monsters.
A longtime ago in primary school everyone teased each other on the Rugby field. Having done a test and standing outside at the stairs, halfway in and out the school. A few people called a guy Hendrik—someone who lays eggs, because Hen means chicken in Afrikaans and drik—to push. So they’d say , Hen Drik. Like laying an egg.
On the rugby field Nike and her Hockey group played outside having bags on the floor for the field trip to beat the other groups in Caledon. What made Nike afraid of trips was not only heights, but the so called haunted house of O.
The match was a tie in Hockey, it was a cold day and as Nike learned from the teacher that they had to keep warm for the sport. Running and "high kicks" were easy during the age of 15.
While Mel and Nike was sitting together they were talking about ghosts and houses, Being told about a haunted house 2 streets from primary school, was surprising to Nike. However Nike having slept over at Tel (Pita), she told that there was a lady ghost who wears white dress and red shoes and who walks in the halls, wailing with a sad voice.
Nike was once dared by Pita to drink a pill from the floor, it looked like a iron pill. Lgra-fiti and Nike was standing near the bathroom, suddenly Lgra-fiti laughed, and Nike and her watched a girl eat leaves off from a tree. Trying to hold their laugh. Behind the bathroom there was an alleyway, Nike and Lgra-fiti didn’t go there as often, but people use to cry in the little alleyway. One person who don’t want to be bothered by anything would usually be there.
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In the woods, Nike and Lgra-fiti had been building on a tree house. Stealing wood worker’s wood logs, each time they grab one and built the walls of the tree house and putting in some plastic chairs. Two boys of a mother came along, with her generous mother who gave coca cola to them to allow her boys to play in the tree house that was built between trees and a hill going down.
Thinking back she was friends with twins, Xena and Laura, they use to climb over the wall into someone’s back yard and steal cactus fruit and eat it.