The Forgotten Secret

l. "I'm sorry Anna. I don't want to leave you too. You know how much our friendship means to me but this is for my mom and dad, for our family, " Jo starts to explain. S

s. Jo looks up to the darkening sky. The weather seems to take a gloomy mood too. It is almost s

Dad will surely have me tutored, I guess." Jo replies with a frown. She recalls the endless times Anna patiently explains to her, hoping she will finally get it but fails. "I will chat with you every day. I know you are not into internet and stuff, but that's the fastest way we can talk to each other! I will miss you every day my bestie, " Jo reminds Anna reassuringly. Anna just nods and gives her friend another tight embrace. Her locket starts to glow. Both break away from their embrace. "Even my locket misses you already." Anna takes the locket out to show her friend the pulsing green light from her neck. "Okay, okay I get the message. Hey, Anna… Stay weird alright?" Jo makes a last attempt to humor her friend. "Well, you know me? You won't find anyone in Alaska like me." Anna retorts back at her with a little giggle. "Do you still have the key I gave you for your tenth birthday? Keep it with you and keep writing to me every day like I am here. Just put every letter in the wooden box. I will read them when I get back, promise." Jo instructs her, serious once more. Anna pulls the necklace once again from underneath her green cotton shirt to show Jo the key dangling with her emerald locket. The locket is glowing once more. She turns around and touches a part of the trunk of the willow tree. Anna pushes a little groove in one part. After her hands found what it's looking for, she places the key to open a secret hole. Then she takes out the wooden box, opens it and takes out a blue paper. "Here, read this when you miss me there, " Anna says as she places the blue paper on her best friend's hand. "As for me, I miss you already. Our fifteen years of friendship will see more years to come. Take care of you

The van feels like a bell tolling to remind the girls of their ticking moments left. They suddenly snap out from their deep thoughts. Both girls stand slowly, taking their time a bit. Both are still holding on to each other's hand.

k's job, but we will definitely be missing you all.

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ily to us already." She adds. Rose hands a pack of sandwiches

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parate. But they know it's really time to part for now. So, right beside the willow tree, Mr and Mrs Rivers, with Anna, watch as the grey van of Mr and Mrs Daniels, with Jo, slowly disa