Friends St(h)ick Together 1-3

Chapter 1- The Project

It was Saturday and the summer sun was shining warmly from the sky while fresh air was coming from the flowers of the suburban meadows. Birds chirped, bees buzzed and also the grasshoppers added their beautiful sounds.

Hannah was sitting on the sun warmed stairs and listened to this “music” when she heard the ribbet of a frog coming from the direction of the pond in the garden. Hannah took a deep breath of summer air while she closed her baby blue eyes and patted her blonde, shoulder-length hair.

It was a nice that her grandma offered to help her with the college project she was doing with her friends. She wondered when her girls would arrive.

But right in that moment Krissy´s red Volkswagen Golf arrived.

“Well, Krissy wasnt the master of hitting the brakes the soundless way,” Hannah thought because the Golf´s tyres creaked and some rubber was left on the gateway. But that was Krissy´s style of driving since she got her driver's license about a year ago. Hannah herself was about 6 months behind, but at least she got her license directly on her 18th birthday.

Hannah stood up and moved her 120 pounds at 5´4 to her fellow girls. First it was about hugging Krissy who had to be careful not to hurt her as the brown-haired and green-eyed Krissy was 220 at about 5´8. Most of that weight was a leftover of lover´s grief Krissy had when she was 17. After her then-boyfriend had left her she compensated for it with eating, mostly chocolate bars, and so she gained 65 pounds in less than half a year.

After that Krissy hugged Inga, the black-haired, dark-eyed beauty whose weight was about 130 pounds at 5´5.

The next girl had black hair, Nina was brown eyed, 5´6 tall and 143 pounds.

The next one to hug was blonde Meg who was 5´7, 150 pounds with green eyes.

Last, but not least, was Alessandra who was an elegant 5´ ft. 7 tall 140-pound beauty with black hair and brown eyes due to her Italian roots.

“Let´s go in girls. Grandma is waiting with cake and coffee,” Hannah said and brought her friends directly to the living room.

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The sky rumbled and lightening lit up the dark March night while the barracks revealed a smell of illnesses, misery and death.

“There´s no hope left to come over it!” an old woman said.

“Grandma, please don´t tell things like this,” a young dark-haired teenage girl said to her in a quiet way. “You are scaring the children!”

“Oh, Sara,” the old woman said to the teen, “believe me, there´s no hope anymore. We are lost!"

“Is it wrong to hope for a miracle, Grandma?”

“No, it ain´t my dear, it ain´t. But I´ve been through too much misery in life to believe in one. Believe me Sara… soon we´ll be in a better place… we all!”

“Mom!” a young middle-aged woman yelled at the old one. She looked similar to the young teen, so it was obvious that they were mother and daughter.

“Helen, don´t yell at me! I´m still your mother!”

“Mom, I don´t want you to scare Sara!”

“Don´t bother about it, Mom!” Sara said. “I´m not scared. Heaven will keep an eye on us!”

“Right Sara!” Helen said and gave her daughter a hug.