Theme: Friendship

 
Real friends

 
Tati and Tuti were best friends. They had studied together since childhood and were now fourteen years old.

Tuti, in fact, was called Julia but she really liked the name of Tatiana because she thought it was cute to be called "Tati".

When she knew about it, Tati put the nickname "Tuti" in Julia, taking advantage of some letters of her name. Soon everyone began to call her that and she loved it.

Tati was very different from Tuti. The first one was more extroverted, creative, invented jokes and stories that almost killed her friend with laughing. She liked parties and go for walking. She was fashionable and was always pretty. She liked to eat sweets, sandwiches and pizzas, so she was overweight. Tuti, on the other hand, was timider and spoke softly. She had ballet lessons and enjoyed staying at home, reading or watching movies. She was very thin; she ate little even if the food was delicious.

Despite the differences, they also had similarities. They were good students, responsible and had good grades. And the main thing: they had a good heart. Instead of competing, they always helped each other.

Tati encouraged Tuti to sing and dance like her. And Tuti would explain to Tati the math exercises she did not know.

One day, on a very hot weekend, they decided to go to the club pool. Arriving there, they saw some school friends. Mauro was one of them who began to make jokes for his friends to laugh:

- Help, if Tati leaps in the pool on top of me, I'm going to die crushed! It´s going to spill so much water out that I'm going to be washed away! Hahaha...

The other boys also laughed and made other vicious comments, amused by it.

The girls were very upset. They did not expect that gratuitous aggression. They talked to each other and thought it would be better to enter the pool anyway, without giving them attention.

Fortunately, soon the boys stopped bothering, for they noticed the looks of those around them, reproving that disrespectful attitude.

Tati and Tuti, on the contrary, were educated with the children who were around, played with them and had fun.

After some time, Mauro, running around the pool, to escape from some of his friends' unfunny play, slipped and fell, taking a very ugly tumble.

Some people near were worried and approached to help him. His "friends", however, died of laughing. They plunged back into the pool, while the boy, still on the ground, was trying to recover.

Mauro, hurt, was in such pain that he began to cry, which was why the boys mocked him even more.

Tati and Tuti watched in horror. Despite what he had done before, they felt sorry for him. By the fall, by the bruises and moreover, by the reaction of the other boys.

Mauro supported by people of good will, managed to get up and was taken to the infirmary. His "friends", however, who had no custom to help, stood there just looking at. They ended up leaving too for not feeling comfortable to continue the games they were doing.

The two friends, after the pool, went to have ice cream. They chatted, laughed, played volleyball with other friends, strolled around the club. By late afternoon, despite what had happened before they had had a great day.

Making good friends may not be easy. I do not know if Mauro had friends or just companies. Tati and Tuti, however, made a good choice. Even with differences, they liked each other, helped each other and helped each other. They were real friends.

Translation:
Larissa Martine - larissa_am@hotmail.com

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