Anna's+Writing+From+a+List

I mostly remember her voice, smile, and hair. Her voice sounded kind of croaky or scratchy, she never showed her teeth when she smiled because of her under bite, and her hair, well, it was a brownish blond and it was never brushed. Sometimes I'd pretend to be her and she'd pretend to be me... although we looked nothing alike! It was the day, Maggie and I were having a play date, probably our last for a while. I was five or six years old and was in kindergarten. We were at her house doing the things we always did there like playing with dall's and playing with her brother, Bow, who was pretty young. We both could've agreed that it wasn't one of the funnest play dates, I think it's because we were thinking about when the time would come. We didn't want it to but it felt like it came so quickly! About an hour had past (which really felt like 15 min.) and Maggie's mom hollered, "Mrs. Linscott is here!" We looked at each other with water in our eyes and I could feel her nervousness in moving. My mom was there to say good-bye to her friend (Maggie's mom) before we all left the house. The moving truck was there packing up their belongings and eventually they had to leave. Maggie told me they were going to New Jersey, but I didn't know where that was, all I did know is that it's very far away. I could see her in the window and feel her tears streaming down her face and I'm sure she could feel mine. Now we are a phone call away but to me that isn't enough. She'd always cheer me up, so whenever I feel sad I think of her and her voice... hair... and her smile.