Five Minute Friday: Friend

Hello Lovely People!

Five Minute Fridays were created by Lisa Jo-Baker. The essential goal of them is to be given a prompt and then write on it for five minutes without worrying about grammar, structure etc. For me, I like to use them as story prompts and idea creators; it's a good way to quickly come up with an idea that can later be fleshed out! For a link to all the Five Minute Friday's of this week, click here!

This week's prompt: Friend

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The girl sat back in her chair, satisfied. Mogie stared back at her, wide eyed at all the information he had been receiving. His tentacles waved in front of his mouth as he spoke.

"Lightbulb?" He pointed to the light fixture up above the scrubbed wooden table. The girl smiled.

"Yeah, that's a light bulb".

Mogie's tentacles waved in his approximation to a smile. He got up from his chair and pointed outside to the sun, which beamed across the wide, cow filled field.

"Lightbulb?"

The girl laughed, shaking her head.

"No, silly, that's the sun," she giggled, "it's our star."

"Star?"

"Yes, the sun is our star."

"Star," Mogie bubbled the word out " Star, star, starstarstar!"

The girl giggled some more as the alien hopped around the kitchen, occasionally blurting out "Star".

Suddenly she stopped as a car pulled into the driveway. Her face grew white with fear.

"Quick Mogie! Hide!" she said to him in a hushed voice, as if her mother was already in the house. She grabbed Mogie's hand, ignoring the slime on his tentically fingers as he made confused noises, still pointing to the sun.

The girl ran to the back of the house and pushed Mogie outside. "You've got to go, mom would freak if she saw you here."

"Go?" Mogie whimpered.

"Oh stop pretending, Mohammed! If my mom finds out I'm friends with you, she'll go beserk".

The boy pulled the noodles off of his face and hands with disappointment; he had liked playing the alien in their game, usually Anna claimed it first.

"Why doesn't she like me, Anna?" He scowled, "It's not fair."

"I know, but it's just... after the bombing..."

There was an intense silence as they both refused to look at one another. Mohammed kicked the ground furiously. "Ok... well, bye." he muttered as he turned away.

Anna watched him walk away for a moment, thinking. She hesitated before chasing after him, but chase him she did, not caring that her bare feet were getting in the cow patties. She grabbed his arm to turn him around, and pulled him into a hug.

"Look, I don't care what she thinks, ok?" she said, "I don't care if some other muslims did something horrible, they're not you. You're my friend no matter what, ok?" She pulled out of the embrace to look him straight on.

Mohammed looked at his feet before looking into her dust flecked eyes. He smiled.

"Ok."

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