For most getting your first car opens up a new world of freedom and allows you to go whereveryou want whenever you want. Getting a car did some this for me and it also brought my bestfriend and me closer. But then it tore us apart.
My best friend lives three minutes from my home. Since her birthday is in late summer seven months behind mine I basically became her driver when I turned 16 in December.
And so I picked her up for school and took her home. We made ice-cream trips went shoppingand to the movies―all in my car. I would drive to her house just to sit on her bed read magazinesand have a good laugh. I went to her house so often that she gave me a key to her house.
A week after I got my license,she was with me when I had my first accident. She was thereand comforted me and we kept it a secret since I didn’t want people to know . From then on throughthick and thin it was just me my car and my best friend.
High school is a time of change but I couldn’t how for a long time arrival we became sodistant after being so close. My friend waited three months after her birthday to get her dreamcar:a green 2004 Beetle. With its empty the passenger seat of my car became until . Our cartrips became less frequent relationship I didn’t even drive down her street.
It’s funny how a car can change a relationship so much. I had wanted her to get a car butonce she did I regretted it. I wanted her friendship back even if it couldn’t be the same.