The power of friendship

“Friends are the people who make you smile brighter, laugh louder and love better.”

-Anonymous 

     Friendship is the most powerful thing in the world. My friends are always there for me when I need them to back me up. I have found through the years that my friends are always in for a good time and that’s why we decided to do Fenn Flames. Fenn Flames is a soccer team that a few kids from eighth or ninth grade make and play at Teamwork’s. This year we weren’t exactly the best team, we didn’t have many players with real experience on the pitch. We were playing a double header one night it was one of our last games of the regular season. Our first game was against the CC Bombers. When we heard we were playing a bunch of seventh graders from Carlisle we laughed. There is one thing you need to know about our team is that we were probably the most hated team in the league and by far the leading team in penalty minutes and cards. Back to the game, the first half wasn’t really that bad we had only let in two goals. Then the second half is where it got bad. There were a lot of fouls back and forth and there was one sequence where we got three cards within five minutes. When there was about five minutes left in the game there was a big blob right in front of the other teams net, everyone was trying to pick the ball out of the blob then I pulled it out and right as I was about to turn and shoot the biggest player on their team—our nickname for him was man child—kicked completely missed the ball and kicked right through my left ankle. Right when I got kicked I knew something was wrong, I had been playing soccer for a long time and had been kicked in the ankle hard many times but never had I not been able to walk to the bench or even put any pressure on my foot. Thought this whole process of recovering from a really badly sprained ankle and a bruised bone I’ve had friends helping me with whatever I need help with at school and always asking me when I’d be able to run around and do the things I most enjoy, and of course there was always someone willing to go in the elevator with me when I was on crutches. Friendship has the power to change someone’s life.