mes petits amis

i was watching 'stand by me' for the god-knows-how-many time the other night, and it made me think of my own childhood friends. it made me realise the importance of these friendships in the shaping of who and what i am today, among other things.

primary school, my first experience of having a 'clique'. they were some of the best friends i've ever had. Marissa and Catherene were the closest to me. and we were always childishly proud to the fact that our names were 'unique' - marissa being spelt with 2 S's, catherene spelt with an E instead of an I, and my name being anelia instead of amelia. stupid, i know, but hey, we were 10 for crying out loud, and somehow that fact strengthened our friendship - as if it was fate that 3 girls with unusually spelt names would be best pals. hahaha..
you know how the desks in school were, where you can pull up the top of the desk and there is sort of like a drawer underneath? we used to sit in class while a lesson is going on with a copy of a 'sweet dreams' or a 'sweet valley high' novel stuck between our lap and the desk drawer, furtively glancing down now and again to read the novel and almost oblivious to whatever lessons that were going on at that time. we even started our own novel, using a school exercise book and wrapping its cover up with white paper and pasting pictures of 3 pretty models on it. those would be the main characters of the book - US. each of us would take the book home for two days two write a few paragraphs and pass it then on to the next girl to continue. we would each write it in a fashion that it would be our own character is the heroine of the book, and not the other 2 girls. it was hilarious. but it was so much fun.
we were brownies. i was an Elf, Cat was a Fairy i think, and Mars may have been a Pixie. we were in the rhythmic gymnastic junior team together. we spend hours talking on the phone. we gang up on each other during fights. we had our parents send us to the movies to watch michael j. fox in 'back to the future', then get sundaes in mcdonald's and tease each other about the boys we liked.we get to class late from recess. we passed notes in class. we whispered and giggled a lot dring lessons.we were the cheekiest girls in school. 3 years later i was sent to a boarding school. and we lost touch.
i have no idea where they are now. last i heard was that catherene was sent to a boarding school in new zealand and that marissa is now a medical doctor too.
it would be nice to see them again.