One day near the middle of the year of fourth grade at John Shields Elementary, in Mrs. Richards's room, we were all spread out, with our partners on the floor doing writing time. As always, my best friend Madison and I were partners. Instead of writing like we were supposed to, we were talking. "I think that we need to do something about Heather, Rebecca, you, me, and the jealousy problem, don't you?" I asked Madison. The jealousy problem started in about third grade, but it had never been as bad as it was in fourth grade. The problem was that I was good friends with all of them, but over the years we all became closer, and eventually, I think that it grew harder to be all together because there were four of us. Usually …show more content…
Richards so she could help us," Madison suggested. Earlier that day, at recess, Rebecca, Heather, Madison, and I had another dramatic argument. "Hey Sophie, do you want to play a game with Heather and me?" asked Rebecca. "Sophie and I were already playing a game together, though," Madison argued. "Well, we never have the chance to play with Sophie during recess, and plus you can play with us too you know," Heather …show more content…
I love hanging out with them when we were all together and when we were apart. The only problem is that they don't like hanging out all together at the same time. Whenever I hang out with one of them, the other two would feel jealous and we all get in a giant fight about it. I am always in the middle of it. Mrs. Richards shared with us that we are all friends and should know that, and that we don't all have to be together all of the time. We can sometimes just be with one other person. After her talk, we still sometimes had small fights that got resolved quickly, but for the most part we were and still are much kinder and friendlier to each other, and we can all control our jealousy. Sixth grade also helped because we have become much more mature and know how to handle situations in a reasonable way. We also know a little more that we don't all have to get jealous over every minor problem. We are all making new friends so that we can be apart every once in awhile and not feel pressured to hang out all together all of the time. I'm relieved that we have grown out of the jealousy stage, hopefully for