English+10-2

In jealousy, there is more self-love than love. **__ Planning __** -Neighbour -Friend -Grandmother’s necklace – very important to friend -Want it so bad -Look in the mirror, thinks she is so pretty -Friend feels terrible and mother is mad and is grounded

“What!?! What do you mean you lost it? Didn’t I tell you it is very old and important to our family?” yelled Lindsay’s mother. “I’m so sorry! I looked everywhere for it, but I don’t know where it went!” pleaded Lindsay.

Meet Lindsay, my friend and my next door neighbour. Lindsay moved in last year and we became pretty good friends very quickly since we had all of our classes together. I usually like to be alone, but my mom pushed me to be her friend since she was new in town. My mom said that it can be difficult to make friends when you’re the new kid. So, I grudgingly hung out with her after school, we’d watched TV and did our homework together. Soon enough, we became best friends. We shared our clothes, and our secrets.

On Lindsay’s sixteenth birthday, her mother gave her a beautiful gem pendant on a gold chain. Lindsay’s mom said that her mother gave it to her on her sixteenth birthday as well. The purpose of this necklace was to mark the beginning of a girl’s womanhood and it would be passed on from one generation to the next. The jewel in the pendant is so blue like the clear waters of the Carribean Sea. Lindsay, let me wear it one day and it matched my deep blue eyes so beautifully.

Each time I see Lindsay’s necklace, I just want to take it for myself. I mean it looks better on me anyways. It doesn’t really match Lindsay’s brown eyes! And blue is my favorite colour. I’ve tried looking for something like it at the mall, but nothing is as beautiful as her grandmother’s necklace. What would happen if it just disappeared one day? Would she really miss it? I mean who wants something so old and probably worthless anyways?

I was in Lindsay’s bedroom one afternoon and I noticed that her grandmother’s necklace was on her desk. When she went to the bathroom, I quickly grabbed it and put it in the front pocket of my jeans. Lindsay didn’t even notice anything missing when she came back. A few days passed. Lindsay didn’t even know it was missing. I thought I was in the clear, but suddenly, one morning, Lindsay was in tears. She said she couldn’t find her grandmother’s necklace anywhere and she looked everywhere. I told her not to worry and we would look for it together after school today. She said her mother would ground her if she lost it proving she wasn’t a mature and responsible young woman and therefore she didn’t deserve this necklace.

We looked everywhere for this necklace, but it was no where to be found. Sure enough, I could hear Lindsay’s mom’s voice from my open window screaming at the top of her lungs with suck disappointment. Poor, poor Lindsay. She’s going to be grounded for weeks! But that’s okay, I was doing just fine before she came, what is a few weeks without a friend? Besides, I’m looking gorgeous these days with this amazing blue gem on my neck.

So, the narrator in this story loves herself more than her friend Lindsay because even though her best friend is sad and in trouble that she can’t find her grandmother’s necklace, the narrator doesn’t care and would rather be happy herself.