Fifteen Minutes of Friendship

A kid in my class paid me fifty dollars to pretend to be his friend for fifteen minutes.

Jordan was terrified and told us we had to vanish by 6:15 before his dad got home.

The house was completely empty because they sold the furniture for his mom's cancer treatment.

When his dad arrived early, everyone ran, but I froze at the window and recorded

him attacking Jordan. That video was the evidence that put his dad in prison for eighteen years.

Months later, Jordan invited me to a real party. At 6:30, he didn't run.

He just smiled.