Brooke Frankford

The Unbreakable bond

It started out as a normal friend group, but soon turned in to something more. The bond felt like it would never be broken but little did we know it would all change. It went from a friend group to a family in a matter of days. The family started by one person “adopting” the younger members of the friend group. Just keep in mind that there was only a few of us that were between the ages of 13 and 14. The rest of us for either 11 or 12. There was one mom and three to four dads. In real life the mom was dating one of the dads and she never dated the others. Not long after the family was created I ended up “marrying” the mom as a joke in the friend group. The whole friend group know about the fake marriage and went along with it. The funny part of the marriage is that we actually got married on FaceTime. In my opinion the weirdest part about the marriage was that the mother I was actually the husband and I was the wife. So I ended up being the stepmother of all of the children, some of the kids didn’t like that so much. But in the end we were a big happy family. The mom ended up disowning a few of the kids because of some stuff that was happening. They were still kind of in the friend group but not really in the family. The family lasted for a few months but then slowly started to go downhill from there. between the end of May beginning of June there was a lot of break ups within the friend group which caused a few problems with the family because one of the break ups was actually part of the family (The mom and a dad). At first this was the only break up but then there was another break up with one of the kids and then the following break up with another child. After this happen we pretty much all split apart from each other because Summer was starting and we found out that the mom was moving 30 minutes away. If you can’t tell already the mom plays pretty important role in the friend group so when we found out she was moving it kind of tore us apart. She said she would be able to come down and visit us whenever she wanted but that quickly changed because she told us she wasn’t able to anymore. This is what really tore the whole family/friend group apart. Eventually it was only me, the mom and, one of the kids left in the family and pretty much the whole friend group. Just recently the family/friend group has extended. The friend group consists of a few more people than it did in the family now consists of me, the mom, her son, and my two daughters. The hard part about this is that only me her son and my two daughters are in one school district in the mom is in another school district. School starts soon and we’re not all going to be together which is sad but we know she moved so she could be in a safer environment. This story may be a bit confusing and trust me it is confusing but once you get to know us it would make a lot more sense.