Epigraph: "One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood" - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

Dedicated to- My best buddies, Amogha, Ruchita and Ragini!!  <333

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  To me, fair friend, you never can be old,

For as you were, when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty, like a dial-hand,
Steal from his figure and no pace perceiv'd;
So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand,
Hath motion and mine eye may be deceiv'd:
For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred;
Ere you were born, was beauty's summer dead.   

William Shakespeare 

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"She was a change- a change that tore me apart."

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Sarah

You wake after a night of crying, realizing how stupid you were...how you could've saved your memories but you didn't, how the word "sorry" could've brought so many changes. 

I am Sarah Williams and now you must be thinking why I'm so broken? Then let me tell you, I'm a loser. That sounds weird for a 26 year old woman with a well paid job but the truth is that, I am a loser. Mostly because I let her go without saying the word sorry - without accepting my own mistake.  

I'm still looking at the old, wrinkled and almost torn picture of me and Chloe. Oh! How cute we both looked together. Holding hands and posing in our best possible way. All the memories start drifting back one after another. Those innocent fights, those funny jokes and all the sweet old memories flows back. Now she would've been with me, casting her beautiful smile as her dark curls would flow down her shoulder, how she'd wrap her hands around me and assure me that I'm the most beautiful girl in the world, how both of us would laugh at your own stupidity. But suddenly realization dawns and screams that reality is cruel, these are just mere "could haves". She's no longer with me. It is close to impossible to breathe because Chloe is gone. She's the only person whom I always try to forget but couldn't!

Flashbacks are good at times but they can give real pain. Chloe was special, dare I say extraordinary. How do I explain the most selfless and brave girl?! How do I explain the girl who always made me feel better or how she never missed a chance to say how lucky she was to have a friend like me? She was special and my sweetheart. 

'Sarah, that's just not fair! Give it back to me. It was my share' –were the common lines of Chloe who would always create a fight for the share of chocolates (she was a foodie!). 

'No! But you'll never get 'em!'- I would purposefully taunt her....

Those were the golden days. I still remember the small girly talks between us during the evening time and how both of us liked being idle.When she cried, I cried. Every single thing that happened to me that mattered, in some way had to do with her. 

'What's the matter Sarah? How can I help you?'- I'm sure that I'm not the only one who heard Chloe say those words time and again. You were a treasure, my friend.

 But she broke her promise. Years ago she promised that she'll always be by my side no matter what, she'll always be there to support me,we'd always be together-best friends regardless of the spaces between us. But now, what about that promise? She's not here, not here by my side, not here to support me, she's no longer my best friend! 

One clear Christmas night, I remember, Chloe and me sitting on that bench, behind her yard...looking at the stars! Both of us, two little girls then, holding hands, she whispered, 'Sarah, thanks for everything. Thanks for being such a caring friend, thanks for never leaving my side, thanks for making me smile, thanks for being my pillar when I was falling, I thank god for giving me a friend like you!' she turned towards me and smiled. That smile, I'll never forget. 

Those words coming out from the mouth of a 15 year old brought mixed emotions. That similar night..she handed me a small yet cute handmade card and whispered, "Merry Christmas". Remembering those old days made my heart ache with the pain of her loss. Now, what happened to the girl I knew? How did I let this happen? 

  Our friendship was something we were known for. After all we were the very best of friends or at least that's what I thought.  We had the bond which was priceless but I never knew that these were about to turn into memories which would make my heart bleed..

 God! Why am I thinking of these things that too after "fourteen" long years of being apart from each other. I take another swift glance at the picture and suddenly I feel the inside of me burning, either with the gloom of not having Chloe's company or either with her- for leaving me in a situation which I cannot overcome.  Small crystal beads start flowing one after another as the realization of the moment seeps in- "Our friendship is lost" I whisper to myself, still sobbing....

-ONCE FRIENDS

-NOW STRANGERS

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Main cast: 

1) India Eisley as Chloe Caesar

2) Kiernan Shipka as Sarah Williams

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