Best Friends Forever
I have sat and watched my two boys who are in grade school bicker and battle over just about anything, and it is of no surprise boys just are that way, I had 5 brothers and 8 uncles so I have seen it most of my life, but the other thing that I have grown to love about my boys, my brothers, my uncles, and my brothers in law is that no matter how bad the argument, they just seem to get over it and are usually the best of friends shortly afterward. I was watching my sons argue over a certain game they are allowed to play only 1 hour and only if homework is finished first, we always set a timer and they usually play until the very last moment but the older of the two had become a little bored half way through the game and a fierce battle erupted the younger one sighting that if his brother felt that way about the game he should have had forethought enough to mention it before they were halfway into the game, starting a new game with only a half hour left was a waste of his time and no sooner said than a big battle was on, there were name calling ( like ignorant, dummy, and the one I here most often stupid), rolling bodies came right after the names and then I sent them to their room I heard a big thump , they share a room so they were not in there together but a moment and they had already picked up where they had left off I had a thought, when I entered the room and told them that they had 5 minutes to decide which of them would move to their older brothers room, he had left for college and that they should let me know which one would stay in the room they already occupied, I also informed them that this could not go on. I did not give them a chance to say a word and left them in there, I then shut the door behind me. (I must confess I sort of shut it loudly). 5 minutes came and went, and an hour had gone by still not a peep from that room. If you are a mother you always think the worst so I began imagining all these bad things that could have gone on. I went to their room and heard laughing when I opened the door I saw them playing a game of checkers absorbing the picture of perfection while trying to ignore it, they just said hi mom did you need something I shut the door and opened it again not once but twice had I entered the Twilight Zone? Were these the same two boys? So I just said who is moving out they looked at each other and the younger of the two said mom I can’t leave this room and the older replied the same before I could intervene my youngest said with the saddest face mom I love this guy I have lived with him all of my life and he is my best friend and that’s forever, so if one of us has to move we decided we are both going. And mom I’m begging you please don’t take my brother away from me we decided that we just won’t play that game anymore. I was left speechless and then I quietly shut the door and went and found my old family album I looked at all my brothers and uncles and remembered all of the fierce battles they fought, I remembered when they went away to the armed forces and that they did not all come back, I knew that they most assuredly had the same kind of brotherly love that my boys had shown me today. I did not make them move and I know that there are more battles to come, but for now all is quiet on the front.
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