My life with... part 3.

We started spending more time together the seven of us. As long as we could we were playing soccer. Alex and Lukas fought a lot. I don't blame Lukas. Alex wasn't too good at it – at least at first. Lukas always said that even I was better at soccer than Alex was. That wasn't true. Niki helped me a lot. I was much more tinier than my friends. I also noticed that Lukas took it easy while I was around.

When the first snow fell we won our first match. It was against Back row boys and one of their friend. We had practiced a lot together. Alex got so much better at soccer and eventually he was almost the best. Henry was best simply because he played soccer as a hobby. He wasn't around at Tuesdays because he was playing with his team. Later he started to have rehearsals more often so he dropped out of team. He wanted to focus on school and on his friends.

Once autumn was over and winter came we started to visit ice rink daily. Others were playing hockey together. I only watched them since I didn't know how to ice-skate. Also their playing looked really rough. Boys had seen how the real players tackle others and of course they had to mimic. Lukas who was biggest didn't use all his power. I guess he didn't want to hurt us. Once Lukas tackled Niki really hard because Niki provoked him. Niki got big bruise on their side. Niki said it didn't hurt and laughed. Later they cursed how much it hurts.

Once Niki brought their old skates with. They told me to put the skates on. Lukas helped me to tie the laces so that I don't break my ankles. Niki pushed me on my feet and told me to take a hold of their hockey stick. And oh boy how hard I held that stick. At first Niki pulled me slowly and told me how I should use my legs. All I remember was that I just watched my feet as we slide on that icy rink. Niki was laughing when boys played trick on me. Jonas made circles around us. I looked at him when I lost my balance. I fell and all of them started to laugh as hard as they could. Later on Alex apologized that he had poked my legs with his hockey stick.

As I got better at skating Niki started to pull me faster. It was fun sometimes. Once Niki lost their balance and we slide into snow banks. Luckily it wasn't wall or anything. Niki was back on their feet fast. They jumped back on ice swearing like a pirate. They didn't do it when our parents were around. Our parents would have told them to stop.

We had our first fight with Niki when it was almost summer. Our teachers didn't like it that we always were on the same team. They told us that we should be team leaders while playing Capture the flag. So we did as they told us to do. And you won't believe what Niki did! They cheated. We used orange shirts as a flags and Niki put it on theirself. We couldn't capture it because of it.

We didn't talk anything to each others at school. But after school we went to the park as usually. We started arguing with Niki. It ended up to wrestling. We were so pissed at each other that we didn't even hold back. Both of us got one black eye and other bruises. Once we were too tired to fight we just laughed on the ground. Niki helped me to stood up and we went to buy ice cream. We saluted ourselves for winning the fight. Niki poke my ice cream with theirs. And we definitely didn't tell about it to our parents. It was our little secret.

We told our parents that we had fell. I don't believe they took any of it but they didn't say a word. Niki was pretty sure they believed our explanation. Boys weren't believing that we had fought. Niki told them everything. We were so much together that boys found it hard to believe. They demanded that once we were going to fight again we'd had to call them to see it.

All of us got trough our grade. We were joking about our grades. Alex and Kari were teasing Henry for his good grades and Niki was teasing them for their bad grades. Kari almost didn't pass first grade – again. We helped him a lot so that he at least learned to read. Alex was bad at math. It really didn't matter to us at that time. We had just passed first grade and boys had passed second grade.

On the first day off from school we took our bikes and drove to the edge of our village. There was big soccer ground. We left our bikes there and ran to the woods. Jonas had found perfect place to be our tree house. We build it whole day and few days after that. It wasn't actually in the tree. And it wasn't so gorgeous we wanted it to be but it was something we did together. We spend there a lot time. Every morning we met up there. When someone didn't show up we went to search for them.

One day when I got to our tree house someone had broke it. Jonas was angrier than ever. He swore that we would build Fort Woods again. It would be even better that this one so that no one could ever broke it again. Well we didn't build our tree house again. Henry managed to persuade Jonas that it wasn't so important.

Lukas told me that he didn't want to build tree house in the first place but he helped since we all seemed so happy. In the end he had liked it too. Lukas told me also that he knew who broke it but he asked me to not tell anyone. And I didn't. I only mentioned Niki about it but Niki didn't really care. They said that it was fun as long as it lasted but it was pointless to keep thinking about it since it was already gone.

The story is fully fictional. All the similarities are pure coincidence.