Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.

“In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin m…”

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you each lun…”

“Sooner or later the let-loose sidewalk pups will cross the streets. Running, th…”

“She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's ar…”