Ending a Friendship

Sometimes LeRonda felt compelled to ask her best friend if she would go out with her. In her opinion, if Keisha was her best friend, she shouldn't have to beg her to go out with her. She should want to. Sometimes it seemed to LeRonda that Keisha was too involved with her other friends, and whenever LeRonda felt like she wanted to hang out, she claimed to be "diligently" studying. She knew that if she dogged around behind her, constantly asking her for some time alone that it would put a weird strain on their relationship. But, she'd known Keisha since they were little girls, at least 3 years old. She couldn't bear enduring the end of a 22-year old friendship. But they had to face the facts. LeRonda was a scary-cat, whose idea of fun was going to see a G-Rated movie, while Keisha on the other hand, was intrepid and fearless and loved taking walks on the wild side. LeRonda was pretty straight-and-narrow and didn't really deviate from what she was taught at home, while Keisha was a complete maverick, who hated being put into clear, cut labels and boxes. Keisha hated arguing with people because she was so carefree, while LeRonda was so obdurate and felt like she always had to argue to fight her point until everyone agreed with her and when they wanted to argue back with her, she was too obstinate to listen to anyone else's opinion. Keisha was growing tired of going back and forth with LeRonda and she knew that their friendship needed to come an end. She honestly didn't want it to because they'd had some good times that created lasting memories inside of her. But now that they were in college, Keisha's friends had proliferated into an entirely different group of people totally different than LeRonda. But LeRonda wanted to hold onto their friendship with such a tenacity because she believed in true friendship. Where else could she find someone who was going to accept her with all her flaws and still love her regardless? She knew that their relationship was losing its spark and vitality, but they could work through it in her opinion. But, the fact still remained that Keisha and LeRonda were on different pages. Neither one of them could obtain a full assimilation of what the other one had become, and quite frankly, they weren't taking the time to either. Keisha brought up the idea to her other friends of trying to end their friendship on good terms, and they all came to a consensus that it was probably what was best. She needed to keep the the context of their relationship on good terms because they were still going to the same school and nothing would be worse than high school drama in college. On the other hand, LeRonda was sensing that Keisha was moving on. She could derive from her body language that something weird was going to happen to them. And because of LeRonda's personality, she felt it was incumbent that she not allow Keisha to end their friendship on her terms, but she wanted it to end her way instead. In her opinion it was inevitable that it end on nice terms, so she wanted to leave with a bang. She'd tried her hardest to create a malleable relationship where they could be real with each other without one another storming out on each other. Seconds later, Keshia walked into the room and suddenly, a silence subdued the entire room.