What does the word "friendship" mean to you?

For our written component during our literacy days, students were asked to answer the short prompt, "What does the word 'friendship' mean to you?" These were their responses.

"Friendship means sharing, helping, caring, and playing with each other. It means that they love you and they will be on your side and your friend forever. Maybe."

-Adryna Montemayor 

"Friendships mean two people or more are friends and BFFs. Friendship means they do not fight a lot."

-Isaias Pallib

"Friendship means you don't fight or beat up people. And don't be rude."

-Alan Bei

"Friendship is when there is that kid that always wants to play with you. They want to stand up for you and you can tell that person anything without them laughing."

-Oliver Junod

"Friendship means that that's a person you can trust."

-Estrella Gill-Beasley

"Friendship means to be loved by others that aren't your family and you have other people to be your BFF together and do everything together. Friendship goes to different levels like friends, great friends, best friends, BFFs, and marriage. That is what I think friendship means to me."

-Lillian Humes

"Friendship means people that care about me and I care about them."

-Talan Luo

"Friendship means that there is trust between you and your friends."

-Katie Wurster