For most people, getting a car opens up a new world of freedom and allows you to go wherever you want and whenever you want. Getting a car did 1 these for me, and it also brought my best friend and me 2. But then it tore us apart（分开）.

    My best friend lives three minutes from my home. Since her 3 is in late summer, seven months behind mine, I seemed to become her 4 when I turned 16 in December.

    And so I picked her up for school and took her home. We made ice-cream 5, went shopping and to the movies — all in my car. I would drive to her house just to sit on her bed, read magazines and have a good laugh. I went to her house so frequently that she gave me a key 6 her house.

     A week after I began to drive, she was with me 7 I had my first accident. She was there and comforted me and we kept it a 8, since I didn't want people to 9. From then on, through thick and thin（患难与共）, it was just me, my car and my best friend.

     High school is a time of 10, but I couldn't understand for a long time11 we became so distant. Finally, my friend got her dream car. With its 12, the passenger seat of my car became 13. Our car trips became less frequent until I didn't 14 drive down her street.

     It's funny how a car can change a relationship so much. I had wanted her to get a car, but once she did, I 15 it. I wanted her friendship back, even if it couldn't be the same.