Sentence:  Now, if you may remember, until this point both girls had not been truly friends, not in any lasting way that is. It was only that they had just recently, and painfully, forsaken enemyship, and were only just beginning the first processes of <WSD>friendhood</WSD>, which was now coming into fruition; And it was here, at this memory, that I believe both girls would recount as their true beginning. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.