Friends Forever

I first met Tia when i was just about ten. I was playing in the backyard with my brothers. Football. Yes the one game that made me lose track of time,my sense and the fact that i was a girl. So there I was playing with my four brothers, fighting with them about the penalty shots, goal keeping and so on. I was nailing my brother Sam on the floor when Tia, this pretty little girl in a bright pink t-shirt and a skirt came up the pathway and asked in a petite girl like voice…“Hi I’m your new neighbor, can I play too.” “Sure” I replied in my gruff throaty one. Thus began an awesome friendship. We were the complete opposites of each other. Almost like North Pole and South Pole, like liquids and solids, yet soon we were inseparable.

As we entered our Brady Junior High School, we would spend the whole day literally together chatting nineteen to the dozen.During school, in the same classes; after school, completing homework, cribbing about school and discussing the funny teachers in school; collecting lady bugs and then relieving them, our friendship grew stronger. We both had quite an influence on each other. She helped me get out of my brother’s worn out denim shorts and oversized t-shirts into softer cleaner girly t-shirts and I taught her how to play ball. " Best friends forever" said Tia and we did a spit shake on that. EWWWWWWWW
Soon we were in high school. Our interests wavered from collecting ladybugs to cruising the mall for cute guys, cute clothes and cheesy love songs. Before we knew it we were dating.

Nothing changed our friendship. She was there by my side whenever I needed her. We were together through thick and through thin. I was there by her side during her first heart break and she was always there to help me get through my parents’ separation.She had become like my guardian angel watching over me, and keeping me out of trouble, pain and difficult times.

However all good things must come to and end. So did our friendship. One day returning from a vacation with her parents, their car met with with an accident. The sun rays got into her dad's eyes blocking his view, which led him to drive the car off the road into a ditch. No one survived and my best friend and guardian angel was lost forever. Or so i thought. I was in mourning. At the funeral old pictures were displayed above the coffins. One of them was a picture of me and Tia heading to our proms, our arms swung casually around each other. That made me realise no matter where she is, she is still watching and guiding over me. Best friends forever.