Everyone meets people in their life. People who stay, and people who go. I’ve always wondered what the point was of meeting someone who would just end up leaving in the end. You build up a relationship with them, and BOOM, just like that, they leave. High school is full of those situations, as in, I’ve had this happen to me multiple times. I keep my circle tight. I have two best friends who I’d do absolutely anything for. If they need my help, I’ll drop what I’m doing, and go to them. I honestly love them more than anything, and I’d never leave them, and I know they would never leave me. They come before anyone.

I met Alexis my freshman year. And I’m sure if it weren’t for my psychical science class, her and me would have never become friends. She sat behind me, and she always used to ask for gum and goldfish, because I never came to school without those two things. I swore she used me. And to be completely honest, I always questioned “why is this annoying girl bugging me for food and gum”. Eventually the second semester came around and she was in my English class. We talked a lot more in that class, and became really close. Soon talking turned to texting, and texting turned to hanging out. Hanging out every single weekend. We hung out every weekend from the end of April and all through summer. We became the best of friends.

Sophomore year came around, and nothing changed with Alexis and I. We actually got closer and closer everyday, and I believe we even went to school together on the first day. We had two classes together that year: English and Biology. A little over a month into the school year, a new girl was in our English class. Her name was Samantha, and she sat right behind me. I turned around and talked to her, and we got to know each other. Alexis already had talked to her because she was in every single one of her classes. I clicked with Sam instantly, we seemed to have gone through a lot of the same things, and we had much in common. Alexis, Sam, and I became really good friends. But I started getting caught up in other stuff, stuff that didn’t matter. Like stupid boyfriend drama, and becoming friends with other people who were never really there for me. Alexis and Sam became closer. Towards the end of sophomore year, I looked at the bigger picture. I started to grow up more and realize who was actually important. The friends that I had that year weren’t really my friends. And the fact that I was distant from Alexis and Sam really bothered me. By the summertime, summer 2012, I started hanging out with Alexis and Sam again. We weren’t super close, but they were my best friends, and I went to them for everything, and they came to me for everything. Everything was where it needed to be.

Now junior year, Alexis, Sam, and I are beyond closer than I had every imagined. We hangout every weekend, literally. Whether I’m working or not, I find someway to see them. In school, teachers call us the “Three Musketeers” because you never see one without the other, or us not all three together. We always look lost without each other, it’s kind of pathetic, but in a good way. Out of everything that has happened in high school, I think things have changed the most in junior year. And to be completely honest, if I didn’t have Alexis or Sam this year, I would have nobody. They are the only people who haven’t left, whether it’s other people, boyfriends, or even family. We don’t leave each other’s side. With all of the changes that have happened, it only makes me realize more that they are the friend’s I will have for a lifetime. Everything that I would do for them is things they would do for me, and those are the type of friends you keep.

I don’t have to hold a guard up with them, or worry about them leaving. I can be myself around them, and I trust them with the world. These aren’t friends that are going to eventually leave. Yes, we fight and get into arguments sometimes, some worse than others. But we always get over it, because we all three know we can’t live without one another. I would never take their friendship for granted, because a friendship like this is once in a lifetime. I put them first, always. No guy will ever come before them. We even have plans to move in together after high school. People doubt us, like our families, but we’re soooooo determined, and we will prove them all wrong. If you ever have a friendship as tight as ours, keep it. Don’t let it slip away. Because you never know, once it slips away, you might not get it back.