Being A Friend Is Easy... Easy-ish...

If you asked me to tell you who my best friend is, I would answer with four names. It would be literally impossible for me to choose a best friend! It’s like a puzzle. They each have a piece that when put together makes the puzzle. That puzzle is the best friend. But today I’m going to write about one of them who if it weren’t for them, the past year would have been boring. The first memories I have of him were from a book “company”. I saw a few of my friends and a person I knew but wasn’t friends with hunched over a few pieces of paper. I wandered over to them and asked what they were doing. They told me they were working on pages for a book. I was intrigued I sat down and questioned them while they worked, which now that I think of it must have been very bothersome. I soon learned they were a “company” who made books about a girl named Georgita. Georgita went on many crazy adventures, and they were currently working on the book where she journeyed to Monaco. In my head, I thought if what I was about to do was rude. I decided not, and still to this day I don’t if this was rude or not. I asked them if I could join. They graciously accepted and told me about all the positions. At first, I wanted to be an illustrator. Then, I wanted to be an author. Finally, they told me they needed someone to add more imagination in their stories. I slept on it, and the next afternoon I told them I would take the position. They needed a name for the position, so they called it “The Ideator”. I happily researched Monaco, providing the team with info. The graphic novel came out great, with my favorite part being when Alicia Keys sings “Car On Fire”. When it was time to meet about the next book, things when downhill. My friend and I tried to get the group together, but when we finally did, there was an unwanted visitor. He came at the start of the meeting, just in time to hear about the next book. He instantly said he wanted to join, but nobody wanted him in the “company”. We knew we had to say yes or there would be trouble. We grudingly let him join, but we all found him to be too wild and a little bossy. Things were a little unorganized, so we decided to digitalize some of the “company”. That’s when my friend, one of the two founders of the “company” quit. She wasn’t liking the new member and was not happy with the digital idea. The remainder of us tried to make an ending book to end the series, but soon everybody started quitting. And just like that, Georgita crashed and burned. But the good thing was I had made a new friend. It was that kid that I knew but wasn’t friends with when I first joined. And that’s how I met my best friend. What happened to the person who joined? I had grudge against him for a long time. But today we are friends. His name is actually one of the four I would mention when asked about my best friends. But I found it wierd how my best friend in the beginning was the person I knew but wasn’t friends with. After a while, we had gone through a lot together. Some good, some bad. He introduced me to Dungeons & Dragons, the best RPG in the universe. Just by watching him, I’d started to learn to draw. But those are the happy times. Of course it can’t just be all fun with a best friend. There have to be rough patches, or it’s an artificial relationship, like in The School For Good And Evil. But in TSFGAE, it goes from a good deed to a real friendship. One of our biggest rough patches involved a birthday sleepover. My family and I were going to Disney World with our cousins, but we were also planning on spending a day at Universal. To prep for that, being the Potterhead I am, I decided to read the Harry Potter books again. That was around the time when he was deciding who to invite to his sleepover. What I didn’t know until after he didn’t invite me was that he could only invite two people. He chose two of our best friends. When I asked him why I wasn’t invited, he said I wasn’t his “go-to friend” at the time. Go-to friend basically means best friend. I thought about why I wasn’t his go-to friend, and he said I was using all of my break time just to read the Harry Potter books. I told him that I gave up time during my break time to play with him, even though I knew I had more to read that night. From there on, it was kind of tense between us. But then, I don’t know how this happened, we made up and it was all fine. Our relationship was stronger than ever, and he even said we would have our own sleepover that summer. When there was no more tension, I told him all that had happened while I was in New Jersey celebrating my cousin’s first birthday which was the same weekend as his birthday sleepover. When I told how when we were opening my cousin’s presents and he got a Rody, and inflatable horse, and he bounced up and down like he was having the time of his life, we laughed like we used to. We laughed even more when I told him how me and my family think he said “butt”. He is pretty good at keeping secrets, and his smile brightens the room. He’s one of my best friends, and he always will be. He has been there through thick and thin, and makes my bad days much better. Thank you for being there, J. E.