There is always that one person in your life you can count on for anything. That is typically your best friend. They are the ones you can tell everything and anything to. They are also the people you usually have the most memories with. My best friend, I happened to meet in middle school.

Her name is Brianna. Very pretty and extremely smart. She's always trying to make people happy. God first and family first, self second. Just an amazing, sweet person. In sixth grade, i used to eat lunch with her every single day. We talked a few times but we were not close at all. We were acquaintances. Its not like we weren't friends, we just never really talked. It never really bothered me that we never spoke. I didn't really talk a lot at lunch because I didn't really like one of the girls at the table. Her name was Aspen. She was always making fun of someone. Which I mean, we were in middle school. Everyone made fun of everyone. It was just what everyone thought was funny. For me, I always have my friends back. So if you talk about them, I was going to tell them.

One day, Brianna got up to go get a spoon. And Aspen had decided to talk about her. She called her a fat pig. Brianna was supposed to be one of her best friends. So when I heard that, I was shocked. How do you just talk about one of your best friends behind their back? I knew she was only doing it to make everyone else laugh, but I didn't think it was funny. I thought it was rude and I knew she needed to know. Like I said, I was not close to Brianna like that at all. I wasn't really going to tell her. It stayed on my mind everyday I saw her though. I felt bad because best friends just don't do that to each other. And everyone knew Aspen talked about her, besides her. It was wrong.

That weekend, everyone had gone skating. Everyone who was everyone, went skating. It was just the absolutely coolest thing to do in middle school. That day, my boyfriend broke up with me because of some rumors. His name was Aaron. We were both in percussion. He wore glasses, kind of a cute nerd. Very smart but also had some style to what he wore. That was my boyfriend. And his best friend, Jharin, is the one who told him to break up with me too. Jharin was in band. He wasn't in percussion with Aaron in I, but he played the trombone. Jharin loved music and was always dancing. But of course Aaron broke up with me at the skating rink. He actually made someone else come and tell me he wanted to break up with me. I know, lame. I don't really remember why it hurt so bad to start crying, but I cried. The only person who came to check up on me, was Brianna. She asked me what was wrong and I told her everything. She was friends with Aaron, and she knew me and him were dating. She stayed there and comforted me. At that point, I was still thinking about the whole Aspen situation. I had decided to tell her. I told her what all Aspen said. Then we were both crying with each other and people were just starring at us like we were some emotional freaks. Not one other person bothered to come over there to ask us if we were okay. Which honestly, didn't really bother me. For most of the night we just kind of sat there and talked and cried. I never would have thought we would have really bonded by crying at the skating rink together. But we did, and it was nice.

After that, Brianna and I grew a little bit closer. We weren't best friends, but we had grew closer than just acquaintances. Brianna had confronted Aspen, and of course she denied it. Aspen was mad at me for a while. We didn't like each other at all at that point. Everybody swore we were going to fight. That never happened, but we really didn't like each other. What was really awkward, was that we both still sat the same lunch table. We could all secretly feel the tension at the table. Wasn't the best or the easiest.

During one weekend in the seventh grade, I had seen Brianna and Alex at McDonalds. I sat with them and we just talked. A few minutes later, of course Aaron and Jharin walk in the door. They were both in basketball shorts. They had looked like they were walking all day and smelt like the outside. I just couldnt stand Jharin being there. But we kind of just got over the whole sixth grade thing and we all just hung out. That day was a very good day. I remember that day like it was yesterday. It was towards the end of seventh grade, so during summer we planned on hanging out. Which we did. We named ourselves the "Crackheads." Not because we were actual crackheads, but because we acted crazy all the time. Every minute we were together, something funny was always happening. Then randomly, i had realized that we were all growing closer. It was nice to have all of them there all of the time.

Around the third week of summer, Jharin went to Atlanta to go visit his dad. Then he decided to tell me he liked me. The same guy who was best friends with Aaron and tried to break us up. He had finally decided to tell me he used to like me when I was dating Aaron. And at this point, I wasn't as mad anymore. We were just laughing about the whole situation. Jharin and I basically dated, but never officially went out. We didn't have the official name. We went on and off with each other for three whole years. Then around the end of seventh grade, we were all so close. We hung out almost every weekend, when we could. Alex had kind of separated apart from us the summer before eighth grade. She was too "cool" for us then. Then it was just Brianna, Jharin, Aaron and I. Jharin and I still liked each other. We had this whole thing going on and everyone knew we liked each other. Of course, Aaron and Brianna had liked each other too. We all finally realized that we were all best friends. Knowing we had each others back through thick and thin, we were all there for each other. Jharin and Aaron were best friends and then it was Brianna and I. When we were together, it was just the four of us. Later on in the eighth grade, Jharin and I decided not to date because of our friendship. Jharin and Aaron had found new girlfriends and Brianna and I were always giving them advice and all of that fun stuff. We still constantly, always hung out. Jhairn, Aaron and I live about 5-10 minutes walking from each other, Brianna always had to find a ride, so she didn't always get to hang out. We still included her in everything we did though

The summer before ninth grade, we were still best friends. We had been with each other for three years. All of us knew everything and anything about each other, Then Jharin had started to like me again. So we then had another thing going on. Finally decided we weren't going to make it official because of this whole friendship thing. Which I had no problem with because I would never want to ruin the friendship me and him have. Then, the worst thing had happened. Brianna told us she was going to be moving to Little Elm. At this point, it was about a week away from school starting again. She was going to be moving the second week of school. I hadn't cried so much for a long time. We both just cried and cried in my living room. The only reason Jharin and Aaron weren't there was because they had started separating from Brianna. Just because they never really hung out with her. They just didn't care as much as Brianna and I did. It was just sad that my number one best friend was going to be leaving. It wasn't that far, but you couldn't just walk. Some things just happen for the better,

On the first day of school, everyone met at my house so that we could walk into school together, We have too many pictures from that morning.That was just to tell us that we were going to have each other no matter what for that whole year. Basically this story is my life on how I met my best friends. Brianna is my number one best friend. No one can compare to what we have. Jharin and Aaron are close in second though. Now that Briannas in Little Elm, I still have them. I call Brianna almost everyday just to talk about nothing. She goes to church in Lewisville so I see her usually once a week now. I never really thought out of everyone I know, these three would be the ones to stick with me through everything. Knowing I used to hate Jharin and Aaron, its weird to go back and think about how that all changed. Looking back, we all laugh because we had no idea it was going to end up like this. Neither one of us would have thought we were going to be best friends. It just all started by the simplest things. Now I know what people mean when they some things in life are unseen. That was unexpected, but ive never met people like them. And I'm glad i have those three people in my life.