My Best Friend
It was raining the day Mark Turner died. On a dark, rainy summer night, he foolishly got in the passenger side of a 1998 midnight blue Eclipse. His 19 year old cousin Sam, was the driver, and Sam had a little too much to drink that night. At about three in the morning, they were leaving a party that one of Sam's friends threw. They were rushing home, because they already had missed curfew by two hours. Not aware of his surroundings, Sam carelessly got on the wrong side of the road. A speeding pickup was heading right their way. By the time they saw the truck, it was too late. Sam swerved his car to the right. Although they missed hitting the truck by a few inches, the sleet on the road from the rain caused them to
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He wasn’t hesitant to try anything. He lived to have fun and never hold back. That summer was the first we spent apart. I decided to spend half the summer with them to my grandmother's house. In the fall, we were both supposed to attend school at the University of North Carolina. Two weeks before I was due back, I got a call from his mother at about six in the morning. She was hysterically telling me about the car accident involving Mark and Sam. I kept asking her if they were alright, even though I knew in my heart that they weren't. Finally she just came out with it, and told me he died that morning. Right after I heard that my heart just stopped. I felt my body collapse before me. I was blinded by all the tears in my eyes. I tried to gather all of my thoughts in my head, but I was too confused. I just sat there and cried until I had no tears left. I returned home right away to see him for the last time at his funeral. This is when I was first realized he was really gone. No more going to pranks, no more double dates, no more wild times at football practice. He really was no longer here. I didn't eat for days, and I cried myself to sleep at night. The person that always gave me a solutions to my answers wasn’t there anymore. I was so mad at him for doing something so idiotic like that. I was mad that he left me all alone at the time of my life when I needed him the most. All of the plans that I made for us in college were demolished, along with his
killed in a fiery crash. I felt awful hearing such heartbreaking news. I was clueless on how to respond
I was alone with him when it was time for me to say goodbye to him only because I was the only one that he had asked to come up there to spend a couple of days with. When I said goodbye to him after those couple of days, it was time for me to go back to South Dakota to go home to my family
That day I was so sad my brother let me play on his Play Station 2. We stayed up all night playing Mortal Kombat. The next day I had to break the news to Mary-Ann we both started to cry for about 30 minutes until my mom took us for ice cream. I had cookies and cream with rainbow sprinkles, Mary-Ann had the same. So as Mary-Ann, my mom, and me got back in the car my mom told us it was going to happen at the end of the week. That made
Everything was about to change, we wouldn’t order take-out on Sundays, it was a big deal, I was losing my best friend, the only father figure I have ever had so far. I watched him taking all of his stuff out of the apartment, I was getting more and more mad. Wasn’t our beautiful relationship enough to make him stay? I even blame myself I thought I had done something wrong, maybe wearing his clothes and leaving them all messy, I apologize and swear not to do it again, but it didn’t matter the decision was already made.
As we pulled into my driveway, my mom was waiting outside. My dad got out the van and went and hugged my mom, I was still sitting in the van. My hand sat on the handle, or at least I think it did, my body felt numb. A few minutes later, I finally opened the door and walked up to my mom who was still outside, my dad was inside telling my brother the news.
When I got the phone call that my dad was dead I could not believe it. I became overcome with denial “No, not my dad, he wouldn’t leave me!”. I called his phone, hoping with all of my soul that he would answer the phone like he always did, greeting me with a joke of some sort. This was not the case, so I broke down. It felt like my heart was ripped out of my body and stomped on. I have always been a daddy's girl so at first I did not know how I was supposed to go on. It had always been ‘Roland and Hannah’ for anything: partners for games at home, driving together, and many other things. He was my biggest teacher and my other half. I quickly became overcome with denial “No, not my dad, he wouldn’t leave me! He knows how much I need him!”.
A year later, we sat in the hospital watching his health deteriorate. I remember sitting in the hospital watching, and thinking I was in complete control, but having to slip away in order to pull myself together. It felt as if the floor was my family, and the cracks were my Pop. We did what any family would at that time - we stuck together more than we ever had before. My family and I sat there knowing we were about to lose one of the most influential people in our lives. As for my youngest brother, he was losing the strongest positive male role model in his life, besides me, and that truly resonated with
At that moment I realized that it could be the last time I saw her. I remember my mom telling me what happened since I was away. it was tragic, Sometimes i don't even like talking about it.
Have you ever had someone in your life who helped you figure out who you were? Someone who showed you the right path. Someone who was there right next you even if you did not take that path. Someone who always seemed to be right, but never held it against you when you were not. Someone whom without your life would most likely be entirely different. I have. Her name was Jessica.
I feel a vibration in my pocket, I check my phone and I’m surprised to get an invitation from Rod, my ex-bestfriend. I haven’t hung out with this group for years, but I decide to attend and maybe reconnect with them. I walk into the door, and I’m greeted with a big smile from “friends” that I haven’t really talked to in years. As we watch the UCLA football game, and more people walk into the house, I start to greet them cautiously. “Hey jeet,” said one of them as they walked through the door. Baljeet was a name given to me on the last day of elementary school, and that nickname brought up some bad memories. But after years of ridicule, I learned to just ignore it. Rod turns on the Xbox, like he would any other night of the week, and my friends start playing NBA 2k18. As I sit on the couch in the back of the room silently, I start to think why I’m here and what happened to my relationship with Rod over the years.
I won’t forget what happened first. It really didn’t seem real that we were moving until the sign went up in the yard. I spent plenty of time just sitting and staring at it wishing that it was only my imagination, but no matter how hard I tried to convince myself, I knew I was only being wistful and chasing after a wish that would never come true. “18 days. Our house sold in 18 days, quicker than expected” I muttered to myself. Everything seemed like a blur after that, with only twelve days left of summer I tried to make it my best. I tried to make myself enjoy it and to be happy about the move, but there was nothing to be glad about. When you leave the only life you’ve ever know it’s hard to act like everything is fine. With only one short month until we moved out and started a new journey, summer was coming to an end.
You know friends will always stick together no matter what. I remember when I first met my very best friend Norah. When we first met she was very shy. I met her in second grade. I was about 6 or 7 and she was 7. We never really talked in 2nd grade because I was a new kid. In the 3rd grade year she seemed as if she didn’t really talk to anybody except for certain kids. I really wanted to talk to her. So I did one day at recess and it was AMAZING, and she was so nice and I knew we were going to be good friends. She would talk to me here and there. BUT THEN the teacher made a HUGE mistake by sitting us together. How you may ask? Here’s how…after that day…oooooooo mannn… the two pees in a pod, the P.I.Cs, the twins happened, o lord!
One of my favorite part of the song Lean On Me by Bill Withers is a “Sometimes in our lives we all have pain we all have sorrow But if we are wise we know that there’s always tomorrow.” In other words, no matter how arduous and challenging life can be, another better opportunity will be given the next day. In life, people should identify the difference between the real friends or fake friends. In addition, the qualities of a good friends are trustworthiness, have good attitude, and last being thoughtful.
As I sat in my sixth grade English class, laughing and talking, I noticed that another student was making fun of one of my best friends. Ryan had always hung out with girls, and it took about five minutes after meeting him for me to declare that we would be best friends forever. Ryan was the opposite of me; he was easily intimidated because he was small and mostly because he was kind, unlike most of the middle school population. He didn’t want to be different, but he was. He wanted to fit in, but he couldn’t. I think that’s why we became so close, with my head of frizzy curls and my shocking height for a sixth grade girl of 5’3, neither of us had found our place, so we made our place within each other.
Lately, the past - hungry and starving for good memories, roams through my mind, uncovering nooks and crannies and all sorts of happy experiences. Taking me back to achievements and, sometimes, memories I'd rather forget. Taking me back to friends and the friendships made, lost and kept - those influential friendships. Making me appreciate those who, without force, pushed me into things I otherwise may not have pushed myself into. Those types of friendships are what I think of most today.