The Importance Of Friendship

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One of my first big decisions was in ending a friendship. The friendship was a bit of a toxic one, we fought often and she prevented me from making other friends or even talking to other people in some cases. It's hard to believe that I let a girl who was a little over a hundred pounds control my social life, I do believe that part of the reason I let it go so far is because of the time in my life that she walked in on. It all started in november of 2012, I had moved to new school far away from anything or anyone i knew. My mom called it a fresh start with our new family, she had just gotten in a relationship with my now step-father and was pregnant with his first son and in an attempt to be closer to his family we packed everything up and…show more content…
At the beginning of my second full week of school I found out there was another student in my class, her name was hayley. She was freshly back from suspension and everyone was down talking her, one girl even spoke to me to tell me that i should avoid her at all costs because she acted like psycho. I just took it as the girl being mean and decided that if no one else was gonna be her friend I should be nice and maybe she would like me. That day in english I of course didn't have a partner and surprisingly Hayley volunteered to be in a group with me rather than work by herself The partnership was fun, that being said we didn't get much work done and I ended up doing most of the book report at home but it all seemed worth it at the time. The next day she even invited me to sit at lunch with her. As the year progressed we became closer and closer until she declared herself my best friend, I was a little hesitant but since none of my old friends had made any attempt at contacting me I allowed her to become my best and only friend. The feeling of isolation was gone and i finally had someone to laugh and joke with. When i was with her I hardly ever thought about the consequences of my actions, that being said we would goof off in class everyday and when grades began to slip i didn't notice or

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