When you go to college you never think that you will meet someone, who has been your rival for years will actually become your friend. However, this happened to me and is one of the great things in my life that I honestly did not believe would happen.

I find myself being able to tell this person anything. We know each other like open books. In the town that I come from, there are two high schools and they have one big rivalry. Since the late '60s my High school and my friend's school have been rivals. I am pretty sure that all of my friends from high school would cringe if I said that I was friends with a Hall kid, so to speak.

Over the years, our lives actually came into contact more than once and we didn't even realize that we were in the same singing group in the eighth grade for our town. We can talk for hours about our town and nobody can stop us because we will go on for hours and hours. When something big happens in my life this person is the first one to know, because they can talk to me about if it's good or bad, and help me decide what to do. This person is also the first one to yell at me when I do something wrong. For example, I was recently filling out a job application and my friend was on my tail for days about filling out this one thing.

Now I think back to all of the fights that we had at the beginning of the year and they mean nothing to us anymore because we have come far. Thanksgiving break changed everything for our friendship and it was actually for the better. Christmas break was spent driving all around our town and making many trips to LL bean.

College is a beautiful thing and you never know who you will meet. But, for me, it proved that two people from the same town, who just happen to be rivals can come together and be great friends. Crosstown rivals don't always have to be rivals they can be partners in crime wasting the gas jetting off to LL bean.