After getting them back, it was like I could enjoy life again.

I’m not one to be all lovey-dovey with my friends. There are about four or five of my friends who are exactly like me in that way, and we share our love by bashing on one another and always laughing when something dumb is done.

But, I do love my friends. Some of them have been there for me since elementary school, and some only recently, but they’re a huge part of my life. Sometimes, though, I make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, but they’re needed every once in a while to learn a lesson, and what I learned is: a boy can NEVER replace your best friends.

Once upon a time, a boy came into my life, made me like him, and then broke my heart. You know, the usual. What my little heart didn’t realize is that it can love multiple people at once. I learned that I NEED to put my friends first because they’ll be the ones who are there for me when said boy is not (and this is all true). Feeling isolated by friends who had never turned a shoulder at you before was awful. But I understood why because I had been isolating them the entire time I was being entertained by a boy. So, my lesson was learned by painful events, and that’s why I’m writing this letter.

Dear whoever you are reading this, if you’re falling for someone or already fell, make sure your friends are right beside you when you do. Because there’s a chance that someone might not catch you, but your friends will help you up and buy you ice cream.