A True Friend

Authors note: This piece is based on the picture below. This is a picture of Ally and myself. In this piece I went back to the times we spent together when we were very young.

The sun is glowing high in the afternoon sky, enjoying every ray together, laughing and running through water spraying at us from every direction. We are screaming and laughing as the Crazy Daisy goes back and forth and trying to dodge the freezing cold water.  Knowing it’s impossible to not get sprayed, I grab the sprinkler that looks like a flower and hold it toward you soaking you from head to toe. Now you want revenge, so you go toward me and grab the flower and start spraying me. We are now both laying on the saturated grass completely soaked and crying because we are laughing so hard.


Laying on my front yard completely soaked and covered in grass may not sound like the most entertaining or fun way to spend a beautiful summer afternoon. The only way this can be a pleasurable time is if you are with that one person who you can do anything with. This person is your best friend. Your best friend is someone who knows all your secrets, knows your strengths, knows your weaknesses, and most importantly knows that they can rely on you for anything and everything. This person in my life is Ally. We have known each other since the first grade and have been best friends since the very first day of first grade. When me meet it was as if we had known each other for ever. There wasn’t that certain shyness between us where we were scared of what the other would think. There was an immediate bond between us that I knew was there to stay.


My friendship with Ally has grown since the first day we met and continues to grow. Our many wonderful memories grow every time we are together. We are very different as people but  we respect each others differences. The friendship between us is here to stay. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.”