A True Best Friend

One of my best friends that I have known all of my life is Mandy. We met up in kindergarten and started talking to each other and playing with one another. Ever since then, we became best friends. We stayed in the same building together. We were always going outside with each other and going up to each others house to play together.  

Ever since then, every time we went to another grade we were in the same class together. Every grade we passed up until we got grown and we still talk to one another, hang out with each other, we watch each other kids for each other. Whenever we need a favor from one another -- if she got it she will give it to me and if I got it I will give it to her.

When I was about 23, she let me stay with her because I didn’t have a place. I stayed with her and her mother. Everywhere they moved, I moved with them. And now, if she needed a place to go, she knows she always welcome into my house and she can stay as long as she wants. I will never tell her to move because she never told me I had to go. She said I could stay as long as I wanted.

One of the reason she is a good friend is because she is truthful and speaks her mind about how she feels. She doesn’t hold it in. Another reason why I say she is a good friend is she has a good heart.  Anytime you need her for something, like moving in with her or asking for money, if you don’t have it she will help you. If you are her friend she will let you move in with her or let you borrow the money because she doesn’t want her friends to be out in the street like that or without any money. If she has to borrow from one of her relatives, she will, just to give it to you. That’s why I say she has a good heart.

Another reason I say she is a good friend is because she is kind. She will give the world to her friends if she has it and she won’t let anyone talk about them either. Another reason why I say she is generous is because if I told her I was getting put out of my apartment, she would come and rescue me and take me into her apartment. If she didn’t have any room she would take me to her mother’s house and ask her mother if I could stay there with her. She wouldn’t leave me in the street or nothing. She will ask around until I found another apartment or somewhere else to go.

Mandy came to my house the other day to come and see me. We sat in the house for a little while and she ate and then we went outside together we rode around for a little while. We still go out to places -- like taking our kids out to the park or other places like Chuck E Cheese or we will find a babysitter and we will just go out and have fun with one another.

The last time I saw her was last week. She came over to my house to spend time with me because we haven’t seen each other for a while, but we still talk on the phone.

What someone can learn from my experience of being her friend is that she is a good friend of mine and she is nice and sweet. It is important to have good friends because they will always be there when you need them.

Takeya