Back then, I was a little flower in a field of wild grasses. I felt so alone. Everyone around me are strangers, strangers who's busy with their own life. I was so afraid to talk and open a conversation with them. I might screw up and ruin the mood. So I stayed quiet. I decided I should just live my life without that much or interactions with other peers. I thought that would be the best thing to do. And then, I found out that I'm prone to being bullied. Yeah, I was bullied. They called me names, throw my things in the garbage bin, pull my hair, laugh at me like I'm a living joke, they framed me into doing something I did not commit and even ruined most of my projects. It was indeed my darkest days, I thought everything is falling apart, I've lost hope. I cried every night to sleep, I forced my tears to stop and made a silent sobs then put a bright smile when I'm in school. That kept up and let's just say I slowly got used to it. The pain eventually grew and it seems like it's tearing my little hope and faith apart. That's when I wasn't able to keep hiding all the pain, I realized there's no hope. My tears came down running through my cheeks as I realized how pointless I am.
Then somebody sat beside me and talked with me. For the first time, someone offered a help and showed love and care like a bright light in my dark and gloomy world. She cheered me up and asked if we could be friends. I was totally delighted since finally, someone made me realize I'm not alone in this vast realm of strangers and brutality. That's how we became friends. She defended me most of the time from the kids who bullied me. She boosted my self-esteem by encouraging me all the time, she even motivated me to join some friendly school competitions and I did. And I eventually won most of them, thanks to my best friend's support. As we faced each day with a positive vibes, fighting all negativities and bad people, we get to meet a boy. This boy was bullied as well. Everyone calls him gay since he kinda looked like one. But he's basically not. We helped him fought with those bullies and we eventually became friends, we even made a bully become our friend. We're now four little flowers in a grass field, fighting together against the harsh judgement of the world. Then, we we're in fifth grade when we met a transfer student who's very unfriendly. She's so mean that she can keep up with our bully-friends' schemes. But she became friend with Roxanne, my first best friend. They became really close that Maisa - my bully friend got envious. Maisa is a kind of a friend who don't want to share her friends with anyone else, especially not with Sasha - the transferred student. Sanrey on the other hand - our friend who got mistaken into a gay had a little crush on Sasha which made him take Sasha's side. This eventually made Maisa furious and took me in her side. Now she wants Roxanne to choose between me and Maisa or Sanrey and Sasha. Roxanne did not expect all that and she became mad as well. She did not want to choose anyone because she said she loved us fair and square. After saying that, Roxanne walked out and ignored us for a week. She seemed really upset. That's why I asked Maisa and Sasha to just apologize to Roxanne. They obviously didn't want to do that, but I told them that it's the only way. So they did apologize to Roxanne. Roxanne on the other hand gave them a condition. That she'll only forgive them if they stop fighting and if they start considering themselves as friends. Maisa and Sasha wasn't sure if it was a good idea, they hesitated at some point. But considering the fact that it's the only way to gain Roxanne's trust again and forgiveness, they decided to give it a shot and planned on becoming friends with each other. The five of us became really close friends, we hang out together, study together, walk together and more.
Then the time has come to set foot to another battle field, the High School. A new level, waiting to be conquered. Together we faced this new challenge and hoped for the best. That's where we met Kate, a chubby-lively and happy go lucky girl who loves singing. She became close with us because she's so damn funny. She got a nice sense of humor and she can easily turn any gloomy atmosphere into a light and lively one. And that's not it, we met a new guy. A guy who got mistaken into a gay as well. And that's Cliff, just like Kate, he's so funny that's why there's no single day that I don't burst out laughing when I'm with them. That's how our friendship eventually grew. We usually hang out most of time during vacant times, we do silly stuffs together, we faced a few challenges together and even had a lot of arguments and misunderstandings, but in the end our friendship's bond was too strong that any fight could not tear it apart. Teachers had tried to isolate us, putting us into different sections. But that did not became a problem since we still get to meet with each other, eat together, walk to home together and still did the same routine as before.
That's how wonderful it is to have a friend you can count on when you're in your darkest days . Someone who won't judge you and will completely accept you no matter who you are. The real essence of friendship is not determined by how close you are, it is when you're kilometers away but still your bonds got stronger and stronger as the distance between you got further and further.
In a battle, Friends are like your shield that protects you from your enemy, and at the same time your sword, that helps you defeat your enemy, just like in life, they help you face it and fight it.
