Ms. Faley
English 10
17 June 2013
Friend Or Family
I believe your friends can sometimes be more of a family then your actual family. It's all because they choose to stand by your side. Your family is forced to. I can remember this one time I was wondering my neighborhood thinking about my dad and my great aunt. My dad passed away when I was only 7 months old, my great aunt when I was in 4th grade. I remember thinking about what we would be doing and whether or not we would still be together or not. As I am walking around and thinking my friend that I have known for 10 years bumps into me. We hung out all of the time. Whether we were just sitting around each other houses or hanging out at a park but we spent most of our time on the bike path. He name is Kenny. As Kenny bumped into me he saw the tears,that I had yet to notice myself, he stopped me. He had turned me around and gave me the biggest hug ever. After I felt his arms incased me I fell into a world of tears. Surrounded by sadness and dispare, tears raining down upon my heart and washing away all hopes of happiness. The waterworks had finally begun at that point, finally someone would actually listen to me. He had given everything I needed, he made me feel better. It was right around the time I was slowing down my waterworks when Kenny had asked me what was wrong. In the middle of my explanation of how I felt like my dad and great aunt hated me for who I was turning into, all he did was start hugging me again, I couldn't help but start crying again. After our little talk we became substantially closer, now we can talk about anything. On another occasion my best friend Bella, who I had known for about a year, has helped me deal work out some of my inner conflicts.We have gotten closer lately. Close enough to be able to completely understand each other and now we can talk to each other about anything. Like this one time one of my sisters was talking about how there are so many problems that