I came into 6th grade with the most significant friend group, filling two lunch tables. That's what every girl or boy wanted at that time so as a result, everyone was friends with everyone. My initial thought was even if I don't have friends it won’t affect me. Although having a big friend group I had already established a bias as to not needing friends. I thought I could do everything on my own and didn’t need anyone else even if I did have friends. Considering we were all friends, no problems occurred. We would all hang out every day after school and we all had so much fun. After the end of a long sixth-grade year came summer, and slowly people started to break off into groups of three or four. Summer went by, and I got extremely close with one of the girls. And then 7th grade hit.
The drama was surrounding us and seemed like it was never-ending. Everyone was fighting all the time and there was no end. They were bickering back and forth like cats and dogs. Soon people started to grow sick of it and would befriend others. This is when I started to realize that losing friends does suck and maybe I did need them. Between everyone's negative energy and constant arguing back and forth, my best friend and I seemed to be the only ones to stay faithful to each other. We still did everything together and didn’t let the constant drama get into our friendship. We would hang out any chance we got and tell each other anything and everything. It was a perfect friendship.
Entering 8th grade was extremely hard for both of us. For some reason, all the girls had turned on us and it was us against the group. We didn’t know why but we tried not to let it get to us. We would overhear conversations where people were talking bad about us or saying how much they didn’t like us, But we didn’t care. But that all changed like the snap of a finger. One stupid little thing occurred and suddenly out of nowhere, my best friend and I were fighting.
It was possibly one of the worst fights we have ever had and caused us not to talk for weeks. Before this fight occurred we would Facetime every night and just talk and tell each other everything. But it was different now, we hadn’t spoken in almost two weeks. We would avoid each other in class, not talk, avoid eye contact, and pretend like we didn’t even know each other. After a while, it started to take a toll on us and it was noticeable.
One day we both decided it would be best to go up and talk to each other and sort things out. We talked about how we both felt and sorted all of our differences out. And then It hit me, I realized how much I valued our friendship and not having her there was horrible. This is when I finally realized that I might not need a huge friend group but I did need her. After a while things slowly went back to normal as if the fight had never happened, but this taught me something very significant that I still stand by today. People always say that having friends is not a necessity, but I disagree. Humans thrive around other human interactions, we learn and grow from it every day. She has taught me that being able to be vulnerable and open up to someone is very important. Having someone to talk to is an extremely important thing throughout high school. Everyone needs and deserves a best friend like her.
Now we are freshmen and continue to do everything we can together. There is still a ridiculous amount of drama but no matter what it doesn’t get to us. We haven’t had a single fight since the 8th-grade disaster and I think for both of our sakes we are extremely happy about that. Even if we don’t have the biggest friend group that doesn’t fill up two tables, all we need is each other.