Personal Narrative: First Day Of Middle School

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It’s astonishing how suddenly relationships can collapse. One day, we were laughing together as she was smearing blue cake frosting all over my face. Sometime later, we were absolute strangers. Once in a while, I will look back on those four years we spent together and question why it ever happened. It was pointless to attempt to make the best out of something that was corrupt from the start. We’ve known each other since elementary school. However, we didn’t acknowledge each other’s existence until the very first day of middle school. At the orientation, I found out that none of my friends had any classes with me. I was desperate to find someone to fill in the void. Throughout the first day of middle school, I noticed that I have all of my classes with …show more content…

That’s when we started talking. The friendship was corrupt from the beginning though. This is because it was just loneliness that forced us to be friends. As we came to know each other, I realized that we were total opposites. She adored rebellion and listened to that weird emo music that I never understood. Along with this, black was her go to color for clothing. Ironically, her clothing was an excellent representation of her character. On the contrary, I was a little, bubbly goody-two-shoes who stayed away from trouble as much as possible. You could say that she was the negative and dark yin, while I was the positive and bright yang. We both knew that our differences would ultimately lead to the end of this friendship. For the moment, however, we decided to ignore the situation since we were both in great need of a companion. I wonder why we considered this a good idea. Over the three years of middle school, we miraculously managed to stay friends. Then, it was the beginning of a new chapter in our lives: high school. We promised to spend every moment of it together. However, those promises didn’t last too long. I

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