What is friendship? It’s lying to protect someone. It’s hours spent doing something you really don’t want to do. It’s fighting, bitching, compromising, everyday that I see you. It’s embarrassing myself to make you laugh.

I whine about my brother and you nod sympathetically, thinking the entire time the your own problems are much worse. You talk about karate and I ask questions, bored out of my mind.

It’s pain and suffering that I face, just for those precious bright, glorious moments when we connect and the world is beautiful. The light of understanding fades over time, but we’ll keep trying to connect because in those moments that we did, we were more than just two giggling schoolgirls. We were infinite. Someday, we’ll face the fact that the sun has set and the light in our relationship is gone. Until then, we’ll fight and apologize and laugh and cry, every damn day.

It’s cynical. It’s sarcastic. It’s mean. It’s stupid. But hey, it’s ours.

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Based on my old relationship with my best friend. Review and check out my other stories.