Endless

“Understanding each sorrows and grieves,
respect each point of view,
give and take in having friends ”

School year 2006-2007, a new chapter of my tiring school days. Meeting different kinds of people to have new friends in a new type of environment. I do not know what awaits me in this year, will I have a new set of friends and will become my close friends? Or will I never meet a set of friends like Emi and Cheng?

First day of becoming a scorching sophomore student, first day of meeting my new set of classmates. I found my new classmates fine, they are very friendly and very jolly. I still have classmates who are Villamarsians meaning from 1-Villamor where I am from. So I already know them and they also know me. My sit in the classroom is located where most of my Villamor classmates are situated. But my seatmate isn’t a Villamarsian, he is a Bartlettian, his name is Kenneth. His very funny and noisy but it is just fine with me.

As the days went by I found the thing I have waited the most, meeting these girls and they became a part of my life. These girls are Jan Suzanne Kasayan, Chrislyn Jane Ouano, Ma. Jane Batulan, Althea Gil Bana-ay, Katrina Pontanar and of course my close-up, Charmaine Pearl Ardina.At last I found them, I really thought I wouldn’t have these friends of mine.

Our all girl group is named as F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Myself as F, Kai as R, Suzanne as I, Ma. Jane as E, Cheng as N, Thea as D, and finally Lyn as the last letter S. thus making up the word FRIENDS.

We eat our lunch together in the same table and we are chatting while we are eating. We are very happy when we are together, we laugh out loud and there is no time when we are together that we are not smiling. After eating our lunch we sometimes go out of the campus and by some chocolates or shakes. We have our top three most favorite flavors of shakes these are: Cookies n’ Cream, Mango and Coffee. Sometimes after our dismissal, which is at 4:15, we go out and eat some extra hot pancit cantons with shake. Every breaks we are always together and if not we are together with some of the girls in the group.

FRIENDS have a lot of secrets. For example our secrets about our crushes and some of the girls in the group already have their boyfriends. And of course the rest of the girls are supporting them.

We are also sharing our problems to one another like heartaches, financial problems and family problems.

We are open to each other about all the things going on under the sun and even under the moon and the stars. Because of our closeness we can’t avoid facing conflicts between the rest of the group against a member of the group. But this is only a small misunderstanding between our group.

(This paragraph is dedicated to a FRIENDS member)

I want this friend to realize what she have done, because I know that the rest of the girls including me already knew our mistakes and we have admitted it. I am hoping that she will change and she will know what kind of ugly things did she do to us that made us feel bad to her. We are not closing our doors to her; in fact we are waiting for this friend of ours to come back to us.

I know that in the near future this wound of ours will heal and we will face the new and brighter tomorrow together with a smile and as one. Because as what they have said, “friends will always be friends no matter what”, and the F.R.I.E.N.D.S’ friendship is endless, it will not die.