Melanie

Melanie

A true best friend is something that not every single person is to fortunate to obtain. A best friend is a companion who stays by your side through the best of times and the worst of times. It is that person who you can be yourself completely with. They say you can’t choose your family but you chose your friends for a reason. I have had one influence in my life that I have always kept by my side. It is a quote from my grandfather, “Sam, choose your friends wisely, choose people who bring the best out in you.” In my childhood I went through many different “best friends”. I never felt like I could really be a hundred percent myself with those people. I’ve always heard of a lot of people finding their true best friends after all the games of high school. I’ve always wondered when will I meet that one person who I’ve been looking for? Then I met Melanie.
I remember it like it was yesterday. Fresh out of Covina High School, and I was eighteen years old. It was my first day of college. A bunch of new things entering my life like college and my first job. I was wandering the campus aimlessly looking for the little café I would be starting to work at. As I walked awkwardly too the front counter I saw a girl standing there. I had my thoughts about her for I did not know who she was. Us as people always seem to have our opinions when first meeting someone new. She introduced herself as Melanie with a big smile attached to it. She was the person who was going to train me and I would be working with her every day. From the moment we first started talking we couldn’t stop. I felt this comfort level with a complete stranger. We talked on and on until our shift ended. Suddenly, I couldn’t wait to go back into work and see my new friend. Every day we had a new story to tell each other and it was bliss. I had a new companion and I hoped it would last unlike all of my other “friends”.
Melanie and I are so much alike in a sense where our interests in a lot of things...