simply ment to be

By: Jazmine H

For some friendships are things that come and go. After drifting apart from her old friends, Yerba Buena high school student Jessica Brasil kept to herself. That was, however, until she was introduced to a group of people she will surely never forget. 

During elementary school, Brasil had a solid group of friends; as time went on and as they grew up, they moved to different schools and inevitably drifted apart. 

From then on Brasil kept to herself for a while not really searching for a new group of friends. 

She didn't feel like searching for new friends because of what had happened with past friendships. She simply talked to the people in her class but stayed alone during lunch and breaks. 

Before the people she would soon call her best friends entered her life Brasil had one thing that kept her occupied through being alone. Books! 

Reading was always something she liked doing. She's collected books since she was young but getting her library card was what really brought her passion back. 

Her passion for reading started in third grade when she read a “Diary of a wimpy kid” book despite the reading level being “too high” for her grade she read it. 

Reading for her is an escape from the world. She reads whenever she's bored, or simply just doesn't want to do her homework. She opens up a book and goes into her own little world where nothing else matters but the plot of the book. 

“I like it cause sometimes just if I'm bored or if I'm like ugh I don't feel like doing homework I can read and go into kinda like my own world like the books world and yea its nice” says Brasil. 

As time went on and Brasil got more and more familiar with the people in her new classes, one of the people she got close with introduced her to what would soon be her new best friends. 

“ Last year I met Alondra. They were in like two of my classes and then so they told me they had a friend group and then I joined it,” Brasil said. 

Knowing two people from that group made it easier to connect with them. Their friendship was one of those things where they just clicked together. It felt right.  

To her there was no exact moment where it was clear they were meant to be friends once it happened it simply felt right to them. 

“I think it was one of those things where you kinda just clicked, you know, " said Brasil. “like the first day it was like i guess we're friends now and you know it wasn't rushed or anything it just happened.” 

Both reading and her friends will forever hold a special place in Brasils heart; they are both equally as important to her.