The Circle we keep

By Amiarany Salvador

Two peas in a pod, the light to my stormy days, the one I can rely on during the turbulence in life, the one I can call whenever I need a shoulder to cry on. When I need someone to make me laugh or make me smile, during the ups and downs. My bestie, Kimberly Herandez, has been my best friend since 7th grade. We have been friends for 4 years already and are as strong as ever.

Kimberly and her family have always welcomed me with open arms, and have always been there for me when I needed someone or if I needed anything. Her mom has always treated me as if I were her daughter, I know god brought me to her because he knew I needed her in my life. 

My favorite memory with Kimberly and her family is when I went over to her house and they made me feel welcome and safe, they made me feel like I fit in with them. They were so nice and easy to talk to, especially when I'm talking to her mom. Her mom is such a sweet person and so nice.

Kimberly and I aren’t perfect; we’ve had some arguments, disagreements, and even stopped being friends, but we always forgave each other, communicated, and sorted things out. We went through so much together, like hanging around the wrong people, skipping class, realizing we had a lot of fake friends in our lives, and having to realize we only got each other, but that's better than having no one. 

Me and Kimberly stopped being friends for a bit due to the people we would hang around. They weren’t real friends; they caused us to get into too many problems and made us develop these traits. It made us turn against each other and caused us to have problems.

Kimberly - It felt like I don't know I just felt so horrible because i would talk to ari whenever I had problems she (ari) was like a comfort zone to me and my other friends were just like regular friends so it felt like it was messy and it did not feel right because i was getting into more problems and ari helps me stay out of trouble.

I value my friendship with Kimberly because she showed me what a real friend is. My other past friendships were never like this. My past friendships were immature; they would talk behind each other's backs, and they would try to act like your friend, but deep down hated you. My friendship with her is way different from my past friendship, she's someone who answers my call whenever, even if she’s busy. She always texts me and checks up on me, and we both decided to change for the better.

Our bond is strong as a brick wall, we had a lot of ups and downs but we always came back stronger. She’s always supported me in everything as much as I support her.

Kimberly - I feel like our bond is stronger then it was before because we talk more than we did offen and we stay out of trouble now and we basically stick together whenever we have a friend group we stay together and cut off the other friends instead of cutting each other off again.

I see Kimberly and I being friends after high school, We have a lot of share aspirations its hard to find someone like that and someone that you can trust with your personal stuff. I would never take this friendship for granted. In the future If me and her decided to have kids I hope our kids become best friends just like us.

Kimberly- In 20 years I see us with our own kids and them being best friends playing with each other and going to school with each other and finishing high school with each other just like us and I see me being the godmother of your kids if I don’t have any kids and from 20 years i feel like we are gonna be inseparable still.