Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Math Problem

People say if you have a friend throughout your life, you're lucky. That’s not even close to true. They just say such things to comfort us whenever we felt left out of something. We all lose tons of friends in our entire life; if we didn’t then we never lived. Yes, we have these few friends that stay by our side through thick and thin, good or bad times, even in our bad hair days, failing grades and even though we are smelling stinky. Those are exceptional friends. How do you think you'll meet a friend? Some meet their friends while having their haircut done. Or they just ride in a jeepney. Or in my case I found my friends while solving a math problem.
     Summer of 2009, my parents send me in a Summer School in Manila. I was sad without my family around except with my father. We stayed there for more than a month living differently as how we lived here in Iloilo. No worries. But every day of that Summer I go to my school with my damage brain. AWESOME!
    After my class my service fetches and drives me to my dorm. My papa was not with me at that time because he went somewhere else. So I was left alone feeling lonely with all my assignments waiting to be solved. At the age of 11 I can't imagine myself in that situation, so then I began to cry. I tried solving those math problems for me to forget the loneliness I felt. But instead of making me feel better it just made the situation worse. It feels like my heart is torn to a million pieces and so I burst out crying again.
    I can't imagine myself during that time. Maybe all the eyes are on me because I was crying the whole time. Suddenly, a group of cool hot nerds came to me and ask me if they can do something to make me feel better. I was so shy to talk to them for they're very popular to the MTG world I don't know what to do next because I was stunned to their beautiful nerdy faces. Though I didn't answer them to help me or something, they just grab my papers and started to help me out.
    Ate Misaki is the oldest among us. She is a half Japanese and she stands as our big ate. We all follow her even sometimes she's really stupid. Akkiara was like a six footer girl with her long skinny legs. She's like a beauty queen with a very big heart. And Katrina. She is a bisaya a rebellious type of nerd. She's only 12 at that time but she knows allot of things that not all the normal kids know (even me).
     The four of us became friends and as time goes by we became more like sisters. We all laugh to the weirdest things, watch scary movies till dawn, play cards with cheating and of course we all help each other in doing our math home works. We also cry to each other's shoulder whenever we felt lonely from our true family. I found my second family in them. But time flies and we cannot stop it from moving so fast.
     The last day of our Summer Camp came, it was the time that we all need to say goodbye to each other. Our smiling faces were changed to crying faces. Tears are over flowing as if those tears can stop the time from separating us all. I was the first one to left the group, I was so sad at that very time. Saying goodbye to my friends that made my 2009 Summer the best one. 
          Through a problem I met the friends I never thought I could have. I learned that indeed friends come and go but they never let you down in your darkest days. Distance is not a reason to stop us to continue being friends or should I say sisters? You? How did you meet your friend?

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