I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY BEST FRIEND

JOURNAL 3

WEEK 4 (9 JULY 2013)

I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY BEST FRIEND

When I was 15 years old, I had a best friend named Ria. She was a very cute girl with a smile which was always accompanied by two dimples. The dimples attracted many guys. It was a fact. She had many secret admirers who sent her a few flirty messages and letters. When she received it, she will show it to me but somehow, I felt disgusted and annoyed reading it.

            During recess time, we used to eat at the corridor outside our class. And that was the time where a few boys came to flirt her. I really felt annoyed and irritated with their attitude because Ria always gave them good respond and at the same time, she will definitely ignore my presence besides her. Actually, I was jealous as Ria ignored me when they were there. It seems like the boys were far more important to Ria than me.

            One day, when I came to school, I saw Ria sitting on the couch with our senior, Leo. Leo was a prefect in our school and he was quite popular and admired by many girls in our school. Ria was one of them. When I passed through them, Ria did not even greet me as I gave her a smile. At that point, I really felt hurt with her reaction towards me. She started to neglect me. When she got back to our class, she was very happy as she approached me. She told me that Leo had proposed her to be his girlfriend and she accepted it.

After that day onward, she seldom talked to me. She even started playing truant and missed a lot of classes. Teachers have been searching for her disappearance and asking me where she was as I was one of her peers. However, I do not know what to be answered as I too do not know any news about her. She never replied my messages or even answered my called anymore. I really have no idea about her. ‘Is she still studying in our school or has she quit?’ Neither can I answer.

Few months before we sat for our final PMR trial, I received a message from her. In her message, she asked apology from me. I was shocked and wondering why was she sending such message? I then replied her and asked about her condition but then she did not reply anymore. I really felt curious about her.

To cut the story short, I never heard any news about her since she last sent me the apology message until one day, I found her facebook account and I discovered that she had married a Chinese guy. That was the last news I heard about her and I never met or even contacted her since that day.