My Bestfriend that became my Brother:Part 1

I can define bestfriend as someone who is there for you through thick and thin of life. Someone who is willingly to listen when you want to vent something. Someone who will stand by your side when everybody can't. Someone you can trust to tell your secrets. Someone who will scold you when you did something wrong. Someone who will remind you to keep going on despite how hard life is. The same definition of brother for me.

We live in a world full of struggles and ups and downs of life. Events that will shake our inner soul that pushes us to the point of giving up. When this time comes to our life we need someone to lean on, we need someone who's there for us when everything is falling apart.

Isn't it amazing that when our world will fall apart and there's someone who will encourage and support us to build it once more again just like in movies?

Upon our journey in this world filled with billions of humans we can encounter someone that will become our friend or friends. And they will become a part or piece that will complete our puzzles in life.

This article will be a glimpse of my life and on how a stranger and I became besfriends and later on he became my brother that I admire. This will be dedicated to him, I know he's safe and happy now in wherever he is.

You see I'm not given the chance to have sibling. I'm an only child, I have back then but he died 1 month after he was born. I still remember, it happened when I was still in grade 1, when I got home from school, I noticed that they were crying , the atmosphere is very gloomy.

Until I realized that there was a boy lying in our bed, he's very cold and not breathing anymore. He's not smiling at me anymore and he's not reaching out his hands anymore. I felt something squeezing my chest, my heart hurts and droplet of tears began to come out from my eyes. I began to cry looking at him unable to speak and I'm just sitting beside him. I cry and cry an cry until my father and mom comforted me by hugging me tight.

The morning has come and it's time to put him to a coffin made by my father and my uncles. It was a cute tiny coffin just like how cute my brother was. We mourned for 9 days and it's finally time to bring and escort him to his grave at the cemetery located at the next barangay. Finally I was able to smile for I know that from that moment he is with God, our greatest father in heaven.

After that, we go home and had a little feast, it's a traditional as a Filipino that after escorting the dead to his grave ,we will have a feast to feed the people who joined us to mourn and we will have again when it's 40 days.

The Encounter

Day by day has passed already and I'm in grade 5 at that time when a transferee arrived in our class.He looks so familiar and he's smiling at me so I smile back. I rarely smile in school and I had no friends to begin with. So it's kinda wierd to smile back to someone you didn't know in the first place.

He introduced himself to the class and surprisingly he's bravo and upon hearing his last name which is similar last name to our neighbor but a few meters away. My mind goes like , is he their son, but I never saw him around our barangay. Then as his introduction continues, He said that he studied at Manila back then but for some personal reason he had to come back here in our barangay and continue his study here.

Before he finished his introduction speech, he says a reminder to everybody that "When you are struggling and unable to think right because of what you are in to , Always find time to talk to God and ask for His guidance ".After that finally his speech was ended and he sat beside me because it's the only chair unoccupied.

So it's only first day since he arrived at our school and he already adjusted and made friends especially girls. He's so talkative and made a lot of noise inside the class.haha I'm being judgemental sorry. Since he is my seatmate, he talks to me a lot and I can't keep up bacause I'm a talkative person.

I found out that we were born in the same town, the same barangay and the same street. We are the same in age and was born in the same month but different dates. He studied in a private school in Quezon city if I remember correctly from kinder to grade 4. His tuition fee in his schools is so expensive and it became one of the reason why he came back here in province to continue his study.

His father is with him in manila as his guardian and her mother is a domestic helper abroad just like my mom. He's also only son just like me. Each day there's always in his mind to share to me.

As time passes by and we became friends and it's not that long before we became best friends. We love to hike in weekends just the two of us riding a bicycle. He also love to watch anime just like me and we are addicted to it. We became partners in crime but not an actual crime lol, we just love to prank our lola's . His lola and my lola are friends so it's not that difficult to get comfortable with his family.

We also play the same sport such as volleyball, badminton and basketball. His position in volleyball is Wing spiker and I'm the middle blocker. We joined contest in school like sport events in town, District meet and Municipal meet.

After 2 years of being bestfriends , we finally graduated in grade 6, we belong to top 10 and we decided to enroll in thesame school in town for highschool. After the graduation we celebrated in each houses but later our parents planned that we celebrate it in a resort in town. It became a happy celebration with our families and we enjoyed it much.

So another chapter of our life has been published and I learned in this past is that when someone is destined to be your bestfriend it doesn't take long before you get comfortable with each other and know all your secrets and all.

And my dragons inside me is already hungry I have not eaten my lunch yet. So maybe I'll continue this later after my lunch. So this is just a portion of my past with my bestfriend. So see yah later.

To be continued.....