Introverts tend to stay away from any social interactions that they can. One of the worst social events of the year for me is the first day of school. If you are starting a new school, you wonder if you will make friends, and for returning members you wonder if your friends have changed or made new friends or will even like you anymore. Summer has always been a time for me to get away from people. I don't text if I can help it. I don't go on Facebook. I don't make plans with friends. I need those three months alone for me to be able to spend it with people the other nine.
So while I always have this nervous feeling that my friends have moved on in the past weeks, I still push myself out of bed and get to school looking decent. Making friends has always been a struggle for me. Don't get me wrong, almost everyone at my school considers me a friend, I'm a crazy, outgoing person that is easy to talk to, but many times I don't consider others friends. And now I have a little story about that:
Alyssa and I have known each other since first grade. Let me rephrase that, Alyssa and I had a class together in first grade. I left that school half way through the year and have no memory of her, but she still remembers me. The first time I remember meeting her was freshman year of high school. She was the nerdy Asian girl to whom I could talk. She was nice, and I didn't feel judged when talking to her, so we swapped numbers and had a whole year of being friends/ me having classes with her.
She soon became other Alyssa to me, because me had Alyssa P. We had one inside joke and nothing else to our friendship. (I can't see you) I really didn't consider her that close but always as a backup option if nothing better came along.
Sophomore year was slightly different. We still weren't close. We went to homecoming together with another girl, but once I got there I hung out with other people. We had a blog together, but other than that I wasn't to attached to her. Over the summer she asked if we could carpool junior year. Really what she wanted was a ride home, and I felt put out by this request. But I said yes, mainly because I had no other reason to say no.
Our first ride home was awkward. We had both quit the blog a long time ago, and even though we had known each other for a long time, I felt no connection to her. To this day, I still feel terrible for the time I accidently left her at school. I was just in a hurry, and Alyssa, I am so sorry.
But doesn't every good friendship need its trials? Hermione wasn't part of our heroic threesome till halfway through the first book.
Somehow we both became friends. Maybe it was the long and personal talks on the way home. Maybe it was the constant texting to work our schedules together. Maybe it was destiny. Either way, soon those dreaded car rides home were the one part of the day I looked forward too. It was a twenty minute escape between school and homework that we could both just be ourselves. We made tons of inside jokes and found so many things we had in common.
We both watched Sherlock. We noticed that I was very much like Sherlock and she was like my Watson. We would laugh over it and joke about those things. I would lead her around and she would follow me. I would poke, nudge, and prank her and she was always there for me. She was one of my true and closest friends. I even found myself texting her about 50 things in a row (talking to her even though she wasn't there)
We both took psychology this year. One of our assignments was to take the Myers-Brigg personality test that we offered to you guys in the first post we put one here. When we got our results we could not believe it. I was INTJ, the rarest of all types for women, and she was ISFP, the most common type for women. We were talking about how accurate these were for us, and in the middle of learning about them we came across famous people with the same type as us. I had Sherlock and she had Watson.
We could not believe how accurate our casting had been. We were both so happy, we changed the contact names in our phones to our new aliases. But that was not the end to the Sherlock similarities.
We found many pictures online that described our friendship perfectly. My all time favorite is this one, because I always mess with Alyssa and she always falls for it. I can perfectly see this happening.
It works so perfectly for after all of the times I prank her and she swears it will be the last and it never is.
But there are other perfect ones too.
For all the times I goof off and she just stares at me.
And it doesn't just have to be Sherlock, as long as it is Sherlock Holmes related.
:) Love you too Alyssa
But we have our nice moments too
Overall she's my other half and I am so thankful for all of the many memories we have been able to make together. This could be a friendship that lasts forever.
So to end the story and tie it all together, whenever I am presented with a situation where I have to meet new people and don't want to interact with, I think of all the friends I have made because I interacted with people. Without going to school I would never have made this crazy, awesome friendship. Every time I have to be with others or get nervous about meeting people, I rub this scar I have on my hand. While Alyssa did not give it to me, another friend I have who I didn't like at first did. Whenever I see the scar I think of how I have changed because of my friendships and how one person can make such a difference in life.
Love,
Amanda/Sherlock
P.S. Alyssa- This is the first time you are hearing most of this. Remember I didn't know you then, but I known you know and love you. Enjoy these pictures of our friendship and remember, unlike Harry, the game is a foot!
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