Something That Will Always Stay

She always wore braids, With beads on the ends. She was tall for her age, And we were best friends. We walked together to school everyday, Than after school, we’d go to her house and play. But we always had to do our homework first, Then we got to go and play in the dirt. We did absolutely everything together. Forever and always I will remember. Like when we would run up the street, To the 711 to get a blue slurpie. Every Sunday, we’d have a barbeque, And we’d fill our plates big enough for two. One time she cut my hair really short, And that haircut was never on the cover of vogue. And one time her step dad had taken us fishing, We had fun even though we didn’t catch anything. We would pick out our clothes to dress just alike, And after all that time we only hated each other twice, We would always make up the very next day, Our friendship is something that would always stay. When you saw her, you always saw me, And that’s the way it had to be. Now this is a story that I dread to tell, It all started when she rang my doorbell. We were going to walk to school that day, So we wouldn’t be late, we got on our way. For some reason we were laughing uncontrollably, You know, the kind of laughing that makes it hard to breathe. I remember the smile on her face, At that exact moment and at that exact place. We laughed when we saw some boys running past, Up until we heard a loud blast. I stopped, and turned around and stared, What I saw had made me very scared. My mind went blank, I felt my heart sink. She was lying on the ground, All I heard was my heart pound. My mind was in a paralyzed state, Her life was taken at the age of eight. A drive by shooting caused in all, The last thing I saw was watching her fall. I stood there until my mom came and got me, I can’t believe she died right in front of me. There’s been a void in my heart ever since, I miss the sleepovers and dressing like twins. I think about what she could have become, Her future and things she could have done. Then I am forced to think of the past, And how her life was taken so fast. I wipe a tear away from my eye, I had watched my best friend die. I miss everything about my best friend, Forever and always until the end.