An Old Friendship I Thought Would Last a Lot Longer Than Expected

I used to have a friend named Sofia. She was a very cool and kind girl. She really understood me and we would talk about the games we played, our favorite artists, food we wanted to eat, and so on. I really thought this friendship would last since everything we liked and talked about was the same.

I’ve always had friendship issues at school, and most of my friendships wouldn’t last more than a year. So, each year, I had to find a new friend. At first, I thought Sofia would be the friend that would stay with me until I graduated and left the school, but I was wrong.

Eventually, we started becoming close, and she started to act a little rude. For example, I would ask her a question and if she was annoyed, she would respond rudely and this happened a lot. Now that we’ve become closer friends, in math, when I am doing my work, I could see her copying my answers.

I mean, at first, I didn’t mind, but it started becoming repetitive. By that point, I knew it had to stop, but I never spoke a word because I was too scared of losing this friendship.

The most unfair thing was the part where I get her gifts, and she doesn’t get me a single thing. We would always promise to get each other gifts, and I’d always end up doing it. She’d end up making an excuse of like, “I’m sorry, my parents won’t let me get something because I’m grounded” and, every time, I’d just sighed and say it’s fine. By that time, I knew that our friendship may not last very long.

The next year, it happened. She made friends with another girl, and they became very close. She started ditching me, and our friendship started to break off. Of course, I had to go confront her, but that caused a huge friendship fight between us.

Our friendship was coming close to the end. By that time, I knew I was wrong about our friendship lasting a long time even though she was very understanding and we were practically the same person.

Even though our friendship didn’t last long though, she was still a total queen. Every time we were assigned to sit together, we would always talk about Starbucks, Sephora, music artists, trends, and social media even though we were in class.

Sometimes, I even think about asking her to be my friend again because I miss all the old times, when we would use to hang out and talk about our favorite things.

The idea, though, was quickly shut down by me because I like this Sofia who talks to me kindly, not the other one who would always ditch me.

Though, I did start to think that part of the friendship ending was because I was being too dramatic, but, let’s be honest, that’s just me being myself, and it can’t really change.