Even after five years, I’m still thinking about my old friend. Can’t believe that one situation can cause so many problems!
Her name was Juliet. We were best friends from the first grade. We were so similar; we had the same dreams and thought the same things. But in the 10th grade, everything went wrong. We were dreaming of living together, going to the same college and being best friends forever. Unfortunately, on the 30th of December, we decided to have a pyjama party for Christmas, just us, together. The whole house was ours’ for the entire night. Everything was perfectly planned, and it had a great start till one call.
Juliet got a call from the local Clinic, they told her, that her parents got into a car accident. After this, Juliette became very secretive and strange in some way. She didn't want to speak to me for the rest of the year. But I was worried about her, so finally I asked her, what was going on. She didn't have any emotions, she said, that she was having serious psychological problems and after that, we never spoke again. Time to time, I asked her doctor about her condition, but nothing changed.
After the 11th grade, at the high school graduation party, she came up to me and said, ‘Listen, I think you must know, that after this graduation I'm leaving the city. I will live with my grandparents. I'm sorry, but I don't have any strength to live here.’
I was shocked. With one sentence my whole world collapsed. I can still remember all the emotions that I had. I couldn’t say anything to her.
A few weeks later, I tried to get in touch with her, but she deleted everything. For the whole year, I felt something was missing; my new friends kept me away from these thoughts, but up to this day I can't believe everything happened so fast. 

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Katherine Grey