A True Friend

~ A True Friend Is One Who Will Tell You The Truth, Even When You Don´t Want To Hear It. ~

This is a statement that I feel very strongly about. 

Not only is it true, but I have had first-hand experience with this and know am very thankful for the girl that was a true friend. 

It was in 7th grade when I became hospital home bound for the remainder of that school year. 

I was not able to go back to that school after I was discharged from hospital home bound. 

So, the start of my 8th grade year I had to enroll in a different school.

 I got involved with drugs and boys and I started to do things that I should not have done.

 I was looking to for happiness and I seemed to get a high with drugs and sexual things with guys. 

It put me in a bad place. 

While my other friends were shaming me and hating on me, I had one friend who stood up for me. 

She is the only one who knew what was really going on. 

I thought that I had a lot of good friends because I was considered ¨popular,¨ but all of those friends were never truly there for me when I needed them to be.

 When I was up at 2:00 in the morning with a blunt on my desk, crying because I don´t want to smoke it but the addiction was so strong... they were not there for me. 

They laughed and made fun of me, and made up rumors and lies. 

They told everyone my deepest secrets and made everything worse. 

But there was still that one friend. 

She is the one who stayed up on the phone with me at night when I really wanted to smoke that blunt, or sneak out to be with a boy. 

She was the one who told me that if I kept going down this path I will have nothing left, besides an orange suit and a roommate because I will be in jail. 

She is the one who told my parents when I smoked, or when I would sneak out of the house. 

She did not tell on me so that I would get in trouble, she told on me because she cared and she did not want me to end up in jail.  

She always told me the hard stuff. She told me how it was, and she did not sugar coat it. 

She really cared. 

She cared enough that she would put me through hell with my parents, if that meant that I would stop doing drugs and getting into trouble with boys. 

So, Yes, A true friend will tell you the truth even when you don´t want to hear it. 

Why? 

Because they care. 

Xoxo ~ Riley