LJ Idol S5 Topic 15: Cracking Up

It’s hard to believe that we’ve been friends for nine years. That’s the longest I’ve kept a friend. That’s the longest a friend has kept me.

 

And she knows all my secrets. And she knows all my fears. And she knows all my doubts. And she knows all my hopes. And she knows all my quirks.

 

And she still lets me come to her house and be around her children. She even lets me give them advice and help them with their homework. 

 

She is larger than life. She is light and sunshine. She fills up a room with an energy that restores. She laughs like she’ll never get another chance. She makes me laugh. She makes me laugh most whenever the only thing I want to do is cry.

 

My mother died and she was the first person I called. She came to pick me up from work. She asked me what I wanted to do. I said, “I need a drink.” “Oh, well, we’re going to my house, then”, she said. She put some silly movie on the tv, fixed me a drink and covered me up with a blanket.

 
I’m at her house at least once a week. She feeds me and she listens to me and I decorate her house and teach her things she needs to know about money. I’ll never know if it is an even swap, I’ll never know if she knows how much it all means to me. Stability and strength and friendship; sisterhood and love and family of choice.

 

She keeps me cracking up and she keeps me from cracking up.  I honestly don't know what I'd do without her.