I guess it was around that time where it all started. Ironic that it started at the end of our last year together. I always thought that nothing would change, different schools or not.
But I guess I was wrong.
Of course, maybe it was just me. Maybe I expected too much. Too much from a bond that was easily one the closest things that I held to my heart. Was.
Unconsciously, we both started to drift further and further away from each other. It was like getting onto two different sail boats and letting the wind change our directions. Drifting further, slipping quicker, losing sight of what's real and what's not. Losing sight of each other. I look back now, and wondered if it was because we didn't try hard enough. But then I remembered that we did.
We tried so hard. We called each other every day, we chatted on MSN and we even made the extra effort to see each other's faces every week despite being under the pressure of school. I suppose school was our main obstacle. School meant focusing on studies. School also meant making new friends.
That was another point to take note of. Both of us-- naturally, we made new friends. At first, it was weird, because I was already so used to Winter's presence in primary school. At first, I was scared, felt lost without her, as if I didn't have anything to fall back on.
I guess I was really scared of being alone. Because with Winter, I was never alone.
Luckily, I finally did make some new friends. They're brilliant friends too, might I add. However, I didn't think that they would ever take Winter's place. They're weren't her. But they were them and truthfully, I didn't mind this new kind of life style much. It wasn't the same as before, but it wasn't something unbearable.
I wasn't the only one making friends.
Winter had always been like a magnet to people. She attracted them and it wasn't surprising. I was proud. I was glad that I had such a wonderful person for my best friend, and perhaps, maybe I felt a bit jealous at times.
She made close friends quick, it was no surprise. She got especially close with someone called Vanilla. Vanilla was a fun girl, I met her a few times before and she seemed relatively nice. I could see that Winter and her were hitting off well, although Winter does complain about her from time to time.
"She's great, but sometimes she kind of gets annoying, if you know what I mean?" she told me once. I replied with a joke about how typical that was, since no one could beat me. She laughed and I smiled. I knew that I wouldn't get replaced so easily. At that time, I was so sure that nothing was going to tear us apart.
Not a new school, not new friends, not anything. Nothing was going to destroy our friendship.
I was so sure.
Yet I was so wrong.
