Narrative Essay About Friendship

We stood on the second floor balcony behind the classrooms as I try to lie my way out of the conversation. I could not truthfully answer every question she asked. I came very close to breaking the promise I made to my father when I saw the disappointed look on her face.

We had been best friends for a little over three years now and at this point, we shared every story, every secret, everything in our lives. I remember the first day we met how we already clicked with each other. I made a bad joke and she laughed so hard at me that she lost her balance and fell on the grass. Since then, my sense of humor kept improving as I spent more time with her. We studied after school together, got detention together. We went to lunch at the cafeteria where

Three years of friendship and I am letting it all go down into the drain for a stupid secret that is not even mine . I looked at her straight in the eye and still lied because I did not dare to choose between my father and my best friend.

It’s been two weeks now since my classmates suspected that something mysterious was about to happen. The mystery that I was forced to keep started revealing my nervousness as I became distant.

She was the first one to notice and ask me: Shina, what’s changed? And I awkwardly smiled: “Nothing, I am just getting really tired of my classes”

Every time I would resolve myself to tell her, I would back out remembering how my Dad sat me and my sisters down to discussed the delicate case. I, myself, did not think that it was such a big deal, but he made us all promise that we would not say anything to a soul.

I was raised to believe that obedience to parents is always a must. So no matter how it hurt, I lied and lied

I did not want to be the one who messes up the plan and got everyone in trouble so I tried my hardest to act normally and kept lying to avoid the subject.

My friend trusted me like her own sister and despite our many differences including our religion, we’ve always kept each other close. After weeks of lying to the people I was closest to, the last day came where we had to say something before we suddenly leave the country.

It was Teacher Appreciation day and the entire school was out in the yard celebrating our all of our teachers. When the school Director and my father called all of us in a room, I knew that it was gonna be the biggest humiliation of my life. Not only were they going to reveal it in front of the entire school just hours before we get on the plane, but they were going to do it and not me. How could I ever look at her in the face again after failing to do be honest with her? I wanted to run far away and escape the situation but at this point, I had no choice but to take my sister hands and walk toward the