Personal Narrative Essay: Losing My Best Friend

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Losing my Best Friend

Life puts everyone through tough situations that can be life changing. These situations can teach us lessons that we never thought we would learn. I had a personal experience of almost losing a person who meant the world to me. The moment when life and death is on the line, you begin to realize what it really means.

My freshman year of high school I met a guy named Justin Dicus. He was an amazing football player, all his friends looked up to him. There was nothing not to like about him. We connected so easily and fast that our friendship soon turned into a relationship. Now, it did scare me because I knew that if we were to ever split up, our friendship would be over. Something horrific happened, something that I would have never thought to happen in a million years. …show more content…

Neither were his brother, Clint Dicus, or his best friend, Jared Partridge. Jared called me when I showed up to school and had told me he had a stroke the night before. I did not believe one word he had said, so I just laughed and said, “Okay!” Don’t think that I was being ill mannered; we would always play pranks on each other. I thought it was just another one of his games to try and scare me, but it was in the back of my mind that whole day. I was asking all my teachers if it was possible for a 15-year-old boy to have a stroke. They all kept saying that he would have to be doing drugs, and I know for a fact that he would never do anything like

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