My Best Friend

Have you ever had someone who saw you? I mean truly saw you. Everything you ever did wrong. All those long nights you had. They were right there through it all. I did. We were in 8th grade when we started talking, he just called randomly one night. That's the night we became best friends. He said he just needed someone to talk to... someone to listen to him. So that's what i did. We talked all night every night since then. We became really close over that year. He'd come over and we'd sit in my room and play music for each other, songs we hated, songs we loved, songs that reminded us of each other. When summer came we'd sit up on the phone at 4 am with stereos blasting saying, " Listen, this is the part that reminds me of you." I could tell him anything and that never changed how he looked at me. I loved that, I never had someone who didn't change the way they looked at me once i told them everything, but he never left my side. He's the only reason I know what true friendship is. He showed me that sometimes you don't need the whole world to love you, sometimes you only need one person. He was that one person. We drifted since then. We don't talk anymore. Maybe we will one day... but right now he's in the past. People tell me i shouldn't miss him, but how could I not? Everyone says he's not worth it, but he is to me. He always will be.