The day I met Matthew was the best day ever. That was the day he became my best friend.

Me and Matthew were really close friends we became friends in 3rd grade. My class was outside for recess and I was sitting alone in a rock when I felt someone sit next to me. I looked up too see who was sitting with me. I saw a boy with blond hair and blue eyes looking at me. He asked me why I was sitting by myself  I told  him ”because nobody wants to play with me”. He told me he wanted to be friends with me and pulled me up and took me to the playground to play. Matthew would tell the other kids to play with me because I was cool and fun to play with. Because of him I got many friends.

Matthew and I would go to the park to play soccer and sometimes just swing in the swings. One day we were playing soccer and a group of boys that were older than us came up to Matthew and started to push him around ands told called him a freak and a Mama’s boy. I got mad and went up the boys and pushed one of them and told them to leave him alone. They started laughing and saying “He needs a girl to defend him” they kept pushing him around and when they were done they pushed him down to the floor and called him a girl.

Matthew and I went to his house and went up to his room to play video games and he had a mad expression in his face and his attitude was rude. I asked him what’s wrong and he didn’t answer me but gave me a look that made me feel sad. I kept asking him until he answered me. “NOTHING’S WRONG WITH ME JUST LEAVE ME ALONE AND LEAVE”. He yelled at me. I just looked at him surprised and walked out the room into the restroom I started to cry really hard it took me atleast 10 minutes to calm down. I walked back into his room and collected my stuff and put them in my backpack. He looked at me and told me “ I hope you reach your goals” and smiled at me.I told him “I will but with you”. I walked down the stairs and told his mom if she could take me home. She said she will as soon as she was done cleaning.

Once I was home I went into my room to cry, my mom came in and asked if I was okay I told her about Matthew yelling at me and him telling me to leave. She told me he must have been frustrated. I just told her to leave me alone and to wake me up in the morning for school.

In the morning she woke me up for school and took me to school. I went to class and was waiting  for Matthew to come into the classroom but he never came.

After school my mom picked me up and said she was going to take me to hospital because Matthew was there. Once we got there my mom asked for his room we went in there and saw Matthew he had bandages wrapped around his wrist. I went to his side and looked at him and started to cry. I hugged him and told him to leave me and to stay here with me and to reach my goals with me.

After two hours being in the hospital we went home and I went into my room and went to sleep. My mom woke me up and told me that Matthew had passed away and he left a note for me and that he wanted me to read it after he had passed.

Dear, Best friend

I’m sorry I yelled at you and I hope you do reach your goal. And I hope you can forgive me.

                               Love Matthew

P.s I will look after you!