Inside Jokes

*All stories are real, I've just changed the name of anyone involved*

When you've been best friends with someone for 12 years you cant just narrow it down to one funny story. I feel like our entire friendship is one funny story.

We met back in elementary school, the year was 2010. She was in grade 8 while I was in grade 7. We started out HATING each other. Well, I didn't hate her but I didn't take too kindly to her hostility (which we joke about to this day).

I had just returned back to my home school from a French Emersion school to find my best friend at the time (we'll call her Kate) had a new best friend (which is my current best friend whom we'll call Alice). Alice and Kate had been close since I left for this French school back in grade 4, so you can imagine the bond they created in that time and I understood, I had basically left Kate to survive on her own when she'd had me since grade 1. The only thing was, Alice was very much a one friend person, which meant she didn't take well to me just coming back and assuming I'd still be best friends with Kate. Alice was very adamant on being the 'new me' (essentially) and not letting me be friends with either of them. Kate knew that wasn't going to fly with me because I'm very persistent at getting people to like me, so this naturally caused a bit of tension between Alice and I (Kate was just happy to have both of us might I add, she's very much the avoiding conflict type) Anything I said or did bothered Alice, I complimented her artwork she was working on and she literally glared at me, saying nothing. It was like the more she shut me down, the more I wanted her to just accept me.

After a full year of this treatment back and forth, I'm pretty sure she started to warm up to me. But it was right on time for both her and Kate to leave me for high school (as they were both the same age and I wasn't). All that work just to be left behind, I was bummed but c'est la vie.

The first few weeks of grade 8 were an adjustment, without Kate or Alice I felt alone. Kate had been my safety net since I was in grade 1 so making new friends was harder than I thought it was going to be. Eventually, I found some and as my friends and I were leaving one day, I saw Alice standing outside. Naturally, I went over to talk to her. She looked different, she cut her hair and seemed more mature. I hadn't seen her since she left for high school so it felt like I was looking at a whole different person. Alice said her and Kate had no classes other than one together so they were already drifting apart and that she too, felt alone. Turned out Alice lived around the corner from me, and that she was going to be picking her younger sisters up from the elementary school everyday so we kind of made a pact that day to stick together. I ended up going home with her sisters and her nearly everyday and I got to know her family and her fairly quickly. I even became her mom's favourite friend of Alice's (to be fair, she said she hated me less than all her other friends, which was her way of saying she liked me the most).

When I got to high school it was a whole other level of shenanigans. We cut classes, smoked pot together (my first time was without her but I was texting her the whole time telling her my legs were dancing! It's an inside joke we bring up to this day), we talked about boys, we got drunk and threw up many different places and many different times, we played spin the bottle and truth or dare, partied and cried together.

After high school our friendship continued to flourish, we had lived together on multiple occasions, gone on road trips across the province, worked together, bought dogs together and even had kids around the same time. She caught moths in jars and hid them in her car for me to find because Im deathly afraid and I did the same with spiders and centipedes.(or centi-centi-milli-nopes! As she called them)

We've managed to create millions of little insides jokes and stories, I hope you enjoyed reading a few. If 'Alice' ever reads this, just know, I've never stopped routing for you. Even if we've grown apart now, just know, I'll always think of you and my kids will hear the stories we've created together.