She's leaving... but we will remain best friends forever...

Tomorrow morning, one of the closest person to me will be leaving for oversea's study for four years. She is my best friend. Although I always say I'll support her no matter what her decision might be, it is still quite painful to watch her leave. I mean, four years is not a short time. And who knows how long we will remain in contact with each other?

She will be going to Illinois University for her Bio-Chemistry course. Well, she wanted to do another course, but somehow she is well fit for the Bio-Chemistry course instead. As I have mentioned above, she'll be leaving for four years, and she even told me that maybe she won't come back for holidays during those four years.

Thinking about her leaving, I couldn't help but reminisced way back when we first met.  It was in 1996 (way long ago!!!). I was transferred to another school, her school, because my current school was too far away in the city and my dad did not enough time to send me. My old school is an all-girl school, which my mum said was good for me, being raised up around girls after being surrounded by boys at home. My best friend and I were in different class, her class was the first class, while mine was the fourth class. But, our classes were side by side, so we recognized each other. We never talked during that one whole year (!!), just some occasional glances and smiles.

At the start of the second year, I transferred from the fourth to the first class. Then was the time I first talked to her and FINALLY got to her name. We quite close, but yet not too close, since I'm more into the 'hyper-active' group while she was more into the 'sensible' group. But apart from that, we got along quite well.

Note that during that year we were busy studying for our first big exam. If we pass all three papers, we will be able to skip one grade from the third grade to the fifth grade. And let just say that both of us passed that stupid, stressing (don't blame me, we were only nine that time) and we got to the same fifth grade class.

We became closer and closer during that two years and turned out that we share a lot of same interest. We became so close that our parents knew about our friendship and my parents knew her parents too.

After the sixth grade, we moved to different schools. I went to a normal school and she went to a full-hostel school. Let just say it was hard for us to contact each other, but each time there was a holiday, we will talk to each other via by the phone.

During the next five years our friendship were renewed by phone calls and hangouts each time every holiday came. Amazingly, both of us developed another interest that accidentally was the same interest - manga and anime while we were not together. So anime and manga were some of the main topics that came out when we talked to each other (apart from school and boys).

Last year both of us got into our colleges and shockingly, we are in the same district! Although we still can't see each other as we hope for since our holiday were different, we have lots of fun talking about places that we have or haven't visited yet.

Early this year, we met during my birthday and she bought a poster of PoT for me and I bought her a Bleach poster as her late birthday present (she's older than me by one month!).
 

And now she's leaving for her dream. I feel happy for her now that she can achieve what she wants all this time, but it was kind of empty imagining her being so far away from me.

To Aqilah, no matter where you are, we will always remain as friends forever. May God bless and protect you in no matter how you are...