My High School Friend Phuong
My High School Friend Phuong
I think the best time in our life is the time we were in school. At that time, we don’t have many things to care about. We don’t have to worry about many things in life, we just need to study, and we have a lot of friends in our class, our school. Some friends in school were very special; they made you always remember them even when you are old. One of friend in my high school very special to me is Phuong. She is the one every boy in my class will talk about when they are free or when they eat in school together.
Phuong sat next to me; we are the best friend to each other. We always go out and study together. She is very nice, long curly hair. She has a big mouth, especially when smile, and she smiles all the time. That’s why she has a nick name “Ho”. “Ho” means “show off teeth”. Everyone likes her, special the boy. They like the way she treat with her friends and because she is a beautiful girl.
I still remember, my family was very poor at that time. My mom didn’t give me money when I go to school. We had break in school in thirty minutes. During time break, all of students go out to drink, eat, or buy something in school. I didn’t have money, I sat in class and reading a book. Suddenly, she came and sat next to me, I asked “what are you doing?”, she just smile and said “ I need your help, can you help me to solve this problem in math?”. I said “yes”, and then we solved the problem together. After that, she said “Thank you, I was stuck on this problem for a long time, can I buy you a drink? Please don’t say no to me”. I knew she just tried to find the way to help me and tried to make me happy. After that day, we become best friend, we study together, I help her in some problems she couldn’t do it and she bought me some drink on the break time.
She had a big problem when she was in College. Her family had a trouble on the business. They owned a big amount of money. One of their owners likes her and asked her to be his wife, and then he could help her family. She had no choice, she shared all the thing with me, but I couldn’t help her anything because my family were very poor. Finally, she agreed to be his wife to help her family. However, he didn’t treat to her very nice. He always says she got married with him because of money not because of love. He maltreats her every day, even though she is dutiful to her parents.
I had a chance to see her last year. She was still nice but she lost her big smile. Deep in her eyes, the sadness has been seen even she tried ti hide it. Even right now, she is poor, she is not as beautiful as before, she can’t buy a drink for me, but she is always my best friend and the friend I will never forget in my life. Our life are very difficult now, we have a lot of things to worry about such as house, job, kids, money, health…Having a best friend to share all our thinking, problem, our happy thing is important in our life. I am happy because I have a lot of friend around. However, when I find my school friend contact, I have special feeling, she’s really deep in my mind. I wish we could keep our relationship forever because I knew she can be my best friend, the friend I can truth and share everything. - Anh Hoa