Dear Diary,

Nothing is Forever

Sept/10/15

Thursday

Dear Diary,

I have to get something off my chest today and it's a little heavy. Okay, it's very heavy.

I'm currently attending university right now and in university you tend to make a lot of new friends/acquaintances. Be it for the sole reason of having someone's notes handy for you to take a picture of and copy, just because you have to work in partners, or a genuine friend that may or may not have the same interests as you. Whatever it is, you meet a lot of new people. A lot.

That being said most of the people I met so far are people who are friends of friends (it's a small world) or people who I only see in class (maybe study with).

During the winter semester I met a girl in my biology class who happens to be very similar to me. We got to know each other in class but we never hung out outside of class. Let's call her, Sarah.

During finals, she asked if I wanted to study with her for our lab final later that day. We had around eight hours till the exam. I had already made plans with a good friend of mine, Ashley (not her real name), to study. I'm not going to lie, I wanted for it to be just Ashley and me, but I didn't want to seem mean so I told her she could join us.

We went across campus to another faculty building and settled on a long table by the window. It was just me and her as Ashley still had class. We talked for a while and we found out that she was friends with one of my close family friends and laughed about some similarities we had. After a while, another girl joined us at the table, she was Sarah friend Kayce and pretty soon a bunch of Sarah's friends had come to that area to sit. Her boyfriend, his friends, and a guy named Noah. I was a little annoyed just because I wanted to be alone and have peace and quiet but once Ashley joined us everything seemed to fall into place because we all started studying.

Ashley, Noah and I seemed to form a pack and we stuck together, studying occasionally and frequently being distracted by Noah and I joking around so much. Ashley and I felt comfortable around him and we quickly learned that he wasn't afraid to be himself. Sarah and Kayce left to go get food and it was just the three of us. We barely studied and we laughed mostly, totally carefree. I nearly forgot we had an exam later that day.

I suddenly changed my mind at that moment, I was glad I invited Sarah with us because I wouldn't have met all her amazing friends, especially Noah, who seemed like a really nice guy. I later found out that he had the same lecture as me and I was instantly disappointed that he didn't sit beside Sarah and I throughout the term. The winter term was coming to a close now so sitting with us was kind of impossible.

Anyway there was two hours left till the exam at this point and Ashley, Noah and I got absolutely no review done whatsoever. After some persuasion from me, I managed to drag Ashley and myself to sit at another table close by so that we could concentrate together.

"Hey where are you guys going? Don't leave me here!"

I remember Noah calling out in mock distress. I laughed and told him he could join us but he said he was too lazy to get up. I don't even blame him because it took everything in me to walk away from the table because all seven of us were having such a great time. It was a good stress reliever.

A couple times during our study session, Noah came over and chatted with us, never about the studying though and I remember thinking in my head how it was so weird and amazing that I could feel close to someone after just spending six hours with them. In that time span I learnt more about Noah and Sarah than I did about the people I talked to every single day.

Next thing I know, we were finished the exam and I was so happy. Not only because I felt confident that I did well but also because I made some new friends who I can see myself hanging out with out of school and I didn't feel awkward or uncomfortable around.