Significance of You

XII

He was chaos. My life was calm before I met him. He came into my life when I was the shyest kid ever. He seen that and turned it completely around. After meeting him, I became a different person. I was more outgoing. I was more open to doing fun things. I wasn't so scared of everything anymore. That was his doing. It took him years to get me to where I'm at now. He's mainly the reason I can go out and have fun and not worry about anything. He is the chaos in my very calm life.

Meeting him my sixth grade year, I was taller than he was. He was this short, blond kid with blue eyes and he could make just about anybody laugh. That was him. He was the class clown. He always found his way of making a boring class laugh. Teachers hated him for that reason but I think that's why I grew to love him. I needed to laugh and to be dumb kids and he was the one who brought that out of me. Throughout middle school, we were always together. So much that my family got to meet him and love him.

High school came and we drifted a little bit but we still had theatre together. That was the class I looked forward to everyday because he could always crack jokes and make my day better. And he did. That whole year, we hung out in the corner of the classroom and cracked jokes until our teacher told us to stop and to do our work. Even then, we quietly made these jokes. With him, almost anything could happen. We dared each other to do nasty things like mix liquids and force each other to drink it. Lick the floor. You name it, we did it.

He was like my confidence. My Felix Felicis. He's also really into Harry Potter so he'll understand that reference. That was something else I loved about him. He loved Harry Potter and so we could sit and talk about it for hours. He was passionate when it came to these things. He had a very unique and dark sense of humor that has been developing for sixteen years. He's just someone you will always want to be around if you need to feel like you're on top of the world and that nothing can stop you.

He is one of my best friends. I couldn't imagine having to go through high school without him. He's a character straight out of a cliche movie about high school but he makes up for it when he does the dumbest things. He encourages me to do the dumbest things. He encourages me to do the things I'm most afraid of doing. He takes away that barrier of "Should I? What if this goes wrong? What if I can't?" and replaces it with "Why shouldn't I? What could go wrong? What would I regret if I don't?"