The moment I realised, I had to manage alone...

Where my life started...

Hey my name is Gracie, and ever since I was born , I've never had a worry or doubt about what I was going to face in the real world. My parents were very lucky to be wealthy and have quite alot of money. They were never big headed or braggy about that, it was never their intention. But sometimes it came across like they were, which made life at a normal school very difficult to cope with. People used to bully me because of the way my family seemed. Alot of the children in my school would act like they were my friends so they could have sleep overs at my house to try and look amazing because my house was a pretty decent size. So it was never easy to pick out which of my "friends" were real, and which werent. I had this one friend for my whole life that stuck by me through everything, not just because of the way me and my family was, because she genuinely liked me and wanted to be friends. Her name was lexie. She was also 11 and went to the same school as me for most of the time I was there. We had made so many memories together that are so special to me. My family was basically like her family, and her family was basically mine. We did everything together. Our birthdays were very close together, i think my birthday was maybe 3 days before hers or something like that. Mine was the 29th of march and hers was the 2nd of april. So we had every party together for the whole 7 years I knew her. Little did we know all of that was going to change. When our 12th birthday came around, we got told one thing. That one thing was that it would be our last birthday together, before her and her family were moving to New Zealand. Suddenly, the whole world stopped, everything froze. Was our parents telling us the truth, or was it some sort of joke seems our party was on april 1st, which for anyone who lives in England, probably knows that April the 1st is april fools day. A million thoughts were rushing through my head. My best friend was leaving to move to the other side of the world in 3 weeks, then I will never see her again until we were adults, and that probably wouldnt even be possible. What on earth was I going to do? After everything going silent, I looked at lexie, lexie looked at me, and we both started balling our eyes out. Life just wouldnt be the same without her.

When the time came around, for lexie to be moving, I stood on my drive, and watched her car drive away. It was the saddest thing I've ever done in my life. It felt like one of them movies where you watch one thing that meant so much to you and kept you going, leave your side forever, and go off on her way into the distance. It was a horrible feeling,  and the worst time of my life.