I mean no disregard to all the friendships I've had in my recent years but whenever I think back to my first true childhood friendship, I feel like I'll never have such kind again. It was indeed the best friendship I ever had and I think I'll say the same thing about it if asked in years to come except of course, maybe my future husband beats that record lol.
It might interest you to know that I've actually fantasized so much about being married to him even if I don't know where he is now and he's been up to. He could be married now or maybe thinking about me once in a few while, all to my imagination and I feel grateful to still have that much regarding our friendship.
Tega was my childhood best friend, he was a male and we were a very good match at that time.
How we came to friends stays in my memory as if it happened just last year, it was super memorable because we both started on a wrong notes about ourselves đĨē but it was the best because I realized later that it made our bond stronger than every other friendship we had back then.
He hated me first and I had to return the same energy
So yeah, we first met as pupils in the same class and from the way I brilliantly answered a question on my first day in his class, he didn't like me or so he thought. He felt I had come to take him out of his throne (the class brilliant prefect). I can still remember how I admired his school uniform that was well taken care of before the time I answered the question. He came to me during break time and warned me to stay far from him no matter what.
I wasn't the trouble maker type when I was little so I obeyed especially after finding out that he was the son to the owner of the school đ I couldn't dare risk my education life in my new school. He kept giving me the hate looks whenever I answered questions he couldn't and I would look away with an unmoved face, I tagged him as an enemy until things changed between us.
Our teacher made us become seat mates with two other best friends (a boy and a girl), we became odd in our seat as we were extremely quiet and the other two were always cheerful and happy to be with each other. I wanted to be that way with him but I couldn't read him well enough to bring it up. We kept stealing glances of each other until he made a move that changed our lives completely back then.
I mean, he was the one who put a stop to what didn't start so it only made sense he would press on the start button for our friendship to take a good start and he did. He talked to me with a calm voice and a smile I had always admired and asked that we start over. It was a happy moment for both of us, he even gave me his favourite pen to mark the start of our friendship. He suggested we become the best brilliant students of our class and not as enemies and I accepted.
We were little, about 8 years old but Tega was the sweetest friend ever, so protective and jealous about me. He wouldn't want me spending so much time with other kids especially the dull ones đ he made me even more brilliant as we would study together and he taught me better ways to study and grasp things easily. We kept a standard to come first and second in class every term and it remained like that until we were separated.
I could still remember how we would go for lunch breaks together, listen to our favourite music together (Speechless By Michael Jackson), play games together with our seat mates, walk home together and be sad when we part ways to our destinations... We literally couldn't be away from each other, we were indeed a friendship that was worth holding on to.
But our friendship was short lived as my dad had to change my school because the school payments were doubled by my best friend's dad (the owner of the school). Tega promised me with a sad face and a teary eye that he would convince his dad to not let the increase affect me, I couldn't bear not shedding tears to his promises as I knew it wouldn't be possible but he was just being extra hopeful.
After all, I left the school without seeing Tega, without our goodbyes and in tears. I met one of our classmate a few days later and he told me how sad Tega had been since I left the school, I believed it because I wasn't any different from what I was told about him. We both missed each other so much but our age didn't let us find each other back then.
Just a few months back, I heard from one of our seat mates and he said he had only heard from Tega a year back so he wasn't sure how he was doing to tell me more. But the last thing I heard about Tega is that he's growing really fine and I was satisfied to know that. So I'm super hopeful we would meet again and I'll gladly give him a hug and reminisce the past with him, even make him read this post if I have to, to show how much I missed our friendship.
Tega remains a best friend I had and will always have... Until we meet again. It feels so good writing this memorable post đĨē
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