Personal Narrative: Junior High School

Amber has been a friend of mine since we met in Fourth Grade. We were in the same grade, went to the same school, and shared many classes together. We both belong to the school band and both played the oboe. For several years in Junior High, we were official BFF's (Best Friends Forever), enjoying such typical adolescent girl activities as sleepovers, movies, (Yes, we both loved the Twilight series at the time) and incessant texting. We were similar in so many ways. It wasn't until we entered HIgh School that I began to notice subtle differences between us, more specifically in our home lives. For one thing, Amber and her family seem to move every year or two whereas I have lived in the same house for fifteen years. Late in our Freshman year, Amber's mother moved out, leaving Amber with her father and later filing for divorce. I found out later than her mother had been married twice before and that Amber had …show more content…
As I mentioned, this lasted only a short time before Amber again moved back in with her father. For the following year, Amber's mother would come and live with them for a few months then leave again. No one told me that any of this was wrong but it did strike me as just not the way things were suppose to be, and certainly the opposite of the stable family that I was a member of. I gradually felt Amber and me growing apart. Her grades began to slip and she began taking less rigorous courses than I did. From the solid A/B grades she received in Junior High when she was taking pre-AP courses, Amber began getting B/C's in regular classes. She also seem to lose focus on any long term goals that she once had and seems unsure about whether to even go to college or