Friend (COMPANION)
1 a person whom you know well and whom you like a lot, but who is usually not a member of your family:
She's my best friend - we've known each other since we were fifteen.
I always thought that I would start the story of my life with the words: "My name is Mitchie Torres and my life changed the moment I walked into Camp Rock…"; but now I realize that the story of my life is not really about me, if that makes any sense, it's about the people who changed my life in ways that I could never have imagined.
As these last tired days draw to an end, I'm going to write down my story, the memories of those who touched me, and the story of a man. A man who the world thought they knew, and yet only I did.
I am going to start with the most amazing friend in the world: Caitlyn Gellar. What can I say about my Home Skillet? Caitlyn was never the most conventional of people, she could be rather strange at times, but that is why I loved her, isn't it? I mean, who else could have danced around at 2 in the morning singing Spice Girls songs in a British accent? Who else would have added flashing lights and a disco ball to her mobility scooter? Who else would have swam naked in the fountain in Trafalgar Square with me? Without this girl I swear that I would not even be here today, and even if I was, I don't know that I'd be able to smile so widely. She is the girl that taught me how to smile, how to laugh. She's the girl that is responsible for my laughter lines, and she was the first person to point them out to me.
When I look back at the time the two of us spent together, it seems surreal. There were two sides to my best friend, the silly one, the one that would throw pieces of popcorn at my head, and laugh hysterically, and the one that was there for me when I needed someone to just hold me and tell me that it would be okay when I cried. I loved both sides of Caitlyn, because without either of them, she wouldn't have been the person that she was. She wouldn't have made such a huge difference to my life.
Other friends came and went. There was Carrie, the girl who wanted to be my friend just as long as I looked like I had a career ahead of me. The moment I told her I didn't want the limelight, to have everyone knowing everything about me, she decided that actually, she had better things to do than hang around with me. There was the girl, who's name seems to evade me, the one that only wanted me around when it suited her and not all the time. But through it all, Caitlyn was always there for me.
Without Caitlyn, moving on from this life is going to be harder. But at least this way I know that I won't be leaving her behind, and that I will just be going to meet her in Neverland, the place where no one grows up. The place were we can still be teenagers and no one will look at us as if we are losing our marbles as well as our hair.
Yes, I like that, I'm off to meet Caitlyn in Neverland, it's not just her though.