Only a few years apart in age, our parents knew that we would be best friends until the end. We had our play dates, we had our toys we shared, and we had our laughs and angry glances through the years. We had the ups and downs of every friendship to come. I remember the days we made that drive to your house, I sat in the car planning which video game we would play first or what imaginary game I could come up with next with your action figures and toys. You always use to find my ideas silly or I would drive you crazy trying to make you play the video games so I could watch and constantly give you suggestions when you would get stuck.

Soon you began to mature and lose interest in our silly games and imagination fun. Soon you grew out of our fun and moved on to start being an adult in the world of high school. Soon the drives came less and less and you moved farther and farther away. Soon my silly games died away for they weren't the same without you there. Not long after I moved on to high school as well. You were making decisions on adult things and I was there thinking about our childhood slipping farther away from us.

Years later these memories were just faded movies in the back of our head. We were planning our lives, you were heading off to college and I was coming close behind. Our fun games had turned into "Hey" here and there, from time to time. Those "Hey..." became less and you moved on. I always wondered if you thought about our memories while you went through your time at college. Those thoughts never left my mind and I hope they never left yours.

Then the day came, you stopped in your track for life. You stopped yet I had to keep on trucking forward. Those movies of memories reeled in my head over and over. In my mind you never moved farther from me and our tracks intertwined once more.

In the hard truth, your path ended and mine had to keep on going forward. You were that friend who was left behind and I was the one who had to keep going for the both of us.

Dedicated to my childhood best friend who lost his fight too soon.

Andrew, you're life continued on through me, through so many. You will never be the one left behind in anyone's heart.