The bond best friends share is one that can neither be replicated nor broken. You complete each other's sentences and can tell when the other needs rescuing. But what happens when someone else starts do the rescuing for you? When someone else starts to bring her Ben & Jerry's when she's sad and your services are no longer needed?
For starters, your special BFF services will always be needed. Like I said, she holds your friendship near and dear to her heart. Your friendship is irreplaceable and undoubtedly the most important relationship in her life. She's become your forever friend so you know (almost) way too much about her. You know the depths of her past. When she was the happiest, when she was depressed, what makes her tick, and what brings her to tears. You know what she is and isn't looking for from a guy- which is why you're role in her new relationship is so important.
Because you are her best friend, you will hear about every detail in their relationship and play a key role in talking her through rough patches, giving her good advice, and being a phone call away when its needed. You know your best friend's relationship past and know what this new boyfriend can do that will really grind her gears. When you catch a glaring issue with the way he treats her, you are the first to step in and tell her straight that he isn't treating her right. You are the first to jump on his case but its because you care. She counts on you for this and appreciates your honesty.
However, by the way she smiles and lights up when he comes around will be a telling sign as to how well things are going. Without even mentioning how happy she is, you will be able to tell. It is because you are on the outside looking in. By the sound of her voice, you can tell that she is in love.
The most magical part of being her best friend is when you see the first signs of true love, because that's all your best friend has ever dreamed of. When you see her and her boyfriend live in action, you are able to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Like the one time she told you about the time they kissed in the rain and how Notebook-romantic it was, you threw up in your mouth a little bit. You analyze how the whole story made you feel as you smile and say how cute it was of him! "This guy really pulled a stunt to make her smile, how even? When will that happen to me??? Do I want that to happen to me?? GROSS."
Because of the boys of her past, this act of cuteness may have just seemed like a stunt to you. But when you seem them interact in real life, it's almost as if a fairy tale as been brought to the real world. He really does make her happy, he really does care, what if he actually loves her?
While you may be the third wheel more often than not, you don't feel like the third wheel at all. They don't exclude you from jokes or fun because you kind of are a part of the relationship. You know he loves her because he lets you two be weird together without passing judgement (like boys have in the past.) You don't mind being the third wheel with them because this relationship is different from all the ones she has ever had.
For once in her life someone is showing her what it means to be loved. You give her the world, but when he does it, it fills a emptiness you have been trying to fill alone for years. Thank god for best friends. But thank god for a boy that can give her something you can't.
Love you Nikki.
