Count+on+Me

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When I was 4 years old I instantly fell in love with this blond haired blue eye stud in my pre school class. I adored him and felt very much popular walking around the room on the arm of a toddler. Everyone envied me, and what "we had". We started up Kindergarten in the fall of that year, and even though I wasn't in the same class as him that year, I still got to see him everyday, and that made me very happy. We continued to go to school together but in different classes. Finally, one day, the house diagonal from mine- 5209 Mockingbird Lane- was on the market, and quickly sold. I expected an older couple to move into the house because it had old appliances and badly needed a renovation. But in the next few weeks, moving vans slowly came and went. And on one August day in 2007 no other than that boy, Jacob Damon Gill, and his family walked up the sidewalk, and into their new home. Come to find out, Jacob had an older sister, Lexi, 13 at the time, and a younger sister, Olivia, 4 at the time. Olivia was adorable and always asked me to come over and "play" I soon figured out she was one of the most mature, sweetest little girls I had ever met. She soon became one of my excuses to see Jacob. Over a year-long span, I quickly slid into the Gill's family. I ate dinner with them occasionally, spent the night with Olivia, and was at their house for large portions of the week. And the longer time went on, the closer Jake and I became, until he was ultimately my best friend. Now, Jake is who you would call "your guy best friend", and most girls don't have that. I'm very thankful that he, and the rest of his family are a part of me.