On the 7th May 2020 I lost one of my best friends, Amelie.
We’d been friends since college in 2007. We met on the first day of college and sat together and that was it. She always told the story that she saw me walk into the room in the first day looking cute and nervous and I decided to sit by her and she already knew she wanted to be my friend. She always said that she just knew we’d get on.
We never lost touch over that time, we may not have text all the time, but there was never a time she wasn’t in my life and she was more so in the last few years.
We were so completely different like ying and yang, black and white, but it worked. Amélie was very black and white. You always knew where you stood with her.
We went on trips together, my most special trip I will remember was to Switzerland in November 2017 where we spent an amazing long weekend with her family near Basel. We spent a lot of time in Suffolk and London, eating mostly.
We never judged or got angry with each other, we just lived our lives, sharing stories and getting advice. She was also hilarious. No one could tell a story like Amélie could. We had many a laugh together. Many funny stories about body parts and just very odd things that happened. So many stories and memories to remember. I trusted her with everything and told her everything.
We would work out together and we both loved our food.
If she was passionate about something she could talk all day. She was one of the wisest people I knew. Amélie was an old soul, wiser than her years.
I can’t put into words what it feels like that she’s not here, sometimes my chest hurts, and those that know me know that I’ve been feeling a mix of emotions; denial, sadness, happiness, emptiness and more, and even though the world still turns, I just don’t want to believe that she’s not coming back.
So many things have happened that I would normally text her about and the fact I can’t makes me stop in my tracks for a second and realise that I can’t do that anymore.
Amelie will always be in my heart and the hearts of those who loved her.
RIP my beautiful Frenchie.