I couldn’t believe that it was happening to me. I mean you read about these things all the time but you never expect it to happen to you…

I knew this girl, her name was Ella. She was my closest friend; she wasn’t super smart, destined to be a model or lined up to be the next president or anything like that. But unlike others, she stuck with me through everything. She was honest and kind. Ella was there when my parents divorced and when my girlfriends cheated, she was there for all my bad days and the good days too. She never left me…