I

He is the person who understands me best. His outlook is just like mine. Maybe that is why he has sympathized with all my failures right from my childhood. He gave me strength during my parents’ divorce. He kept me company while my mother partied late nights. He kept me company when my father was on business tours for months. He stood by me when all the kids in school picked on me on seeing me talking to my friend. They could not see him but I did and I liked him and was what mattered most to me.

All through my life I talked to him. All through my life he listened to my questions and replied with the best answers.

There was this one time I really liked liked this girl. I was talking to her outside our college gate when her boyfriend came along. She hopped into his car and they rode off. I wanted her, but how was I to get her? So I went to my friend and took his suggestion. I liked what he said and did exactly that.

Two days later the other boy’s body was found in his car in the back of an abandoned factory. His face was beyond recognition. It was stabbed with something made of glass, probably a bottle because a four inch long piece of glass was also found to have gone right through his throat.

The police questioned me because they found my cell phone in his car. I was convicted because the piece of glass had fingerprints which had all the similarity in the world with mine. My parents were probably scared that I would go to jail so they pleaded with the judge that I was mentally unwell and had me moved to an asylum. It was nice seeing my parents together. If I had known they would come together on occasions like this one I would do things like this all the time just to see them together.

They left me alone again when I moved into the asylum. But my friend never left my side. He was there with all the time in the asylum cell. We are inseparable. Like Calvin and Hobbes.

Oh! I but totally forgot to tell you his name. His name is I. Whatever he does I do. So I named him I. I is the only friend I have. I is the best friend I have in this entire world. I, my best friend.