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I'm gonna brag about my best friend a little bit.

So, I was talking to my best friend last night, and I mentioned not being able to talk to her because of the Day of Silence and all. She doesn't actually have that organized at her school, but she decided to do it anyways to draw awareness to the issue of LGBTQ people being forced into silence due to pressure from parents, friends, or society itself as a whole. My school was just doing it until lunchtime, but she decided to go the whole day to let more people know about what was going on. She drew and X over the back of her hand and wrote "Day of Silence" on the palm, plus an explanatory note for anyone interested in what she was doing.

She got harassed all day by people who thought it would be funny to try to make her talk. Which she took really well, didn't even mention it to me until I told her how angry I was just because of the few stories I had heard about people doing the same in my school. (People should respect others' beliefs and let them stand up for the wrong, shouldn't they? I find it completely unacceptable to even pretend to make an attempt to force someone into breaking their vow of silence.) 

Then she texted me just as I was coming home from school saying she had been forced to break her vow, though it was on the bus home from school. She sounded really disappointed in herself, so I asked why.

Here's where I started getting really proud.

She told me that, as a twelve-year-old girl on her bus was getting off to go home, she seized and fell down the stairs. Someone else ran to get her mom, but every other student on the bus remained seated, and did nothing. She broke her vow to yell, calmly, for someone to call 911 because she didn't know the street they were on. When someone did, she spent the rest of the time talking down the others and telling them what they should and should not do. She kept everyone calm and collected until the paramedics arrived, staying herself completely calm as well. 

Though the girl was fine when the paramedics arrived and helped her up (thankfully), she still could have potentially saved that little girl's life. She prevented a panic and helped in every way she was capable of helping, which was, in my opinion, a worthy cause to break her vow of silence for. 

Now, she isn't a very self-confident person. I'm not going to ask for notes or anything, I just wanted to let others know how proud I am to be her friend, even her best friend, and let a few more people know what an amazing person she is.