Happy 18th Eli

You would have been 18 today, on a FRIDAY hahaha. We would have hooped, maybe I would have let you win this time, then get you tatted and just do us, and you know we would have had to go dancing... Today, we both would have been men. I knew you everyday of your life and practically mine too and we were supposed to both live long lives right after we would both be going to college together and then our sons would do the same thing... I love you and miss you everyday. I look at dudes today, and its like each one has that one best friend that they've known their entire life and it sucks that you won't be here physically. I still dream of you and sometimes I cry when I wake up and I think to myself that this has to be some type of joke like you got in trouble with the wrong people and now you're in some type of witness protection. And for the longest time, I asked God why did you have to go? And when my mom first told me one of my best friends were no longer here, you didn't come to mind, you was supposed to always be here. But the truth is that I wouldn't have been a man today, maybe by law and in this system I was an adult as soon as I could nut. What I'm getting at is that when I saw the amount of kids crying over Eli, I wanted to be that same person and I wasn't. Have that same effect. I'm a man now kid... I guess I can't call you that anymore. Before all of this, the only time you wasn't in my life was the 20 days that separated us. I can't put it all into words, I want to and have to show you what you mean to me through my actions. I will make us both proud just like in our movie, The Sixth Man.... E & K, All The Way! Happy Birthday Eli, only I called you that. You won't ever be forgotten. Save a spot for me and Rest In Peace Lil' Brother.