At 6, I Promised My Best Friend with Down Syndrome We’d Go to Prom Together – 12 Years Later, Mom Said I Could Go with Him Only on One Condition

Nobody was rescuing anybody.

Nobody was staying because of guilt.

Nobody was fulfilling an obligation.

Noah and I had simply figured out something at six years old that some adults spend their entire lives trying to understand.

When someone truly matters to you, you stay.

And sometimes, if you’re lucky enough,

**they stay too.**