My best friend's favorite number is nine.

It's because

there isn't a number that's higher.

9. 99. 999. 9999.

If everything gets high enough,

You become invincible.

Nothing can hurt you anymore.

Nothing can hurt anyone anymore.

But isn't it scary, to think there's a highest number?

That, if you made 99 good memories,

you couldn't hold anymore.

So I don't like to keep count

of the flowers we pick, or the times that they laugh,

or how many scary faces they make.

I just hope

we'll be friends

for 999 more years.