Second that. Everybody is a "best" friend now if they share the most classes or like the same television shows. The language has gotten so hyperbolic that it's lost meaning.

ImFoe, you're awesome ;)

Perdix, I love you. ;)

Get a room you two ;)

ImFoe, I'm old and was starting to get those warm, squishy feelings when you said "I love you" to me until I realized I was using the obsolete, old-school meaning. By today's standards, "I love you" translates roughly to "I think I might make the effort to remember your first name." XOXOXO (which now means, "Hey, let's play some tic-tac-toe (or naughts and crosses, as the Brits might say)!"

I meant the new, new school meaning of "you calling me awesome means you're mildly amused for a nanosecond by my comment so I will reciprocate in kind". Isn't that what everyone means when they say that?

Yes, ImFoe, It's so sad that so many words in the English language are loosing their power. ;)

Tsk tsk, perdix. "Loosing" -> "losing" Bad Grammar Nazi, bad!

Or maybe they were actually both her best friends. It is possible to have two best friends. And OP, I feel really sorry for you :/

Technically, no, you cannot have more than one "best friend". "Best" implies none better. If there are two "best" then they really aren't that great anymore. Though I suppose in OP's situation, that might be fitting.

Really, you don't think two people can both be "best"? What if, say, you're taking a test in class and two people get 100 on it? They BOTH got the best grade. Or what if you're running a race, and two people finish at exactly the same time and tie for first (admittedly, this almost never happens)? They BOTH ran the best time. So if you have two people who are always there for you, whom you've been friends with for a really long time, why SHOULDN'T they both be your best friend? Think how many examples there are in the media of groups of friends, where there are three or four people who are all (more or less) equally close to one another. True, they often have one person they're more close to, but not always. It seems to me most TV shows and movies involve groups of three best friends. Lizzie McGuire had Lizzie, Miranda, and Gordo; Buffy had Buffy, Willow, and Xander; The Jersey had Nick, Morgan, and Elliott (I think?); Wishbone had Joe, Sam, and David (yes I am picking rather random examples, I know); or even (if you want to include "fake friends" examples, which I feel are still valid, since they're still technically each other's best friends) Regina, Karen, and Gretchen on Mean Girls (I was going to include Clique, but that's four). I could probably come up with a hundred examples. It's in books, too, and not just new ones. What about Mary, Colin, and Dickon in The Secret Garden? Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet? Groups of three close friends seems to have been common for a really long time. Plus, friendships shift, and people are often reluctant to admit that their former best friend isn't that close to them anymore. I grew apart from my best friend from elementary school in junior high, but I still called her my best friend for a couple years. Sure, in retrospect we stopped being best friends around 6th grade, but 8th grade me didn't want to admit that, since we'd been best friends since kindergarten. In this case, of course, neither one of the OP's "best" friends is really worth the title.

97 "We're the three best friends that anyone could have"