Replying to Deep Inside Me

I am going through a tough time ever since sunday night when I got home from skiing. My sister told me that a kid from my school died, he committed suicide the night before while driving in his car when he shot himself in the head. After I found that out I was devistated, due to that I have talked to him the past few years and consider him a friend. He was a very humerous kid and was always smiling. I keep looking at pictures and thinking that I will see him in the halls at school again, and I cannot come to the point that I will never see him again, and that in itself I cannot comprehend. This next few weeks will be the most tough and it will forever remain in my heart. Has this ever happened to any of you guys out there?