1) First comes the dreaded goodbye and you can't imagine that things could get much worse from this point onward.

2) Alas, you were sadly mistaken.

3) Now that your best friend doesn't live a mere five minutes away from you, you're not quite sure what to do with your free time.

4) No one understands your quirks quite like they do.

5) And nothing is as fun without your PIC by your side.

6) As cliché as it sounds, they know you better than you know yourself.

7) You begin to wonder what you'll do without their unfiltered (and often unsolicited) advice.

8) And you eventually reach a point where seeing other people having fun with their best friends just pisses you off.

9) This must be what One Direction felt like when Zayn left..

10) Perhaps you should take up a new hobby?

11) You start to question who will eat an entire extra large pizza with you in the wee hours of the morning.

12) And you wonder what you ever did without them by your side.

13) Nostalgia begins to set in as you reminisce about all the fun times you had together this past year.

14) And you find yourself spending more and more time sitting by your phone as you anxiously wait for them to reply to your messages.

15) The fact that you probably have conflicting work schedules only aggravates matters..

16) And you feel #blessed if you live in the same time zone.

17) You decide to set a countdown for what will undoubtedly be an epic reunion.

18) Because let's be real, distance only makes the heart grow fonder.

S/O to Kels, Ange, Rachel, and Mollz