An Open Letter To The Best Friend I Only See Twice A Year
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An Open Letter To The Best Friend I Only See Twice A Year

We should Skype more, but we're both busy people. Why are we both so busy?

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An Open Letter To The Best Friend I Only See Twice A Year
Karen Billings

I miss you. A lot.

Just last week you texted me and asked why I was going to college so far away. I had to remind you that though we both live in Texas, I attend college in Louisiana while your college is all the way in Idaho. Why are you complaining that I go to college so far away?

Luckily, I’ll be home for Spring Break next week, so we will definitely get a chance to meet up super soon!

One of my favorite experiences with you was when we went to New York on the choir/orchestra trip our junior year of high school. For some reason, when we were signing up for the musicals we were going to see in New York, you had convinced me that I needed to see Disney’s Newsies: The Musical. I didn’t know anything about it, but you were very insistent about it and so I caved. On the plane ride there we watched the Disney movie of Newsies that had been made in 1992, and surprisingly I enjoyed it.

That very same day we went to see the Broadway musical. What can I say? I fell absolutely in love with it. Throughout the entire musical, I can remember just smiling because I was just so in love with all of it. After the show, I bought the soundtrack for the musical as well as a t-shirt, and you even bought the same t-shirt. After the show, the group of us that had gone to see Newsies stood outside the side door and we got our Playbills autographed by various members of the cast.

There was a day our senior year of high school that I arrived to the choir room to find that you and I were both wearing our Newsies shirts, and obviously, we had to get a picture. It was an unplanned adventure of sorts!

New York was an adventure for the both of us, especially since our two roommates for that trip were two of our very good friends from orchestra. One of the good things that came from the trip is the memories the four of us made together, and even today the four of us try to meet up every winter and summer break before we all head back to college.

We don’t see each other very often, but we text each other all the time. Why don’t we Skype more? It seems like we only Skype each other once a year, even though we keep saying we should Skype more often. Even if we only text, I still like being able to share my experiences with you and I love hearing about yours as well, happy or sad or just plain frustrating.

I have no idea how we became friends, or even why we became friends, but I’m very glad we did. It’s amazing how similar we are and every time I’m reminded about it, I just want to sit back and think for a while about anything and everything that has to do with our friendship.

There was one year in high school, it was either sophomore or junior year, but it was the very beginning of the year and we had a lock down drill. You and I, as well as one of our other friends were sitting at the back of the room behind the choir risers during the drill, the two of you on either side of me, and all I can remember from that short amount of time is that you both realized how warm I am. It became an inside joke for us, and I’m pretty sure in our senior yearbook when you wrote your message to me, you told me to stay warm and even drew a winking face.

Why do we have to go to college so far away from each other? I miss you. I miss being able to hang out with you and being able to actually talk with you. It’s always a bit exciting for me to receive a text from you because you’re one of my best friends, but it’s just not the same as being with you in person where we can laugh and sing along to various musical soundtracks.

I do hope we wind up in the same town when we grow older. Hopefully we won’t have to go the rest of our lives just texting each other.

I love you, and I miss you. And I can’t wait to see you again very soon.

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