To My Former Best Friend,

Hello. It's me (no, not Adele, unfortunately), your former best friend. How has life been treating you? I hope you're en route to landing your dream job. I hope you have lots of new friends that don't cause you the drama we had. And I hope that you, personally, are doing well.

It's been a while since we've last spoken, I know. And l wish our friendship hadn't ended on such a sour note.

It's always awkward when my mom asks about you or asks why I never hang out with you anymore. It's always awkward when people who knew we were friends ask me about you and, well, I have to tell them, “Oh, we're not friends anymore."

All right, so this isn't a letter asking for us to become friends again, but more of a thank you so much for being a part of my life: for laughing with me over silly boys (and giving them code names), for eating way too much food with me and then complaining together about how much we hated our bodies. Thank you for taking serious, silly, and matching outfit pictures with me. And thank you for being the much more dedicated lab partner because I hated science and you loved it.

I know things didn't work out for us. We had to break up and throw in the friendship towel. We were both upset and it was just better that we called it quits. Just know that I still care about you, but I am respecting your decision to give each other space (but I'm still gonna stalk your social media every once in a while, because hey, I wanna know what you're up to in life!). We're not the silly girls we once were, we're mature young women — surprisingly, we're the adults we used to laugh at.

Sometimes I wish you were still a text away, but I've learned to live and be independent without always being attached to you at the hip and taking "twins" Instagram pics with you. I miss our boy banter, our life talks, and our miscellaneous bloopers. Secretly I hope that one day our paths will cross again and, well, maybe things could work out. But regardless of whether that happens or not, I hope you find a new best friend (or maybe you already have) with whom you'll have all the laughs and all the good times you had with me, minus all the drama. I hope she's your true sister from another mister, maid of honor and, most importantly, your true best friend forever.

Thank you for all the memories, for telling me the dress didn't make me look fat when it totally did, and for being my best girl for part of my life. I hope all is well. Stay as beautiful and hardworking as you've always been.

Sincerely,

Your Ex-Best Friend, Partner-in-Crime and Biggest Betch,

XOXO