To my best friend,

We are now going on eight years of friendship. Wow. It's funny though that we've actually known each other for much longer than that. I never would have figured that a girl I had always competed against in middle school sports would later become such an important part of my life. I'm very thankful that at high school orientation you couldn't stop staring at my deformed pinky and were imagining if all my fingers looked that way. I'm also thankful that our assigned seats in freshman year science were next to each other so you could see that nope it's only one finger that's weird. Also so you could tell me that story.

That was just the beginning for us. High school led to some great memories and stories we still laugh about today. Even though as high school went on, we started to realize we are very different in a lot of ways. For some friendships, I think that would have caused a lot of problems, however, for you and me it never seemed to matter. I am so happy it never mattered.

Now that's not to say that there haven't been a few times here and there throughout the eight years that we have fought. I think that's natural though. It's unlikely that two people can be so close and not have a few fights. We never let them last long though. After a few days, one of us will usually send a funny text or silly picture, and all of a sudden, it's like the fight never happened.

I won't lie. I was a little worried when we were heading off to separate colleges. I didn't know what that would mean for our friendship. I remember going to your house the day you were moving in, telling you how much I was going to miss you and crying because I wasn't sure if this was goodbye.

We are now going into our senior year of college and things could not have gone any differently. There were actually a few things that took place during our time in college that have made us closer. We may not see each other every day anymore, but we still always know what's going on with each other.

Your friendship has meant the world to me over these past eight years. I have no doubt in my mind that we are going to be best friends for the rest of our lives. Even if you end up moving to England like you've always wanted to. I know that every chance I get I'll be booking a flight to come see you. I love you so much and I can't wait to see what the next eight years, and many more after, have in store for us!