"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."- Oprah Winfrey

~I know you would.~

Blinchiki,

I clearly recall the first time I met you-- you, the little but taller than me girl that was sitting on the corner of our school’s lunchroom and whom just like me, knew no English at all. I saw you a couple of times but I can swear that my heart would almost yell “talk to her,” but I was afraid. I can also remember wanting to have a friend but the language barriers with everyone around me led me to feel lonely and insecure, but then there was you. It wasn't until that one day, for God knows what reason and letting destiny take all blame for our encounter, when you and I finally talked and as if we were meant to be in each other's lives for eternity, our souls clicked almost immediately.

And just like that, I had found whom would eventually become the sister I’d never thought I’d have. It has been since our little click that you've been in my life making yourself available every time I've needed you. You’ve been there by my side through thick and thin and have helped me overcome the things I swore were too complicated to get over.

It’s been 13 years since you’ve been in my life, and I can honestly say that overcoming my shyness and talking to you was the best decision I’ve made my entire life -- my heart was right for telling me to “do it.”

Through our friendship path, we’ve experienced new things that have shaped us for who we are today. Being together since elementary school made it so much easier for us to be together until our sophomore year of college. We’ve been there for each other to witness our individual accomplishments as well as our failures and heartbreaks.

We’ve been sitting across the stage, applauding and witnessing almost all of our graduations and made life plans with each others lives -- you're supposed to be my kids favorite auntie. But it is until this point in life where I have managed to understand that you’ve been there for me and I hadn’t.

You’ve wiped off my tears while offering the greatest advice anyone could ever ask for. You’ve been there for me in a way that nobody else has, proving to me that no matter the time we go on without talking to each other, our friendship is intact and once we talk everything feels like we left it the last time we saw each other.

But it is today that I take the time to say I’m sorry, for not texting you or talking on the phone or even checking up on you as often as I should have. For not being there every time you hit that “dark place” in which you wish you could never come out off. I’m sorry for not being there when you’ve needed me the most and for going through the bad times on your own. I’m sorry for allowing you to feel lonely and for making time for the people whom I shouldn’t have prioritize over you.

I’m sorry if I didn't say this sooner and I hope you smile today as I remind you that you are the sister I’ve never had.

Thank you for introducing me to a sisterhood and for being my "partna."

I love you ♥