Dear Ex-Best Friend,

I thought we were invincible. It was you and me against the world. You were my partner in crime, the brunette to my blonde.

Then one day it wasn't the same, something changed.

What happened? How did this happen? Where did all the good times and endless laughter go?

What did I do?

We became friends in seventh grade but it wasn't up until junior/senior year that we became extremely close. We were always together, whether it was eating lots of ice cream from Friendly's, working together, or floating in your pool, tanning, we made so many memories. And no matter what we never got tired of each other, even being together day after day; night after night.

It was through thick and thin, or so I thought...

We started to drift apart. I felt it in my bones. I felt it in my heart. And you knew it in my brain.

What made it worse was that you were getting ready to go off to Westchester University and I was staying home, prepared to attend community college.

We barely text anymore. Hardly hang out.

My heart slowly started to break.

It can't end like this? Or could it?

Not only were we growing apart, but right as we hung-out again and were trying to fix it, I found out sickening news.

First your ex, and then some mutual friends, and finally your boyfriend, told me everything. They all explained to me that you speak so poorly about me. I am not a perfect friend and I've never passed myself off to be. But I am only human. It hurt to feel like I was the only one putting in a valid effort. However, whats done is done.

Its not just you that I will miss-- it's your family, those family dinners we had, bringing your dogs out for a walk, and me fighting like your brother as if he were my own.

I guess now all I can do is say thank you. Thank you for the laughs. Thank you for the tears. Thank you for the memories and thank you for being my best friend for as long as you did.

Its truly sad though because I thought you were a forever friend, and I don't have many of them. Its sad to think one day you'll be sipping coffee on your porch with your best friend, and I am not going to be that person. Or you'll be tanning in your pool with someone else and completely forget that was our thing.

However, I wish nothing but happiness and health in your future. Nothing but success. I know you'll be successful because your smart and witty.

Goodbye best friend...

Sincerely,

The almost forgotten friend

P.S. It was fun while it lasted.