Dear High School Best Friend,
I miss you dearly. Though I have met hundreds of new faces over the past two years, I have not been able to connect with anyone like I connected with you. Your friendship was one in a million, and I don't think that I will make another friend like you for many years.
It all started six years ago, sitting on my couch after a horrible round of freshman volleyball try-outs. Neither one of us made the team, but the experience was priceless. As we sat laughing until we cried over episodes of America's Next Top Model, I knew that a special bond had formed. I knew that I had made a friend who would be irreplaceable in my life.
At school, teachers would get us confused with one another even though we look nothing alike. Our names were always spoken together by our peers as if we were one person. Whenever you were absent from school, multiple people would ask me where you were and what you were doing.
From going on runs to having Lord of the Rings mega-marathons, we always had a blast. Even when we just sat on the couch and lounged around, time together was always fun. We had the kind of friendship where long silences weren't awkward. We both weren't the type of girls who were afraid to eat, we could demolish two pizzas with no problem.
We've been through it all. We've laughed together and cried together. We've spent entire nights talking about boys, friends, God, movies, whatever came to our minds. We've been caught doing mischievous things side by side and always made it through.
All of these memories are reasons why I miss you so much. Although we both have changed and molded our lives into different shapes, I will love you forever. I will always have your back, no matter what life throws at you. I hope that you will still be in my life 5, 10, 20 years from now. You are the friend that I had always wanted. You are the sister that I didn't know I needed.
I wish you the best of luck in this next chapter of life. I know you will do amazing things. One day in the future we will get together and think about all of the memories we made when we were young. We will laugh and most likely cringe, but most importantly we will remember the bond that was made between us and realize that it had never been broken.
