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To My High School Best Friends

Life is not the same without you.

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To My High School Best Friends
Victoria Batchelor

To my Best Friends,

As Thanksgiving approaches, I admit to feeling a little homesick. With each passing day, it only means that I am one step closer to not only my favorite holiday, but to finally being home after 3 months at college.

It is only now that I am realizing my appreciation for the little things back at home. The cliche is real, because the little things now are the biggest things that I miss the most.

I miss driving with my windows down and my music blasting, I miss endless trips getting food and Dunkin’, I miss the school dances when awkward me would try to do my version of dancing, I miss not understanding physics and calling airports only to be hung up on, and I even miss the incredibly hard swim practices that I thought I would never make it through.

But it is finally dawning on me what I miss most about home, my best friends.

What I forgot to include in the experiences listed above are the people who were by my side through all of these things.

I forgot to mention my friends Leah and Sarah screaming whenever “Stay” by Zedd and Alessia Cara came on in the car.

I forgot to mention getting Dunkin’ with Isabel, Kelly, Akhila, and Emily made my mornings before a stressful day at school so much better.

I forgot to mention my friends Lea and Lydia who helped me not care about my terrible dance moves at prom and simply just to have fun.

I forgot to mention my genius friend Cat, the girl who helped me understand Chemistry and Physics, and the girl who would always be laughing at me when I told her an airport refused to answer my question for our project.

I forgot to mention my friends Bridget and Sammi are the only reason why I could ever make it through all those Saturday morning swim practices.

Even from the little things, it is evident to me only now when I am away from home the big things that came out of all these experiences.

I always thought that I was just meeting up with the Bio crew which includes: Pam, Angie, Casey, Sammy, Anna, Erin, Maggie, and Sarah at Starbucks to study for our insanely hard tests. Instead, an unbreakable bond formed between the nine girls who all came from different towns and who had never talked before that class.

I always thought I was just texting my friend Katie to go get ice cream after a bad day. Instead, I learned that Katie was always the girl I could text to be ready in 10 minutes for a trip that started with ice cream and ended with an adventure.

I always thought I was just simply coming into work at the pool. Instead, I learned I could always count on Halley to be the sunshine to my rainy day(which we hoped for so the pool would close). I also learned that not only do Laura and I look alike, but we also think alike, and there were many times that we would be the only ones laughing in the room at a joke

I always thought that senior skip day would be the best day of senior year, this was when the whole grade went to the beach for the day, and we all just enjoyed one of the last days of being high school seniors together.

Instead, I learned that God closes a door so another one can open.

I say this only because it rained on senior skip day. We all thought the best day of the year was ruined. When in fact, the rain caused for the best weekend of my life.

Our “homies” group, yes that is the name of our group chat, rented a beach house a few towns over. Even though it rained the whole weekend, we did not care. We only cared that we were together.

In the end that is the only thing that matters.

Thank you Best Friends for all the amazing memories, for blessing me with your friendship, and most importantly making me realize that the little things in life mean the most.

I can't wait to see you guys.

From,

Victoria

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