College is the time where you meet new people and get to experience a new way of life. When one of my best friends and I decided we were going to the same college, I was really unsure about how it was all going to pan out. I didn’t know how our relationship would be in such a different place and how we would deal with being away from home.
Before school started, we told each other that we weren’t going to talk to each other for the first 2 months of school, that we were going to have different friends and mainly, that we wouldn’t associate. Going to college with her seemed too weird to me. To be brutally honest, when we decided to go to the same school, I wasn’t happy. So many people asked me how I felt about it and I didn’t know what to tell them. People who didn’t really know our relationship would ask if we were rooming together and I would look at them and laugh. Don’t get me wrong, I love my best friend but she is the BIGGEST pain in the ass and I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to deal with her.
When I say she’s a pain in the ass, I truly mean it. She will text me non-stop throughout the day and tell me she misses me. She will steal my clothes and refuse to give them back because “she wants to smell like me.” She will stick her feet under my butt so they can be warm. She will freak out if I eat/touch/look at the raw cookie dough because she’s the baker. And she is probably the worst sharer in the world.
When I look back on how hesitant I was about going to school with her, I honestly should’ve just been excited. I never imagined going to school with someone I was close with, especially not someone who I classify as my sister. I had a preconceived notion that we were going to be hundreds of miles away from each other. But I have to admit… Having her in the next building over is one of the greatest things in the world. I always have someone to look out for me, vent to, run to in the middle of the night, reminisce with and talk to about crappy professors. I have a built in security blanket for me right at my fingertips and I know that regardless of how completely insane she drives me, I will always have someone there for me.
Going to college with my best friend only made us closer. Even though we go to the same school, we have very different schedules and we definitely aren’t together 24/7. (If we were, I would kill her.) So, no, this is not how I expected our relationship to look like at this point in my life, but I am glad it’s like this. Overall, I am thankful I get to spend the next four years living just a few hundred of feet away from her and wouldn’t change it for the world.
