Your roommate is the one person that is always there, and during the school year you completely forget that there will be a few months where you can’t just scream down the hall to them. You can’t imagine what it will be like to not wake up to them running in your room and jumping on you, or spending a Friday night on the couch splitting a large pizza. Saying goodbye is a process and it comes in stages:

Realizing that summer is soon.

You two are overcome with joy when you realize a three month break from school is around the corner. You have had all year together and you never thought this time would come until you looked at the calendar and saw that summer is right around the corner.

Then realizing you will be states away from each other.

After realizing you'll have to separate, you also remember that you will be hours and hours away from each other.

Overwhelming sadness.

All you can do is stare at each other in sadness. How are you going to survive without each other?

Start planning all the reunions you will have this summer.

You pull out your calendar and start setting dates because you can’t go three months without each other.

Promising to give live life updates.

Since you wont be able to yell down the hall to each other when a big life moment happens, you must keep each other updated constantly by any means possible.

Realizing you have two weeks left.

You realize that summer is still a little but away and you have more time to spend together and the sadness is subdued.

Doing everything you can together.

You two become more attached at the hip than you already were. You start to plan how you can fit in all the things left on your bucket list in the little time left, but you end up hanging out on the couch watching movies and you’re just as happy.

The last week before summer.

You can’t put off reality and sadness much longer. It takes everything in you to start packing because then it’s real that you are about to leave each other.

Saying goodbye.

The dreaded day is here. Saying goodbye and driving away is like a scene out of a sappy movie. Three months will seem like forever, but you are excited for them to have an awesome summer.