Little,

For the past year, we have done almost everything together, from shopping for recruitment clothes, having sleepovers where we rant all night, and going to Starbucks on a near weekly basis . For the past year, you have been my little, and I have been your big, and it was as simple as that. For the past year, I have paid as much attention to you as humanly possible without failing all of my classes, and you have made me feel appreciated and loved in everything I do. You've been the perfect little, and I've loved you every second of it.

And now, you're ready to take your own little.

I know we will Facebook stalk all of our new members in efforts to find out who your perfect little will be. I know we will both craft for your little until late in the night to make sure she always feels like the most spoiled little. I am sure we will still be the same big and little we've always been, but there's also a part of me that knows all of the super fun times we have together are coming to an end. No longer will it just be you and me against the world. I know I'll miss being the person you call when something is going dreadfully wrong and your boyfriend is being a jerk and you really just need a mocha frap. There's a part of me that's just a little sad that we won't be the duo we've always been, and that we are about to open our family name to someone new who will probably need you just as much as you needed me this past year.

But little, I am also so excited. The same things that I'm scared to lose are the very same things that I cannot wait for you to experience. To go through an entire week of taunting and teasing your little as she tries to figure out who you are is one of the most exhilarating experiences I have had in the entirety of my greek experience. Getting to watch your face as you realized I was your big was almost enough to make me cry from happiness - if you weren't so busy hugging me so tightly I couldn't breathe, I probably would have... and I just can't wait to see some new member of our family look at you like you're the best big in the whole world.

And I know you will be a great big. You are caring and kind and your smile lights up a room. Our sisters all love you and any girl who gets you as a big will be the luckiest little ever, just as I know I was the luckiest big to have you. Being a big will be so rewarding, and you'll learn so much about yourself from taking a little. However, there may come a day as a big that you will realize you still need me, and remember that just because you became someone else's big, don't ever forget that you are, and always will be, my little. No matter whose big you are, I'll always be yours.