Dear best friends,

Even though I knew you guys before entering high school, when we first came to school as freshmen, I knew I had the greatest support system in the world. Despite all the curve balls life threw at us in middle school, we always stuck together. Knowing I'd have you guys by my side during the four most critical years of my life before college made me realize how truly lucky I am.

We made it out of ninth grade fully in tact and got ready to overcome to challenges of 10th grade. Not once throughout 10th grade did you guys ever fail to motivate me or ever let me down. Sophomore year was the year of "sweet 16's." This meant we all would always get ready before each and every party, go together and take almost 50 gazillion pictures every time. We conquered everything together. Literally everything. Every crazy text, confusing teacher, difficult math problem, and so on. 10th grade was definitely harder than 9th grade but somehow we managed to survive through the terrors of sophomore year.

Now, we are currently trying to survive the "lovely" dangers of junior year.

It's the year with all the work, stress, APs and pretty much everything else. No matter how many times I say I wish I could be a senior who's getting ready for college to escape the stress of junior year, I know I don't truly mean it because that means we all go our separate ways and losing you guys will be one of the hardest obstacles life will have ever put me through so far. I will never be mentally ready for the day we each go to our separate colleges. But, it's okay, we still have basically two years left till that day (thankfully).

Every day with you guys is a crazy adventure that I will forever cherish.

Our crazy long rants about school, laughing till we can't even hear our own laughter during lunch, complaining about teachers, sleepovers, homecoming and more will always be the best parts about my high school experience. You guys know how to turn my frown upside down with just your presence. You have loved me when even I don't think I love myself. You guys have seen my bad days and good days and have accepted all my flaws and imperfections.

You guys mean the absolute world to me and have taught me so much that I can't believe how much we've all grown from ninth grade to 11th grade. We are constantly talking, beginning with a good morning text to the late night 12 AM "I hate myself for procrastinating everything" text.

Life has been one crazy roller coaster, and I'm so extremely glad that we all are in the same cart.

I know that I don't say this enough, but know that I am always thinking about how lucky I am to find true friends like you guys. True friends are hard to come by, especially in high school when everyone is trying to balance a school life and social life. But to think that I found four of them?! It's CRAZY how lucky I got with that! I love you guys to the moon and back, and no one can EVER replace you guys. You guys will always have a special place in my heart no matter what happens in the near future. Thank you for always dealing with me and my craziness.

Lots of love,

Srihitha <3