Dear Best Friend,

Well first off, yay it's finally your last year of high school and I'm so proud of you! I remember when we met like it was yesterday, it was my sophomore year and your freshman year during 3rd period, which was our drill team training class and the only one we had together that we became friends.

When we first met, I had just witnessed you being pushed away by people that were supposedly your friends. It was at that point that I left the current person I was working with and went to try and make you feel better. Little did I know, how that decision would impact both of us. From that point on we did pretty much everything together.

Now, flash forward about two years later, my senior year. At this point, we had been through so much together that we were no longer just best friends but sisters. We have had our fair share of arguments and disagreements (although they never lasted long, since we always had something we had to tell the other) but never truly had a big fight. We gave each other our honest opinions when it came to either how we dressed or what our makeup and hair looked like. We were real with each other.

You get my sense of humor, understand what makes me angry, what makes me happy and what makes me sad. You see things in me, even when I don't see them in myself. I know anything I tell you stays between us and is judgment-free. I am really glad you chose to stay in my life, even now that we are many miles apart. You mean so much to me that it's hard to put all of it into words.

I can imagine us in the future as old ladies and still being as vibrant as a duo that we are today surrounded by a combination of cats, dogs, and our grandchildren or in a nursing home together causing all sorts of mischief.

Throughout the three years of our friendship, we've shared everything from our inside jokes to the hundreds of sleepovers, nights we spent gossiping about boys and everything in between. You were and are still my go-to person when I have something new to say, need to vent, or just want to talk. I know that where ever we are lead, you and I will always be apart of each other lives, even if we haven't talked for a while (though I don't think that will happen). If you ever need me, you know what to do.

So Thank you. Thank you for being you, for the laughs, for sticking with me through the good times and the bad. Thank you for showing me what it means to be a friend, for showing me how to be outgoing, for being supportive of me even when its hard to do so. And finally, Thank you for becoming the person I didn't know I needed.

I love you so much!

The Older and More Wiser Best Friend