I remember that day perfectly. A week and a half before the first day of freshman year, the summer air finally cooling down for the autumn air to come through. I remember receiving numerous phone calls and text messages that day. It was the day after my current boyfriend had broken up with me over text messages. You changed my world in the matter of a week. You made me feel like I never had before. You made me feel special.

You were a junior in high school. Two and a half years older than I was. I told myself that I couldn’t be falling for someone older than me before. But you were different and everything I was looking for in someone. Athletic, with blonde hair and blue eyes (a requirement for me), and just overall a great person to be around.

Time went on and I fell more and more in love with you. You became my best friend, and the person I always wanted to be around. You were always there for me, the person I had to look for before competing at competitions, the person I had to text if something major happened in my life. It was you.

That dreadful summer night where I knew it was time for us to grow up and go our own separate ways was probably the worst. I cried for hours each day wanting to do anything I could to get you back. We went from spending days with each other to hours here and there and soon to not much time at all. It was different. You were different.

Junior year was tough for me because I no longer had you by my side. No one I could tell anything to and we became very distance. Sometimes I realize this must have been for the better. But going around and seeing all my friends with their perfect boyfriends and perfect relationships had me in pain. I spent days on end crying and jut wishing I could talk to you. But I couldn’t.

Senior year was by far the hardest without you. I couldn’t get myself to find anyone else and truthfully I didn’t want anyone else. I had to apply for college alone, to go to prom alone, and to go to graduation without my best friend there to support me. You will still always be the boy who stole my heart in high school and nothing could every change that. You were my first everything including my first love.

I would do anything to go back to the day you stole my heart in high school. That beautiful day in August. Sometimes I feel like I’ve lost my best friend and that there is no time for me anymore but then I remember the best memories I ever could. They always say if you love someone enough things will work out for the better.