Dear High School Friends,

To start things off, I miss you all terribly. Even if we still manage to make time for each other every single time we're on breaks, it still never feels like enough time to spend with you all. Some of you may not have heard from me in a while, and some of you I may just be texting right now. Throughout high school, there was never a doubt in my mind that we would be friends forever. Although that may have not stayed true for some of you, you will always have a special place in my heart. Most of my favorite milestones in life were reached alongside you guys. Being away at school for the past three years has truly made me appreciate everything my hometown has had to offer me my entire life, my high school friendships being one of those things. Between pep rallies, endless trips to Applebee's after homecoming dances and nights getting drunk in our parents' basement off of Pinnacle Whipped and Dude, I can't imagine spending my high school years any other way.

Thank you for always dressing like a fool with me on our spirit days for pep rallies. I'll never forget the days we would wake up two hours early just so we could paint our bodies together, spray paint our hair and make harassing signs for the underclassmen. The year we won over the seniors will forever replay in my mind. Thank you for going through the awkward stages of freshmen year, obsessing over the upperclassmen that we'd never talked to a day in our life. I miss the days of looking forward to gym class and walking around the track barely making the grade because running would just be entirely too much effort.

Thank you for "raging" with me in our parents' basements because we thought we could handle two shots of liquor like champs, even though I want to vomit at the thought of throwing back shots of whipped chased with orange soda to this day. I still get upset when I look through pictures of senior trip down in Disney World. I will never have a week like that ever again in my life, and I am eternally grateful that you guys are the ones I made those memories with.

Senior year is something that will never fade from my memories. Out of all of our years spent together, it breaks my heart replaying the memories we spent together. It's amazing that we made it out of that year alive between the amounts of parties that always seemed to end badly. I still tell stories of our senior prank, waking up at 4 in the morning to block every entrance of the school, and getting into water fights in our caps and gowns in the middle of the school day.

Thank you for staying in contact with me no matter how long we go without talking, I can always count on all of you for an Instagram like, a Snapchat of the radio playing "Clarity" or even a Happy Birthday wish. Thank you for sticking with me through my awkward stages, the good, the bad and the ugly. No amount of distance will ever change the memories we shared together. I love you guys eternally and cannot express enough how grateful I am to have shared so many incredible memories with you all.