First off, thank you for teaching me I'm stronger than I knew and bringing out the side of me I now know I want to keep buried deep down forever. My mother taught me in life you will meet some people who are just toxic to your life. It's never someone you declare an enemy the minute you meet them. Normally, it's the person you grow to be closest friends with and until they do you wrong, you're so close you can't even see that they bring out the absolute worst in you.

I can't even remember when we first hit it off but we clicked so quickly you would have thought we grew up being best friends. You slithered into my life when I had no one else. Maybe it was my vulnerability at the time that let my guard down to who you really were? Maybe it was just common enemies that brought us together? Maybe you intrigued me with how different you were from all my other past friends?

You started off so loyal and fun, we built a friendship that was so impenetrable we seemed to let go of every other friend in our lives we had left. We shared our deepest secrets and had each other's backs through thick and thin. We laughed until we cried, cried on each other's shoulders when need be, and made more memories than I can even account for in such a brief time. So when did it all go wrong?

You always encouraged trouble for me. Maybe it was your live young, wild, and free outlook on life, or at least for my life. You brought out this person in me that looking back now makes it hard to believe that was even myself. I have always believed no one can make you do something you don't want to do, but was it your peer pressure that was so strong that made me believe the lies I was telling myself to do those terrible things I was doing was okay? Through our friendship I lost who I was; I lost respect for others, I lost respect for myself, I lost everything I was raised to stand for. You completely altered me, so maybe that's why it hurt so deeply when you did me over. You walked away so easily. You spread lies, shared secrets with others, and mended friendships with the negative people that brought us together in the first place. When you drug me through the mud, you truly were the straw to break the camel's back. You broke me and you left me in the darkest place I have ever been. It's funny to think you picked me up from that place in the beginning, brushed off my shoulders and got me on my feet again, just to put me back down worse than I was before.

Yet, I thank you. You gave me the hard truth when I needed to hear it. You were there for me through events I had no one else by my side. Most importantly, you literally are the reason I am where I am today and I love this place. So I thank you for showing your true colors and being the one to walk away from me because even though it hurt, it's something I needed but never would have done on my own. It made me stronger than I have ever been and for that I am eternally grateful.